The Digital Photo Experience

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, [...]

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Freezing The Action in Water Sports Photography

With the evolution of digital cameras and RAW file processors, we are now enabled to capture remarkable water sports images. Such outstanding photographs were previously reserved for the pages of national magazines like Sports Illustrated. Now we all have the “secret” tools at our own fingertips! Most of our DSLR cameras today have super-fast shutter [...]

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Wildlife 101: Portraits are Pretty – But Action Shots are Awesome

Here are two of my favorite pictures from one of my Botswana workshops. I very much like the portrait of the lion; the side lighting adds a nice sense of depth and dimension to the image. Remember: light illuminates; shadows define. I also like the way this guy is looking directly at me. The eyes are well [...]

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Rick’s Quick Tips: Set Goals

In photography, as well as in life, it’s important to set goals. Before I got on-site at a Mongolian festival, I set a goal to get the one shot that every professional horse photographer (I am not one of them), wants to get: a shot of a horse with all four hoofs off the ground. So, [...]

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Stopping Action

One of the cool things about digital SLR cameras (and top of the line compact digital cameras) is that you can control the shutter speed to either stop or blur action. When I photograph fast-moving animals, and even slow-moving ones, I often choose to freeze the action because I want a sharp shot. A shutter speed [...]

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