Brett Gross Photography

Hello, Jack Frost!

Originally uploaded by brettgross

We had our first frost this past week. I do love shooting the frost up close with my macro lens.

I’ve been poring through my Aperture library to find my best photos. My goal is to reevaluate everything and start a fresh portfolio. I’ll restitch panoramas, rerender HDRs (probably a lot better) and retouch images. I expect the Dodge & Burn tool will get a lot of use and Noise Ninja has a lot of [...]

I don’t think I posted this picture of Ellie running here before. If I did… then… she is cute so I’m sure it’s OK.

When I started looking at the idea of getting a good long lens, I quickly realized that I wasn’t going to be able to get one of Canon’s long primes. I’d looked at the longer Sigma zooms, but reviews almost always mentioned that the stabilization was quirky (not as good as Canon’s) and that AF [...]

Thanks to diligent photographer Will Taylor for discovering a key piece to successfully geotagging images in Aperture post-import: it only ’sticks’ for exported images if your masters are stored outside of the Aperture Library ie they are Referenced Masters.
http://brettgrossphotography.com/2008/05/04/how-to-geocode-with-aperture-houdahgeo
Thanks Will!

I’m playing with HDR rendering and exposure blending. Here is an example of what I did with 2 exposures using exposure blending in Photoshop CS3.

Now I need to do a comparison between this exposure blend and HDR renders…
What do you think?

We went with Antelope Canyon Tours and took their photographer’s package. If you are considering a visit to Antelope Canyon (in Page, AZ) then I heartily encourage you to do the same. Our guide, Rosie, was great!

On our recent trip to the American Southwest I lost data from a memory card. After importing a card into Aperture, I thoughtlessly erased the card in my camera before noticing Aperture gave an alert that it didn’t successfully import all of the images.
Oops.
The photos were gone as far as Finder could tell, [...]

I just can’t keep that macro lens off of my camera for long. Just last weekend we were clearing up some brush outside of our yard when Gina found some really interesting mushrooms. It was a rare moment for me as I could quickly grab the tripod and shoot some shots with a much smaller [...]