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Saturday, February 28 at 12:00pm
My local fall shooting has been pretty dismal lately. However, rumor is we had some pretty good color in Michigan. The leaves are now mostly down, and color is well past peak. My local “harvest” of fall images, with the exception of Alaska fall colors, is quite low.One time I di...
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It is quite difficult to portray animal emotions in photographs or reveal something about their nature in a fraction of a second. It is so much easier with human facial expressions that we associate with happiness, sorrow, or anger. Even colors in photographs, or the lack thereof, can help est...
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I was fortunate enough to capture a few scenes with some nice reflections of these coastal brown bears (aka. grizzly bears aka. ursus arctos ). It seemed to be a rare occurrence when a bear would walk along the water’s edge and at the same time have the water calm enough for a [...]
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Mark Graf I have added an "Installations" gallery where I plan to share photos of where my work is installed in various places...
Photos of installations of my work in hospitals, offices, and various other places
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Earlier this year, there was some banter back and forth between fellow photographers Carl Donohue and Ron Niebrugge about being able to photograph a wolverine. I read with interest as I would have liked to see one of them get a shot of one. Heck, both of these guys have spent more time in [...]
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flow...
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Carl Donahue mentioned in his comments on my previous bear blur post; “.. bears are just hard to do motion blurs with .. their gait is much of a wobble that they end up looking weird, most of the time ..” I tend to agree with him. By the way, Carl was also in Katmai the weeks [...]
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Contrary to my previous posts on high ISOs to get my shutter speed up, for the effect I wanted on this image – I wanted the shutter speed to be pretty slow. In this case, about 1/3 of a second. To get the shutter speed slower, I went to ISO 160, and cranked the [...]
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Another high ISO image here, ISO 2500, not necessarily used for a high action moment, but simply because of fairly low light. Shot at 400mm at f4, even at ISO 2500 my shutter speed was only 1/200 sec. This cute little guy was also scratching quite a bit. At 100%, you [...]
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Here’s an action shot that I liked from Katmai, photographed at Geographic Harbor. The importance of high shutter speeds really hit home on this trip, and the benefits of high ISO capabilities in cameras. This one is ISO 1250 on my D700, which yielded a 1/1250 sec shutter speed for me a...
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Before my trip to Alaska, I made a post about some photos I had hoped to obtain. They weren’t really based upon anything other than my imagination running wild. I had never been there before, so they weren’t based on much education about the place either, what opportunities I could...
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Mark Graf I updated my page picture today - hope you like this one
With only 2.5 days around Denali, I suppose I had to be prepared for never actually seeing the highest point in North America. Cloud cover, rain and fog were all my enemies of getting a peek. This is one morning from within Denali National Park, with a clear view and some nice morning [...]
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While I only spent a short 2.5 days in Denali, I suppose I had OK luck with seeing wildlife there. Only the first 17 miles of the park road are open to public traffic, which is such a miniscule portion of the entire park. Yet, it still is an incredibly large territory to [...]
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For the past few years, it seems whenever I took a fall color trip - I was a bit early, or a bit late. The colors are always nice, but you miss that absolute peak time. As I mentioned in my previous post, my Alaska trip started out in Cantwell - primarily for its closeness to [...]
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This is an image from the start of my trip where a friend recommended staying at the Backwoods Lodge in Cantwell, AK as a good central spot to access Denali from, with better rates than staying just outside the park. We were told that the film “Into the Wild” was filmed just across ...
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Hey folks. Back home now after a couple of days of recouping from a bad cold I caught while on the boat in Katmai. Future posts will elaborate more on the trip that was basically broken down into three segments - Denali, Kodiak/Katmai, and a short day shooting south of Anchorage.It certainly ...
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Well, I am now less than 2 weeks away from heading off on my first trip to Alaska. I surprise myself I haven’t mentioned it before here, but I have been so swamped with so many other things. I will be photographing for a few days just outside Denali National Park, and then down [...]
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A robot certainly cannot create art, or can it? One definition of art is a interaction of experience of the artist, what they have learned and felt in relation to their artwork, and the experience of the viewer and all of their background that molds their interpretation. Of course, robots don&#...
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Continuing my look back through some of my underwater work, and scanning new images - I came across these images of Cryptic Teardrop Crabs. These little crabs are about the size of your fingernail, and generally only come out at night. Both of these photographs are from a night dive in Bonair...
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I recently reprocessed this photograph that was originally shot back in 2001 on a trip to the Galapagos Islands. There isn’t much dramatic change from the original version, just a bit more contrast and pop I wanted to add. However, aside from the technical processing tweaks, this photog...
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Mark Graf I have been enjoying working with Topaz Adjust from Topaz Labs. It is a photoshop plugin that can add a touch of dramatic lighting to otherwise dull light scenes.
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We have so many options available to us these days in processing our photographs it can be overwhelming at times. We can follow the straight documentary approach, veer a bit left, a bit right, or even turn around 180 degrees and head in another direction. For me, following the same path day af...
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When the views in my gallery where in the upper 900,000s, I was thinking how cool it would be to see it turn over to 1,000,000. A “view” is registered only when someone clicks on a thumbnail to see the larger image. I was even thinking of some type of contest like a free [...]
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Thirty unique pieces (nearly 70 in total) of my work and other artists will be on display in corridors, patient rooms, and medical stations. I am trying to determine exactly when I will be attending personally.
Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital invites the public to attend a Community Open House noon to 8 p.m. Satur...day, Feb. 28,. The event will offer self-guided tours, health screenings, cooking demonstrations, Henry the Therapy Dog, entertainment and children's activities. 6777 W. Maple Road. Follow the signs for parking. Free shuttle service will be provided. www.henryfordwestbloomfield.com
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Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital invites the public to attend a Community Open House noon to 8 p.m. Satur...day, Feb. 28,. The event will offer self-guided tours, health screenings, cooking demonstrations, Henry the Therapy Dog, entertainment and children's activities. 6777 W. Maple Road. Follow the signs for parking. Free shuttle service will be provided. www.henryfordwestbloomfield.com
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nearly 70 pieces of my work are being used in the hospital
Time:12:00PM Saturday, February 28th
Location:Henry Ford Hospital West Bloomfield
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