August 2009
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How-To
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The Big Trip
See how National Geographic photographer and Outdoor Photographer columnist Frans Lanting gears up for an expedition. You probably won’t ever need as much equipment with you, but there’s a lot to learn from his approach.
By Frans Lanting
What gear to pack? What to leave at home? If you don’t have it, you can’t use it, balanced with the fact that too much equipment can slow you down and you miss the opportunity to put yourself in a position to get the shot in the first place.
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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
By Dennis Frates
For 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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Get Into The Stock Market
With more Outdoor Photographer readers looking to sell images in the face of an increasingly fragmented marketplace, there are some tremendous opportunities opening up
The last 10 years have been chaotic for independent photographers, as the old ways of doing business have withered before our eyes.
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Making Your Best B&W
Conversions in the computer have become easier, allowing you to get better results than ever before
Today, the choice to make a color or a black-and-white image is far different from the era of film. With film, the decision would be made when you loaded your film.
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The Zone System Revisited
Ansel Adams’ system for previsualizing and controlling the tones in a photograph are every bit as relevant today as they were when he first came up with them in the middle of the 20th century
Ansel Adams is credited with developing the Zone System in the 1940s. In the ensuing time, photography has undergone a series of monumental changes, but even today when digital dominates the photography landscape, the Zone System remains relevant, particularly if you’re going to be making black-and-white photographs.
Locations
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Cannon Beach, Oregon
Known for its idyllic settings, Cannon Beach, Ore., is a photographer’s paradise. Located along the northern Oregon coast, this charming town is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the coastal mountains.
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Postmodern
The legendary black-and-white imagery of Richard Garrod navigates a fine line between art and nature
For more than five decades, photographer Richard Garrod has been producing a strikingly unique fine-art approach to landscape and nature photography.
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The Faces Of Peru
More than just the iconic Machu Picchu, Peru is a wealth of landscape, wildlife and cultural photographic opportunities
By Bob Krist
I’m perched precariously on a ledge looking over stone ruins 30 feet below when the winds and the rains suddenly let up, sun shafts penetrating the clearing clouds, and somebody gives me a strong shove from behind.
Columns
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Create Artistic Blurs In-Camera
Tips for acheiving a painterly effect with subtle camera movements
By William Neill
Impressionistic photography has caught on. The process of blurring photographs with a camera is everywhere.
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It’s The Fling Itself
Getting out and making pictures can be every bit as rewarding as the images themselves
By Dewitt Jones
In the past I wrote about “not being the best in the world, but being the best for the world.” I love little sayings like this.
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The Perfect Solar Storm
Chasing The Aurora • The Full-Frame Advantage • The Silent Click • Please, Release Me
I saw your photograph of the looping aurora borealis as one of the wallpapers within Microsoft Vista OS. Where did you take that photograph, and what’s the best time of year to try to capture the aurora?
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