Category: Photo Tips

Not to long ago I wrote about HDR and the benefits I thought it would provide in my landscape and architecture photography.  What I did not write about are some of the other possibilities that I am exploring with HDR.

A couple of months ago I was in my hometown of Mancos, Colorado shooting with my nephew Kolton Miller and we had some great luck with Mountain Bluebirds despite the extremely cold temperatures. Kolton had just gotten a new Canon 300 f4 IS lens to go with his 1D Mark II and he was itching [...]

What about HDR?  At first, I thought it won’t work for me…I tend to be to “pure” and really never manipulate any of the images I shoot, heck I don’t even crop…what I shot is what you see.  But after several weeks of looking at HDR images on the internet and talking with a buddy [...]

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While producing images for the gallery show at the Chico Paper Company in Chico, California I realized that I have not been doing a very good job backing up my images. Consequently, I have spent the past few days going through the hard drives and consolidating images for backup. There are so many ways to [...]

  Michael gives us a quick “how to” lesson on composition while photographing alligators in Florida.…http://www.youtube.com/mauromedia 

I was spoiled shooting in Florida last week but now it is time to get out in the snow and make some images. I shot this image last December in the foothills just west of Denver. Shooting in the snow can be challenging for many different reasons. First and foremost you must protect yourself. I [...]

Whenever I see a really cool image in a magazine or hanging on a wall somewhere I usually find myself trying to figure how the shot was taken. Not necessarily so I can go out and take the same image more to improve my shooting thought process…it forces me to think outside of the box.

When I purchased my first big lens I thought that all my troubles were over and quality images were just a matter of finding a scene or animal. Well that lens did improve my images but if anything big lenses (300mm and larger) require more technical knowledge and skills to shoot great images. The first [...]