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Digital Photography Tips For Landscape & Wildlife Photos
Mastered the art of the wide angle yet? Know how to add a spicy kick to those action shots? Browse articles filled with expert digital photography tips. These landscape and wildlife photo techniques will improve your photography in no time.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 The Unguarded Moment
Steve McCurry’s personal approach has created a career of stunning photographs of people from around the world  It’s obvious at a glance that the cover of Steve McCurry’s new book, The Unguarded Moment (Phaidon), is a great photograph. |
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 New Percentages
Today, “high ISO” means values like 25,600 instead of 800. These dramatic advancements are giving nature photographers a whole new way to think about making images.  George Lepp recently returned from an expedition to Africa, where he was using the Canon EOS 7D and EOS-1D Mark IV, and one of his traveling companions was using the Nikon D3 and D3S. |
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Be Adventurous
Pro tips on how to take amazing sports-action shots  The great American author Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” |
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 The Digital Zone System
If you thought DSLRs and new technology made the Zone System obsolete, think again. Updating the classic Ansel Adams tool for proper exposure will make your digital photographs as good as they can be.  When Ansel Adams developed the Zone System with Fred Archer in 1940, he gave photographers a tool great for controlling their images—but only with black-and-white film, and only with view cameras, where sheets of film could be processed individually. |
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Transforming Large Format
Landscape master Jack Dykinga’s new “secret” view camera is in the form of a modern DSLR  Jack Dykinga doesn’t treat his newest camera as a state secret, although it would be understandable if he did. After all, he calls it a “secret large-format camera.” And it’s made by Nikon. |
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Avian Abstracts
A different interpretation of bird photography that departs from the usual sharp, literal imagery to which we’re accustomed  Abstraction is defined as “freedom from representational qualities in art.” That’s what I tried to do with my series of avian abstracts—to make a series where form is translated into another form, where you as a viewer have to make up your own mind as to what it represents. |
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Nature & Nurture
Unique perspectives on outdoor photography and the importance of preserving our environment  Nature photographers not only are major contributors to the profession of photography, but also to our growing understanding of the natural world. |
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Go B&W In Winter
More than just a solution for bleak scenery, converting your images to black-and-white can give winter landscapes and sports action tremendous impact  Winter is a wondrous season for photographers, with its own unique challenges and triumphs. For many of us, the landscape changes shape and character entirely, covered in a blanket of Mother Nature’s finest frozen concoction. |
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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