Pierre Steenberg

How to deal with drab gray skies

August 03, 2014 • Leave a Comment

So I had a great time visiting Newfoundland, Canada. There are literally great photo opportunities around every corner. The only photographic problem (and it is a major problem) is that the road offer no shoulder to pull off on; you cannot stop to shoot. I have never seen soooo much water; ponds and lakes. Everything is green and lush. If you ever...

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No blog postings in July ...

July 06, 2014 • Leave a Comment

I am so sorry for your disappointment but there will not be any blog postings in the month of July. I will be shooting in Newfoundland, Canada and also have a major conference to attend. Please come back in August... Pierre

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Beyond Raw development (Photoshop and Nik filters)

June 29, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Welcome back! You have now had a week to play with the development of your raw files. I hope you have a few ready to now jazz up in Photoshop (or other image editing software). Today's blog is going to deal mostly with Nik filters. If you have not yet downloaded and installed them on your system please do so. You can get a trial version here: https...

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Processing Raw files

June 22, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Today's blog is for beginners. If you already process raw files you are not going to learn anything new today. If you are new to raw, let's get cooking. So you shot raw and have files that need to be developed, now what? You will need software to help you. Your camera came with software for this purpose. Canon supplied a program called Digital Phot...

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What is cooking with Raw and JPG?

June 15, 2014 • Leave a Comment

So many beginners want to know whether to shoot in Raw or JPG. The answer is not always as simple as this one or that one. It all depends on what you shoot, for who you shoot, and what you are shooting for (what you are going to do with your shots once shot). In certain circumstances JPG has the advantage while in others Raw walk all over JPG. Let'...

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Streaks of light

June 08, 2014 • Leave a Comment

A week or so ago I was in San Francisco for meetings. On the way there I stopped over on Yerba Buena island to photograph the great city of San Francisco. I staked out my spot and waited for the light to change. During this time a whole bunch of other photographers came and left. Two of them in particular were quite strange. Supposedly they owned t...

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Sometimes darkness is the only option

June 01, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Photography is about light. Light usually comes from the sun which means we shoot when there is enough light to see. I already wrote about night photography in a previous blog so I am not going to dwell on night photography per se again. However, there are times when the primary light source is not the sun. The sun tends to overwhelm such light sou...

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Shooting seascapes

May 25, 2014 • Leave a Comment

I just love the ocean. I love the roar of the waves. I love watching the waves break. It is so calming. So how do we get nice seascapes? Sand is just sand and typically by itself it is not that interesting unless they form ripples or you have dunes that form lines. Now that does not mean that you cannot get nice sandy beach images, but they usually...

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Animals as part of the landscape

May 18, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Taking photographs of animals is great fun. We love to watch them. They are often very photogenic. Working close to animals warrants caution; they can be dangerous and at times we can be dangerous to them. On a recent trip to Hawaii my wife and I encountered numerous sea turtles. We we told not to touch them because the mere touch by humans deposit...

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Let's remember our manners

May 11, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Photographers work hard. We carry heavy gear. We hike long distances. We brave the weather. We walk in darkness. Let's not spoil all that hard work of other photographers. Let's remember our manners. One morning early, long before sunrise my family and a family friend went shooting the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, California. It was dark and cold.

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