Outdoor Photography

Photo By John Koskulitz Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Death Valley” by John Koskulitz. Location: California. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is

Photo By Philip Kuntz Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Moody Louise” by Philip Kuntz. Location: Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta. “Looking up Lake Louise’s outlet at the storm building in the distance,” describes Kuntz. See more of Philip Kuntz’s photography at philipkuntzphotography.com. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and

Photo By Carol Grenier Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Yellowstone Wolves” by Carol Grenier. Location: West Yellowstone, Montana. “The Wapiti wolf pack had taken down a bison with a broken leg and unusually, it was in an open area near a road,” explains Grenier. “The morning I saw this scene, wolves were resting in

One of the advantages of full-frame when shooting this scene in the Sierras was the ability to use a tilt/shift lens to control the depth of field. Currently, none of the smaller-sensor systems offers perspective control lenses; lens selection remains a key advantage of full-frame systems.The scene was very high contrast, so I bracketed for

Congratulations to Darlene Gillespie for winning the recent Iconic Locations Assignment with the image, “Tunnel View Storming.” See more of Gillespie’s photography at www.focusedonphotos.com. View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! Winner: “Tunnel View Storming”

In this multi-part Tip of the Week series, I discuss many ways photographers can attain the sharpest images possible. Factors that impact a photo’s sharpness include proper use of a stable tripod, the working aperture, what shutter speed was used in combination with the working aperture, the focal length of the lens, the ISO and