This evening I took a drive to nearby Cave Creek to photograph some desert scenes at sunset. It turned out to be a pretty nice evening with just enough cloud to augment the sunset, which turned out to be pretty good. I liked the sky and chose to make it prominent in most of the…
Author: shotsbyp
Red Canoes
Earlier this year I took a number of photographs of canoes moored at Chateau Lake Louise. The interest in these pictures lies in the patterns they assume as they move around with the wind on the lake’s surface. Despite this inherent interest, I thought they needed a little help so I undertook the following process…
Chester Lake
In late August, I went on a hike with a group of friends to Chester Lake in Kananaskis Country. We traveled by car along the Smith-Dorien Highway to the trailhead about 40 km (25 miles) south of Canmore. From the trailhead it’s 5.2 km (3.25 miles) to the lake, following a gently rising trail with…
Return Visit to Yoho NP
Today, Bob Bear and I returned to an area we had visited a little over a year ago. It’s where three rivers come together, the Emerald, Amiskwi and the Kicking Horse, just west of Field B.C. It’s a pleasant walk in from the Emerald Lake Road along a forestry road. The sights en route are…
Creative Use of Depth of Field
Depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible…