Category: Brian’s Blog
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Having Fun with Filters
See my Filter Stacking Video to see the process of how this image was created. Having Fun with Filters by Brian Stamm The weather was cold, the waves choppy, and the eagles were a little inactive on our first day of shooting for the 2013 Reelfoot Lake Camera Club Council of Tennessee outing. Weather being the fickle…
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Having Fun with Long Shutter Speeds
Novice as well as professional photographers can have a lot of fun with changing the shutter speed of their camera. Playing with length of time the shutter is open when taking a photograph can lead to very interesting photographs. Most people are familiar with the “slow water” shots where streams and rivers take on a…
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Day 14 – The Durango to Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Hey all! Hope your still reading. I haven’t gotten to post my blogs for several days. Maybe I can get them posted soon. Well today was a lot of fun. Nikki and I got up from our hotel early so we could be to the train station in time. We had ordered our…
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Day 13 – Sorry Sedona, Hello Monument Valley & Durango
As I stated in yesterday’s blog I ended up skipping Sedona. I needed the sleep. Nikki and I have been on the go for days. We decided to head for Durango, Colorado so we could get there sooner and have more time to relax as well as get our train tickets for the next day. …
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Day 12 – The Grand Canyon – Almost Sedona
Nikki and I got up at a fairly decent hour to get on our way but like all things sometimes it takes a while to get moving. We got out of vegas about 11:00 vegas time. Bad weather pretty much followed us most of the day. We got to the Grand Canyon and it was…
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Day 10 & 11 – Vegas, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I got up this morning and knowing I had to pick up Nikki at the airport in Vegas about 4:00 (6:00pm Central). So I decided to go to Nelson, Nevada. Nelson is an old mining town now turned ghost town. People do live there but the “town” is mostly a mix of scattered residences with…
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Day 9 – Page, Az Part II
If there is one thing that made this whole trip worth while it was the antelope canyons in Page, Az. Even without a camera the slots are spectacular. If your not photographing I would recommend the Upper Canyon they say it is easier to navigate. There are some squeezes that make a fat guy have…
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Day 8 – Page, Az
I slept in a bit at the Bob and Bon Inn in Kanab, Utah. My feet were killing me from the hike in the narrows at Zion. It was well worth the soreness but I would have been better off to remember to take dry shoes and dry shorts. Fortunately my camera shirts at Natural…
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Day 7 – Zion National Park
Wouldn’t you know it? I ended up getting up and getting to Zion National Park at sunrise to find the major shot I wanted to take is a sunset shot. That is lack of research and planning on my part. It doesn’t really matter though because its not just about the destination or getting the…
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Day 6 – Bryce Canyon
Today I ended up staying at the Knights Inn in Richfield longer then I probably should have. I slept in and therefore missed sunrise and any spectacular sunrise photo opportunities. It was a clear blue sky and I knew there wouldn’t be a lot of interest in the sky and more likely then not a…