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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.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2009 Holiday Book Guide
The annual OP selection of photography books for outdoor enthusiasts  Refresh your coffee-table book collection this holiday season with some of the latest photography titles to hit bookstores.
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Monday, November 16, 2009 Into The Caves Of Patagonia
New camera technology comes to the rescue when one of the world’s pristine wonders is photographed  A few days before, we had left our home in Colorado in the midst of a winter storm, our visions of sunshine, wildflowers and this lake calling us 7,000 miles south. Months previously, our friends, the landscape photographer Linde Waidhofer and her poet/graphic designer husband Lito Tejada-Flores, had shown us Linde’s haunting photographs of a group of marble caves accessible only from Lago General Carrera.
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Monday, November 16, 2009 Old West Color
David Stoecklein brings a timeless cowboy allure to his photography by combining classic aesthetics with his own unique style  There’s an old cowboy adage that goes, “Talk less and say more,” and David Stoecklein does just that. Based out of Idaho, he has photographed amazingly iconic images of the American West for more than 20 years. Astoundingly, whether it’s of a modern cowboy or an expansive Southwestern landscape, his photographic style is instantly recognizable and remarkably consistent.
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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, November 3, 2009 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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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 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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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 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. When we think about what they do, it usually conjures up death-defying antics—that somehow they're hanging with a vice-like grip on the arm of Lady Luck to get out alive.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009 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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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 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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