Benji Mast’s Photoblog

I learned a technique (not complicated of course) for putting mattes on pictures from a wonderful magazine, called Outdoor Photographer.
Now, upon viewing this post, you are hereby obligated by the Party, to leave a comment stating your personal preference for the most ascetically pleasing color to border this particular photograph. The right answer is Red, […]

Sometimes when you work with a picture too long you forget how it really looks, so in about one to one hundred words describe your first impression of this one.
My dear friend John Miller may or may not have taken this picture. We were together and constantly exchanging cameras and the memory has too long […]

Sounds Like an Invitation to Me!

This is my first HDR (High Dynamic Range) picture. A simple definiton of HDR is combining two or more exposures/pictures to get greater highlight and shadow detail than would be possible in one image. A camera simply can’t capture what you eye can detect with out this because your eyes […]

Our family spent a Sunday afternoon in the Blue Ridge Mountains with some friends yesterday. We had a picnic lunch then drove around to overlooks and enjoyed the changing leaves.
Scrat’s Heaven

Autumn’s Downward Creep
Notice how the oranges and reds seem to be pouring out of the slope on the far right. The colder air higher up […]

I always love walking through the woods with my camera. There is always something intriguing to capture. The leaves are changing colors and making things pretty nice around here.