Photographing the Night Sky
By Vern and Barbara West On a recent nighttime shoot of the Comet C2020 F3 / Neowise, we had a crash course on remembering all the ins and outs of photographing the night sky. One of the first steps w...
My Favorite Non-Photographic Photographic Accessory
Author: Vern West As a Volunteer Trip Leader on The Best of the West Workshop I became friends, as I usually do, with one of the participants. His name is Alex Tilley and he is the founder of a Canadi...
Old Way of Focusing
Author: Vern West All images © Vern West Back in the film days at the advent of auto focus lenses there were two options for initiating focus. The first one was initiated by the shutter button. This ...
Focus and Depth Of Field
Author Vern West All images are copyright by Vern West One of the questions that I get on various workshops is how to control Depth of Field (DOF) or sometimes understanding DOF. The explanation requi...
Photographing the Moonrise – Part 2 of 2
Author: Vern West Your chance to practice photographing the moon-rise is right around the corner. June 2nd is the next full moon. As mentioned in Part 1 of my blog, there are some key factors to r...
Photographing the Moonrise – Part 1 of 2
Author: Vern West We’ve all seen photos of a seemingly full moon-rise with beautiful sunset colors on the surrounding landscape and the moon bright and full. Here is how it is done without trick...