Outdoor Photography

Outdoor Photography is a magazine and online site that is dedicated specifically to outdoor photography. This site is currently holding a winter contest in which the winner can choose one of three prizes. They can choose from a Canon EOS 40D camera, a Nikon D300 camera or $1,500 cash.

Unfortunately you can no longer submit your photos but anyone visiting the site can look at all of the submitted work that will be judged soon. Many of the images are not all taken in the United States. Although it is not required to name the area in which each photo was taken, many photographers still listed this information. Each photograph does list the name of the photographer who took that specific picture.

Here are a few examples of the amazing pictures entered into this contest.

Taking Pictures of Animals

Taking quality pictures requires you to know about the subject of your photograph. For example, if you want to take a picture of an zebra running away from a lion, you need to adjust the shutter speed and aperture to capture the animals speed and agility.

Conversely, if you want to photograph a sloth, you would approach the situation drastically differently from the zebra and lion photo. Again adjust the shutter speed and the aperture for this slow moving subject.

One very important tip to remember is to be patient, especially when photographing wildlife. Animals rarely pose for pictures so being patient is an essential tool to remember.

Here are some photographs of animals that I truly enjoyed.






















All of the information and images in this posting was provided by photographytips.com. Click here to learn more.

Learning Through Mistakes

I was looking online to find some new photography information and I stumbled upon this website.

I really enjoyed looking through the different examples of what not to do when taking a photograph. Here are a few examples of the photographs shown on the website.



















The image on the top was taken inside of a car at dusk. The image looks okay at first but when looking closer, it becomes clear that the bright light on the bottom part of the frame was created by a reflection on the hood of the car. This is not the kind of quality anyone should be aspiring to create.

The image on the bottom was obviously was taken from inside of a car. A general rule is very few images will turn out good when taking them from inside of a car. There are many limitations and as you can see, there is a lot of unnecessary information inside of the picture plain.

Another Famous Photographer

Charles C. Ebbets is most famous for taking the photographs of the worker on the top of Rockefeller Center while it was in construction in 1932. These images are stunning because they
show the extreme working conditions that these people had to endure. The black and white quality of the photos add as classic look that captures the time the photograph was taken.

Famous Photographer

Mathew Brady is a famous photographer from the civil war. He was significant because he took pictures of fallen soldiers when very few photographers did so at that time. This changed how people looked at war because they could now see the fields covered with the lifeless bodies of loved ones. It brought the destructive act of war into the thoughts and minds of everyone waiting at home. The civil war was the most photographed war but it is also because of Brady that there is very little coverage of war today. It is too difficult for people to see with their own eyes the hundreds of fallen soldiers who gave up their lives for our country.