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Death Valley – A Land of Extremes
Price: Free Format: eBook, PDF format, 12 pages Size: 15.4MB Requirement: Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 or greater Free with Subscription to Visual Wilderness Description What makes Death Valley unique?...
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Quick Tips: Complementary Colors
Take a look at this shot from Death Valley National Park in California. What makes it so striking? Well – first off all, orange and blue are complimentary colors – that is, they are located directly...
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FREE Webinar: Photographing Death Valley National Park
Jay and I will be offering a FREE webinar on shooting Death Valley this coming Sunday. We’d like to invite you to join us! Date: Sunday, Sept 11 Time: 2:00 -3:00 PM EDT (UTC−04) Webinar Instructions...
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Badwater Light
Here is an old photograph from Badwater Basin taken in 2004. This was my first visit to Death Valley… but, I would visit the park each winter for the next 6 years. At this time in my career, I had...
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Hourglass
We had actually planned to photograph the beautiful formations in the Vermillion Cliffs region of Utah on this trip, but the storm front we were expecting stalled out over California. So, we got back...
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Salt and Sand
This is a shot from Death Valley National Park in California. The salt flats are huge – 40 miles long and 5 miles wide – but it’s the tiniest details that grabbed my attention. The largest of these...
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Moon Rise
Here’s a shot from Death Valley National Park. I love shooting by moonlight! The soft glow is incredible – and when you are in a place like this, it’s so hard to pack up and go home! Why not stay just...
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Shooting Abstracts
Abstracts may lack a clear point of interest. They are often about form, color, or mood. When you shoot abstracts, think about what you want to convey with your image. Here are a few examples to get...
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Jigsaw Puzzle
Nature has a way of arranging elements perfectly. For this photograph, I found perfection in the parched desert landscape of Death Valley in California. While scouting locations for our upcoming...
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Moonlit Madness
Here is a composite shot from Death Valley National Park that was published in a magazine few years ago. A composite shot is when two images are combined in Photoshop, or exposed in the same frame. I...
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Flight of the Phoenix
On our last trip to The Racetrack in Death Valley National Park ( in 2006), we got some of the most spectacular lighting I’ve ever seen over this playa. The colorful clouds in this photograph always...
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Desert Sunrise
Sometime the colors come to you, and other times you have to go find them. Our plan for this trip was to visit Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness in Utah. We flew in to Las Vegas and drove all the way to...
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Saltworks
This was probably one of the best sunset I have ever photographed on the salt flats of Death Valley National Park. The sky was lit up in all directions, and there were a couple of inches of water on...
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The Last Light
Here’s a shot I took during our 2010 Death Valley workshop. I was teaching one of our students how to manage the dynamic range – and to produce a sun star in-camera. This is a blend of 3 images using...
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Photographing Reflected Light
The word reflection is usually used in reference to reflections on wet surfaces… but light is often reflected from other surfaces as well. In nature, this phenomenon is most obvious when light reflects...
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Featured Download: Rain, Rain, Go Away.
Click to Download On the first day of our 2009 workshop in Death Valley (California), it rained hard… and then it rained some more… and a bit more after that. Total Rainfall in 24 hours: 1 inch. That’s...
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Photoshop Blending Modes: Lighten
This is a composite shot I took several years ago in Death Valley National Park. I took the first shot with a wide angle lens. Then, I switched to a long lens and photographed the full moon as it rose...
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Illumination
The day we arrived in Death Valley, it started to rain. The rain turned into a downpour, and over the course of the next 24 hours, 1 inch of rain fell. That’s more than half of the total average...
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Impressionism
Here is a photograph I took accidentally – I fired the shutter by mistake. I cleaned it up, gave it a fancy title – Impressionism – and posted it as an “artistic” shot. I like it – but is it a work of...
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To a Point – Death Valley
Click to see the details in the foreground I love photographing Death Valley. I took this shot under a thin layer of high clouds at Badwater. We walked about a mile and half into the salt flats to find...
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