Digital Horizons
 | In Digital Horizons, Rob Sheppard helps you bridge the gap between photography and digital technology. Learn how digital cameras can conquer even the toughest photography challenges. |
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Making Better Nature PhotosHonoring nature by creating new visions of the world  Photographers are always interested in the latest gear, how a new lens might help, in taking workshops and reading magazines like Outdoor Photographer, all in the effort to become a better photographer. |
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Compendium 2008High-tech tools to help you get the best images  One thing that I especially like about the photography business is that the majority of manufacturers care about us. Sure, they’d like us to spend money on their products, but they also like to make products that work. |
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Lightroom Vs. PhotoshopWhich one of these programs will you find more useful for your photography?  If you’re going to get the most from your digital images, you have to use some sort of image-processing program. A camera doesn’t “capture” reality, it interprets it based on sensor range and limits, camera designer decisions, and processing done by the camera before the image becomes a RAW or JPEG file. |
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Camera DunkingA waterproof digital camera offers whole new possibilities for your photography  Water and digital cameras don’t mix. If you drop a digital SLR into the water, you might as well just leave it there and hope that insurance will cover the replacement costs. Yet recently I’ve been dunking a camera into all sorts of water. Of course, this isn’t any ordinary camera, but a compact and waterproof, point-and-shoot digital camera. |
Monday, September 1, 2008 Thanks For The MemoryBe sure your memory cards are working their best for you  Memory cards are critical for digital photography. We can’t do without them. Losing a memory card can be worse than losing a roll of film because so many more images fit on a memory card. So most photographers are careful about where they store their cards; usually they’re placed in a memory card holder that keeps them in order and stored in the same location. |
Friday, August 1, 2008 Seeing PhotographsHow you use your LCD can get you better photographs  Digital cameras can help you take better landscape photographs. If I had said that even just a few years ago, OP would have received lots of letters. People would have challenged that statement, defending film, and basically telling me I was crazy. I may be crazy at times, but not because of this idea. |
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 In Search Of...Lessons learned while looking for pitcher plants in northern Florida  The mythological Greek Sirens lured sailors onto the rocks and to their deaths by singing beautiful songs that were irresistible. Pitcher plants are the sirens of the plant world, offering attractive scents and nectars that lure all sorts of bugs to their deaths. |
Sunday, June 1, 2008 Easy Digital VideoAdd some movement and sound to your next trip into the wilds  How often have you been to a beautiful location and wished you could bring some of it back as a video? There’s no question that still photography has its limits in portraying a location. Video brings movement and sound to a setting and offers a whole new dimension for nature images. |
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Expanding Photography’s Tonal RangeHDR photography lets you capture images of great brightness range that are closer to the reality you see  One of the great challenges of photography is capturing a scene that we see well, but the camera doesn’t. Neither film nor digital sensors are capable of recording all of the tones in a scene that has a great range of brightness, such as rock formations against a sunset. Usually you get something of a silhouette, yet you know that you saw detail in both the sky and the ground. |
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