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Landscape Photograph — The Hawk Speaks
Red-shouldered hawks have a distinct cry, which can frustrate a photographer to no end. You hear the hawk, but you can’t figure out where the creature is. When you do find one, you’re rewarded with some [more…]
Nature Photograph — Close-Up of a Yellow Flower
The plan was to do a photo shoot on Gasparilla Island, but Mother Nature intervened and it rained; actually it poured down rain. The rain stopped, but the sun never came out. On the way back home, these [more…]
Optional Digital SLR Camera Features for Nature Photography
You may already own a digital SLR camera. Or perhaps you’re in the market to get a digital SLR that’s well suited for nature photography. The following options are not necessary, but useful: [more…]
Determine Your Digital Camera's Focal Length Multiplier
There’s one important thing to remember about focal lengths: They don’t act the same as they did on 35mm film cameras if you have a sensor that is smaller than a 35mm frame of film. If you have a camera [more…]
Choose the Right Lenses for Your Digital Camera
A camera lens is a round barrel with several pieces of glass inside. The glass guides the light to the sensor. The quality of the glass used in the lens and other factors determine the quality of the image [more…]
How to Choose Lenses for Wildlife Photography
These best camera lenses for wildlife photography are expensive, but if you intend to pursue wildlife photography, they are well worth the investment. The focal length you need to photograph wildlife depends [more…]
Choose a Macro Lens for Close-Up Photography
When you want to get close, really close to your photography subject, nothing beats a macro lens. Macro lenses come in a variety of focal lengths. Prime macro lenses have a range from 50mm to 200mm. The [more…]
Control Depth of Field in Nature Photography
The aperture is the opening in the lens that lets light into the digital camera. The size of aperture you choose determines how much of your image is in sharp focus from front to back, which is known as [more…]
Light Loss in Macro and Close-Up Photography
Light loss occurs in macro and close-up photography because the lens is so far from the digital sensor in order to achieve focus at close ranges. The image produced by the lens [more…]
Macro Settings on Digital Point and Shoot Cameras
Point and shoot digital cameras get their name from the idea that you can set one to its automatic mode and take images that are, for the most part, of acceptable quality. They free you from having to [more…]
Zoom Lenses on Point and Shoot Cameras
How and why do you get very close to your subjects for macro and close-up photography? How and why do you pull back from your subjects? Almost all point and shoot digital cameras are equipped with a lens [more…]
Know When to Zoom in and Move out
Zooming in with your point and shoot digital camera in close-up photography enables you to create more comfortable shooting situations, and produce various types of compositions. Although point and shoot [more…]
Lighting Equipment for Macro and Close-Up Photography
From a technical standpoint, macro and close-up photography can be more difficult to master than other styles of photography. Lighting can be an obstacle that is much easier to deal with when you’re equipped [more…]
Handhold the Camera for Subjects that Move
You can take perfectly sharp macro and close-up photographs while handholding your camera, but doing so requires technique. The speed of your exposure in comparison to the level of camera shake needs to [more…]
Issues with Light in Macro Photography
Some point and shoot digital cameras enable you to get as close as one centimeter from your subjects and still achieve sharp focus, but doing so can be problematic as far as light is concerned. When you’re [more…]
Cloudy Light and White Balance
Light that is diffused through cloud cover casts a blue overtone in photographs just as open-shade lighting does. However, the blue shift in cloudy light is not as prevalent as that in open shade. [more…]
The Quality of Light around Sunrise and Sunset
The sunrise and sunset produce a direct, hard light source, but when the sun is behind the horizon, it produces a much softer type of light. And the lower it is beneath the horizon, the less directional [more…]
Create Natural Light for Close-Up Photography
In some cases the type of natural light you have isn’t the one you want for your close-up subject or your message. This is nothing to worry about, so long as you’re prepared with field lighting equipment [more…]
Make Light Like Sunshine for Macro Photographs
Perhaps the most complex of all natural lighting techniques is creating direct sun on a cloudy day. You need a battery-powered flash or a strobe to make this happen. [more…]
Size and Distance of Lights in Macro Photography
Although a creative approach can usually overcome any lighting obstacles, in macro and close-up photography you’re typically working with subjects and scenes that are very small, and your camera tends [more…]
Accessorize Your Lights for Macro Photography
Accessories are attachments that fix to the front of the light, altering the size, shape, and/or direction of the light source. They’re useful for macro and close-up photography a great option for changing [more…]
Good Studio Lighting for Macro Photography
Artificial light can create beautiful results in macro and close-up photography, but it can also cause your images to look forced, cheap, or unreal. Learning to position your lights — the [more…]
Keep a Natural Light Look in the Studio
In order to create a natural-appearing light in the studio for close-up and macro photography, you need both a key light and a fill light. The key light [more…]
Creative Studio Lighting for Macro Photography
After you master the basics of creating a two-light system for a more natural look in the studio, perhaps you’d like to try getting more creative with your photographic style. Doing so can benefit macro [more…]
Balance the Intensities of Lights in Close-Up Photography
The studio can be a close-up photographer’s best friend. It’s a totally controlled environment, meaning there’s wind only if you choose to create it, light comes from whatever direction you wish it to, [more…]
