Solutions
With advice on everything from gear to travel, Solutions helps you make the most of your outdoor photography and solves some of the photographer's most common problems.
Monday, November 16, 2009 Shooting Macro? Try Flash!
Try this dual-flash setup for complete control over the illumination in your image  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 grandeur of outdoor photography.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Adding Sound
Any filmmaker knows the soundtrack is an integral part of the visual experience. By adding sound to video or multimedia shows, you can give them a richer dimension.  We’re heading to a multimedia age. As new HD video-capable D-SLRs come online with more and more frequency, nature photographers are increasingly able to add dimension to their photography by incorporating motion and still imagery into short presentations.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Online Learning Comes Of Age
Much more than the correspondence courses of a past era, you can build upon your photo education by taking a class through the Internet  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.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 (HD) In A Nutshell
For the D-SLR shooter, there are many factors in shooting HD video  The still camera and HD video camcorder worlds slowly are starting to converge. The biggest news in the still-photography industry has been the arrival of HD shooting for D-SLR cameras. Last year, Nikon released the D90—a D-SLR that offers a 12.3-megapixel CMOS sensor and the ability to record cinematic-quality movie files at up to 720p HD.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 The Poor Man’s Super-Telephoto
Using a tele-extender can give your long lenses even more punch for wildlife and landscape photos  The lens of choice among the serious pro wildlife photographers I know seems to be the 600mm ƒ/4 super-telephoto. It’s great for subjects that won’t let you get close, is incredibly sharp, and autofocuses quickly and accurately. However, it costs over $7,000. That being just a bit beyond my budget, when I really need “reach,” I turn my $1,200 300mm ƒ/4 lens into a 600mm ƒ/8 by attaching a $300 2x teleconverter between the lens and camera body.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Web Optimization, Part I
Determine your audience and size your photos correctly for the Internet  Optimizing photographs for display on the web is as essential as ever. While many photographers focus attention on optimizing photographs for print, it’s important to recognize how powerful first impressions can be with web-based photographs.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Setting The Background
Using backgrounds to complement your nature photographs  Minimalism has been a trend in nature photography that has spread from the point of capture all the way to the fine-art print, often resulting in photos with the “less is more” technique.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Digiscoping
Try a spotting scope as an alternative to an extreme telephoto lens for birding and small wildlife shots  One of the biggest challenges photographing wildlife is having enough magnification. You want to fill the frame and utilize all of the resolution of your digital SLR, but for most of us that means having an extreme telephoto lens, which can be prohibitively expensive.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Solutions: BushHawk Shoulder Mount
If tripods and monopods don’t work for you when photographing fast-flying wildlife, try a BushHawk  As an avid bird photographer, I’ve tried to photograph birds with big telephoto lenses. When I used film, I shot lots of pictures, but didn’t get many keepers. After I purchased my first digital SLR camera and had taken lots of travel pictures, I decided to try it out on the birds.
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