Many nature, wildlife, and travel photographers resort to workshops and photographic tours as a way to visit new destinations and expand their portfolios while learning more about the craft of photography and enjoying the company of other individuals who share a similar passion. Workshops have t...
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by Ben Fuchs | December 5, 2012
Photography in Greek means painting with light. Panning is one way photographers can practice painting with light while produce results that resemble real paintings.
The optimal exposure time for panning is (depending on the subject) about 0.8s. If it is too short, the amount of panning is oft...
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Wildlife photography can be very exciting. With your adrenaline running on overdrive, it is easy for photographers to get caught up in the action of the moment and just snap away without giving too much thought to our photography. Despite how spectacular the events you witnessed may have been, t...
by Tim Grey | November 21, 2012
Perhaps I’m biased, having “grown up” in a film photography world. Back then, more often then not sharing images meant putting slides into slide pages, with twenty images per page. And I actually spent time thinking about which order the images would be presented in and how the...
by Bill Chambers | November 16, 2012
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
–James Whistler
Don’t you just love it when someone views your work and the “oohs” and “aahs” ensue only to be followed by “Gee, you must have a great camera.” Doesn’t that...
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by Kyle McDougall | November 9, 2012
One of the most important parts of a successful landscape image is sharpness. This is one of those things that you HAVE to get right in camera—there’s no fixing an image that is lacking sharpness in Photoshop. A lot of factors are at play when it comes to controlling the depth of field i...
Standing along the shoreline of String Lake, whose placid waters offer a mirror image of the imposing Tetons, I catch an erratic flicker of movement in the trees to my left. This is grizzly country. They may appear brutish, but grizzly bears are quite capable of deft movement, especially when th...
by NSN | October 26, 2012
From the Editor: If you are a photographer who has gone to a high profile photography event such as Photoshop World or a NANPA Summit, you’ve probably run into Gary Farber of Hunt’s Photo and Video. Gary is a constant presence at many of the events I have attended, and he and his c...
by Tim Grey | October 22, 2012
Picture a panoramic image in your mind. It’s horizontal, isn’t it? Of course it is, because a horizontal panoramic image is just the most logical result of panoramic photography. But every now and then, you may want to create a vertical panorama, and that can present some challenges....
by Tom Whelan | October 1, 2012
Photographer Tom Whelan has caught the bug for photographing small things. He specializes in close-up photographs of natural subjects: abstracts of natural designs, portraits of flowers and insects, the many forms of water, and intimate landscapes. In this video, Tom shares his passion for natur...
by NSN | October 1, 2012
Story by Margaret Gaines – Come celebrate NANPA’s 18th Nature Photography Summit & Trade Show in Jacksonville, Florida, February 28 through March 3, 2013.
A wonderful event is planned that is sure to inspire your photography, whether you take pictures for the pure joy of it o...
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by Jeff Newcomer | September 28, 2012
As a New England photographer, the couple of weeks of autumn’s riotous punctuation to summer is the one annual opportunity that simply can’t be missed. In my region of southern New Hampshire and Vermont, peak color is usually around the Columbus Day holiday. By mid September I find myself ga...
by Jerry Monkman | September 27, 2012
I’ve been making pictures professionally for almost 20 years now. After my family, this is the greatest blessing in my life, and every day I wake up and feel grateful to have turned this passion of mine into a career. Even though I’m still learning after all these years, in reality m...
by E.J. Peiker | September 11, 2012
In the last week of August 2012, long time Arizona resident E.J. Peiker led the Navajo Country and North Rim of the Grand Canyon Workshop presented by Naturescapes.net Certified Workshops.
In the digital age, just about everyone has a camera. Thanks to social media, everyone knows it, and we are constantly bombarded with images from thirteen year olds with iPhones, retirees with 1D Mark IVs, and budding amateurs and pros alike, some who are constant sources of inspiration and othe...
