Clarkson Studio Photography

12/14/2024

02/07/2022

Cell phone snap of sunrise in Montana out my window through the window. Dialed down the aperature 1.5 stops to capture and slightly intensify the color. In reality it is more pastel and subtile. That can be made lighter in photoshop to be more accurate.outside it was 18° F normally its below this. To obtain a spectacular shot one needs to take off about 6 a.m. or earlier. Drive in darkness to an open scenic spot scouted earlier, then wait until around 7:15 when you see first rays during early Feb. The sunrise in winter lasts no more than 5-10 minutes, changing every second!
Ideal equipment ... tripod, digital camera with layering multiple exposure features, or programmable time interval exposure, auto bracketing -2 f stop minimum. Remote release via wifi or blutooth.
My luck is I plan then go get set up and the sunrise is blah, total overcast, or no clouds or no brilliant reds and no subtile pinks. Just grey sky!

01/30/2022

Los Angeles freeways 2018

01/30/2022

Travel snapshot with cell phone along I-90 near Phillipsburg in January 2022

12/11/2021

I am concentrating more on custom interior art prints from my files of scenic photos.

12/11/2021

Older buck apparently mentoring a yearling in the yearly mating battle technique

05/25/2021

May 15-21, 2021 temps in Montana suddenly dropped from 60°s and 70°s to the mid 20°s and stayed with heavy wet snow piling up as high as 18 inches in Helena.

The sudden return to winter comes as a shock, breaking tree limbs, destroying fragile flowers and non-native garden plants. However it has a certain beauty all is own as shown in these few photos I shot right outside my back door.

01/20/2021

Los Angeles California area West Shore, Del Ray to Santa Monica Oct 2019