jeff_rennicke

Bayfield Fishing Tug

Apostle Islands

Basswood Island, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

Hole-in-the-Wall, Badlands National Park

Lake Superior, Apostle Islands, northern Wisconsin

Sunset wave patterns on Lake Superior

It is difficult to capture the blaze of colors in lupines, for me, because

just as with autumn leaves it is so much. I tried to reduce it to one

group of flowers and swatches of color. What do you think?

Sunset on Lake Superior's Apostle Islands -- is there anyway to make

sunset shots not cliched?

A wonderful example of the power of depth of field. Nice work.

I like the painting-like quality of narrow depth of field but is this too

distracting?

I suppose it is a cliche to shoot ferns, but how can you resist with those

great patterns?

I like playing with depth of field. Do you think it works here?

Does the narrow depth of field work here?

Beautifully done. The shape of the light is spectacular. This is the kind of photography I respect and what I am hoping someday to achieve myself. Congratulations.

I am beginning to experiment with after dark shots. Any advice, tips, or

suggestions would be appreciated.

Any tips for shooting in darker than usual situations?

I go back and forth with depth of field decisions with flowers. Does this

work or should I have gone with a deeper depth of field?

northern Wisconsin. Should I have used a reflector to bring the light up

on the flowers?

I like this one better as well. There is always much maligning of things being too "centered" and generally I agree that moving a subject off center can add a sense of tension but frankly when it comes to flowers you don't want "tension". In fact you want the opposite: a feeling of calm and gentleness. With the black background, there is little to be gained by moving it off center frame. I think in a shot like this what is more important is the depth of field. The soft focus work well here because of the detail of the center target of the flower (don't know the botanical terms -- pistol? stamen?), the uniform color of the bulk of the petals, and the red tips to help draw the eye. I would have liked the red-tips of the petals at the bottom edge of the flower to be sharper to act as a kind of "border-within-a border" for the flower but that is something I struggle with in extremely thin depth of field shots as well. Does it say anywhere what f-stop you shot this at? I am assuming 5.6. If there is anything distracting to my eye it is the red stem faintly showing at the upper left corner. Some composition guru's would say that is a good line because it is an "exit line" that draws the eye out of the picture. Again, in some shots that can be good but to me, I don't want my eye to leave the flower so why should there be an "exit line"? Have you thought of removing it? I love the stem line below the flower. That one makes sense. Anyway, just my thoughts. Nice work. By the way, I am a writer for magazines like National Geographic Traveler, Reader's Digest and others. I am currently working on a story on Scotty's Castle in Death Valley NP and enjoyed your photographs of it as well. Good work.

wow. I love this kind of image -- simple and spectacular. You've caught a moment in time, a moment of beauty, which is what photography is all about to me. good job.

57 miles an hour

I love this shot, great work.

very nice use of shutter speed, perfect.

perfect timing.

Apple harvesting in Bayfield, Wisconsin overlooking Lake Superior