January/February 2009
How-To
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Photoshop CS4 And The Nature Photographer
The gold standard in imaging software has been updated. OP takes you through the new features most useful to nature photographers.
By Rob Sheppard
Many photographers anticipate the arrival of a new version of Photoshop. Should I upgrade or not? Photoshop CS4 offers outstanding tools, naturally, but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily for everyone.
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Web Optimization Part 1
Determine your audience and size your photos correctly for the Internet
By Jim Goldstein
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.
Gear
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Best D-SLRs for B&W
There’s more to getting a good black-and-white image than just shooting in color and doing a conversion. In the field, take advantage of your camera’s settings and you can unleash its inner TRI-X!
By Mike Stensvold
There are two basic ways to produce black-and-white images digitally: Shoot them that way in-camera or shoot them in color and convert them to black-and-white using imaging software. Both offer advantages. Most of today’s D-SLRs provide a monochrome mode.
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In Focus: January/February 2009
CLASSIC D-SLR KIT Named for Ono no Komachi, a famous Japanese poet, Olympus delivers the limited-edition E-420 Komachi Kit, which includes the compact D-SLR and the ED 25mm ƒ/2.8 Zuiko Digital lens in a vintage-looking, handmade brown leather case.
Locations
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On The Edge
Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge series on public television has brought the intrepid nature photographer to some of the most rare and exotic places and cultures in the world
I began exploring the world as a kid in West Seattle, mounting expeditions into the woods behind my parents’ house. Even then, I wanted to keep going, to see what was over the next ridge or beyond Puget Sound. Later, camera in hand, I devoted myself to climbing in the North Cascades.
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Polar Bears Under Pressure
A firsthand account documents how rising temperatures in the Arctic are depleting food sources and putting the animals at risk
Fireweed drapes a purple blanket over the disturbed soils of the coastal lowlands. Just a few days earlier, the flowers stood tall. Now, many are beaten down by a major storm that passed through, battering the exposed shores for a full day.
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The Ocean & The Desert
There are some surprising similarities for photographers who shoot in these disparate environments
By Joseph C. Dovala
At first glance, there appears to be little in common between the open sea and the desert—wet, salty and always in motion versus dry, dusty and slow to change.
Columns
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Close And Personal
Close-Up Sharpness • Water, Sky And Time • Blue Sky Blues • Fine-Art Prints
Close-Up Sharpness Is there a fundamental problem with using close-up filters on zoom lenses? I’m getting good results with a set of Quantaray close-up filters on my 28-75mm lens at all focal lengths, but my 80-200mm lens only provides a crisp image at 80mm.
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On Landscape: HDR
“Surrealizing” The Landscape
By William Neill
Last fall, I visited nearby Yosemite Valley to deliver a print and posters to The Ansel Adams Gallery. While heading home, I stopped at the Gates of the Valley turnout just in time for some sunset photography.
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