How-To
Outdoor Photography Techniques
Master the skills you need with photography techniques from the experts. Whether you're a novice seeking advice on landscape, wildlife or nature photography or a pro looking for more advanced techniques, you'll find all the information you need, here.
10 Tips For Top Sharpness
Getting your sharpest photographs today is as much about processing as it is about shooting technique. We’ll show you some pro tips for making your best pictures.
 Nature photographers are always on the quest for sharp pictures. I know I am. I want to be sure that when something should be sharp in a photograph, it’s indeed sharp.
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Inside A High-End Workshop
In April 2009, we sent a photographer to Frans Lanting’s workshop to give OP readers a sense of what a multiday workshop with a top pro is like. There’s much more than just learning how to use your camera.
 I’m going to teach you how you can tell stories with pictures, and that’s quite different from taking pictures just by looking at the surface of things.”
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Extreme Wildlife
Jim Oltersdorf works on the edge to get wild and unique photographs of wildlife and nature as a whole
 "Normal” isn’t usually a word that describes what high-risk, extreme outdoor photographers’ lives are like.
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The GigaScape
The GigaPan gives you the ability to make images that are higher resolution than you’ve ever dreamed possible
 Do you often feel that photography is advancing faster than you can buy new cameras and computers? Since the advent of digital imaging, it seems the capabilities and complexities expand faster than we mere mortals can master them.
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It's In The Details
Go beyond the ordinary macro shot to create striking close-ups anywhere
 As you get physically closer and closer to your subject, you’ll find increasingly interesting possibilities for your images. The world looks different up close. You may find that your original subject is no longer the most compelling thing in front of your lens as you approach macro distances.
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Going On A Photo Road Trip
Be ready for anything by packing for a journey with the essentials
 Getting off the beaten path can inspire your photography with new subjects, unexplored environments and pictorial challenges.
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The Rembrandt Solution
What painting’s Grand Masters can teach today’s digital photographers
 Landscape photographers face a fundamental challenge: how to compress the broad range of light intensities typically found in the real world into the much narrower range of tones that can be reproduced in a print.
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Defringing
How to defeat edge artifacts in composited landscape images
 Few things are more frustrating to a photographer than edge fringes or halos that appear in Photoshop after a selected or extracted object has been placed onto a new background.
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The Big Trip
See how National Geographic photographer and Outdoor Photographer columnist Frans Lanting gears up for an expedition. You probably won’t ever need as much equipment with you, but there’s a lot to learn from his approach.
 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 opportunity to put yourself in a position to get the shot in the first place.
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