By Steve Guymon
Crop for Impact
Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area near Salt Lake City has ideal winter conditions which often attract hundreds of bald eagles. Every eagle ignored me for several days of freezing temperatures until this eagle made a two minute fly over. While I would have preferred this eagle fly a little [...]

By Steve Guymon
Use a Polarizing Filter
Next to a solid tripod and ballhead, the accessory every landscape photographer must have is a polarizing filter. Using one will darken the sky (thereby making clouds stand out), will remove reflections from water plus will make leaves and foliage appear less shiny. Color saturation is also enhanced. [...]

Depth of Field
By Steve Guymon
Why is it that every detail in a photograph is not acceptably clear and sharp? The area in a photograph, from near to far, which appears to be in sharp focus is called depth of field. The laws of light physics and optics dictate this sharply focused area extends from [...]

Finding subjects
By Steve Guymon
Where do you find wildlife to photograph? In true wilderness, there’s usually a terrible amount of walking to find wild animals. Animals which are hunted become extremely wary of man and his machines so will seldom (read never!) let a photographer get close enough for a good, full frame photograph. [...]

Digital Photography Composition Tip: Look around
By Steve Guymon
I was totally concentrating and focusing on a bull elk with his small harem of cows. They had my total attention and I was getting some “okay” photographs. My wife, free to wander and gaze, noticed this bull elk which was slowly moving towards the group [...]