Recent content by nokk

watch the light. you can have the best clouds ever, but if the light is hitting them at the wrong angle you'll end up with flat, lifeless crap. these two shots were taken a day apart (similar skies and conditions on both days) within a few miles of each other. in the first the sun is nearly...

this is something i really struggle with because we have a ton of undergrowth in our woods on the east coast. but i found a small aspen grove out west and grabbed a few different compositions. i was looking for patterns that led the viewer from the trees in front to the back of the woods...

autumn colors of a grove of aspens in the american west. fuji 50r & 32-64mm

fuji 50r & 100-200mm lens

i use my business name for a watermark rather than my real name. i work in dispatch, i'm a little paranoid about my personal info on the internet. my coworkers at my dispatch job know the name and logo of my photography business. one of them told me one day that they'd seen one of my photos...

photoshop's smart fill could possibly be used to remove a watermark. otherwise some time, patience and skill with the clone stamp. have you considered putting a more obscure watermark on your images? people could still remove it if they see it, but if they don't you'll have proof that they...

some horses in grand teton national park in wyoming, usa. taken as the sun was setting behind the mountains. a7r4 & 200-600mm @ 600mm.

fuji 32-64mm. the 100-200mm is my second most used landscape lens with the 23mm prime coming in as a very useful last.

i once made an action that used percentages to drop a watermark in place. this way the bottom right corner of the watermark was always dropped 10% in from the bottom right corner no matter what size the image was. it's been awhile but i believe i had to se the rulers to % rather than pixels to...

the hood works fine for protection and doesn't degrade the image quality.

i'm heading west for a road trip this coming wednesday. i'm hitting some familiar places and some not so familiar places. i've done some research on my new locations and scouted things using photo pills, streetview and flickr, but figured i'd ask for recommendations anyway. has anyone ever...

the 200-600mm is the only lens i own for my sony. go for it, it's fantastic.

at work we use 6 monitors per workstation. we used to have 1 large (flat) 72" screen and it looked really sweet. but once the screen went bad you lost an entire workstation until the screen could be replaced. now with 6 smaller screens just one monitor has to be replaced and the dispatcher...

you can also look at some noise reducing software like topaz denoise for your higher iso shots. and depending on where you plan on using the photos (for example if you're only posting web size images to fb) the noise may not matter much.

this was my first encounter with one of this year's kits. it was also my first year shooting with a sony (a7r4) and the 200-600mm. for producing noisy images sooc it really does clean up well in post as long as you don't underexpose.