School’s out, the bags are packed and you are headed out for a delightful summer vacation with friends and family. When you pull out your camera, remember these simple tips to help ensure that no one will be yawning and snoozing through your vacation photos when you return home. 1. The Golden Hours Plan your [...]
Stacey Huston shoots the sun
May 22, 2012 by 3 Comments
In a lead up to what can be described as a humorous and eventful week, outdoor photographer Stacey Huston details the trouble she went to in order to photograph last Sunday’s solar eclipse. It’s a great read and we think you’re going to learn a lot and get ready to shoot the sun — for when the next eclipse rolls around.
Shootin’ the ‘shrooms
April 5, 2012 by 2 Comments
Outdoor photographer and mushroom mama Gretchen Steele gets down and dirty here with tips on how to find, collect and shoot mushrooms. In other words, she enjoys everything about the mushroom hunting process — the walk, the search, the find, the photography and finally, the ultimate reward — the eating!
You can shoot these birds before sunrise
March 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I was gifted this past November by a spiritual place called Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. It contains more than 57,000 acres along the Rio Grande River near Socorro, New Mexico — only about 90 minutes from Albuquerque. I suggest going if you have never been. … I chose to show some of the amazing light I photographed and how to absorb its colors as closely as possible and bring in the blacks around it by something called “silhouetting.”
Learn to read signs in nature to improve your photography skills
March 14, 2012 by 15 Comments
Outdoor photographer Stacey Huston, from Wyoming, gives tips for learning about wildlife around you — especially while you’re outdoors with camera in hand and mind on the task of getting interesting subject matter. Tracks, sounds and scat … all add up to being aware of your surroundings.
Spring into shooting action this turkey season … with your camera
February 28, 2012 by 6 Comments
Gretchen Steele shares tips on how to set up and photograph spring gobblers and other wildlife in this Shoot to Thrill installment.
Freezing a few moments of the NWTF Show
February 14, 2012 by 14 Comments
A Focus in the Wild’s photographer Stacey Huston set her focus on the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Convention & Sport Show. She took her expertise inside and gives us a few tips on how to photograph a busy convention and seminars amid a crush of people. We’re calling this one “Unconventional photographs!”
Buck on ice
January 30, 2012 by 17 Comments
Outdoor photographer Stacey Huston lives dangerously, as she steps onto the ice in an effort to retrieve a pair of antlers and finds an entire buck encased in ice in a Wyoming stream. She uses the opportunity to photograph this fine specimen, and to teach us about stepping on the ice with our own digital cameras — how to use aperture settings to our advantages. Check out her Shoot to Thrill advice, and also, you’ll want to see her photographs.
Lindsay McCrum on ‘Chicks with Guns’ and environmental portraits
January 16, 2012 by 1 Comment
For the portrait of Jessica in Montana, I was shooting with a Mamiya 645 medium format camera with 80 mm lens. As you can see from the photograph, I used a tripod and had a portable flash (Nikon SB800) through an umbrella for a little fill light. Since it was an overcast day, Jessica was [...]
Shoot to Thrill: Calling all photographers — time to join the ‘Border Patrol’
December 28, 2011 by 5 Comments
Almost any photographer will tell you, one of the keys to producing a good photo is a good composition. I could write pages on what makes a good composition, but what happens when you have carefully composed that glorious trophy shot, that beautiful landscape, only to discover when you look at the photo – hey, [...]
