Even though I have considered myself fairly capable in Adobe Photoshop for a long time, I jumped at the chance to comment on the new book, Photoshop CS4 for Nature Photoraphers: A Workshop in a Book, by Ellen Anon and Josh Anon.
For years I have been wishing for someone to build a quality gimbal head made out of a strong but lightweight material. The original Wimberley Head 1, made out of aluminum, weighed in at 4.2 lb. While this doesn’t seem like much, after a full day of working with a sturdy tripod, Wimberley...
Nikon has announced two new DSLRs – the full frame sensor D3 and the D300 with DX size sensor. I had the opportunity to use these two cameras over a 3-day period in late October. I found the cameras to be substantial improvements over the D2xs and D200 respectively.
The Chair Blind from Ameristep is a relatively new type of blind option, offering a one person blind built around an integrated seat. My first introduction to the Chair Blind was last winter in South Carolina on a trip to take pictures of wintering waterfowl. Several of us had been invited to th...
Editor’s Note: The introduction of the Canon EOS 1D Mark III was eagerly anticipated by nature photographers, but the initial release of cameras to the market revealed some difficulties finding the right settings to maximize auto focus performance for wildlife photography. Birds in fligh...
Whoever picked “A Workshop in a Book” as the second half title of “Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers” hit the nail squarely on the head. The book is exactly that and more—a user-friendly digital workshop complete with a CD of workable images. The “more”...
It may have been years in the making, but now you finally have that 500mm, 600mm, or perhaps a super telephoto zoom lens. You may be asking, “What do I do next?” You wouldn’t be alone—this is a very common question for new super telephoto owners.
Lang Elliott and NatureScapes.net moderator, Wil Hershberger, have put together an unusual reference book or field guide comprised of excellent photos, text descriptions and songs of two insect orders: Orthoptera (crickets, katydids and grasshoppers) and Homoptera (cicadas, leafhoppers and aphid...
For years wildlife photographers have been using the “Better Beamer” Flash X-tender™ in order to increase the output of their external flash units when shooting with telephoto lenses, and for good reason – it’s lightweight, convenient and effective. The “Better Be...
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the latest entry in the Digital Asset Management (DAM) arena, released mid-February 2007. Lightroom enters an increasingly competitive field that has had some established players, such as Extensis and iView, as well as some new players like Apple’s Aperture. Wh...
Carolyn Wright has participated on the NatureScapes.net forums for years and I have come to respect not only her knowledge on legal issues specific to photographers, but also her ability to draw on real-world experience and explain matters in a way that just about anyone could understand.
For those of us who are Mac users and would like more than ever to finally have an “all-in-one” software program that can handle capture to finish, Apple’s Aperture, now in Version 1.5.2, shows fine promise towards that end. But as with any new software, there is a learning cur...
For the photographer who is contemplating turning their passion into a business, or for someone already getting started in the industry, this book is a must-read. Written by a pro photographer, there’s much more to this book than the title suggests. How to Make Money with Digital Photogra...
With interest I read the threads in NatureScapes.Net Ethics forum about Grizzly Man, Tim Treadwell, a Californian who went to Alaska for 13 summers to be with the brown bears on the Katmai coast. He raised California and Colorado money to fund these summers with the bears and foxes and subsequen...
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