Monthly Archives: September 2012
Backlit Landscapes
How-To Backlight can impart many different looks to a landscape. It can emphasize a strong silhouette, it can rim light a subject with a strong outer glow, it can enhance the look of fog or mist, it can create shafts … Continue reading
Street Photography Contest Winners
Part of what I love about being the Photography Guide here at About.com is virtually meeting so many different folks from around the world. This street photography contest gave me another interesting look in to your world. After much deliberation, … Continue reading
Sky-scapes
How-To Sky photography conjures thoughts of vividly colored clouds and electric hues. Ever changing conditions provide great windows of opportunity as cloud colors intensify. Influenced by many factors, the chance of getting the same conditions to ever repeat are almost … Continue reading
Break Free From Your Comfort Zone
How-ToText And Photography By Ian Plant Most people tend to establish what’s known as a “comfort zone,” which is a limited set of safe, predictable and comfortable behavioral patterns that gives a sense of security and allows one to deliver … Continue reading
Storm Watch
How-ToText & Photography by Roger and Caryn HilDramatic weather yields dramatic photographs. Roger and Caryn Hill are dedicated, expert storm chasers and photographers. Every year they strike out across the United States to photograph the wild weather systems that emerge … Continue reading
Gear Up Your Photo Vehicle
How-To Photographers such as Galen Rowell famously traveled light and bounded up mountains with nothing but a camera and lens. He camped in high-alpine environments for days on end, and while he had the gear he needed, space and weight … Continue reading
Shooting Blind
How-ToText And Photography By Dominique BraudBlinds let you get close to wildlife to observe and capture intricacies of behavior. While most people think of photographing waterfowl from a blind, you can use one to get great shots of all sorts … Continue reading
Depth Of Field Basics
How-To When it comes down to it, depth of field is synonymous with range of focus. It only seems natural that a photographer would want to produce a picture with a wide range of focus, but this is not always … Continue reading
Shooting Blind
How-ToText And Photography By Dominique BraudBlinds let you get close to wildlife to observe and capture intricacies of behavior. While most people think of photographing waterfowl from a blind, you can use one to get great shots of all sorts … Continue reading
Photo of the Week: 18 July 2012
Intricate WorshipPhoto ? mahashakes with permission to About.com, Inc.Click on the photo to see the original post in the forum. Each week I select a photo from those posted in our forum to be the new photo of the week. … Continue reading
Atmospherics
How-ToWhen you’re taking advantage of fog or light mist to create a moody landscape, the colors and contrast will drop off considerably as subjects get farther away from the camera. Here, you can see how much more colorful the foliage … Continue reading
Is That Really How It Looked?
How-ToText And Photography By Gary Hart Has anyone ever looked at one of your images and asked, “Is that the way it really looked?” Do you think anyone ever asked Ansel Adams that? The truth is, great photographers understand that … Continue reading