Nature Photography – Little Blue Heron

Every once in a while you get really lucky!
The sun was setting over my shoulder leaving the trail mostly in shandow. I was just about ready to pack in my long lens and drive to another part of the park to setup for a few sunset shots when this Little Blue Heron flew right by [...]

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Quick Tip Wednesday – Use a Gray Card

How many times have you been shooting nature or wildlife images where the colors look great on your camera’s LCD but seem a little off in Lightroom? You can spend hours tweaking the white balance and HSL sliders in Lightroom’s develop module trying to get your on-screen image to look like you remember it or [...]

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Nature Photography – Sunshine

Very few flowers look their best in bright sunshine but every once in a while one does. Here’s a shot I took a few weeks ago at the Mercer Arboretum in Houston, Texas during one of the few sunny periods of that dreary spring day.

Sunshine
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS [...]

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Product Photography – Pair of Aces

I spent most of the weekend setting up and trying different lighting schemes for some of the small products I’ll be shooting in the next few weeks. Even something as seemingly simple as shooting a “still life” in a studio takes more gear than you’d think at first glance, especially if you want the images [...]

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Nature Photography – Contrast

Here is another shot taken last month at the Mercer Arboretum in Houston, Texas. I really love the wonderful contrast you can find in nature. The different shades of color. The bright highlights and the deep shadows. With a subject this beautiful its hard not to get a nice shot.
Have a great weekend!

Contrast
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Late Friday Link – JerseyStyle Photography

I had a few minutes this late Friday afternoon and decided to catch up on my blog reading before heading home for the weekend. I just had to post this image taken by a friend and fellow blogger, Mark Krajnak from his JerseyStyle Photography blog. This image and the others in his post Rabble Rousers [...]

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Nature Photography – Green Heron

Here’s a shot I took a few weeks ago. The Green Heron is one of the most colorful small birds I’ve ever seen. They are also great subjects and will stand perfectly still in the sun for 30 – 40 minutes at a time. I don’t generally get the same opportunities from their larger cousin [...]

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Shooting Tethered with the Canon 50D and Lightroom

One of the best things about working in a studio is the ability to shoot tethered from your DSLR to your computer running Adobe Lightroom. The is especially nice for Canon shooters since all the software you need is included with your camera for FREE!
I guess this almost makes up for (NOT) Canon’s lack of [...]

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Nature Photography – All Alone

Here’s a quick shot I took a few weeks ago at the Brazos Bend State Park near Needville, Texas. I finished this a little differently using the “Bi-Color” filter included with Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro plug-in suite. It provides a nice warm tone to the entire image.

All Alone
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken [...]

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Tuesday Morning Quickie – Moose McNally

I said this once before but now I’m really convinced that Moose Peterson has been spending way too much time with Joe McNally on those DLWS outings. All kidding aside, if you’re not a member of NAPP and haven’t signed up for any of the online courses at Kelby Training you really don’t know what [...]

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