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Post 16: Tom Murphy

https://www.tmurphywild.com/

Tom Murphy is a wildlife photographer based out of Livingston, Montana. His photography focus is in Yellowstone National park, where he will also lead photography trips and expeditions for others with his company, Wilderness Photography Expeditions. He has donated his work to conservation groups and efforts, as well as the park, were most of it can be see in the Old Faithful Visitors Center. He has been featured in a PBS documentary, Christmas in Yellowstone, which is broadcast every Christmas. He has published seven books on the seasons of Yellowstone that focus on the life within the park.

Besides photography, Tom serves on the Yellowstone Park Foundation board, Park City Environmental Council, and does lectures and talks to promote conservation and raise awareness on environmental issues.

He has three categories of photos on his website: Abstract, Landscape, and Wildlife. There is a sample from each category in order below.

Filaments of Red Bacteria
https://www.tmurphywild.com/product/filaments-of-red-bacteria/

Full Moon Setting Over Ridge and Clouds
https://www.tmurphywild.com/product/full-moon-setting-over-ridge-and-clouds/

Druid Pack Wolf Yearling
https://www.tmurphywild.com/product/druid-pack-wolf-yearling/

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Post 15: Ray Collins

https://raycollinsphoto.com

Australian photographer, Ray Collins, has spent the past decade photographing the surf, focusing on the form of the waves and the effect that water can have. He began photography after he injured his knee in a mining accident. During his recovery time, he dove into the waves and began practicing. Since then, he has made a significant name for himself, photographing surfers, and working with the aviation and automotive industries, and many more. He has been featured in National Geographic, and works to show environmental impact within the ocean.

His pictures use a low exposure and a fast shutter speed to capture the movement of the waves. All of his pieces depict the ocean as powerful, and constantly in motion. His work differs form that of Clark Little, in that the depiction of the waves give a different presentation. These waves are powerful and dangerous, while Clark Little shows them as powerful as well, but in a warmer tone. It is amazing to see different styles of the same subject.

Post 14: Share 2 and Critique

For these pictures, the settings are:
ISO: 800
AV: F6
Shutter Speed: 1/60

I sharpened both pictures and put the dehaze filter on them. The first one, I darkened the background and blurred it, and took the ice, sharpened it, and lighted the exposure, enhanced the shadows, and highlights.

The second one, I enhanced the shadows and highlights to expose the patterns in the ice. I also saturated the color a bit to show the green in the leaves.

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Post 13: Xavi Bou

http://www.xavibou.com/index.php/project/about-xavi-bou/

Xavi Bou lives in Barcelona where he grew up and studied photography throughout his whole life. He graduated from the University of Barcelona with a degree in Geology in 2003. Later, he followed his passion for photography and in 2004, studied photography at Grisart International School of Photography. He worked in photography for advertisements and the fashion industry between then and 2012. 

Xavi wanted to peruse his love of the natural world and began focusing on  Ornitographies - bird flight pictures. He has since been published in National Geographic, Sonntag, The Guardian, and many more. “My intention is to capture the beauty of the bird’s flight in a single moment, making the invisible visible. Ornitographies moves away from the purely scientific practice of Chronophotography that 19th century photographers Eadward Muybridge and Étienne Julies Marey developed. It is the balance between art and science, a project of naturalist discovery, and, at the same time, an exercise of visual poetry.”

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Post 12: Ronan Donovan

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/05/yellowstone-photographer-donovan/

This week, I'm featuring National Geographic photographer, Ronan Donovan who photographs the wolf packs in Yellowstone National Park. He started his career in biology and began his photography in Uganda when he went to study chimpanzees. In 2015, he lived in Yellowstone to document the packs.
He has photographed the Junction Butte, Mollie's, and 8-Mile packs - as well as the researchers who monitor them. Often, Donovan will join researchers when they need to dart the wolves for immunizations and radio collars. Donovan now lives in Montana.

This one is one of his well known photographs of a Grey Wolf (Canis lupus).
Please visit National Geographic and his website to see more of his awesome photos. I have included the links below.

http://www.ronandonovan.com/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/05/yellowstone-photographer-donovan/

Post 11

Post 11: Share 2 and Critique: 2

For my two pictures this week, I took advantage of the cold weather the past few weeks, and got some good snowflake pictures. I was able to use my macro lens to get some good detail. The settings on it were ISO: 800, and shutter speed: 1/60. Aperture cannot be changed with my macro lens.

For the shoot, I used black printer paper as my base. I kept it outside for a few minutes so that it could adjust to the outside temperature. This way, the snowflakes would not melt. Black fabric or wool also works, and is sometimes better, because it is softer; it will absorb some impact and more snowflakes are less likely to shatter. The colder the temperature, and the drier the air - the better snowflakes will form.