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Jeff Sullivan

Landscape photographer, author, workshop instructor, filmmaker

I'm a landscape photographer and workshop leader, currently researching and writing a guide to the best landscape photography locations in Southern California.Stay tuned to see what I've discovered lately!
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About 2 weeks ago Golden Hour During the Storm
Here's another shot from last night.  The clouds were forming just a few miles west, so as the sun set, it shot golden light under and through the clouds for a few minutes.
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About 4 days ago Goldfields
Captured April 2011 in Antelope Valley near Lancaster, California.
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About 12 weeks ago Great Photography Weather in Yosemite Last Weekend
It's hard to have a bad day for photography in Yosemite National Park, but some days are better than others. Saturday featured broken clouds to decorate the sky and reflections, as in this image of El Capitan reflecting in the Merced River.

My next workshop in Yosemite will be April 24 - 27 to catch Spring wildflowers, waterfalls at peak Spring flow, moonbows (lunar rainbows) and more. Contact me for details.
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About 6 days ago Lake Tahoe Sunset near Sand Harbor State Park< Nevada
Last night I tried a photo cropped to a 1:2 shape to see how it would work, this one is 1:3: 300 pixels by 900 pixels.  Let's see how it looks with the #NewLook G+ layout...
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About 3 days ago Pancake Cloud
Here's another shot of the huge "Sierra Wave" lenticular clouds forming over Topaz Lake on the California / Nevada border a couple of nights ago.  The peaks on the horizon, the Three Sisters, mark the California/Nevada border. The North Sister on the left is in Nevada, the South Sister on the right is in California, and the Middle Sister straddles the two states, with its peak lying just into California.

Fortunately I put two cameras out to shoot time-lapse sequences, because for at least part of the time with one of them I forgot to switch the lens into manual focus. That's really ironic, since for landscape I most often use a wide lens and use manual focus to control depth of field, but because I was using f/8 at a long focal length, I wanted the camera to focus more accurately than my eyes could. So I got both cameras set up and shooting, and went back inside.  When I went back out to check the cameras, it had gotten dark enough that one of them was hunting f
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About 1 week ago Which Sites Protect Your Photos Best?  Why You Should Care
As you create and upload images to the Internet, your camera, your editing software, your tagging of information as you upload can all be associated with your photo and help people find you as the rightful owner if someone steals your image.  Unfortunately, some sites strip off the critical information which identifies the photo as yours.  

Once your image then becomes separated from you, it may get classified as an "orphan work".  The UK has passed a law which protects companies using these "orphaned works", so your photos may start appearing in many unapproved and even offensive commercial uses.

People have proposed that preserving rights information is the key to avoiding having your work "orphaned" (taken from you and used without your knowledge or permission), but that argument is weak at best.  The information associated with your photo is obviously easy to remove.  If your photo primarily
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About 13 weeks ago Revisiting Work with a New Perspective; Finding Balance in Post-processing
In the field when I revisit sites I've been to before I'll sometimes see something new about the scene, perhaps different weather or a different season which I'd like to have in my portfolio.  Often, however, I find myself dismissing a site I've been to before... been there, done that... no need to fill up disk drives with redundant, near-duplicates of previous captures. 

Lately though I've been re-capturing some shots I took only 3-4 years ago.  My latest camera, the Canon 5D Mark III, has more than double the resolution of the Canon 40D I was shooting with in 2008, it has more dynamic range, and less noise, particularly in underexposed areas.  It's true that buying a newer or more expensive camera won't improve your attention to the most important aspects of photography such as composition and exposure, but there are some potential benefits to being able to shoot in lower light, capture a g
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About 2 weeks ago Fall 2011 (Mostly Eastern Sierra, California)
I had a few question about my Mono Lake sunset photo a few posts back.  Here's the album of photos I shot back then, in Fall 2011.  This first photo is a sunset reflecting in a pool of water.  It was like a Crayola box full of blues, pinks purples and oranges had exploded.  Photos 2, 3, and 4 are different compositions and images from that same sunset at Mono Lake I posted earlier.  

I was asked on one of the colorful Mono Lake sunset shots whether I had adjusted the saturation.  I double checked, and all of the settings which would directly affect color were set to zero, except of course white balance. It was simply one of the most spectacular sunsets I've ever experienced. I wrote a blog post recently which touches upon the myths of "perfect exposure" and accurate color in photography:
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/08/its-time-for-digital-cameras-to-depart.html

Most of the other photos in this album were al
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About 4 weeks ago Cloudy Evening on the La Jolla Coast
I enjoyed meeting other photographers in the San Diego area last Monday.  The weather was cloudy, perfect for long exposures as the trace of sunset light on the horizon gave way to blue hour.

I've been pretty sick for the last 9 days.  At first I thought it was a simple case of food poisoning which would resolve itself within a day or two.  Whatever it is, I keep thinking I'm over it, then it comes back.  I'm sick of being sick!
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About 2 days ago Golden Gate Bridge at Sunrise
I had a request yesterday for a print of an image from this sunset by the Golden Gate Bridge, so I uploaded this shot to my SmugMug gallery as well to provide a couple of options to select from: http://jeffsullivan.smugmug.com/Landscapes/San-Francisco-Bay-Area/3792961_m27SrJ
The other one is a little soft in places because it was shot at 50mm, which offered less depth of field.  This one was shot at 24mm so it's sharp all over.  I could have gone for a smaller aperture, but that light was changing quickly and that would've resulted in exposures so long that I'd have fewer compositions (as well as more noise).
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