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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.


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.



10 Tips For Top SharpnessNature 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.



Inside A High-End WorkshopI’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



Extreme Wildlife"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



The GigaScapeDo 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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The Right Filters For Fall Color


When shooting in autumn, the polarizer, neutral-density and grad ND filters are indispensable for achieving stunning imagery



The Right Filters For Fall ColorWhen it comes to color and impact, fall is full of opportunity. The season is an amazing time to create mood with color while capturing landscapes as they transform before one’s eyes.
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It's In The Details


Go beyond the ordinary macro shot to create striking close-ups anywhere



It's In The DetailsAs 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



Going On A Photo Road TripGetting 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



The Rembrandt SolutionLandscape 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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Get 4x5 Quality With A DSLR


Using a stitch-together method, you can get a large-format look from your regular digital camera



Get 4x5 Quality With A DSLRFor almost 20 years as a professional photographer, I’ve shot with large- and medium-format film cameras. Then, five years ago, I purchased my first digital camera, a Canon EOS-1Ds, and gave up film altogether.
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