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Spring Trail Tips
This Article Features Photo Zoom As spring arrives, so do fresh photo ops, and some of the best are in places you can’t reach by vehicle. Hiking in wild places can lead you to lots of terrific...
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Live View, Hype Or Benefit?
This Article Features Photo Zoom Because both of the flowers shown in this article were very close to ground level, the articulating LCD monitor on the Olympus E3 allowed for accurate composition of...
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Indecent Exposures (And How To Avoid Them)
This Article Features Photo Zoom This laid-back northern pintail wasn't swimming, but drifted across bright and dark reflections in the water. Auto-exposure control would have underexposed the bird...
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Spring In New England
This Article Features Photo Zoom With winter expelling its last cold breaths of the season, it’s time to think about moving outdoors to capture some of the year’s most vibrant colors. The New England...
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The World Is Your Classroom
This Article Features Photo Zoom Attending a top photographic workshop is more than a mere vacation, it's an opportunity to immerse yourself in a new location and learn skills that will pay off again...
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Weekend Retreats
This Article Features Photo Zoom Weekend workshops and seminars present an opportunity for outdoor photographers to absorb and learn new skills and techniques over an intense few days. From lectures...
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Breaking The Sound Barrier
This Article Features Photo Zoom Huli warriors, Mt. Hagen Culture Show, Tari, Papua New Guinea. Among the great leaps and advances with which digital photography has provided us is a whole new way of...
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There And Back Again
This Article Features Photo Zoom Paraglider at Curtis Canyon, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Jackson, Wyoming. The question I’m asked most frequently at workshops and when talking with other...
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Sound Practices II
This Article Features Photo Zoom Multimedia gives your audience a chance to hear, as well as see, the subject of your picture, like this rooster in front of a pub, the Aran Islands, Ireland. In this,...
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Sound Practices III: Putting It All Together
This Article Features Photo Zoom Pilgrims attach prayer flags to a mountain shrine on the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibet. In my previous two columns, I talked about the techniques and gear for gathering...
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Geotagging
This Article Features Photo Zoom A white wolf in British Columbia. Like many photographers, I take a lot of photos and struggle with the organizational aspects of my imaging workflow. While I do my...
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Web Optimization Part II
This Article Features Photo Zoom In the January/February issue, we addressed the concepts of examining your target audience and choosing the appropriate file size and image size for the intended...
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Get Into The Stock Market
This Article Features Photo Zoom The last 10 years have been chaotic for independent photographers, as the old ways of doing business have withered before our eyes. By the turn of the millennium, I...
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The Big Trip
This Article Features Photo Zoom What gear to pack? What to leave at home? If you don’t have it, you can’t use it, balanced with the fact that too much equipment can slow you down and you miss the...
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Online Learning Comes Of Age
The old-fashioned correspondence course has grown up, and in the digital age, it has become a viable and truly enjoyable way to learn how to take better pictures. At the forefront of online photo...
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Shooting Macro? Try Flash!
This Article Features Photo Zoom Most nature photographers spend the majority of their time shooting the very large in the natural world—big mountains, big animals. We become obsessed with the...
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Gimbal Heads
This Article Features Photo Zoom Bird photographers and other action shooters frequently have to use really long lenses to get close-ups of often-distant subjects. Such lenses are really too bulky to...
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Film Vs. Digital
This Article Features Photo Zoom When we examine legendary photographers like Ansel Adams, we realize that, by today’s standards, the equipment they used was more of a handicap than a secret...
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White Balance
This Article Features Photo Zoom ExpoImaging ExpoDisc White balance is an adjustment that accounts for the color temperature of the light in a scene. All light sources emit light at a specific color...
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Video Quick Tips
Video is a wonderful visual medium that adds whole new dimensions of movement and sound to your photography. Just having a beautiful composition isn’t enough to hold someone’s attention with video...
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X Marks The Spot
This Article Features Photo Zoom January sunset at Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah. The first time I tried to photograph the full moon setting over Longs Peak from the summit of Twin Sisters...
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Auto Levels
This Article Features Photo Zoom 1. Open your image 2. Create a new Levels Adjustment Layer If you get a group of photographers into a room and you want to start a fight, bring up the notion of “auto”...
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How To Set The Black Point
To make a print of this shot have the maximum impact, Sheppard used Levels in Photoshop to get a strong black in the image. Ansel Adams wrote extensively about the importance of blacks in a print in...
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Be There! With GPS And TOPO Maps
In our hectic day-to-day lives, we carve out the time to pursue our common passion: nature photography. It’s not always easy to be in the right place at the right time to get the shot we want because...
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Prepare For A Photo Expedition
This Article Features Photo Zoom Tom Bol is a veteran trekker who logs weeks at a time deep in the backcountry. While we don’t all have the kind of freedom to backpack with a camera for such extended...
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Sweep Panorama
This Article Features Photo Zoom The Fuji 617G was a favorite camera for a relatively small group of photographers who wanted to make panorama images with maximum possible quality. It used...
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Geotagging
Garmin Oregon 550t; DeLorme Earthmate PN-60; Magellan eXplorist 710 You don't need a camera with a built-in GPS to geotag your images although such devices make it simpler since they do it...
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AF Fine-Tuning
Cameras and lenses are both precision instruments, and today's AF systems are the best we've ever seen. But there are limits to the production tolerances achievable by today's manufacturing...
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Transmit Image Files
The Eye-Fi SD card can work as its own Wi-Fi hot spot to transmit images directly from the card in your DSLR to your tablet. Occasionally, a solution comes along that's the perfect fix for a problem I...
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Shoot For The Stars
Lepp's four-image panorama of an Oregon night sky (see below) reveals the Milky Way and its gaseous clouds, grounded by a mountainous landscape. Note the path of a meteor streaking through the center...
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