Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2019 i Outdoor Photographer

Monochrome Vision Why black-and-white is the best palette for my photography. Tip Of The Week Available on our website—or delivered directly to your inbox—our “Tip of the Week” provides shooting and processing techniques to sharpen your photography skills. Sign up today. On Landscape William Neill’s column on the fine art of landscape photography explores thoughtful approaches to composition and creativity. Assignments Share your best shots in our weekly “Assignments” photo challenges. Submit your images that fit the week’s theme—you may be our next Assignment winner. Connect With Us Get the latest news and be inspired by great photos from the Outdoor Photographer community. Newsletter Subscribe today for updates on the latest features, how-to articles and photography news. http://outdoorphotographer.com/newsletter/…

Location Sparks Lake is located 25 miles west of Bend, Oregon, along the beautiful Cascades Lakes Scenic Byway. Sweeping mountain views, spring wildflowers and volcanic outcroppings make for naturally elegant compositions that beckon to landscape photographers. With a surface elevation of 5,433 feet, 780 acres of surface area and 10 miles of shoreline, Sparks Lake offers endless opportunity for exploration. Trout-filled waters, excellent campsites and stunning natural scenery make Sparks Lake a favorite amongst photographers, paddlers, hikers, campers and fishermen. Weather Winter weather at Sparks Lake is harsh. Nearby Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort receives over 450 inches of snow annually. The Cascade Lakes Highway is closed from late autumn until late spring. Winter access requires an 11-mile round-trip excursion on the snow-covered highway, necessitating cross-country skiing skills, snowshoeing stamina or…

Glasgow-born, London-based David Yarrow’s first major camera-in-hand success was the netting of a now-classic image of the legendary Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup final in Mexico City for The London Times. Assignments to cover the Olympics and other major sporting events soon followed. These early forays into the world of professional photography gave little clue to where he’d end up decades later. The 21st century has seen Yarrow refocus his energies on creating black-and white portraits of the great athletes of the natural world, from lions and tigers to orangutans and polar bears. Fusing art and commerce, he has firmly established himself as one of the bestselling fine art photographers in the world with limited-edition prints selling for over $70,000 apiece. His latest book, David Yarrow Photography: Americas…

High Five, Mom! “I watched as a mother grizzly and two young cubs ran down the beach in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska,” says Andy Lerner. “When one cub took off alone, I expected the others to follow and hoped to get a few shots as they passed. Instead, when they got right in front of me, they turned around to play for a minute. I was lucky to capture this loving moment of the cub reaching up to its mother.” See more of Andy Lerner’s work at andylernerphoto.com.…

Sunrays On Yosemite Valley Morning Fog By Jeff Sullivan “Spring rain and cooling temperatures can create ground fog in Yosemite Valley, so I picked Tunnel View for sunrise on this morning. Dozens of people were present, but when the sun became visible behind clouds without color, everyone left. Seeing a gap in the clouds, I held my workshop participants there. Sure enough, light rays soon burst forth! The dynamic range of the scene was too great for one exposure, so this image was created from five bracketed exposures.” See more of Jeff Sullivan’s work at JeffSullivanPhotography.com. Ghost Trees In Winter By Beth Howell “During a winter visit to Yellowstone National Park, I’d been eyeing these trees for a couple of days but was challenged to find an elegant composition amongst…

At the very moment landscape photographer Marc Koegel steps outside to begin the search for his next photograph, he has already won. For him, success lies not in the trophy of the finished image but rather the process of being out in the world, camera in hand. It’s about the journey as much as the destination. “One local photographer,” Koegel explains, “he was sort of my mentor, and I still look up to him now, he said to me that once he’s taken a picture, he loses interest instantly. And he does that because for him it’s all about the experience, it’s not about the picture. It took me a while to feel the same way, to even understand what he meant. If I go somewhere for a week and…

When organizing my image library, keywording is simply where I begin. Yet there’s so much more to consider. Tagging images so I can find them when I need them is indeed crucial to my library’s organization, but simply finding images isn’t all I need. I mean, I’m looking through my library for a reason, right? My photography isn’t created so it can sit on my hard drive forever. There are things I want to do with my images. Portfolios need to be created for all kinds of applications. I often run slideshows. I gather images to add work to my website. I need to find images I want to post on Instagram or Facebook, to email friends, family and clients; to make prints or to make books, just to name…

When we think of black-and-white photography, the first images that come to mind are the iconic landscapes of photographers like Ansel Adams or the candid, photojournalistic scenes of everyday life captured by Henri Cartier-Bresson. We don’t typically think of wildlife photography in black-and-white; as a genre, its subjects are usually revealed in full color. So for this year’s Black & White issue, we make a departure from convention to showcase the awe-inspiring monochrome wildlife images of acclaimed photographer David Yarrow. His newly published monograph, David Yarrow Photography: Americas – Africa – Antarctica – Arctic – Asia – Europe (Rizzoli, 2019), features 150 recent photographs, with proceeds being donated to the conservation charities Tusk in the U.K. and WildAid in the U.S. A selection of these images illustrates our interview with…

THE NIKON D6 IS COMING SOON Nikon has announced the development of a new flagship DSLR, the D6. Details of the successor to the D5—Nikon’s top-of-the-line professional camera released in 2016—were very limited at the time of this writing, with Nikon merely stating that the camera is in development. Nikon notes that 2019 is the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the D1, so it’s likely that more details on the D6 will be made public by year’s end. Along with the D6, Nikon also announced development of a new F Mount pro telephoto zoom lens, the AF-S NIKKOR 120-300mm f/2.8E FL ED SR VR. Like the D6, details including specs, price and availability weren’t yet disclosed at press time. Contact: Nikon, nikonusa.com. FAST, WIDE PRIME FOR NIKON Z Along…

At its core, photography is the art of recording light. Not color. Just light. With light comes the absence of it, and the beautiful interplay between light and shadow creates the contrast in tonality that’s essential to black-and-white photography. By learning how to see the tonal variances within the scene in front of your lens, you can determine contours and shapes. It’s not the color blue, green or red that defines the ridge of a mountain. It’s the way light falls on its peak to one side while casting a shadow on the other. These details, contours and shapes form because of tones created from the ballet of light and shadow. Before we dive into how black-and-white photography can help you create stronger images, it’s important to point out that…