Accessories
Camera & Photography Accessories
Explore the world of photography accessories with Outdoor Photographer. The right camera accessories can make the difference between good and great nature, travel and sports photography. Find the right photo accessory for a digital camera, too.
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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High-Tech B&W Printers
Today’s high-tech black-and-white printers can produce images that surpass anything that was possible in the film darkroom
 Black-and-white printing has never been more popular than it is today. Programs like Aperture, Lightroom and Photoshop make it easy to convert color images into compelling black-and-white shots that would have made Ansel Adams proud.
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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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Essential Landscape Accessories
Filters, tripods and other extras will help you find and capture the perfect landscape
 Packing the right photo equipment is just as important as finding the right place at the right time. With landscape photography, that isn’t always easy to do. When planning a photo expedition, whether it’s a day hike or an extended road trip, consider these essentials the next time you head out.
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Tripod Dexterity
Think creatively when deciding which tripod to buy and how to make the most use of its features in the field. OP goes into the wildflowers with a sampling of three tripods to prove the point.
 Tripods are one of those basic parts of nature photography that we often take for granted, yet a quality tripod is a key part of any outdoor photographer’s toolkit. A good tripod will make even the most inexpensive lens outperform the most expensive handheld lens, and such a tripod will make every lens work at its best. Photographers have a lot of excellent tripod choices on the market today. I recently had the chance to take three very different tripods into the field and see what they meant to my workflow.
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New From PMA
High-tech tools to keep your images secure when you’re in the field
 Among the latest cameras and lenses showcased at the big PMA trade show every winter, there’s also a slew of new gadgets, technological innovations and services that don’t drum up the kind of attention that a hot new D-SLR does. While we can’t cover everything we saw, what follows is a look at some of the offerings from those smaller, “back of the show” manufacturers that caught our attention.
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Stability Tech: Tripods
A tripod is one of the most important tools for getting your best images, and there‚’s a lot more to them than just three sturdy legs
 A good tripod is essential gear for the outdoor photographer. It will hold the camera rock-steady, so you can stop down for depth of field or use a high-magnification lens without suffering blur due to camera shake. Plus, it will lock in your composition so you can study it carefully and you won’t accidentally change it as you squeeze off the shot.
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The Essentials
In the season of giving, check out our collection of inexpensive, but incredibly useful photo accessories for outdoor photographers
 In photography, we tend to concentrate our efforts and our wallets on the big-ticket items. Cameras and lenses always seem to be at the top of everyone’s wish list, but even as the latest camera or super-zoom can be a welcome addition to your bag, it’s often the little things that can make some of the biggest differences in your photography.
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Get The Most From Your Batteries
Don't run out of power before you run out of pictures
 I’m the first to admit being a bit compulsive about batteries. I condition them, charge them, check them and clean their terminals when necessary. I even label them with the date they went into service. I attached a power strip to one end of a workbench and use it exclusively to feed my rechargeables. Before you yell, "Get a life!" understand that I’ve never—not even once—run out of power before I ran out of pictures.
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