http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:29:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/surprises-camera/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=surprises-camera http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/surprises-camera/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:23:15 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=2175 Do we always know what we're going to get when we press the shutter or are we sometimes in for a pleasant surprise?]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/surprises-camera/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mastering-exposurehistograms-part-3 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-3/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:27:43 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-3/ This is the third post in a series on the histogram. This post discusses the Rocky Mountain histogram, what it is, when you can get it, how to photograph and how to do the post processing.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-3/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/death-valley-workshop-map/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=death-valley-workshop-map http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/death-valley-workshop-map/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:09:33 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=1673 Death Valley photography workshop with a map of some of our shooting locations.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/death-valley-workshop-map/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/backup-your-photos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=backup-your-photos http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/backup-your-photos/#comments Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:50:26 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/backup-your-photos/ Presenting a solution for backing up your iimportant photo files while also being able to share them between computers.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/backup-your-photos/feed/ 4 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photographic-challenges-a-solution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photographic-challenges-a-solution http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photographic-challenges-a-solution/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:23:00 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/09/06/photographic-challenges-a-solution/ A few weeks ago I posed a photographic challenge.  What decisions would you make to capture the Bristlecone Moon image?  Here’s the photograph again. Bristlecone Moon (2008) This shot poses some interesting challenges and here’s a link to the first post that spells out the situation in case you missed it. Photographic Challenge – the [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photographic-challenges-a-solution/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/clich/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clich http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/clich/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:56:02 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/08/12/clich/ Cliché, to many photographers this is a dirty word.  Photographs of Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View, the Tetons from Ox Bow Bend, the Watchman in Zion from the bridge, Delicate Arch – all are considered by many to be clichés. What exactly is a cliché?  Something that has lost its originality, ingenuity, impact from long [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/clich/feed/ 2 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/eastern-sierra-photographs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eastern-sierra-photographs http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/eastern-sierra-photographs/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:59:50 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/08/06/eastern-sierra-photographs/ I finally got a chance to work on a few more Eastern Sierra workshop photographs from June.  It’s amazing how many things barge to the front of the line.  But I finally got to these.  I hope you enjoy them. Alabama Hills Vignette This one was taken before the workshop started.  It’s just one more [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/eastern-sierra-photographs/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photography-tutorial-getting-the-shot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photography-tutorial-getting-the-shot http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photography-tutorial-getting-the-shot/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:32:30 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/07/28/photography-tutorial-getting-the-shot/ I have what I think is a fun idea that can lead to an interesting discussion.  Let me explain. I often think of art in general and photography in particular as involving two very important elements – creative vocabulary and interpretive decisions.  Creative vocabulary is the knowledge, skills and techniques we use as artists and [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photography-tutorial-getting-the-shot/feed/ 4 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/honesty-in-photography/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=honesty-in-photography http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/honesty-in-photography/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:39:48 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/07/05/honesty-in-photography/ I just read a great email from Brian Peterson, founder of The Perfect Picture School of Photography.  He ran an unscientific opinion pole on whether photographers felt it was OK to dramatically alter photographs in Photoshop.  Now, by ‘dramatically alter,’ Brian means to add major elements to an image that were not present in the [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/honesty-in-photography/feed/ 3 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/lightroom-tutorial-lr-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lightroom-tutorial-lr-3 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/lightroom-tutorial-lr-3/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:30:21 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/07/03/lightroom-tutorial-lr-3/ Lightroom 3 came in the mail yesterday (along with CS5) so today I’m trying it out.  There’s not a lot of new functionality like there was when LR2 introduced local adjustments.  But there are some new things I’m really excited about. LR3 can publish directly to Flickr.  Boy, that saves a step.  With LR 2.7 [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/lightroom-tutorial-lr-3/feed/ 0