The Digital Photo Experience

Rick’s New iPad App: Life Lessons We Can Learn From Mother Nature

Life Lessons We Can Learn From Mother Nature is my first iPad app. It’s a combination of an inspirational and motivational work combined with a mini-course on wildlife and nature photography. To order and for more info, click here.
To celebrate the app, Juan Pons (the developer) and I are giving [...]

Wildlife Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas Interview // Podcast

[Editors Note: So many of you have asked for more podcasts than the 2 we normally release each month, so we are trying out a new podcast series, these will be short podcasts, between 20-30 minutes, and the content and format will vary. Take a listen and let us know what you think.]
A few weeks [...]

Wildlife Week: Pre-visualize

[Editors Note: This week we are having a Wildlife Photography Tip every day here on DPE. Rick is also doing a tip a day on People photography over on his personal blog, make sure to check it out.]
You may have noticed that when referring to the process of photographing something I use the verb “make” [...]

Wildlife Week: Respect Wildlife

[Editors Note: This week we are having a Wildlife Photography Tip every day here on DPE. Rick is also doing a tip a day on People photography over on his personal blog, make sure to check it out.]
No image, no matter how good, unique or special it may be, is worth stressing, endangering or otherwise [...]

Wildlife Week: Patience & Persistence

[Editors Note: This week we are having a Wildlife Photography Tip every day here on DPE. Rick is also doing a tip a day on People photography over on his personal blog, make sure to check it out.]
If you want to be successful at wildlife photography you need two things; patience and more patience. Well, [...]

Wildlife Week: Habitat

[Editors Note: This week we are having a Wildlife Photography Tip every day here on DPE. Rick is also doing a tip a day on People photography over on his personal blog, make sure to check it out.]
You may have heard me say over and over again that in order to make the best images [...]

Wildlife Week: Connect

[Editors Note: This week we are having a Wildlife Photography Tip every day here on DPE. Rick is also doing a tip a day on People photography over on his personal blog, make sure to check it out.]
I don’t often hear many people talk about connecting with your subject when shooting wildlife, after all how [...]

Wildlife Week: Capture THE Moment

[Editors Note: This week we are having a Wildlife Photography Tip every day here on DPE. Rick is also doing a tip a day on People photography over on his personal blog, make sure to check it out.]
Nothing adds more interest to a wildlife photo than action. Whether it’s a fox pouncing on a mouse, [...]

Next Week, People & Wildlife tips

Next week Rick and I will be doing something special, every day starting on Sunday and running thru Saturday, Rick will post one tip every day on People Photography over on his personal blog, while I will post a Wildlife Photo tip here on DPE.

I will be writing the tips as the week goes on, [...]

Sharp Shot Must-Know Info

Getting sharp images of moving subjects, of course, begins with getting a sharp in-camera shot.
To accomplish that goal, we can:
• Use good glass;
• Set our cameras to the focus-tracking mode;
• Shoot at f/8;
• Not overexpose the scene (which can blow out highlights);
• Shoot RAW files (so, among other things, colors are not over saturated);
• Shoot [...]