Pro Tips
Sharp Shots of Fuzzy Animals: A Guide to Preventing Blurry Photos
A brown bear explodes through an Alaskan river. A kangaroo bounds across a golden field. A pelican launches itself into the sea with all the aerodynamic grace of a bowling…
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Pro Tips
Steps for Getting Super Sharp Landscape Photos
The sharpness of a photo is often a cornerstone to its aesthetics. Now, I’ll tell ya, there are absolutely times when sharpness isn’t everything, and we must remind ourselves that…
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Pro Tips
Three Ways to Get Perfect Focus for Outstanding Northern Lights Photographs
Photographing the aurora borealis is exceptional in so many ways. The images you get, the environment you’re in and the challenges…well, yes, the challenges you face. Northern lights photography can…
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Pro Tips
How to Photograph an Arctic Sunrise or Sunset
Sunrises and sunsets are wonderfully fun to photograph, no matter where in the world you might be. However, there truly is something special about encountering—and photographing—them in the Arctic. To…
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Pro Tips
How to Get Perfect Wildlife Portraits in Africa
The classic wildlife portrait is one of the first photos we aim to achieve in any given wildlife encounter—especially those as extraordinary as you are likely to have in Africa.…
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Pro Tips
How to Get Perfect Focus for Northern Lights Photography
Focusing your camera at night is one of the biggest challenges for photographers. It’s hard to see, and your camera’s autofocus relies on light and contrast, so it’s not much…
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Pro Tips
How to Take Aerial Photos of Rain Forests
If you spend any time exploring and photographing within the tropics belt of the world (essentially, anything between the tropic of cancer and tropic of Capricorn) chances are you’re going…
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Pro Tips
My Go-To Settings and Techniques for Landscapes in Namibia
When it comes to landscape photography, Namibia ranks up there with the absolute best places on the planet. Between towering dunes, craggy desert canyons, and salt pans that evoke a…
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Pro Tips
Smartphone Photo Tips for a Polar Bear Adventure
Smartphones have become an indispensable piece of gear and are becoming increasingly more versatile, higher quality, and of course extremely easy to use. When talking about “the best camera in…
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Learn by Example
How to Get this Shot – Perfectly Sharp Monarch Butterfly
Photographing butterflies has been a passion of mine for quite some time and I could probably credit the monarch for getting me into photography in the first place way back…
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Learn by Example
How to get this shot – Tropical Dawn
I love dawn in the tropics. There is something so mysterious, so enigmatic, and so etherial about the expanse of a tropical jungle like the Amazon, Costa Rica, or even…
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Learn by Example
How to get this shot – Whale Tail in Alaska
Photographing whales is just as grand as it sounds. You take a multi-ton marine mammal, mix it with the excitement of breaching, diving and tail slapping, add in a little…