Learn to Identify Five Owls by Their Calls
Gary Detonnancourt
Snowy Owl, Sachuest Point, RI.
Check out this article on how to identify owls by their calls.
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This is the blog for More Than A Snapshot's Online Photography Classes. In these blog posts I will give photography tips, tutorials, and show images.
Nikon's Small World Competition Winners
Gary Detonnancourt
1ST PLACE
2015 PHOTOMICROGRAPHY COMPETITION
Subject Matter:
Eye of a honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered in dandelion pollen
(120x)
Technique:
I think it's so cool that this year's winner is a high school biology teacher and is self-taught in this technique. I also teach high school biology and have always wanted to try this myself. It's also interesting that the winner was a fairly common subject and not some obscure cell type. The photographer also used focus stacking which is becoming very common in macro photography. Check out all the winner at Nikon's Small World website.
Here is one of my first attempts at micro-photography using a high school microscope and photographed with my iPhone. This is a green algae from a local pond. I believe it's called spirogyra.
Cape Cod Sunrise
Gary Detonnancourt
2015 Nature Photographer of the Year Winner & Image Critiques
Gary Detonnancourt
2015 Nature Photographer of the Year Winner & Image Critiques
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Sunrise at Stage Harbor Lighthouse, Cape Cod
Gary Detonnancourt
Sunrise at Stage Harbor Lighthouse, Cape Cod
Adobe is Working on a New Monument Mode
Gary Detonnancourt
Taking pictures of landmarks and sites can be difficult, the more popular the location the more likely it is that people, vehicles, and other objects will get in the way obstructing your view. "Monument Mode" uses a new algorithm to distinguish moving objects from fixed ones, one-click and those obstructions are gone for good.
New Lightroom CC.2 / 6.2 Update... Does it Suck?
Gary Detonnancourt
Changes that are available in both 6 and CC include:
- a redesigned streamlined import process, intended to make importing more straightforward for newer users
- improved blending and alignment of panorama and HDR merges
- support for new cameras
- tether support for the Leica M Monochrome
- new lens profiles
- bug fixes
In addition, for CC subscribers only, De-haze is now available as a local adjustment, in the adjustment brush, graduated filter, and radial filter tools.
What was Adobe thinking? The new import process looks more modern and is designed to be easier for non-pros but looses some of it's features. Additionally, it causes a performance hit because it's always looking for new image folders to import. Luckily this can be turned off in the preferences, by un-checking "add photos". There are even rumors that it's causing Macs to crash. This may turn out to be a good update in the end, but I would wait for now until they figure out all the bugs. You can see the full update information here.
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Night Panorama
Gary Detonnancourt
This image is made up of four vertical images stitched together with Lightroom. I used the tripod head rotation to over lap each image by about 33%.
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