How-To

Give ’Em Some Space

This issue will reach you in April, when spring is really getting started in most of the country.

Advanced Time-Lapse Gear Guide

The spectacular wilderness in California's Mojave Desert ignited my time-lapse addiction. I'd casually set up a camera and tripod, point it at something lovely, program an interval and meander through the desert, my robot camera clicking away.

Lighting For Wildlife

The light is just blazing away as we head down the highway.

Magic Light Anytime

I think one of the most underutilized pieces of camera gear available to outdoor photographers is the portable flash.

Taking The Prize

In a competitive world, getting your photographs to stand out from all the other entries isn't easy.

Digital Quick tips

Every new digital photographer struggles with how to process images.

Be A Modern Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was an accomplished musician, as well as maybe the finest landscape photographer of all time

Do More With Your Polarizer

If you think a polarizer is only for darkening the sky, you're missing opportunities to enhance reflections, saturate color and emphasize texture in shade or overcast. ...

How To Use The Zone System In Challenging Conditions

The natural world offers an unlimited cornucopia of subject matter for the discerning black-and-white photographer, ranging from delicate details to classic grand vistas. ...

Landscapes Are Alive!

But the mood changed immediately when he realized I focus on landscapes. "Landscapes are dead," he said. "They don't move."

Solutions: Big B&W Prints Made Easy

When he was working in a black-and-white darkroom with glass plates and later with film negatives, Ansel Adams frequently made very large prints.

Solutions: On The Slide

The recent trend in jerky, handheld, rapid-fire, jump-cut TV defies this rule, but novice filmmakers would do well to start with less nausea-inducing techniques.

Action-Sequence Panoramas

We see action before us as a blur of movement that often passes by in a linear progression.

Intensify Your Landscape

There's a time for subtle, and there's a time to punch things up. Extra intensity is usually associated with punched-up saturation, but that only works when you have a shot that's strong to begin with.

Make Your Panos Match Up

I'm having trouble getting my wide-angle panoramas to stitch together. Wide-Angle Panoramas

Solutions: Video Fundamentals

For most photographers, the biggest hurdle to getting into video with a DSLR is taking the first step.

Solutions: Time-Lapse Quicktips

Time-lapse photography and videos have exploded in popularity. During the recent Sony Art of Expression contest hosted by OP, several of the finalists in the video category were time-lapse videos. ...

Ghost Trees, Namibia

Deep in the Namib Desert of southwest Africa, there's a remarkable place.

The Art Of Travel Photography

Ever since early photographers began capturing images of faraway places in the mid-19th century, travel photography has enthralled people with tantalizing glimpses of distant lands

Capture The Gigascape

In the November 2009 issue of Outdoor Photographer Magazine, we wrote about a way to achieve highly detailed landscapes, the "gigascape," with your compact digital camera. It was made possible by a robot called the GigaPan EPIC....

Chasing The Aurora Borealis

They're back! After five years of relative quiet, the Northern Lights—the Aurora Borealis—have been on fire lately.

Auto HDR, Quicker, Faster And Better?

In the last few years, high dynamic range (HDR) photography has become incredibly popular, propelled in part by the capabilities of both digital cameras and HDR-enabled imaging programs.

The Colors Of Snow

What setting would you recommend to shoot in Antarctica? ...

Solutions: Contour+

We've been great fans of small HD video action camcorders since we started experimenting with lipstick-style units that had to be tethered to a separate and bulky apparatus.

Close-Up Wide-Angle

The conventional wisdom was that you shouldn't use a wide-angle lens up close because it would distort the subject or make it unflattering.

Solutions: Rolling Shutter

We recently received an email from a contributor who had taken a photograph out of the window of a small airplane.

Workshop Diary

The opportunity to study with a master photographer in the field, to see what he or she is seeing, and to travel with someone with a knowledge of the best locations and the ideal times to photograph them, are all great reasons for taking an...

Wilderness Reflections

California's Sierra Nevada has drawn people ever since word first got out about its breathtaking beauty. In the 1860s, Alfred Bierstadt enshrined these mountains as an iconic American place with his monumental paintings.

The Dark Secret Of Digital Photography

Digital photography vastly expands our opportunities for better pictures. We can now shoot in lower light with higher quality results, instantly see our images as we capture them and easily process those images for the best results.

RAW vs. JPEG

Is there still a reason to discuss RAW versus JPEG?