Purchase a print of this image After the unimpressive sunrise on the first day of the tulip farm, Brian Bonham and I went out the next morning, hoping for some beautiful color in the sky. Again, we were underwhelmed by the overcast and gray skies, so I took matters into my own hands using Adobe … Read more
Oregon Tulip Farm
Click on the photos and scroll through to view larger Purchase a print of this image For the past two days I’ve been getting up early to make my way out to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn, Oregon to photograph the tulip fields at sunrise with my friend Brian Bonham. The flowers are … Read more
Creating Your Own Beauty
Canon 5DMkIII, Canon TS-E 24mm, 3 sec at f/11, ISO 100. I thought I’d have a little fun in Photoshop while editing this photo and give it a little bit more atmosphere than in the original image. I used a technique to give the image the appearance of “god beams” … rays of light coming … Read more
Waterfall: Before & After
Click to view larger Canon 5DMkIII, Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS lens, 66 sec at f/16, ISO 100 In honor of #WaterfallWednesday (curated by the great +Eric Leslie) I thought I’d share a “before and after” of an image from Ruckel Creek Falls along the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. I love the CRG, it’s so … Read more
Texture vs. No Texture
Canon 5DMkIII, Canon TS-E 24mm F/3.5L II lens, 1/20 sec at f/16, ISO 100 I just did a quick re-edit to a “Before & After” photo I just posted to my Google+ stream (the one on the right) by removing the texture (here’s my original post about it: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113097851206100618060/posts/dAV3BJtQdXQ). I like them both … the one … Read more
Light is Short
Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 50mm f/1.4, 1/125 sec at f/4.0, ISO 800 (both images) This is the view from the window of my condo. I have an entire wall that is almost completely covered with windows (minus a few feet of drywall at the bottom) so it was pretty easy to spot the gorgeous … Read more
Grilled Salmon on Cedar Planks
Canon 7D, Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens, 1/250 sec (left) and 1/350 (right) at f/2.8, ISO 200 Last night I had dinner with some friends at their house and brought over some salmon and cedar planks I’d been wanting to use. I don’t grill too often (mostly because I don’t own a grill) and really wanted … Read more
Using a Reflector
When I photograph food I do my best to use as much natural light as possible. The images above both have natural, diffused sunlight coming in from the right with a reflector to the left, but there is a slight difference between them. Can you see it? In the image on the left there isn’t … Read more
Photoshop Before & After: Salmon
Yesterday I posted some white-balance tips for shooting food photography. In this post I’m going to go through the steps I took to edit the image. The photo used in this post is from the same shoot and is edited identically to the image in the previous post. I reduced the images sizes in … Read more








