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Landscape and nature photography is popular in scenic areas, because there's so much subject matter everywhere one turns. This blog will help you advance from taking a mere snapshot of beautiful scenery to creating a great photograph that pulls you into that scene as though you were back there again.

From winter landscape photography to macro photography, color to black and white, view my beautiful nature photography and read the digital landscape photography tips I offer to help you improve your photos.

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Glenwood Canyon's Hanging Lake

I posted both stills and videos to my Colorado Wilderness blog, but since Hanging Lake is such a popular destination, I thought I should put up a few here too.




Putting the polarizing filter on the camera for the first time this year, I hiked up to Hanging Lake to shoot both stills and videos (see the videos here).

It was bright enough that I handheld the camera for all of these shots, using the aperture priority setting and choosing "cloudy" for the white balance (a setting I like because it gives such a warm tone to the images).  Later, in Photoshop, I needed only small adjustments to levels and the unsharp mask.  The black & white image was created (as most of mine are) using the channel mixer (boosting the green and lowering the red channels).

I really wish I had a wider angle lens for situations like this.  The entire scene, from the lake at my feet to the top of the canyon walls around me, is worth capturing.