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Photographing Marine Mammals

 by Herb Gruenhagen When photographing marine mammals you need to be respectful of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. This act makes it illegal to harass a marine mammal. Harassment is interpreted as human activity that changes the behavior of the animals. Thus, the entering ...

COLOR/EXPOSURE CONTROL

by Herb Gruenhagen What is color? Color is the way we perceive differing energy wavelengths of light reflecting off an object. What we call white is the combination of all wavelengths at once; when white light hits an object, the object may absorb some of the wavelengths and reflect others. If ...

On Or In the Bottom

 by Herb Gruenhagen Sandy beaches and mudflats shift with the waves and currents along our coastlines. It takes practice to find and photograph these animals that call sand and mud their home. Large plants find the shifting sand difficult to cope with so you will find only a few plants. The ...

MAKING SLIDE SHOWS IN ADOBE PREMIERE

by Deeanne Edwards 04/26/03 This is not meant to teach you how to use Premiere. It is simply a collection of notes I have found to be important in making slide shows. Also, I use a Mac and Premiere 6.5. PC users made need to vary some things. SCANNING Images displayed on a ...

SLIDE SCANNING TIPS

 from Bob Brace If you scan the slides or have them scanned, the final image should be 1600 x 1200 pixels and it can be in TIFF, JPG (highest resolution, lowest compression), or PSD formats. Note that there are 2 basic types of scanners: one allows specification of images size ...

The Frugal Photographer

  by Steve Tietsworth If you're like me you burn up quite a few rolls of film every month. Unfortunately the film you probably use also happens to be one of the most expensive types you can buy; E-6 slide film ! Fujichrome Velvia and ...

5 Steps to a Better Slide Show Presentation

by Judith Garfield   10/00 Creating a slide show demands the wearing of many hats. Focusing a little extra effort on each aspect will in the end mean a presentation that goes beyond just okay to one that's really great and memorable: 1. Speaking: ...

Ansel Adams: Insight From A Master

by Randy Morse   7/94 While being interviewed for his autobiography, Ansel Adams was asked this question. After so many others have spent years photographing Yosemite, what is it that has made your work the standard by which all others are measured? He replied, I feel that I am good at capturing ...

Surface Interval – Marine Mammals Topside

by Phil Colla   5/96 Over the past few years I have had the good fortune of photographing topside marine mammals often, usually in situations where I expected a particular animal and was prepared to shoot it as well as I know how. Occasionally, though, surprise opportunities aboard large dive boats have ...

Wide Angle with Sea&Sea 12mm Lens

BY: Robert Yin   01/97 11/21/96 Monthly Meeting Presentation: I showed 30 slides to demonstrate the use of a Sea&Sea 12mm on a Nikonos V camera body -- for both side-angle close-focus and regular wide-angle shots. During my recent trip to the Philippines and Malaysia, I ...