Quick Tips
Mastered the art of the wide angle lens? Know how to get stunning close-ups of wildlife? Our quick tips for photographers offer up landscape and wildlife photo techniques that produce immediate results. Choose a subject and see how your images improve.
10 Quick Tips For Better Close-Ups
If you're not doing close-up work, why not? Here are your opportunities to explore new worlds without leaving home.
 Close-up and macro photography truly bring you in contact with new worlds. We don’t easily or normally see the details of life around us, and this is especially true of non-nature photographers. I remember the first time I got a close-up photo. It was of a syrphid fly on a daisy. I was a kid and had made a close-up lens from a magnifier and attached it to my dad’s Argus C3. That camera was no SLR, so I had to make a focus-and-frame stick to aid in those areas. The fly was in focus (though not really sharp), and it was exciting to see it in my print.
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10 Tips For Visionary Landscapes
There's a random element in any landscape. Learning to bring some order to that chaos will enable you to make your best photos.
 As human beings, we’re all surrounded by the same visual information. So what is it that makes a great photograph stand out from the crowd? Visionary photographers have the unique ability to decode the visual information that surrounds us. They identify graphics, colors, patterns and textures that they translate into the two-dimensional world of photography. Somehow, they can build compositions that communicate with us in a nonverbal manner. So how can you decode that random landscape to make better photographs of your own?
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10 Tips For The Wildlife In Your Life
Expert techniques make for exciting, dynamic photographs
 Wildlife photography is a doorway into a world of exotic animals and outdoor adventure, but it takes some effort to get there. When you learn the technical skills of photography—not only the capabilities of your equipment but also the photographic elements of composition and lighting—you’ll be on the way to capturing the best wildlife shots that you can. And while you may not be embarking on a life of jet-setting photography just yet, here are some guidelines and pointers that will help you on your way.
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Wings Of Spring
Try these 10 tips from renowned professional Tom Vezo and get your best avian images this spring
 A bald eagle skims the surface of its own reflection as it hunts for fish along the coast of Alaska. An Atlantic Coast black skimmer gingerly plucks its offspring in its maw to carry it to a safer place. A Rufous hummingbird gleams iridescent as it sips at nectar in a field of blush rose. These are images from Tom Vezo’s latest award-winning book, Wings of Spring: Courtship, Nesting and Fledging, a collection of intimate photographs of the lives, behavior and beauty of these birds.
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10 Creative Winter Jump Starts
Keep your photographic eye sharp by exploring the winter world
 The old saying in Minnesota is that we have nine months of winter and three months of tough sledding. While this is a bit of an exaggeration, it often starts to seem that way to photographers waiting for spring wildflowers and lush green scenics.
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Common Digital Problems & Their Solutions
Make digital work for you with these easy-to-use tips that solve typical challenges faced in the digital darkroom
 Isn’t it about time you make digital work for you? Let’s face it, there are so many pressures to consider today, from buying the "perfect" camera to using Photoshop the "right" way. There are a number of common digital challenges that I’ve seen in magazine submissions, contests and workshops—challenges that affect nearly everyone, from pro to amateur, working digitally. Get a handle on them and make digital work for you with the solutions outlined here.
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20 Top Landscape Tips
Learn to capture what moves you in the landscape with the insights of veteran scenic masters
 Inspired by the vast vistas of the West and the intimate settings of the East, photographers from across the Americas and beyond have given us remarkable photographs that capture the natural world in its seemingly endless variations. Landscape photography is the bedrock of Outdoor Photographer. We’ve asked some of those photographers whose work has stood apart from the crowd to share with us the techniques that have helped them distill the complexities of the wild outdoors into the iconic images that have graced our pages these last 20 years. With these tips and a stroke of luck, perhaps it will be your images and insights that we share with readers in the years to come.
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20 Top Travel Tips
Make the most of your next photographic vacation
 Summer offers many of us a prime opportunity to practice our love of photography. But along with a destination and a working camera, there are other factors involved in returning home with wonderful photographs. We asked several professional photographers whose work often takes them throughout the world for advice on making the most of those photographic opportunities, and the OP staff included a few tips of our own. Whether a short road trip or an excursion to the other side of the globe, we hope these 20 tips help make your travels the best that they can be.
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20 Top Action/Wildlife Tips
Be ready to shoot the fast action of wildlife and adventure sports
 Sports-action and wildlife photography are connected because of their mutual reliance on spur-of-the-moment, lightning-fast activity. The photographic techniques required for each are similar as is the mindset of those who specialize in either endeavor. The pros who spend their lives seeking out the best in wildlife or sports photography have valuable insight into how they're able to capture their images—and how you can, too.
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