The weather and the non-photographer

PHOTOGRAPHING IN THE RAIN
In some places rain is a part of everyday lives, in other places, such as Los Angeles, it can cause a great panic when it finally rains. In any case, the wet streets, the reflections, the colorful umbrellas, the dramatic skies in the background, the mist and the raindrops can add a naturally unique, romantic, and even a mysterious mood to the picture.
Making pictures in the rain, you'll be very thankful you don't need to carry anything more than your camera. If your actual challenge is keeping your camera gear dry, you might just miss on the real exciting opportunity and find it difficult to just really look around.

FOGGY DAYS
Foggy weather has the tendency to make some people feeling gloomy and depressed. That's ok, since photographing in the fog often results in amazing moody images with an unreal painting-like softness. It might seem a bit tricky at first to overcome the overall flatness of the scene. Also keep in mind that since the fog is likely to reflect light back to the camera it will fool your camera's light meter. Generally, photographing in the fog can be a great opportunity to practice the under expose - over develop method. And definitely there's no need to use filters and such to handle the situation.

SUNSHINE
Mid-day sunshine is often considered to be a harsh light condition which should be avoided. It is about time to abandon this myth along with the old belief it is best shooting with the sun behind us. Shooting into the sun, anytime of day, will prove to be a great (free) effect, will make it possible to photograph silhouettes, and will often result in a high contrast and dramatic shadows.

GUSTY WINDS
Nothing much to say here other than; make sure you hold tight to your camera!

Thanks to nonphotography for "The first no rules street photography site on the net".

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The weather and the outdoor photographer

Since outdoor photography is going along with the natural flow of rain, fog, gusty winds, clouds and sunshine it will make a lot of sense to employ "nature miracles" to our advantage. They always add a special touch to any scene, and the outdoor photographer will always welcome such low-budget special effects.

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Equipment checklist for outdoor photography

Outdoor Photographer is more like 50:50 gear and technique. There's still a lot of equipment, tripod, lens and so forth. Greg Johnston, a SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER, compiled a nice Equipment checklist for outdoor photography
Equipment checklist for outdoor photography

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Equipment checklist for outdoor photography

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Equipment checklist for outdoor photography

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Wildlife photography ethics

Natural history photographer Deb Tappan has hiked in and explored many of our national parklands. Through her photography, she has attempted to "transport" the magnificent topography, life forms, and natural history from wherever she finds them.

Natural history photographers adhere to a certain Code of Ethics. These guidelines are designed to ensure no harm is done to wildlife or their natural habitats. This is accomplished by following the points given here:
Wildlife photography ethics
and by inquiring into and abiding by the rules and regulations of the area (national park, wilderness area, etc.) you are visiting.
Be aware that the ecosystem you visit may be fragile, so tread gently and practice "leave no trace" principles.

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You can change the world with your Images

I'm not alone in being concerned for our environment, there are thousands of you out there wanting to know more. More and more wildlife/nature photographers get involved in preserving our wild heritage.
Moose Peterson dedicates a lot of his time to this issue, and I fully agree with him: "no photograph is worth sacrificing the wellfare of the subject."

This goes for fauna as well as for flora.
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Nature Photography

... nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.

Many Guides and Reference Articles were written about this. The one I especially suggest to read is written by Bob Atkins
A Guide to Nature

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10 Really Good Landscape Photography Tips

Rickey Brown, a very expierienced landscape photographer put up "10 Really good Landscape Photography Tips" here at outdooreyes.com

I especially agree with "A lot of scenic/landscape photos are just plain busy. In an effort to cram every detail in, we lose sight of the main attraction. Emphasize the main point and eliminate the unimportant. Less is more."

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Texture Photography

Concentrating on textures often brings order to the visual chaos inherent in wild places. To heighten your awareness, force yourself to slow down so you can focus on the rhythms within the landscape. It may be the lines in birch bark or the stones on a beach that catch your eye.
This approach will help you to reveal the essence of your surroundings.

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Composition Composition

Some renowned photographs violate all the rules of composition and are still excellent pictures. This doesn't mean that the rules are without value. They are tremendously valuable. They are time-proven, and provide great guidelines for photographers at any level. We use them all the time.

The important question to ask is - "What message do I want my picture to deliver?"
But there is more ... Here's a reminder azuswebworks.com

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Top Ten Digital Photography Tips

Derrick Story, author of Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition, gives his Top Ten Digital Photography Tips at macdevcenter.com/
You've heard this before: Digital cameras do all the work. You just push the button and great pictures magically appear. The better the camera, the better the photos. Isn't that right? Heck no!

