08/08 Adobe Elements 6 Panoramas
If you haven’t used the Panorama feature of Adobe Elements 6, you’re in for a treat. . . .
07/08 Digital Thinking
Photographing with today’s digital SLR’s is the stuff of dreams . . .
06/08 Polarize that sky (without a polarizer)
In the March, ’08 tip I discussed “the only filter”—the polarizer—a filter that hasn’t gone away with digital, and whose hallmark is a deep, blue sky. But a dramatic blue sky can be achieve in Photoshop, or especially in Adobe Lightroom . . .
05/08 Full-frame Bokeh
Here’s a simple question. Suppose you can approach your subject closely, filling the frame. What gives a better result, a full-frame sensor or APS . . .
04/08 Handheld Super-telephoto Helper
The new crop of digital SLR’s—and some field choices—provide the kit to do the improbable . . .
03/08 The Only Filter
In days of pre-digital yore, outdoor photographers carried a bunch of filters . . .
02/08 Packing a small sea kayak
Most photographers aren't burly-burly men, they just want a kayak to get them to a photo-op. Here I pack a small 15 ft kayak . . .
01/08 Going solo? Go Gorillapod!
Always looking for alternatives, a few months ago I added a new tool to the arsenal, a Joby Gorillapod SLR-Zoom . . .
12/07 Do-It-Yourself Backyard Nesthole
Out on a woods walk one spring, I observed a pair of chickadees holing out a nest in a snag. Significantly, it was five feet off the ground . . .
11/07 People in Nature
A missing element to make many a great scenic saleable can be pretty obvious. It's an element that's also ignored, overlooked, forgotten and even belittled
by us nature photographers. Yet it’s an element we find endlessly fascinating, an element that grabs the attention in every scene . . . .
10/07 Remote Imaginings
An assemblage of eight Wood Ducks — preening, stretching and snoozing — and perched on a log in good light would make a great photo.
7/07 Floral Portrait Conundrum
When shooting wildflower or floral portraits — pictures of single flowers or small groups of flowers — it's often difficult
to achieve both sharpness in the flower(s) and . . . .
4/07 Beat the Gray Sky Blues
The Northwest (US) where I live features some of the planet’s grayest skies, a nightmare of gray on gray . . . .
1/07 Go Dynamic with Diagonals
Photographers should regularly remind themselves that pictures are static and two-dimensional. . . .
12/06 Staying Charged On the Road
You're not staying in a hotel. Campground electricity is in the bathroom, maybe. But you're driving an hour or more between shoots . . .
11/06 Canon Picture Styles
Miss Velvia film? Shoot RAW, and punch up your outdoor scenics (or bird photos) with Canon's Landscape Picture Styles . . . .
9/06 Patience
You've found a wildlife shot to match your vision. Getting the shot often requires
something more. Call it doggedness, tenacity, perseverance, or simply patience . . . .
8/06 Split ND Filters: Glass vs Digital
After hiking to Spray Park at Mt. Rainier NP, I shot a few frames to compare
a graduated (split) neutral-density filter with achieving similar results in Photoshop. . . . .
7/06 Take your eye off the Viewfinder
Serious film photographers wouldn’t think of it, but point-and-shoot digital
shooters routinely snap photos with camera at arms length. . . .
Also see FAQ for on-the-water advice.
