BetterPhoto Instructor Insights

Shooting the Lunar Eclipse

By Kevin Moss

Once every few years we are blessed with a celestial event, a partial or total lunar eclipse. On February 20, we witnessed the last total lunar eclipse until 2010. I took advantage of the situation, and clear sky’s in southeastern Michigan to put together some cool shots of the event.

Lunar Eclipse, October 27, 2004

The last time I photographed the lunar eclipse was way back on October 27, 2004.

Batch Renaming Files with Bridge

By BetterPhoto Instructor Kevin Moss

As an instructor with BetterPhoto.com, I experience many questions from students regarding file management. In my Photoshop and Elements for Nature Photographers course, I recommend to my students a specific system to managing our ever-growing libraries of digital images. Most important, is the practice of keeping your original images separate from images you work with, and prepare for output.

Fall Color Road Trip: Part III, Shooting the Stars and Other Stuff…

By Kevin Moss, BetterPhoto Instructor

The first two parts of this extended article on fall color shooting included info and tips on shooting waterfalls and fall color. In this third part, I’ll talk about all that other stuff that comes along on a 4-day roadtrip. For instance, recently inspired by BetterPhoto instructor Jennifer Wu’s work on shooting the Milky Way, I wanted to try some of that action myself, with some success! I sat in on Jennifer’s WOW session at the BetterPhoto Summit last month, and it reminded me of my aspirations I’ve had for astrophotography.

The Milky Way over Lake Michigan

Fall Color Road Trip: Part II

By Kevin Moss, BetterPhoto Instructor

In the last article entry, I spoke of traveling to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (also called the “U.P.”) shooting many waterfalls as I went. Though it was a 4 day trip, traveling between known and unknown U.P. waterfall sights, my intent was to shoot whatever fall color came my way between stops.

Reflections in a pool

Fall Color Road Trip: Part I, Waterfalls

By Kevin Moss

For me, September and October are busy months for shooting nature. In my area of the world, specifically Michigan, it is fall color time. While one million are preparing to head north in the next few months for deer hunting season, I prepare in August planning my annual trek “up-north” for my kinda shooting, with a camera.

Silver City, Michigan