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 closer and slower [...]

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 it will make leaves and foliage appear less shiny. Color saturation is also enhanced. These effects [...]

Depth of Field 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 that this sharply focused area extends from one-third [...]

Finding subjects 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. However, some great [...]

Digital Photography Composition Tip: Look around 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 I was photographing [...]