Nature Photography With A Purpose

The red egret photographed here shows and uncropped photograph with a cropped photograph. I then did some saturation, and used levels to find a right balance, in raws mode I adjusted the
Black levels
Exposure
Saturation
(I will talk more about the curves, layers, etc and printing in the near future. There are so many important things [...]

How to photograph challenging nature shots. This series of short articles shows how to overcome challenging nature photographs. The subject is a rare red egret that was too far away for the 100 - 400mm lens.

Today at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands it was very quite. There were not many birds about. Then I came upon the Red Egret. There is a pair that came up from, it is believed, Baja California a couple of years ago and they have been around since.
The red egret fishes a bit [...]

The apples and the poppies photographs are some of the best examples of ideas I had in my mind of pimages that I wanted to get. One photograph took me about 6 shots the other took me about 1000 shots.
Let’s back up and find out how I had the images in my [...]

I usually start off with a vision in my head of what I would like to get. When I first started photography I never could get the image I saw in my mind onto film or digital format. It was after shooting for a while before I began to get those ideas I had on film (or digital format).

A telephoto lens adds yet another interesting dimension to a photograph (see image). You cannot get as close to an object but you can get a very sharp image and a good blurred background adding interest to the image. Telephoto lenses are a bit more complicated. They have fixed length telephoto, zoom [...]

Continuing on with the last post with a different views I thought I would start off with the different types of lenses that could be used. This post will talk about macro lenses. You can get a fairly inexpensive macro lense and the abilities it offers is incredible. You can get within [...]

How to take nature photographs that really stand out and make people stop and look. You can view some nature photography at NaturePhotographywithaPurpose.com. This will be an ongoing series so check back.

My friend, a brown pelican, is doing good..

Brown Pelican at the Bolsa Chica wetlands in need of some help. I got my friend to the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center….