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Photography Workshops Now Forming In Utah And Arizona. Discounts For WordPress Members
If you’re visiting the area, sign up for one of my photography workshops that will get you to those iconic and hard to get to locations at America’s Amazing Desert Southwest. You’ll not only receive photography instruction, but will experience a guided tour of the areas natural resources and history. WordPress Members Get 20% Off Through 2025. Use Discount Code WP2025. Can take groups up to 3 people.
https://www.dawn2dawnphotography.com/photography-workshops
Off Season Photography Workshops Now Available
It’s the slow season for visitation in Southern Utah so I’m offering my personal 1 on 1 photography workshops at a reduced rate. Just $125 for a half day and $225 for a full day. For more information click on D2D Photography
How To Extract A Single Frame From A Video
If you produce a video and want to extract a single frame because it looks pretty cool(like lightning), there is an easy way to do so. Two apps make it pretty easy.
Use the app GRABZ on your smartphone. You isolate that frame on the video and then download it as a jpeg.
The same goes for a program I use on my MacBook Pro, https://frame-extractor.com/.
Travel Alot? You Need This Portable Blender
I’ve been on the road for awhile now and want to utilize those important things I would normally use at home. Like a blender to make my favorite smoothies. This Ninja Blender really works. You can recharge it via USB-C connection. Click on photo for Amazon link. See further below for one of my favorite smoothie recipes.
Capturing Video While Driving
A lot of video footage I’ve gathered is when I mount my iPhone to the front windshield of my vehicle. It’s not only safe but produces great results. It’s best to make sure your mount is where you want it before you drive off. Especially when road conditions were scary at best. See clip below. Click on photo below to order through Amazon.
Clip below shows why you want this device. I used to shoot video with my phone handheld! You definiely want your hands on the wheel when driving this road in Colorado.
Zion’s Observation Point Trail
It was 100 degrees Saturday and smoke from that nearby forest fire was in the air but my friend Jemmy and I made it to the top in about 2 hours. It’s 4 miles up and strenuous! All of theses images were taken with my new Google Pixel 2 smart phone camera, reputed to be the best camera in a phone. I did not edit any of these. Very sharp and great color!
Get Creative By Blending or Stacking Images
When I was on the California Coast recently, I decided to take numerous exposures of the exact same scene and then blend them in a software program. I also used these jpegs to produce a time lapse video which can be viewed here
But I wanted to see what you could produce if you blend 100 images of a moving scene, like moving waves and clouds. It’s similar to a longer exposure but I took an exposure every 20 seconds for about 35 minutes. Below you’ll also see the result and what the scene looked like with a single normal exposure. I actually shot 2 different scenes and present them but I also show one image where I blend both scenes, which is the bottom image.
So, if you want to get creative, try taking multiple exposures and blending them in Lightroom, Photoshop or stack them with a stacking program like StarStax
Remember to use a tripod, a shutter release or better, an intervalometer, which programs the length between exposures for your camera. You can just sit there and watch the waves crashing upon the beach.
It’s Alive!
So said Dr. Frankenstein about the monster. And that’s what I said yesterday to my Canon DSLR Camera. Back in the end of October while photographing the fall colors in the Eastern Sierras, my camera fell off from the tripod it was suppose to be mounted to. It not only fell off into some soft grass but preceded to bounce into Lee Vining Creek. I immediately jumped into the ice cold creek and retrieved the camera within 10 seconds but the damage had been done. I dried it off, took out the battery and lens and tried to dry the camera body against my car heater. Ian Plant(famous photographer) once blogged that he dropped his into the Virgin River and dried his camera out in an oven. I believe it worked for him. He probably gets his gear for free.
I didn’t want to put the camera in an oven, so I sent the camera with lens to Canon. They said they couldn’t fix either(or the cost was too high) and sent it back to me. When I got the lens back, I tried it and it worked just fine. The water inside the lens did dry. The camera wouldn’t work but I decided to store it in rice, the rice absorbs any moisture. After a month, I tried it again and the camera IS ALIVE! It takes beautiful images and video!
Moral of Story- Do Not Listen to the factory repair people at Canon and use rice to absorb moisture from any device that was submerged in water. They wanted me to buy new equipment. Patience paid off here. I plan to write Canon a scathing letter saying that the camera you said was dead is alive!