After an eight-hour flight from Atlanta to Santiago, I have a two-hour layover in the Santiago airport before a four-hour flight south to Punta Arenas, Chile. That trip is followed by an almost six-hour drive north over a relatively flat and barren plain before finally reaching Chile’s mos...
Many nature photographers prefer Gitzo carbon fiber tripods, which are known for their durability and lighter weight. They are built to last though years of use, especially with proper maintenance and care. As a Gitzo owner, you may be wondering how to properly maintain your tripod when the legs...
Modern digital SLR’s offer many ways to customize the performance of the camera to individual tastes and to optimize the camera for different types of photography. The EOS 1D Mark II offers a user 20 Custom Functions accessible via the menu on the rear panel LCD. In addition, 26 Personal Funct...
Fortunately for most, the Photoshop 8 CS Shadow/Highlight (S/H) tool doesn’t have a confusing name, so it’s pretty easy to understand its purpose. Simply put, the tool allows more precise control over the dark (shadow) and light (highlight) areas of your images.
Have you ever looked at your photos with dismay, wondering where all those bright reflections came from? You were set up on a beautiful flower with perfect dew drops. The light was low and you wanted to maximize your depth of field (DOF), so you used flash. Instead of the wonderful image you had...
The use of artificial lighting to photograph animals is an area of controversy. To review this topic, a basic understanding of the retina is necessary.
The retina is comprised of rod cells for night and motion sensory information and cone cells for daylight and color vision. The ratio of rods...
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Perhaps one of the kinks in converting from film to digital is an easy way to present a public slide show. But numerous slide show programs are available that can create that digital presentation for you to display via your desktop or laptop computer. The program I use is PicturesToExe.
As nature photographers we love the sweet light of early morning. We often endure long and odd hours to maximize our shooting time. How can we ensure that we are fully vigilant and have quick reflexes to capture those fleeting moments of beauty when in the field? What can we do to overcome the s...
Blending into the surroundings is often key to successful wildlife photography, and choosing the right blind can be an arduous task. Hides or blinds can offer the best means of getting close to an animal within its fear circle. Ease of set-up, weight, camouflage pattern, breathable material (com...
Dear Canon: Please Produce My Perfect Digital Camera
I have now been fully converted to digital camera bodies for two years. Over those two years I have taken approximately 35,000 images with the Canon EOS 1D, EOS 1Ds, and EOS 10D and have traveled over 100,000 miles with them to photograph la...
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