How-To

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?

Land And Sky

When the beauty of nature and chaos collided, it created the prairie.

Choose The Best Workshop

A workshop can be a great way to improve your skills and knowledge about photography. A workshop can be a great way to improve your skills and...

Making Time-Lapse

A movie is just a series of stills. It’s really that simple. While time-lapse is simple in concept, the range of gear and workflow options is vast

Our Favorite Photo Tools

If you read this column regularly, you know I love tech "tools." Sometimes my wife Kathy calls them "toys," but maybe she's just kidding.

The Beauty Seeker

What are you willing to die for? Because you are doing that right now." Those 14 words on Twitter shook me to my core.

Solutions: How To Shoot Star Trails

We’ve seen a number of outstanding star trail images in the OP Assignments galleries, contest entries and other direct submissions to the magazine.

Classic Fall Color

Traveling locally can have its advantages, as you can revisit the area if you aren’t satisfied with the results.

It's About Sharp

Autofocus is one of the two most revolutionary features to appear in SLR cameras in the past quarter-century (the other being digital media replacing film).

The Ultimate Photo Sketch Pad

Is the iPhone to be feared or embraced? Is it a threat or a complement to my DSLR? Is it a toy or the continuation of a photographic revolution?

Macro Magic

When I bought my first camera in 1974, it came with a set of extension tubes for macro photography.

Down The HDR Rabbit Hole

Like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, I came late to the tea party.

Luck Favors The Prepared

We've just returned from a three-week digital photo safari in Botswana and Zambia with a wonderful group of advanced nature photographers.

Control Your Perspective

For photographers looking to get view-camera lens movements in a DSLR, there were just a few options.

The Perfect Exposure

An exposure meter measures the amount of light that strikes it and, based on this data and the ISO you've programmed into it, provides you with a series of shutter-speed/ƒ-stop combinations that will produce proper exposure for the metered subject or...

10 Tips For The Grand Canyon

Postcard racks are filled with pretty pictures of iconic landscapes. ...

Transmit Image Files

Occasionally, a solution comes along that's the perfect fix for a problem I thought I'd always just have to deal with.

Advanced Cloning

Each year, the number of visitors to our national parks grows, looking to see and photograph their favorite icons. ...

The Timeless Moment Of Ice Light

Here, half a world away, I'm working away at one of my favorite notions: the timeless moment, and how to preserve it photographically.

Packrafting

When adventurer and packraft legend Roman Dial asked if I wanted to join him and his son Cody on a packraft descent of Tasmania's iconic Franklin River, I said to count me in.

The Technical Side Of B&W

When I want the final results from my DSLR to be black-and-white, should I set the camera to shoot in black-and-white or continue to shoot in color (RGB) and convert later?

The Making Of Compelling Black-And-White-Images

Eliot Porter and Ernst Haas were two of my heroes in nature photography, both superb practitioners of color photography with nature. ...

Why Choose B&W

We see and live in a world of color. That's how we've evolved, and it's the world that we know.

The Rarest Light

For 18 years now, I've been specializing in wilderness landscape photography. ...

Once More Into The Shot

Like most photographers, I'm happiest when I'm behind the lens, not in front of it.

AF Fine-Tuning

Cameras and lenses are both precision instruments, and today's AF systems are the best we've ever seen. Cameras and lenses are both precision...

Think Locally

I've been reading Outdoor Photographer long before I ever entertained the dream of being a landscape photographer.