Featured Professional: Ian Shive

Great images. Very professional stuff.




Website: www.waterandsky.com

All images © Ian Shive; used with permission.

Feature Professionals: Fred and Joan Hanselmann

Website: www.hanselmannphotography.com

All images © Fred and Joan Hanselmann; used with permission.

Survey Results

The results of my survey are in. I didn’t get as many responses as I had hoped, but there were enough to get a general idea of who visits this blog. A brief summary:

• On average, you spend about seven hours a month shooting and nine hours processing photos
• You mostly shoot nature photos—with a good mixture of landscape, macro, and wildlife—but also spend a lot of time taking photographs of people
• You shoot primarily with smaller than full frame DSLRs
• A majority of you also shoot with Nikon, but only a very small majority
• Most respondents use some version of Adobe Photoshop to process their images, though Photoshop Elements and Apple Aperture are also popular
• Flickr is the most common place for you to post your photographs
• Most of you have no photographic education other than perhaps taking an online course

It was interesting to see what you shoot and what your photographic preferences are overall. I have no idea if the sample is representative of viewers as a whole, but it was still very enlightening.

Featured Professional: Frank Lüdtke

I typically feature photographers who shoot primarily in the western US, but I wanted to show what can be done in other areas too. Frank Lüdtke is a Europe based photographer who shoots across the globe. There are fantastic images on his site from all over the continent, New Zealand, and the US. Check his photos out on his website.




All images © Frank Lüdtke; used with permission.

Featured Professional: Inge Johnsson

He captures some pretty fantastic shots. Check him out at ingejohnsson.com

All images © Inge Johnsson; used with permission.

A Favor

Do me a solid and please take this survey. It only takes a few minutes to complete and you would be helping me a lot.
Thanks.

A Misunderstanding

This past weekend I was on vacation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. During the trip stopped at a state park to take some photos. While I was shooting, a couple asked me to take their photo and when I switched my camera from my left to my right hand to grab the camera the man was offering me, he said: “No, I meant with our camera.” I guess he was assuming that I was moving the camera to my right hand to take his and his wife’s picture with my camera.

Well shoot, you figured out my plan, fella. Now I won’t be able to take a photo of you and your wife home with me like I had been scheming to.