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8 Tips and Tutorials For Winter Photography

December 10, 2013 by Steve Berardi Leave a Comment

Photo by Vic Berardi
Photo by Vic Berardi
With all this super cold and snowy weather we’re getting up here in the northern hemisphere, I thought it’d be good to put together a list of helpful tips and tutorials for winter photography 🙂

So, here are a few posts we’ve written about winter here at PhotoNaturalist, as well as some great articles from other blogs:

#1 – How to get a perfect exposure of a snow-covered landscape

If you try shooting a snowy landscape with autoexposure, then you’ll almost always end up with gray snow in your photos. So, this post gives you a few ways to avoid that common problem. [Read more…] about 8 Tips and Tutorials For Winter Photography

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: cold, gray, landscape, photography, snow, Tips, tutorials, white, winter

Join Our New Weekly Newsletter For More Great Photography Tips!

April 4, 2012 by Steve Berardi 1 Comment

Email NewsletterToday I’m excited to announce the new PhotoNaturalist Weekly Newsletter. This is a free email newsletter that will contain a list of great photography tips, sent out every Thursday night.

Every week, I read a ton of photography blogs, and come across many great tips and tutorials that I share on our Facebook and Twitter pages, so I think this email newsletter will be a great way to send out a summary of the links I share each week. [Read more…] about Join Our New Weekly Newsletter For More Great Photography Tips!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: email, nature, newsletter, photo, photography, photonaturalist, Tips, tutorials, weekly

Top 10 PhotoNaturalist Posts of 2011

December 20, 2011 by Steve Berardi Leave a Comment

Photo by Steve Berardi
With 2011 coming to a close in about a week, I thought it’d be good to check out the top posts of the year. So, here they are:

  1. When NOT to Use Lens Stabilization
  2. The Perfect Tripod For a Hiking Photographer
  3. How to Fix a Washed Out Sky in Photoshop
  4. 5 Essential Tools For Closeup Photography
  5. 9 Tips For Photographing Perched Birds
  6. Keys To Getting Sharp Photos of Birds In Flight
  7. How To Make Your Camera Shoot Faster
  8. How Perspective Affects Your Photos
  9. How to Keep Your Camera Ready For Action
  10. How to Photograph Landscapes With The Moon

I hope you enjoyed all the articles at PhotoNaturalist this year! I’m looking forward to another great year of capturing natural light 🙂 [Read more…] about Top 10 PhotoNaturalist Posts of 2011

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 2011, blog, new, photo, photonaturalist, posts, tip, top, tutorials, year

How to fix blown-out highlights in your wildflower photos (using Photoshop)

March 31, 2009 by Steve Berardi 3 Comments

Photo by Steve Berardi
Photo by Steve Berardi
In our free eBook on wildflower photography, we explained how important it is to get a perfect exposure when photographing wildflowers. Otherwise, you’ll get blown-out highlights.

Well, sometimes there just isn’t a perfect exposure, and no matter what shutter speed you choose, you’ll either get a wildflower that is way too underexposed, or you’ll get tiny overexposed “patches” on your wildflower.

Fortunately, if these “patches” are small enough, there’s an easy way to fix them in Photoshop. Here’s how: [Read more…] about How to fix blown-out highlights in your wildflower photos (using Photoshop)

Filed Under: Photoshop Tutorials, Wildflowers Tagged With: adobe photoshop, blown-out highlights, photoshop, sponge tool, tutorials, wildflower photography, wildflower photos

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