Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2014 i Outdoor Photographer

I’m not giving away any great secrets here. The Midwest reveals its pockets of beauty reluctantly, and I’ll leave some of the best for you to find on your own. In no particular order: 1 The Mississippi River, Northeastern Iowa. The area is typified by huge bluffs rising dramatically hundreds of feet above the mighty flow. Effigy Mounds National Monument and Pikes Peak State Park are two great spots to visit. 2 Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio. Come to this park in autumn to shoot the many waterfalls, especially after a rain. Blue Hen Falls sits in a grove of maple trees that drop their leaves all over the cascade below. 3 Starved Rock State Park, Illinois. Perhaps the finest park in Illinois, Starved Rock (what a great name) is…

The major airlines frequently have programs for professional photographers to allow them to check all of their photo gear. This allows a professional to bypass the baggage maximums, but there’s still a cost for the excess bags. What constitutes a pro? Check with your airline well in advance of your trip to see if you qualify and confirm the documentation that you’ll need at the airport. If the employee checking you in at the airport says he or she has never heard of such a program, remember that patience, a smile and a printout of the policy from the airline’s website usually works a lot better than indignant shouting.…

A given lens, set at a given focal length and focusing distance, projects a given image on the focal plane (film or image sensor). This image doesn’t change because you put a larger or smaller piece of film, or a larger or smaller image sensor, at the focal plane. A smaller sensor just crops into the full image projected by the lens, reducing the angle of view and increasing the size in the image frame of everything in the scene. This isn’t an increase in actual magnification; the subject’s image at the image plane remains the same. But the tighter cropping makes the subject fill more of the frame while reducing the field of view. This was significant in the early days of digital SLRs because those cameras had APS-C…

There are a number of “do-it-all” zooms for full-frame and 35mm cameras, and a greater number for APS-C cameras, that go from wide-angle (28mm for full-frame, 18mm for APS-C) out to 200mm or even 300mm. Tamron even offers the 16-300mm ƒ/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD for APS-C, which provides full-frame-equivalent focal lengths of 24-450mm. These lenses are great when you want to carry just one lens or avoid lens changes (and the resulting dust on the image sensor assembly) in harsh conditions. But because of their wide range of focal lengths, their designs must contain compromises that result in less optimal performance at the wide setting than prime (single-focal-length) or shorter-range zooms that start at 16mm or 18mm. And, of course, 16mm is as wide as they go, while you…