Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2019 i Outdoor Photographer

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Location Less than three hours from Seattle, an alpine landscape beckons. Here, you can discover communities of life adapted to moisture in the west and recurring fire in the east, explore jagged peaks crowned by more than 300 glaciers, listen to cascading waters in forested valleys and witness a landscape sensitive to the Earth’s changing climate in the ecological heart of the Cascade Mountains—North Cascades National Park. The park offers a full range of camping experiences, from a car or RV to a boat or wilderness trek. There are countless backcountry routes and possibilities in this wild land. Intrepid hikers, backpackers and climbers ply the trails of the park throughout the year. However, the more common hiking season stretches from April through October. The driest and most popular time to…

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT FALL COLOR in the U.S., New England probably comes to mind, and though it deserves the notoriety, it’s just one of many regions to witness the resplendent change of seasons. No matter where you live, there’s likely an excellent destination to photograph the rich, warm colors of autumn within a day’s drive. We asked 10 photographers to share the details behind some of their top locations for fall color from coast to coast to inspire you to plan your own trip, whether it’s to an iconic place or a favorite spot near home. Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming I was inspired to shoot this spot after seeing it in the July 1986 feature in Outdoor Photographer about Jackson Hole photographer Fred Joy. I then…

Back in analog days, when I was photographing just about everything with black-and-white infrared film, I never gave a thought to shooting color infrared. The slide film’s palette of pinks, yellows and cyans, typified by the fish-eye cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced, was too far-out for me. Now, decades later, I find myself shooting color infrared because aside from being able to change it to one’s liking in post-production, it just looks different—and better—when captured digitally. Digital infrared is still those crazy wavelengths beyond the red end of visible light—but combine it with the remarkable flexibility of digital capture’s RAW files, and you have a marriage made in photographic heaven. At first, I converted all my digital infrared files to black-and-white. For a few years, I shot with…

Greenland is an autonomous country that’s part of the Kingdom of Denmark and is considered the world’s largest island. To put its massive size into perspective, it’s larger than the state of Alaska and is over 1,600 miles from north to south. Despite the enormous area, only 57,000 people live there. When people think of Greenland, they often visualize huge icebergs, an expansive ice sheet (second only to Antarctica in size) and lots of polar bears. However, in many coastal areas, you’ll find deep fjords, jagged mountains and arctic tundra typical of the far north. This environment is perfect for outdoor enthusiasts looking to break their own trail and photograph in complete solitude. Summer months are an excellent time to visit Greenland due to the mild temperatures and beautiful green…

Fall is arguably the best season for outdoor photography. Temperatures mellow, and changing weather patterns bring a mix of dramatic stormy skies and overcast days with soft, diffused light on the landscape. And, of course, along with these changes come the sublime colors of foliage that make this time of year a favorite for nature photographers. When we think of fall color photography in the U.S., New England is likely the backdrop we picture, but there are opportunities across the country, likely within a few hours’ drive from your home. In this issue, we’re highlighting 10 hotspots for fall color, and some are places you might not expect. Each location has its own unique appeal, and the photographers featured in this article share their experience of the place, with insights…

SONY’S 61-MEGAPIXEL FULL-FRAME A7R IV “R” stands for resolution, and the new Sony a7R IV pushes that spec further than ever before for the Alpha series, with its 61-megapixel back-illuminated sensor. That’s massive resolution for a full-frame camera, but there’s more. For still subjects like architecture or even landscapes in calm weather, the a7R IV offers a Pixel Shift Multi Shooting mode that takes up to 16 full-resolution images—moving the sensor in one- or one-half-pixel increments between exposures—that can then be composited into an incredibly detailed 240-megapixel final image using Sony’s Imaging Edge desktop software. The camera’s EVF also boasts a boost in resolution. The 5.76 million-dot UXGA OLED Tru-finder EVF is Sony’s highest resolution EVF yet, and while this spec is perhaps less tangible than sensor resolution or other…

Personally, I think I have a fairly average size archive of images for someone who, in part, makes their income through photography—just over 300,000 photographs. I’m not certain that number is fairly average, but I do work with clients that have far more than I do, which helps give me that impression. One client I work with has a catalog of over 5 million images. My point is that digital capture allows us to create a quantity of images in unprecedented numbers. And whether you’re a so-called pro photographer or not, whether or not you have 5 million or 5,000 images, pixels today are free, as they say. We aren’t burdened with the cost of photo development, so we’re all taking more photographs. As a result, keeping them organized is…