G Dan Mitchell Photography

Since someone recently asked about the subject, I thought I’d post a link to my article on backpacking photography – equipment, how to carry it, some techniques, and so forth. G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, [...]

(This is a slightly modified version of something I wrote as part of a discussion on Google+) The author of the post that I read before writing this mentions two alternatives for dealing with dynamic range issues in landscape scenes – the use of graduated neutral density (GND) filters or the use of a similarly-named post process technique [...]

Earlier this morning I responded to a question from a new DSLR owner about filters. This person wondered which filters he “had to get” to use his new camera. I realized that this sort of question comes up from time to time, and I thought that the answer might be useful to others. So here [...]

Until recently I included some basic exposure data with each of my daily photographs, listing the camera and lens used, the focal length, ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. When I switched to a new blog format a week or so ago, I made a few other changes at the same time. One of these was [...]

(Occasional posts in the “A Photograph Exposed” series describe the backstory of certain photographs.) On the weekend of June 18-19 of this year I made a point of getting to Yosemite so that I could photograph the high country on the first day that Tioga Pass Road was open for the season. On a shoot [...]