Welcome To My Web Site
My name is Harry Good and I'm a amateur photographer formerly living in Bedminster, Pennsylvania and now residing in Debary, Florida. I am semiretired and love traveling and hiking. My favorite type of photography is landscape photography. Like many photographers I started with a 35mm camera, moved on to a point and shoot, and now own an Olympus E-500 D-SLR camera. Unfortunately most of my equipment is what my budget will allow. I've started shooting in HDR and have had some good results. I've used both books and photography web sites to improve my skills. The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby is a good one to improve your photo skills. I've also read Teach Yourself Visually Photoshop Elements 6 by Mike Wooldridge for help in my post processing. Another good book is High Dynamic Range Digital Photography by Ferrell McCollough if you decide to try your hand at HDR photos. Some good web sites are Digital Photography School,- Photo Answers, and Pop Photo. If your into landscape photography as I am Outdoor Photographer is another good site. Digital Photography School is a great teaching site and you can submit your photos and get feedback from other photographers. The best advice I can give someone starting out is to learn all there is to know about your camera. Read your handbook that comes with your camera more than once. As you read practice the different functions and settings with your camera. Get out and take a bunch of pictures. That's the great thing about digital, you can take as many pictures as you want and get immediate results. Keep practicing till all the settings become automatic for you. Change your white balance and see how it affects your shot, get away from shooting in auto mode. If your going to be shooting panoramics you must learn to shoot in manual. Have fun, not every shot has to be perfect, but when you do get that great shot it's worth all your effort.
Our Adventures
This web site is so I can share photos of my trips throughout the United States with family, friends, and whoever else would care to view them. These adventures were shared with my wife Mary and our good friends Scott and Robin. This picture was taken in Kolob Canyon which is in the northern section of Zion National Park in S.W. Utah. Other places we have visited are in Colorado -Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Pikes Peak, Garden Of The Gods, and Rocky Mountain National Park. In Arizona-Grand Canyon National Park. In Utah-Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Natural Bridges National Monument, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Capitol Reef National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Red Canyon, and Zion National Park. In South Dakota-Badlands National Park, Mount Rushmore National Memmorial, and Custer State Park. In Wyoming-Devils Tower National Monument, Bighorn National Forest, Grand Teton National Park, and Yellowstone National Park. In Montana-Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument, National Bison Range, and Glacier National Park. In California-Death Valley National Park, Alabama Hills, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, Sequoia National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe, Point Reyes National Seashore, Napa Valley, San Francisco, the coastline from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and ending at the Channel Islands National Park. Our most recent trip was to the Appalachian Mountains region. We visited Sumter National Forest in South Carolina, Great Smoky Mountain National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, Skyline Drive and Shenandoah National Park. In the spring of 2010 we hope to be going to the southwest and visit Arizona and New Mexico.
