Photo Techniques

The Challenge Photographers often use telephoto lenses in the 400 – 800mm focal length range to photograph hummingbirds and other small wildlife. To help get good image size, close camera-to-subject distances of 15 – 25 feet are also often required. This presents some challenges that many photographers are not aware of. The exact point of focus […]

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Rich Wagner on February 4th, 2013

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Greg Heisler’s Advice to Photographers

Rich Wagner on August 16th, 2012

I recently returned from a fantastic three-week trip to Panama, where we photographed critically endangered sea turtles like the Leatherback and Hawksbill as well as lots of other wildlife.  We were there during the rainy season, so overcast skies and daily showers were not uncommon, although showers occurred more frequently at night.  The potential impact […]

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Rich Wagner on May 29th, 2012

Many of us have large legacy slide (or negative) collections that we periodically select slides from and scan. Unfortunately, along with the advances in computer hardware and operating systems has come the obsolescence and discontinued support for manufacturer’s scanning software. For example, the Nikon Scan software that drives the outstanding Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED […]

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Rich Wagner on September 21st, 2010

On our recent trip to the Bocas del Toro Archipelago off the Caribbean coast of Panama, I used a GPS attachment for my Nikon camera bodies to automatically embed GPS location data into the “exif” area of each photo that I took. Well, most photos, because the GPS device sometimes takes a few minutes to […]

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