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...
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...
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...
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...
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...