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How To Plan Great Full Moon Rise and Set Photos!

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. As a general rule of thumb the full moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. This is very convenient because you can get the moon illuminated by the...

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Hyperfocal Landscape Photography: Maximize Your Depth of Field!

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Cannon Beach, originally uploaded by Jeff Sullivan. To get a photo sharp from way close to infinity, just focus on the hyperfocal point for your...

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Landscape Photography in a Nutshell

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Here are some speaking notes that I’ll use as I lead a Landscape Photography overview tonight. I’m going to try to cover the topic in about 2 hours....

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16 Steps to Great Results!

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. This is an updated and expanded version of an article I wrote a couple of years ago. Note the embedded links to related articles. I recently received...

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Photographic Technique: Exposure for Maximum Reality and Flexibility

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. To increase your successful exposures and the percentage of your shots which successfully capture what you saw, there are a number of things you can...

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Photographic Technique: Iterative Composition

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Shooting Process: Kearsarge Lakes Evening Reflection, originally uploaded by Jeff Sullivan. When I see an opportunity to capture a nice reflection I...

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Shooting & Postprocessing Fall Colors Images

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Parker Lake Fall Colors Reflection, originally uploaded by Jeff Sullivan. Fall is one of my favorite times to shoot, as California’s Sierra Nevada is...

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Cut Light for Long Daylight Exposures

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Garrapata Dawn light, originally uploaded by Jeff Sullivan. We’ve all seen those nice one or two second exposures which make waterfalls look silky....

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How To Create Star Trail Images

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Yosemite Star Trail Reflection, originally uploaded by Jeffrey Sullivan. With today’s digital cameras it is surprisingly easy to create star trails...

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How To Capture Milky Way Images

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Milky Way, originally uploaded by Jeffrey Sullivan. Many digital cameras these days can do surprisingly well at capturing images at night. Their...

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Create a Timelapse Video on Your Digital Camera

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Lunar Moonbows in Upper Yosemite Falls from Jeff Sullivan on Vimeo. Timelapse videos are easy to create on your DSLR. There are many software packages...

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Create a Timelapse Video of a Meteor Shower

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Geminid Meteor Shower Timelapse, December 2010 from Jeff Sullivan on Vimeo. The Perseid Meteor Shower runs from July 17 – August 24, with peak night...

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How To Predict Moon Rise for Landscape Photography

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Originally posted in 2010, I occasionally bump this forward in my blog to tell people that they can plan to take an amazing sunrise moonset or sunset...

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Tutorial on Moon Photography Planning – Live Tonight!

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Tonight I’ll be broadcasting a live tutorial on how to determine exactly where to stand to place the moon on top of a natural or man-made landmark....

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Tutorial on Planning Moon Photography

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Moon rise, Kennedy Space Center, Florida I’ve been enthralled with the moon since growing up watching the Apollo missions on TV, the original Cosmos...

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Planning Sunrise and Sunset Landscape Photography

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Sunset in Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada Planning landscape photography has traditionally been a process of considering a combination of...

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“I Don’t Like My Pictures!”

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Belt of Venus sunset in Bodie: Lightroom -> Photomatix HDR -> Lightroom, best result so far “I Don’t Like My Pictures” We’ve all said that after...

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Anticipating Optimal Dune Lighting Via Sun Position

Author Jeff Sullivan on Jeff Sullivan Photography. Fall seasonal dune lighting in Death Valley, 2015. In the absence of interesting weather, are there optimum lighting conditions on certain dates and...

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Revisiting Work with a New Perspective; Finding Balance in Post-processing

Author Jeff Sullivan on Great Basin School of Photography. September 2012 image first post-processed in April 2020. There are a number of circumstances that might cause you to revisit a composition and...

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Stacking Starry Night Landscapes With Sequator

Author Jeff Sullivan on Great Basin School of Photography. 20 images of Joshua trees stacked with Sequator For quite some time astrophotographers have used a program called Deep Sky Stacker to align...

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