Landscape Photography – More Rocks, Trees and Water

Here’s another image taken from a slightly different vantage point, namely in the middle of Onion Creek at the McKinney Falls State Park in Austin, Texas. The water level was so low in this area I was able to climb, jump and slip from rock to rock until I found myself right smack dab in [...]

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Landscape Photography – Rocks and Water

Even though I didn’t get to play around much with my Singh-Ray Vari-ND filter last weekend, I was able to capture a few nice exposures of Onion Creek at the McKinney Falls State Park. One nice thing about the very low water level was the opportunity to photograph some wonderful rock formations that are usually [...]

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Landscape Photography – My Kingdom for Some Rain

I traveled to Austin, Texas last Friday to capture some stunning shots of the upper and lower falls at the McKinney Falls State Park. I called the park well in advance to ask just how much water flow they were getting over the falls and was told “Oh, it’s flowing pretty well this week”.
Hmmmm… I [...]

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Landscape Photography – Those Texas Clouds

Here’s another shot taken in the Texas Hill Country showing those wonderful clouds. We don’t get many spring days nicer than this!

Those Texas Clouds
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 50D set on aperture priority (Av) using an EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM tripod-mounted. The exposure was taken at 12mm, f/18 for [...]

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Landscape Photography – Let’s Talk Filters

If there’s one topic in photography that’s bound to stir up a heated debate it’s the selection and use of filters. No other accessory that I can think of does more to raise the blood pressure of otherwise sedate amateur and professional photographers.
For as long as I can remember there has been an ongoing debate [...]

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Landscape Photography – Big Sky Country

I trust everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend. Here is another shot taken last Friday from the Monument Hill State Historical Site near La Grange, Texas. With a sky this big it’s hard to take a bad shot!

Big Sky Country
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 50D set on aperture [...]

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Landscape Photography – Using the ND Grad Filter

When photographing landscapes it’s often difficult to capture enough detail and color saturation in the bright sky and in areas along the horizon while also exposing the foreground properly. You could capture a series of bracketed exposures and process them as an HDR image as I’ve done before or you can turn to a simple [...]

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My RAW Workflow Explained

I’m taking today off work and heading to Austin, Texas to visit the McKinney Falls State Park, Bastrop State Park and Buescher State Park. McKinney Falls is the only waterfalls within 200 miles of Sugar Land, Texas and I’m finally going to have the opportunity to use my Singh-Ray Vari-ND filter to hopefully create some [...]

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Landscape Photography – Quiet Pond

Here’s another shot I took last weekend just north of Brenham, Texas. This is a beautiful little spot I discovered quite by accident one afternoon. If we ever get some rain I plan to return and photograph what should be a wonderful set of small rapids created by these rock formations. For now I just [...]

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All Nik Software Now Lightroom Compatible

Now this is News!
“Nik Software announces today that Dfine 2.0, its popular award-winning digital photographic plug-in offering photographers advanced and powerful noise reduction for their digital images, is now available for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and higher. Dfine 2.0 provides superior noise reduction while maintaining detail and sharpness throughout an image and providing unprecedented selective [...]

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