The popularity of digital photography has brought many changes to the world of images. One of the lesser known may be the ability to create art out of our pictures, with the aid of Photoshop and an array of plugins and stand-alone programs designed to enhance, manipulate and alter images, all in...
Continue readingPublishing photos on the web is the best way to share experiences and to learn with other photographers, and it is a great way to publicize your work. To create an effective web presentation, it is necessary to follow some basic steps top resize, sharpen and save the photo.
Continue readingMy success as a commercial photographer has been characterized by my ability to see and understand light. Wildlife photography is the same without exception. Being able to see and understand light, its quality and quantity, physical properties, etc., and how they relate to your subject and captu...
Continue readingNearly a year ago Apple announced a major new piece of software called Aperture, which was touted as being the first software devoted to photographers’ entire postproduction needs. Shortly thereafter Adobe responded with a beta version of new software called Lightroom, designed to meet sim...
Continue readingOne of the frustrating facts of photographic life with which macro shooters learn to deal is that depth of field drops as magnification increases. When I began trying to capture images of insects, I found that my dragonflies, for instance, could have sharp heads but not sharp tails, or vice vers...
Continue readingOne of the questions I get asked most frequently by nature photographers is how to make the best black and white images from color photographs quickly and easily. Most of the time “best” and “quickly and easily” are mutually exclusive, but fortunately there’s a way...
Continue readingWould you like to take some interesting photos that will wow your viewers, and you get to enjoy some time in solitude? Why not try some star trail photography!?
As our planet Earth rotates around its axis every 24 hours, the star field that we see in our night sky rotates around the polar axis...
Continue readingQuite frequently, I see written on NatureScapes.net and many other photography sites that Canon is ripping off the public with their full sensor cameras since they cost approximately double what a cropped sensor camera costs. Having worked in the semiconductor industry for over 23 years, over ha...
Continue readingI have been doing a fair amount of traveling and photography over the last few years, and frequently run into problems determining exactly where any given photograph was taken. My camera does enable me to attach voice files to images, and I have thought of using this to record where I am, but th...
Continue readingSome participants on my recent Costa Rica and Falkland Islands workshops noticed a problem when they turned on their flash units to add fill light. We were photographing birds with long lenses and “Better Beamer” Flash Extenders, and were shooting with wide open apertures (e.g., f/4...
Continue readingAre you new to nature photography? Feeling a little unsure of how to get started in your quest to make beautiful images? If you want to consistently make good photos, there is a lot to learn. Fortunately, there are a tremendous number of resources out there to help you, but these can also be ove...
Continue readingThis article was originally published in July, 2006, and is being featured again with its original content.
As a wildlife and landscape photography enthusiast with a couple of years of serious digital shooting under my belt, I do not claim to be an expert with High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging...
Continue readingEditor’s note: This article was originally published in June, 2006, and is being featured again with its original text and one new image. Our thanks to Michael Brown.
From Wikipedia online encyclopedia: “Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict ob...
Continue readingI often joke that I do not know how to work a camera unless I am wet. I spend a lot of time wading in both freshwater and saltwater for shots. Wading provides some unique opportunities to approach wildlife or capture scenes that you simply can’t get from land. I find most animals will allo...
Continue readingFinding where dragonflies live is relatively easy. Shooting them is something else. But with a little planning and a lot of practice, you can learn to identify and shoot dragons to your heart’s content.
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