Category Archives: Birds It may seem surprising that imagination comes into play when recording real scenes and events that we can’t (or choose not to) control, but it almost always does. Even within the constraints of real and uncontrolled events, the photographer has options about what subject to photograph, what angle to do it from, how close or...
 Publishers have developed a bad habit of begging, over the last few years. They’ve taken to contacting photographers, seeking to use their pictures without paying. It’s not just the underfunded start ups, or those tottering on the edge of bankruptcy. In this environment of global financial crisis and increasingly commoditized photography, many of the biggest...
 . [Editorial Note: This post is intended to be a companion part to the previously posted Get Lucky. Although the subject matter is mostly different, they're both significant aspects of how nature photographers take pictures which appear to be very fortunate, on a consistent basis. Whereas part 1 was largely about how to maximize opportunity,...
 In Obtaining Maximum Sharpness, Part 1, the discourse focused largely on how to maximuze sharpness with a tripod-mounted camera. However, using a tripod is not always best, nor even always an option. And sometimes, when you have to hand hold your camera, the circumstances make steadily hand holding your camera difficult – such as low...
 [Editorial note: This article was first published on Photo.net on March 18, 2003. It was expanded and republished on my Naturography Blog, on September 4, 2009. I'm reposting it (as I'll be doing with almost all of my content elsewhere), here on my newly re-done website.] Extreme sharpness is frequently of little consequence to a...
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