Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
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Celebrating nature through photography and having fun doing it. I'm Rob Sheppard and I want to help people create compelling photos as they connect with nature. I believe we all have a unique vision of and connection to nature that we can share through photography.
Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
10M ago
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Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
5y ago
I love clouds, but I recently saw something that I cannot figure out. Let me start by saying that I love clouds as part of a landscape but also just for themselves. I love to fly when there are big, fluffy clouds. I find it fascinating to watch and photograph as the view constantly changes ..read more
Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
5y ago
The obvious things of nature, the big bold mountains, the spreading vistas, the big waterfalls, the giant redwoods, the bears, the lions, the eagles, and so forth, are all great. I love them all. Yet, for me, nature has to be more than that. I have been known to be in the presence of an ..read more
Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
5y ago
My wife and I are on a porch of a house near Lake Isabella in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The mountains circle the lake in the Kern River Valley. The lake is high from all of the snow and rain we have had this year. The sky is filled with turbulent clouds ..read more
Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
5y ago
The weather in Southern California has just been nuts this spring. In the 25 years that I’ve lived here, I have never experienced the rain and cold that we have had this season. This last weekend there was even snow, new snow, falling in the local mountains! Crazy! I was up by our place near ..read more
Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
5y ago
I have rediscovered an old technique for getting high-quality macro shots without spending a lot of money. Get an old manual aperture lens, mount the lens backwards and start shooting true macro! The make of lens doesn’t matter at all. Many photographers using this technique recommend an old Pentax 50mm manual focus, manual aperture lens ..read more
Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
5y ago
I’ve been playing more with super-close-ups-to-macro on cloudy days using small f-stops for more depth of field. In Southern California, a marine layer of clouds blocks the sun most mornings at this time of year. Small f-stops under these conditions is a very different thing than I have done in the past. I would often ..read more
Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
5y ago
I was stuck. I had gotten down to photograph some purple globe mallow flowers in my garden. The flowers were great and I enjoyed playing with deep depth of field in natural light using high ISOs on my GH5s. But I was stuck. It was a problem getting up. To be honest, I really could ..read more
Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
5y ago
The self-critic is that incessant voice inside our heads that tell us that we’re not enough, that we should be doing better, that we can’t compete, and so forth. I have met some people that don’t have a very strong self-critic or at least they figure out ways to ignore it. I wish I could ..read more
Rob Sheppard's Joy of Nature and Photography
5y ago
Depth of field and close-ups – a major problem. To get more depth of field, you need to stop your lens down to small f-stops. But small f-stops result in a need for slower shutter speeds, a problem for either handholding the camera or movement of the subject. Macro and tight close-ups are hard for ..read more