Megan Galope Archives

Adobe PhotoShop – Removing Unwanted People/Objects

By Megan P Galope Have you ever been in a beautiful location trying to get that perfect landscape image, but people keep walking through your shot? This is a common problem in popular places. I had th...

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3 years ago

Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch

By Megan P Galope If you’ve ever driven the stretch of I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson, you’ve undoubtedly passed the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch. Most people don’t stop to see what it’s all...

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4 years ago

Adobe Lightroom – Using the New Range Mask Feature

By Megan P Galope Have you ever tried using a graduated filter to make the sky darker, but in the process it also darkens the mountains? Trying to then remove the mountains from the filter was a tedio...

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5 years ago

Las Vegas – So Much to See (and Photograph!)

By Megan P Galope Most people I talk to either love or hate Las Vegas. Many dread having to go there on business, with all of the people and noise. But Vegas is a great place for photography, with so ...

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5 years ago

Front Yard Photography

By Megan P Galope If you’re searching for a subject to photograph, sometimes you don’t have to look further than your back (or front) yard. There are the usual plants and flowers, but if you pay a...

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5 years ago

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

By Megan Galope Like it or not, it’s approaching that time of the year again. The time when you try to figure out what to get the person who has everything, or the person who can’t come up with a ...

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5 years ago

How to Capture Star Trails

By Megan P Galope Twitter = @megangalope At the end of January, I attended the AHPW Advanced Star Trails workshop taught by Beth Ruggiero-York. We learned how to take many photos over the span of a co...

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6 years ago

First Impressions of the Sony a6300

Author: Megan P Galope I recently acquired a Sony a6300 mirrorless camera. I was interested in this camera due to its small size and weight, as I thought it would be a good camera to take with me whil...

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6 years ago

Focus Stacking

Author: Megan P Galope A few weeks ago I spent a weekend learning more about macro photography. There is so much to learn! One thing that was completely new to me was focus stacking. I had heard of ...

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6 years ago

Photographing Wildlife Part 2 – Seeing the Big Picture

Author: Megan Galope If you’re like me, when you see wildlife your first reaction is to pull out the telephoto lens and try to get close-ups of the animal. Sometimes I am so focused on homing in o...

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6 years ago