Photographing Bees with Olympus Pro Capture
Olympus Pro Capture is an amazing technology. Pro Capture saves images in memory when you half press the shutter. When an action happens and you press the shutter button fully, it will record those images in memory to your SD…
How to Create Clean, Non Distracting Backgrounds for your Macro Photographs
A clean, non distracting background is one of the most important compositional elements for macro photography. In fact, next to sharp subject, it is probably the most important. A distracting background can have stray objects such as unwanted leaves and…
Don’t Forget the Flowers While out on a Bird Photography Walk
When you are out on a bird photography walk, keep an eye out for flower photo opportunities. Your long telephoto lens could provide some flower photo ops that you wouldn’t be able to get with a standard zoom or macro…
Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts that Will Save you Time Editing your Nature Photographs
Keyboard short cuts can save you a lot of time editing your images in Adobe Photoshop CC. But there are hundreds of keyboard short cuts in Photoshop. There are single keystrokes, keystrokes with the Shift key, Alt key, Control key,…
What Makes a Great Bird Photograph? 10 Things That Will Make Your Images Stand Out
What makes a great bird photograph? What makes some bird photographs stand out from others? In this blog, I’ll discuss 10 things that will help to make your bird images great. I’ve also included tips for each of these elements…
Use Topaz Studio 2 to Add an Artistic Look to your Nature Photographs
Topaz Labs has combined several of their legacy photography processing plugins (Impression, Texture Effects, and Clarity) into one plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom – Topaz Studio 2. Topaz has also added some new, powerful editing filters in Topaz Studio…
How to Easily Add Textures to your Nature Photographs using Photoshop
Adding texture to your nature photographs can make your images more interesting and give them an artistic look. This works well on flowers, macro photographs, even landscapes. I know there are plug-ins you can buy that can add textures to…
How to Use Custom Mode Settings on your Olympus OM-D Camera for Bird Photography
Several Olympus OM-D cameras have Custom Mode Settings on the Mode Dial on top of the camera. This makes it really easy to switch between different settings in your camera due to changing conditions. See the table at the bottom…
Clear Outside – A Terrific Weather App for Nature Photographers
I discovered the Clear Outside Weather App while researching Astrophotography apps, but it turns out that it is a really good weather app for anyone who photographs outdoors. Clear Outside is a cool little app that has a wealth of…
Photo Story: Eastern Kingbird Feeding its Young
One thing I really enjoy about Bird and Wildlife photography is witnessing and photographing the undisturbed behavior of the animals. It’s great to get a beautiful portrait of a bald eagle, but capturing an eagle catching a fishing in its talons…
