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Camera Settings for Photographing a Forest
In order to get good photographs of a forest, you must notice the forest as an entity. When you see the elements for a compelling picture fall into place, it’s time to think about composition, settings [more…]
Depth of Field, Focal Lengths, and Distance
When you photograph a scene with a wide-angle lens, you always get a larger depth of field than you would with a longer focal length. The figure shows an example of a scene photographed with a 24mm lens [more…]
Photographing Objects in Motion
There are a couple of schools of thought on photographing objects in motion. The recipe for a perfect exposure can be obtained in many ways. You can choose a small aperture [more…]
Tips for Shooting a Sunrise Photo
Sunrise is a glorious time for nature and landscape photography. You capture wonderful images just before the sun comes up and as it peeks over the horizon, and also for an hour or so after the sun rises [more…]
Camera Settings for a Sunrise Photo
Start shooting into the sun when it peeks above the horizon. When you photograph a landscape at sunrise, the quality of the light and the colors changes almost by the second. Shoot lots of frames and shoot [more…]
Tips for Shooting a Sunset Photo
Sunset gives you the same wonderful light for photographs you get in the morning, only you get the wonderful light at the end of the day, then the sun dips below the horizon and any clouds in the area [more…]
Camera Settings for a Sunset Photo
Photographing a sunset is exciting. The light changes by the minute (or even second) as the sun sinks lower on the horizon. And some of the best images happen just before the sun sinks below the horizon [more…]
Options for Sunset Photographs
Sunrise and sunset are great times to shoot pictures. The sun casts a golden hue on landscapes and seascapes. Add some clouds and you have the recipe for great photographs. However, if you want to get [more…]
How to Fix an Image with Blown-Out Highlights
Your digital camera has a built-in meter that measures the amount of light in the scene and chooses settings to serve up what the camera thinks is a properly exposed image. However, when you photograph [more…]
Photo Subject Blends into the Background
This problem crops up often when you’re photographing wildlife. Animals like deer and some birds use the natural foliage as camouflage. They tend to congregate in areas that closely match their coloration [more…]
Tips for Photographing a Beach Landscape
Oceans are great subjects for nature photographers. Oceans have personalities and whims. They can be calm and placid one day, and the next day turn into a raging turmoil of crashing waves and foamy surf [more…]
How to Photograph Waves in the Ocean
There are two schools of thought regarding photographing waves. The first is to use a high shutter speed to freeze the motion of a cresting wave and any spray. Other photographers like to use a slow shutter [more…]
How to Shoot In-Camera Abstract Photos
You can get interesting in-camera abstract photos with subjects that have patterns, such as a row of trees, tree barks, palm fronds, and so on. This technique involves controlled motion of the camera while [more…]
How to Photograph Still Water
When you photograph a still body of water, you have a mirror-like surface that reflects the beauty of nature. The quality of the reflection depends on your vantage point and whether the water is perfectly [more…]
Abstract Photographs of Cresting Waves
Oceans and lakes make great landscape photograph subjects. A technique known as wave panning creates a very abstract, almost painterly, image of a cresting wave. You can also do wave panning on large lakes [more…]
How to Take Black-and-White Landscape Photos
Ansel Adams captured wonderful landscapes using black-and-white film. Your camera captures color images, but that doesn’t mean you can’t follow in Ansel’s footsteps and create black-and-white photos. The [more…]
Specialty Lenses for Photographing Nature
Specialty camera lenses give a different look to your nature photographs, and offer cool alternatives to traditional lenses. If you drew outside the lines as a kid, and still like to draw outside the lines [more…]
Nature Photograph — Black Skimmer
Myakka River State Park is home to many species of birds and other wildlife. One day these birds were noticed swooping low on the water. The photographer identified them as black skimmers using his handy [more…]
Landscape Photograph — Sunset in Paradise
This landscape photo was taken in Caspersen Beach in Venice, Florida. This picture was photographed in winter. Winter in Florida is a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. [more…]
Landscape Photograph — A Fog upon the Bay
A photograph from the trip down from Mount Tamalpais. The fog was thick on San Francisco Bay, but it was clear on the mountain. A lonely tree called for a photograph. Instead of recording detail in the [more…]
Landscape Photograph — Walking in Ansel’s Footsteps
Visiting Yosemite in the late fall is an incredible experience. The leaves turn color and the weather changes. A storm was approaching during on this evening in Yosemite. As the clouds shrouded Half Dome [more…]
Landscape Photograph — Mackerel Sky
This image was photographed a few minutes after the sun went down. Because the clouds didn’t reach all the way to the horizon, the sky would be on fire a few minutes after the sun set. The photographer [more…]
Landscape Photograph — Take the High Trail
This image was photographed in Myakka River State Park near Sarasota, Florida. The park is beautiful with many miles of trails. This trail meanders through a lush meadow dotted with lovely trees. The sun [more…]
Landscape Photograph — Sanibel Sentinel
Florida’s Sanibel Island is a treasure-trove for the nature photographer. Ding Darling Refuge is full of birds and other native wildlife. One blustery January day, the sun was sinking low; with the high [more…]
Landscape Photo — Myakka Fields of Gold
Florida’s Myakka River State Park has many wonderful vistas. In the winter and early spring before the rains come, the grass is dry and brittle, a wonderful wheat color. This lonely tree in the river of [more…]
