Benjamin Olson's photostream

I am a 24 year old student majoring in Biology in northern Minnesota. I started shooting 7 years ago with a Canon 35mm film camera given to me by my grandfather before he passed away. I have always been an outdoorsmen; I backpack, camp, fish, canoe, rock climb, I do pretty much anything outdoors. I live out of my tent probably 30-40 days of the year, but I shoot almost everyday. My goal is to make a difference through my photography and to help conserve the natural world that I love.

I shoot digital and large format film, however I have experience with many formats. The majority of my work is comprised of only one image, excluding stitched panoramas. The only changes I make to my photos are minor color corrections and minor dust removal; I am against using software to achieve affects such as HDR images (High Dynamic Range), cloning out mergers or any distraction in the photo along with adding or removing things that were/were not in the photo.

However, I do manually blending images together to get the best photo possible; I take different exposures of the same image and blend together different parts of each image in-order to achieve the greatest and most natural looking results. This allows me to make up for the cameras lack of ability to capture the tonal ranges that our eyes can see. However, I only do this when it is absolutely necessary!

What you see, is what I saw!

I hope you all enjoy, comments and questions are always appreciated!


Take care, and happy shooting!


Benjamin


My Main Equipment:

-Toyo-View 45A Large Format Camera and assorted lenses
-Canon EOS 5D Mark II
-Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II
-Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
-Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS
-Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 Macro
-Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS
-Canon EF 2.0x and 1.4x Teleconverters
-Canon EF 25mm Extension Tube
-Miscellaneous Neutral Density filters and Circular Polarizers
-Gitzo Tripod - StudioBall Head