Congaree National Park

Located in South Carolina, just a half-hour’s drive from the capital city of Columbia, Congaree National Park preserves the largest remaining old-growth bottomland forest in North America. Congaree isn’t exactly a swamp, because most of the time no standing water covers the floor, but the Congaree River floods the area about 10 times per year. This lesser-known and uncrowded park combines the watery...

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Photo Of The Day By Stclair Macaulay

Photo By stclair macaulay Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Bigger Mouth” by stclair macaulay. Location: Prince Edward Island. Canon EOS-1D X. Exposure: 1/5000 sec., f/2.8, ISO 200. 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....

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Photo Of The Day By Douglas Croft

Photo By Douglas Croft Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Lilac-Breasted Roller” by Douglas Croft. Location: Kruger National Park, South Africa. Nikon D7000. Exposure: 1/2000 sec., f/8, ISO 400. “I didn’t go to South Africa to photograph birds, but then I saw a lilac-breasted roller and I was hooked,” recalls Croft. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and...

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Freaky Photo Fallacies

For this Photo Tip of the Week, I want to lighten things up a bit yet still provide information that can up your photo game. The idea came to mind when I heard someone mention a tried but true, often used statement: There are two sides to every story. This got me thinking. Each of you who are reading this is a hard-working photographer and you care about the craft. But what about non-photographers?...

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Photo Of The Day By Tom Elenbaas

Photo By Tom Elenbaas Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Rhododendrons and Redwoods” by Tom Elenbaas. Location: Del Norte Coast Redwoods National Park, California. “This image was captured along the Damnation Creek Trail in Northern California’s Del Norte Redwoods this past May [2019] when the Rhododendrons were in full bloom,” explains Elenbaas. “I was particularly struck by the single bloom nesting...

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Photo Of The Day By Heather Nicole

Photo By Heather Nicole Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Zen” by Heather Nicole. Location: Alaska. “A young coastal brown bear cub enjoys a quiet moment of Zen in a peaceful meadow,” says Nicole. Canon EOS 70D, Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD A011. Exposure: 1/800 sec., f/5.6, ISO 800. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP...

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Photo Of The Day By A. Bender

Photo By A. Bender Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Huddled” by A. Bender. Location: Nagano, Japan. “An older female Japanese macaque, outcast from her troop for unknown reasons, huddles by herself against the freezing temperatures and falling snow.” Nikon D500, Tamron 100-400mm lens. Exposure: 1/640 sec., f/6.3, ISO 2500. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and...

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Photo Of The Day By Gary Sherman

Photo By Gary Sherman Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Einn Hestur” by Gary Sherman. Location: Hofn, Iceland. “A lone Icelandic horse grazes at low tide at the base of Vestrahorn Mountain in Hofn, Iceland,” describes Sherman. Canon EOS 5D Mark III. Exposure: 1/50 sec., f/10, ISO 100. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP...

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Olympus Plans To Sell Its Camera Business

Olympus Corporation announced that it has signed a “memorandum of understanding” to separate its Olympus Imaging Business Unit into a new company—referred to in the press release as simply “NewCo” for the present time—which will be sold to Japan Industrial Partners. The companies expect to have a formal agreement in place by September 30, and to finalize the transaction by the end of this year. What...

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Pick A Color Assignment Winner Beth Baker

Congratulations to Beth Baker for winning the recent Pick A Color Assignment with the image, “Oregon Rainforest.” See more of Baker’s photography at www.bethbakerphotos.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! [See image gallery at www.outdoorphotographer.com] The...

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Photo Of The Day By Jody Partin

Photo By Jody Partin Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Summer Garden” by Jody Partin. Location: Wisconsin. Nikon D810. Exposure: 1/640 sec., f/6.3, ISO 400. 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....

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How To Use HDR For Nature Photography

Photographers have always struggled with photographing high-contrast scenes often found at sunrise or sunset. High dynamic range, or HDR techniques can help you capture those scenes with greater detail and a “natural” look, if you use the technique properly. This image from Glacier National Park was shot with a Singh-Ray GND filter way before HDR came of age. While the GND filter worked well for...

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How To Use HDR For Nature Photography

Photographers have always struggled with photographing high-contrast scenes often found at sunrise or sunset. High dynamic range, or HDR techniques can help you capture those scenes with greater detail and a “natural” look, if you use the technique properly. This image from Glacier National Park was shot with a Singh-Ray GND filter way before HDR came of age. While the GND filter worked well for...

