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    Horizontal Versus Vertical Framing In Photography

    One topic that I don’t often see debated in photography is the merits of horizontal versus vertical compositions when it comes to landscape photos. Both horizontal and vertical compositions play critical roles depending on the subject matter and the emotions you’re hoping to invoke within your...
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    Last Frame: Eagle Eye

    Photo By Cindy Upchurch “This was taken in Naknek, Alaska, on Bristol Bay during the salmon run of July 2018,” says Cindy Upchurch. “There were so many bald eagles on the bluffs and the beach looking for scraps and doing a little fishing themselves. It was quite amazing to watch. The bluffs...
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    Behind The Shot: Line In The Sand

    Photo By Denis Dessoliers White Sands National Monument is in the Tularosa Basin in Southern New Mexico. The White Sands gypsum dunefield covers 275 square miles, making it the largest gypsum dunefield in the world. The National Monument preserves more than half of this dunefield. Gypsum is...
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    Mesmerize With Repeating Patterns In Your Photos

    Recently I found myself walking around Liberty Station in San Diego. The weather was far more pleasant than what I had been living through in southern Utah, so rather than hop from air-conditioned store to air-conditioned car, I enjoyed a stroll throughout the premises. One of the first things I...
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    When It Dawned On Me, Part 2: Midday

    Last week, I covered some tips on capturing great images as the sun rises. This week, we’ll take a look at shooting during challenging midday light. From dawn to dusk, the light constantly changes. During mid-morning to mid-afternoon, the changes are less obvious and happen more slowly. The...
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    The Merits Of Including People In Scenic Photos

    I’ll be the very first person to admit that I go to serious extremes when it comes to omitting people from my landscape compositions. It’s not that I don’t like people (I almost couldn’t type that sentence with a straight face). Rather, I have long found that the inclusion of person, or people...
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    Finding Layers In Your Landscape Photography

    Nowadays, when you hear the word “layers” in reference to photography, your first thought likely veers to Adobe Photoshop. So much of what I see online about photography technique focuses more on the post-processing side of things rather than in-camera. In this article, though, I’m referring to...
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    Photographing The Details Of The Landscape

    We truly are blessed not only to live on a planet that is so diverse and beautiful, but to also have the technology readily available to capture and share it. In a lot of ways, it makes complete sense to be overwhelmed by the enormity of our planet and to be compelled to capture as much of it as...
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    Blue Sky Photos Aren’t All That Bad

    For a long time, I thought I was cursed as far as my landscape photography went. I felt as if every single time I went out with my camera, I would invariably be greeted with a gigantic sky filled with … nothing. No clouds. No atmosphere. Just blue. To add insult to injury, the curse would play...
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    National Park Service Turns 103

    On August 25, 1916, the act that created the National Park Service was signed by President Woodrow Wilson, and this Sunday marks the National Park Service’s 103rd anniversary! Below you’ll find detailed guides covering just 10 of the 61 U.S. national parks. Learn the best places to visit within...
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    Patience Truly Is A Virtue In Photography

    We’re all friends here, right? And friends are honest with each other. So, when I tell you that my lack of patience is truly legendary, you know that I’m telling you the truth. In some cases, my infinitesimally short attention span has served me well, especially when it comes to not hovering...
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    Apple Announces National Park App Collection

    In celebration of the National Park Service’s 103rd anniversary on Sunday, August 25, Apple has announced a special app collection that will help people make the most of their visit to America’s parks by offering trail maps and guides, mountain identification and peak elevation maps, plant and...
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    Exploring The Palouse

    One of the most fruitful exercises that any photographer can take on is that of a photo study. Personal photography studies can be as specific or broad as you’d like. It really is up to the individual and it should be seen more as an opportunity to admire and understand the diversity of whatever...
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    10 Of Our Most Popular How-To Articles For World Photography Day

    Happy World Photography Day! To celebrate, we’ve collected 10 of our most popular articles with tips and techniques to help you make your best photographs. These articles include techniques you can use for any type of photography, plus articles that offer specific tips for landscape, wildlife...
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    Open-Minded Illumination

    Words of wisdom come from places you least expect to hear them. Not in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be enlightened by a total stranger seated next to me at the airport. His words were something to the effect of, “My initial flight was canceled, my aisle seat was changed to a middle one, the...
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    Get Lost In The Depths

    Photographs portray three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane. This explains why many photographers scratch their heads and wonder why the scene they photographed that looked as if it was never-ending lacks depth in their images. In a two-dimensional world, unless the illusion of...
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    Convert Your Old Digital Camera To Infrared

    When Sony first announced its entry into the full-frame mirrorless interchangeable lens system market (say that three times fast) with the a7 and a7R cameras, I was one of the first to place my preorder. I couldn’t wait to benefit from a full-frame camera that had significantly less bulk than my...
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    Try Split Toning For Landscape Photos

    I’ll be the first one alongside you when extolling the virtue of editing a landscape photo cleanly. There is an undeniable beauty to nature photos when they’re presented naturally. Sometimes, a high-contrast shot with a flat, blue sky is the best option when sharing your landscape photos...
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    Use Opposites To Reveal Contrast

    Big offset against little, color offset against monochrome, straight offset against curved, slow offset against fast, cheerful offset against sad: All of these and more show extremes in contrast and can be depicted in images. When opposites are combined in a single photograph, subject contrast...
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    Last Frame: Cool Cat

    “I was photographing a pride of lions one afternoon at Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park,” says South African photographer Isak Pretorius. “They were sleeping off a buffalo meal they had the night before when one of the females got up and walked off. Anticipating that she might...


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