Sunrise & Sunset

Around the Corner

I was driving to my friend's home in Stinson Beach, CA, when I took a side road and ended up at these cliffs at sunset...

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Avoiding Camera Damage, Water, Humidity, Dust, Vibrations and Heat

Digital Photo Academy and LivinginHD present a free monthly series of photography webinars on LivinginHD.com. Your host, John Bentham answers many questions live during the webinars. Additional questions, answers and tips are posted here on digitalphotoacademy.com where you can also view the archived webinars.

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Color Temperature and White Balance, Fixes and Enhancements with NIK Software

Digital Photo Academy and LivinginHD present a free monthly series of photography webinars on LivinginHD.com. Your host, John Bentham answers many questions live during the webinars. Additional questions, answers and tips are posted here on digitalphotoacademy.com where you can also view the archived webinars.

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Composing a Silhouette

I rarely shoot sunsets and even more rarely, silhouettes. While covering the California coastal town of Carpinteria for a local magazine, however, I found myself on the beach at sunset.

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Exposing for Sunset

When shooting sunsets it’s often very difficult to get a correct exposure. You’re shooting into a light source thus the camera meter is fooled info stopping down the exposure, rendering the sky/sun correct, saturated and with the correct density but the foreground (water or landscape) is much too dark...

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Flowers - Wilderness, Trekking, Travel Environments

Digital Photo Academy and LivinginHD present a free monthly series of photography webinars on LivinginHD.com. Your host, John Bentham answers many questions live during the webinars. Additional questions, answers and tips are posted here on digitalphotoacademy.com where you can also view the archived webinars.

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It Pays to Have Patience

One of the greatest lessons I have learned from shooting over the years is that it pays to have patience...

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Key Tips for your Capturing a Sunset

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Sunrise Over Morocco

When shooting sunrises there are a few tricks you can employ to ensure better results. Try using a graduated filter, or as in this photo two graduated filters stacked, one Neutral Density (gray) and one blue sky filter...

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Sunset Over Sunrise

I prefer photographing sunsets to sunrises.  I believe that the light in the evening is warmer and has many times more color than in the mornings.  Best results are usually found when it is lightly overcast and some interesting clouds are in the sky...

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Sunset Pananorama

For those over sized sun disks, use a long telephoto lens 300mm or more. Using a tele-converter will work as well, just as long as you can get up to 300mm. For this photograph of the Cathedral, I stitched three photographs together...

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The Sweet Light

As a nature photographer, sunrise and sunset are my primary times to shoot. If you’re a regular reader of my weekly Tips, you know I love the “sweet light” these two times of day provide. The color and quality of sweet light is unrivaled. The warm glow, the sidelighting, and the vibrant and saturated colors they impart can’t be had at any other time of day nor can they be faked in Photoshop...

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