Stephen Bay's Photography Blog

When I need to make a print, I have a step-by-step checklist that I go over to minimize preventable errors.

Creative Goals I’m going to move away from stamp collecting.

I’ve always been a numbers guy so I like to keep track of some basic statistics on my photography.

I live in San Diego and making local landscape images has been my focus for the past several years.

As a landscape photographer, I often feel a lot of pressure to come away with a good photo when I go on a shoot.

I get many questions from photographers about printing their photos on metal, especially for the various group exhibits I’m involved with in San Diego.

One of the curses of shooting with Sony cameras is their RAW file format.

I’m teaching a class with Amethel Parel-Sewell on Landscape Photography at the San Diego Fair on June 23, 2019 from 4-6:30pm.

I’ll present the basics of how to plan, shoot, and post-process Milky Way landscapes.

Yesterday was the artists reception where all the photographers who made it to Tier 2 were invited to the exhibit and the awards were publically announced.

Last year in May we had a bloom of bioluminescent algae around the San Diego/La Jolla coast.

I have 9 images selected to advance to Tier 2.

You’ve just had a large print roll off your printer.

Today the San Diego fair sent out notifications for Tier 1 in their photo competition.

I thought I would write a few blog posts describing my experience participating in the photography exhibit at the San Diego County Fair.

It’s a bit early for New Year’s resolutions, but I thought I would write about photography goals and how setting them helped me improve my game.

After I started sharing my landscape photos, I began receiving questions such as why don’t my photos turn out likes yours?

As many of you know, Sony has a spatial filtering algorithm designed to reduce noise.