3 Photography Guidelines to Keeping it Simple
The light and wildlife wait for no man. So my photography shooting model is: GO FAST, GO LIGHT, GO SIMPLE. These are not mind-blowing, advanced techniques. They are just simple…
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B&W or not B&W … That’s the Question
What photos make good black and white images and which ones do not? The short and simple answer is: the ones you like in black and white are the…
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Creek on Turnagain Arm — The Back-Story
Here is the back-story to how I made the May image in my 2019 calendar— A creek with Turnagain Arm in the background: This creek is barely visible…
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Cropping, composing; vertical, horizontal; long shutter, fast shutter… sun’s going down, oh gee how to make this look good?
I was recently out looking for and shooting some spring landscapes. I found myself 50 miles south of home at Portage Lake, hoping that there might be some icebergs in…
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February 6th, 2013 Canon/Stewarts Photo Talk
I’m excited and honored to have been asked by our local camera store, Stewart’s Photo Shop, to be a speaker at an event sponsored by Canon Cameras. Canon Camera’s professional…
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Hidden Lake Creek
When I was first getting into photography–like 1973-ish, one of my absolute favorite subjects was photographing streams and waterfalls in Yosemite National Park and elsewhere and making the water appear…
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How Many Photos Do I Take During The Iditarod?
A question I’m asked often while shooting the Iditarod is, “how many photos do you take?” During this year’s race, and really any recent year, I shoot A LOT of…
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HOW THE IMAGE WAS MADE: Winter Highway
This image was taken in January of 2016 while out shooting in the “Glacier View Area” a 2 1/2 hour drive northeast of Anchorage. I visualized making an image like…
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How The Shot Was Taken: Timber Island
A couple years ago I was a approached by a young man who was on a quest to offer photo workshops in various parts of the country, and his target…
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How to Choose a Tripod- for Landscape & Wildlife Photographers
Top 7 Things to Look for When Choosing a Tripod: For Landscape & Wildlife Photographers Yes, a tripod is an absolute necessity for many types of photography BUT it is…
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How to Improve Your Creative Photography Skills with a Self-Assignment
How to Increase Your Creative Skills in Photography — Both the ART & SCIENCE Sides. Want to increase your overall creative skill in photography? Want to increase your “compositional skills”…
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How to make stunning photos of Denali from a plane
The Denali National Park flight seeing tour is probably the most requested Alaska experience that comes to mind when folks are inquiring about what to do in Alaska. There are…
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Ice Water Creek
It’s all in the motion … I spent a few hours looking for images along local Campbell Creek. I just enjoy my time alone looking for nature art. I found…
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Moose and Pond Photo
I am just so blessed to be able to live in this place we call Alaska. And making a photo like this I think can only happen here. Especially when…
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Mother and Calf with Denali – THE BACKSTORY
This is one of those plain ‘ole serendipitous stories. I was leading a photo tour throughout many parts of Alaska. It was part of my “Into the Wild” photo tour/workshop. …
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My Most Favorite Composition
In the middle of May there was a clear stretch of weather and I went on an overnight shoot to make images in the Glacier View area. I shot this…
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Shooting in the Freezer!
As the official photographer of the Iditarod for over 36 years, there are three questions I’m asked most often. The first is a question that gets asked all winter long—…
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Snow Stock Shoot in the Studio – Behind the Scenes
A couple weeks ago my stock agency, Alaska Stock Images, sent out a call to photographers for an up close portrait of a woman with snow on her face in…
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Sunset and Sleeping Lady
I wanted to make the image just a bit different than a normal sunset photo. Though it may not be easy to tell, I shot this at a very long…
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The making of star trails
The Back Story to Making This Image— This past spring I saw that the Aurora forecast was supposed to be good for our area… and the sky was going to…
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The ultimate Filter Holder and setup
NOTE: As of Nov. 22, 2019. Since this blog post was first published I have tested and reviewed another similar filter holder from PolaPro. After reading this post (which I…
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Top 10 Locations to Photograph Bears in Alaska
ALASKA BROWN & GRIZZLY BEARS: Where to Find them & What to Bring Many people love photographing bears. Especially the Alaska grizzly bear or Brown bear. It seems the…
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Updated: The Ultimate Filter Holder & Setup
Since I wrote my article on the ultimate filter holder setup, HERE: https://schultzphoto.com/2018/10/03/the-ultimate-filter-holder-and-set-up/ another filter holder has just come on the market that I feel should be added to this…
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Using Auto ISO: when, how and why on earth would you do such a thing?
More and more, with wildlife photography I find myself using auto-ISO setting in order to maintain a fast enough shutter speed to either stop my subject OR to stop camera/lens…
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