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It's A Small(er) World, After All
This Article Features Photo Zoom Nanjing Lu shopping area, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China I’ve just returned from six weeks of travel on three different continents, and one thing I’ve noticed for...
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My Go-To Gurus
This Article Features Photo Zoom The atrium area in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on the Avenue of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania When it comes to polishing your craft, there’s...
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Scouting Report: Mexico
This Article Features Photo Zoom Whale watching in Laguna San Ignacio, on the Pacific coast of the Baja peninsula in Mexico. Because of its close proximity to heavily populated stretches of California...
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Master Of The Moment
This Article Features Photo Zoom Joe McNally’s new book The Moment It Clicks includes advice on shooting everything from twilight aerials from a helicopter over New York City to a wedding reception in...
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The Fix(er) Is In
This Article Features Photo Zoom Nazarenes from the Brotherhood of El Santo Sepulcro make their way through the Mezquita Cathedral during a Good Friday procession in Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain. It’s...
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In Praise Of Pea Soup
This Article Features Photo Zoom Morning fog slowly burns off in Tuscany, Italy. Any landscape photographer who prays and waits for conditions that lower contrast, decrease saturation, obscure...
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The Tools For Travel
This Article Features Photo Zoom Pirate’s Alley, New Orleans It’s the time of year to leave some gentle hints for friends and family as to what toys a traveling photographer might want to receive...
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Once Is Not Enough
This Article Features Photo Zoom Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia The pitfalls of modern mass tourism are nothing new. Way back in the ’60s, satirists were already...
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Lights, Locomotive, Action!
This Article Features Photo Zoom The New Hope & Ivyland train, New Hope, Pennsylvania One of my favorite things to do in between trips is to find photographic projects that are close to home. If I...
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I’ve Been Downsized
This Article Features Photo Zoom Making do with smaller lenses doesn’t mean giving up quality. The 70-300mm filled the frame for a gorilla close-up. Despite what we read in the headlines, downsizing...
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Scouting Report: Papua New Guinea
This Article Features Photo Zoom Huli warriors, Mt. Hagen Cultural Show, Papua New Guinea. It’s a hot, sunny afternoon on this tropical island in the Pacific, and it appears as though I’m in trouble....
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New Perspective On Iconic Subjects
This Article Features Photo Zoom Shooting The Bean at twilight and getting the Chicago skyline in its reflection makes for a colorful rendition of the icon—the two girls posing in front give it a...
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Along The Amazon
Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, a tributary of the Amazon River, Peru. There he is again! I swung around in the skiff with my D90 mounted with a 70-300mm lens, shooting, zooming and focusing at the...
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Portraits, Wide And Fast
Environmental portraits like this are the bread and butter for any photographer traveling to a unique place. In this kind of low-light situation, modern camera technology and new lenses make it...
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Slovenia
Piran, Slovenia lies at the end of a peninsula along the country’s tiny, 43-kilometer-long Adriatic coastline. When you think about the things that draw photographers to Europe, a few subjects jump...
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Embrace Change
The conductor and engineer of the New Hope & Ivyland Railroad, New Hope, Pa. In 34 years of professional photography, I had only ever spent, oh, about three quarters of an hour shooting in a...
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Reactive Or Proactive?
Only one letter separates the words "take" and "make," but their meanings are worlds apart. A picture-taker is merely reacting to a situation, waiting for a stroke of inspiration to gift him or her...
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Down The HDR Rabbit Hole
Lansallos Church, Cornwall, England, as seen in HDR. Like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, I came late to the tea party. In this case, it's the high dynamic range (HDR) tea party. I was...
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10 Years After: Airport Security Survival Guide
Part of a 2001 project on the U.S.-Canada border for Smithsonian magazine, this photo became a causality of 9/11. Two weeks before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I was in the security line at Newark...
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Set Up For Smooth Motion
This Article Features Photo Zoom Of the great array of gear that I've used over the course of my career, there is no item about which I'm fussier than my tripod. I can get used to the most annoying...
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Smooth Operator
This Article Features Photo Zoom Try using a wide-angle lens and a slider to create dramatic effects and a sense of depth when you're shooting HD video. The look can be stunning. When making the...
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Elevating Your Game
Using a 24-foot-high stand and gear that let him compose from the ground, Bob Krist captured a seldom-seen angle of this scene in Philadelphia. It's the kind of challenge I get more and more...
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Exposure For HDSLR Video
When shooting motion with your DSLR, exposure suddenly becomes a bit more problematic than you may be used to. Looking at the main variables—shutter speed, aperture and ISO—you'll be making fine...
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Think Globally, Shoot Locally
Bob Krist took this photo of the Philadelphia skyline from a city rooftop. He had exclusive access to that roof because of a local contact. Among the many benefits of mass tourism, there are a couple...
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Brace Yourself
The Burmese city of Bagan at sunrise. In motion capture, this kind of scene needs to be kept rock-steady. Back in the days when I only shot stills, I was one cavalier dude when it came to using...
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Rainforest Rhapsody
Hikers on the Arenal Hanging Bridges in the rainforest near Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica. In the tropics, protecting yourself and your gear is essential for getting good photos. For many nature and...
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Dr. Browning’s Birds
This Article Features Photo Zoom For a lot of wildlife photographers, living full time in Africa would be the fulfillment of a dream. And it's no different for Australian surgeon and photographer Dr....
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Oaxaca
The colors of Oaxaca, Mexico, seen here in the Zócalo, or square, are a cornucopia for any traveling photographer. If you wanted to spec out the ideal travel photography destination, you'd specify...
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A Time For Giving
Machu Picchu, Peru. When you’re face to face with an ideal scene like this, having the right gear will ensure that you get the shot. This Article Features Photo Zoom It’s the time of year when the...
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Dodging The Magic Bullet
This Article Features Photo Zoom Famed Polynesian tattooist Roonui poses near his studio in Hauru Point, Moorea, French Polynesia Life Magazinephotographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was fond of recounting....
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