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Working in direct sunlight creates contrast problems of deep shadows and bright highlights.

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How To Use Histograms

For precise exposures that best capture a scene’s dynamic range, ignore what the image preview looks like and rely on the histogram.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Tips for drawing viewers in with a narrative approach to image making

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Point Reyes National Seashore

One of the best-kept secrets of the National Park Service, Point Reyes National Seashore is a year-round wildlife destination.

Photograph The Conventional Unconventionally

Creative approaches to reveal familiar photographic subjects in new ways

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Zone System for Landscape Photography

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.

Wild Japan

A traveler’s guide to Japan’s diverse, year-round wildlife photo opportunities.

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