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Photo Of The Day By David Shield

Photo By David Shield Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Remote Monument Valley Sunrise” by David Shield. Location: Monument Valley, Arizona. “After setting up to shoot the classic Monument Valley scene from Hunts Mesa, a colorful sunrise inspired me to quickly change plans and capture this lesser photographed scene instead,” says Shield. Nikon D810, Nikon 24-70mm f2.8. Exposure: 4 sec., f/22, ISO 100. See...

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Photo Of The Day By Theresa Ditson

Photo By Theresa Ditson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Electric Dusk” by Theresa Ditson. Location: Prescott, Arizona. “A stacked long-exposure image of three lightning strikes as an isolated summer monsoon storm moved across my view,” describes Ditson. ‘I was grateful to have witnessed this storm become so powerful but also grateful that it ultimately began to recede!” Photo of the Day is chosen from...

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Photographing Silhouettes, Part 3

In this week’s tip, I take you on a final journey into the land of silhouettes. The main focus of part 1 was to help you see what a silhouette is, learn how to create them and wind up with powerful images. In part 2, I targeted what to look for with regards to light and how to obtain a good exposure to create the silhouetted subject. In this final part of the series, I take you on a voyage that stops...

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Photo Of The Day By Beth Mancuso

Photo By Beth Mancuso Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Glacier National Park Self Portrait” by Beth Mancuso. Location: Montana. “I shot this on our summer road trip to Montana,” recalls Mancuso. “We spent a week at Glacier National Park, and it’s the most beautiful place I have ever visited!” Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP...

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Photo Of The Day By Joshua Moore

Photo By Joshua Moore Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Golden Forest” by Joshua Moore. Location: Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina. “I was out at the Black Balsam area along the Blue Ridge Parkway looking to capture a sunrise,” explains Moore. “As I watched the fog approach me, an opening in the clouds illuminated the fog behind a row of trees casting a beautiful golden glow at sunrise. The trees behind...

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Photo Of The Day By Gene Putney

Photo By Gene Putney Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Hungry” by Gene Putney. Location: North Park, Colorado. “One of my favorite annual photo excursions in late summer is photographing moose in Northern Colorado,” says Putney. “In August, I went for two days and had a variety of good photo opportunities. One of my favorite images I captured is this moose calf that was enjoying itself as it ate in a...

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Sigma Introduces 100-400mm And Teleconverters For Full-Frame Mirrorless

Sigma today introduced the fifth “DG DN” lens in its growing lineup for full-frame mirrorless cameras, the Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS. It’s available in both L-Mount (developed jointly by Sigma, Leica and Panasonic), and Sony E-Mount. Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS The third zoom in Sigma’s DG DN series for full-frame mirrorless, it joins the 14-24mm F2.8 DG DN Art and 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN Art....

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Isolation Assignment Winner Gerry Groeber

Congratulations to Gerry Groeber for winning the recent Isolation Assignment with the image, “Ghost Tree.” See more of Groeber’s photography at www.gerrygroeber.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! [See image gallery at www.outdoorphotographer.com] The post...

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Photo Of The Day By Lori Hibbett

Photo By Lori Hibbett Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Death Valley Shadows” by Lori Hibbett. Location: Death Valley National Park, California. “I love this shot of the kids hiking up a sand dune,” says Hibbett. “Can you tell?! I spend a lot of time in Death Valley.” Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments...

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Photo Of The Day By Linn Smith

Photo By Linn Smith Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Furtive Search” by Linn Smith. Location: Oviedo, Florida. “A breeding white Ibis is seen furtively scurrying across the shoreline of Lake Jessup located in Central Florida in a continuing effort to find food,” says Smith. Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 100-400mm f /4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens. Exposure: 1/5000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1600. Photo of the Day is...

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Photo Of The Day By Jon Reynolds

Photo By Jon Reynolds Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Painted Storm” by Jon Reynolds. Location: Badlands National Park, South Dakota. “It’s amazing to see a late-summer storm approach in the Badlands,” says Reynolds. “The distance can be quite deceptive because even though it appeared quite a ways off, the storm was on top of me in just a few minutes. This was taken in the Painted Hills section of...

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Photographing Silhouettes, Part 2

Silhouetted images that pop off the page are graphic in quality, have instantly recognizable subjects and are bold and dominant. Think about the outline of the Grand Teton Range at sunset. The shapes of their peaks are one of the most identifiable ranges in the United States. However, silhouettes don’t have to have bold qualities that show the dominance and stature of a mountain range. A mature weeping...

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