Photography

Out of all the pursuits I’ve tried, I think wildlife photography has got to be one of the most difficult – and I’m including my doctorate in pure mathematics on that list. That’s why I like to take some time at the end of the year and go through my favorite shots and figure out what I liked and what …

It’s not too late to join our Death Valley workshop in January – there’s still space for one more photographer to join us! I’m able to keep our registration portal open for another 24 hours, and then I have to close it and send our group’s information to the National Park Service. This six-day workshop will take you to some …

A few days ago, I had the pleasure of recording one of the interviews for our upcoming Wildlife Photography Online Workshop. I was sitting in a cozy tree house overlooking the treetops, sipping a cup of excellent South American coffee, and chatting about photography with the great wildlife photographer Ondrej Prosicky. During our conversation, we touched on the subject of …

Sadie Hine (@shine_photography__ on Instagram) is a young nature photographer with a unique photographic style. Her work incorporates contrast, color and texture across an array of taxa to create bold images of wildlife and nature. I realized that I can tell a Sadie Hine image without reading her name. It made me curious to ask Sadie more about her specific style …

Most photographers are aware that aperture affects your exposure and depth of field in photography. (If that’s news to you, I recommend reading our introduction to aperture before this article.) But what else does it affect? There are lots of other variables that also change with your choice of aperture. In this article, I will go through all the other …

Wildlife photography has a difficulty that most other genres lack: It’s hard to get close to your subject. Animals are typically wary and will fly or run away if you just walk too close to them – that’s why most wildlife photographers carry long lenses in the 400-800mm range and often crop further from there. But if you follow a …

Here in the Czech Republic, across the Atlantic, I could almost smell the enticing aroma of Thanksgiving turkeys this week. To give this Weekly News a bit of a multicultural twist, I took the photo below of a different meal being roasted in Ecuador – can you guess what she was cooking? From a photographic point of view, you may …

Photographers aren’t easy people to shop for… and it doesn’t help that most “gift guides” online are generic, copy-paste articles written by non-photographers. Today, I want to fix that problem with a list of genuinely useful photography gifts for the photographer in your life. You won’t find any lens mugs or t-shirts here! (Not that I’m complaining about mine 🙂 …

From now through Friday evening, a lot of camera equipment is available for the lowest prices all year. I’m collecting the best deals here and will be updating this page hourly! So far, the best deals are for some Nikon cameras and lenses that have seen their lowest prices yet. The following links are affiliate links, meaning that Photography Life …

If you use a prime lens for wildlife photography, the biggest problem is that you can’t zoom out to get the entire animal in the frame when you’re too close. But is there a solution to this problem that doesn’t involve using a different lens? One possibility is to use panoramas! Panoramas? You probably think I’m joking. Indeed, most of …