The truth is that you can make great photos with a simple consumer point-and-shoot camera, or take lousy shots with the most expensive Nikon. It's not the camera that makes beautiful images; it's the photographer. With a little knowledge and a willingness to make an adjustment here and there, you can squeeze big time photos out of the smallest digicam.

To help you down the road to great image making, here are ten tips that will enable you shoot like a pro (without maxing out your credit card on all that expensive equipment).

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Know how, where you can use your Camera

With all these cameras snapping around us, did you ever think about the laws regarding using them. Where can you shoot? What can you shoot?

A lot of people have ideas — often very clear ones — of what is legal and what isn't, based on anything from common sense to wishful thinking to "I always heard…"

Trouble is, they aren't always right. If you've got a digital camera and like to shoot in public, it pays to know the real deal.

So you better get informed.
Andrew Kanter tells all about it Cyberspeak

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Why shoot RAW

lonestardigital explains it very nicely:
Focus, Content, Exposure, and White Balance: The four essential ingredients of a good picture.
The article is well worth reading it.

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Get Maximum Depth

It is seldom best to focus on infinity - set the far marker for the lens aperture in use against infinity to get maximum depth of field.
For cameras with lens or back movements the plane of focus is not necessarily parallel to the film plane. Check sharpness with a magnifier on the ground glass.
For large prints you may need to close the aperture one stop before exposure.

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Working with wide-angle

Working with a wide-angle you tend to engage more with whatever you are photographing, getting closer to it in every way. Wide-angles are 'hot', involving you more closely with whatever you are photographing. Technically, wide-angles are easier to use, giving you greater depth of field and cutting down the effect of camera shake, but compositionally their wider viewpoint tends to make images more complex.

A very professional source is
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What are wide angle lenses?

Wide-angle lenses are those that give a wider angle of view than standard lenses. To do this they need to have a shorter focal length.

A good point to start buying your lenses is
digital camera lens

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Prime Lenses and Zooms

According to About.com Photographic lenses come in two main types: fixed focal length (prime lenses) and zooms. Zoom lenses let you alter the focal length - and thus the angle of view that the picture takes in - while remaining focussed at the same distance.

So - Zoom or Prime Lens?
Generally affordable zoom lenses have smaller maximum apertures than most fixed focal length lenses.
Prime lenses are generally lighter than zoom lenses, but a zoom lens will possibly replace two or three prime lenses, and be lighter, cheaper and less bulky than three lenses.

Prime lenses usually have less distortion than zoom lenses.

When photographing a rectangular subject, the image almost always will either bulge slightly out in the middle giving a barrel effect, or slightly in, resembling a pincushion. Lenses with 'good drawing' are those that have low distortion. The effects of distortion are usually only noticeable with subjects with straight lines - such as most buildings, seldom with portraits etc.

More details on Lenses tomorrow.

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Lenses: Cost = Quality ?

The answer is "Not Necessarily".
Camera lenses cost from a few pence to tens of thousands of dollars, but all do basically the same job of making an image on the film or sensor. You can even take pictures without a lens using a pinhole camera.

Some high-budget advertising campaigns have been shot this way, using large sheet film, giving results you would never guess came from a pinhole (in some cases the client didn't either.) At least one photographer has won an advertising award with an image literally taken using the bottom from a bottle. If you have the creativity you can work in many different ways. However in general, expensive lenses are likely to produce higher quality results.

Before you start: read more about it - for example at About.com

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Outdoor Lenses - Indoor Lenses

With the wide selection of interchangeable lenses, it's easy to get virtually any field of view. And since the lenses are all made of high quality, multi-element glass, the image quality is superb. Swapping lenses is simply a matter of unscrewing the old lens and screwing in the new lens. Focus is aided by the zoom/focus option on the Capture Host software.
The lenses come in two varieties, indoor and outdoor.
The table you see here http://www.shensol.com/ illustrates the differences in the outdoor lenses.

The indoor lenses contain a large iris which provides high quality indoor imaging, even in dimly lit rooms.
And the outdoor lenses contain a very small iris which provides high quality imaging from bright sunny mornings to dark stormy afternoons (nighttime imaging is possible with bright lighting).

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Results! Black and White and Toned Photos

Let me show you a few more of my Black and White and Toned Photographs.
Bristlecone Pine Trees were one of my favorite targets.

I shot the images during a summer trip to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, 10,000 feet high, in eastern California's, White Mountains. This forest contains the oldest living things on earth.

Sometimes the dead trees have more character, than the live ones. However, most of the time they look half dead, but are very alive. They are so dense, they might grow in girth 1/2" every 100 years. The branches look like flames licking at the sky.

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