

Outdoor Photography Tips 32 - Slow and Steady - Stacking in the Field
Hiking, while shooting wildlife, is always a constant challenge. I am sometimes stalking, other times sticking myself into the solitude of a photo blind while the rest of the world works around me. For me, I live for this kind of adventure. It can be out in the desert capturing deer mice in an abandoned mine shaft, calling coyotes across the winter landscape of sage, or just working with some wildflowers on a hillside, basking in the late afternoon sun. It is all the same to


Outdoor Photography Tips 31 - Shooting Ghosts - Insects in flight
OK. So I am sipping on my usual chocolate banana milkshake when (LIGHT BULB!!!) I cooked up this great idea. I would like to capture some insects with my macro lens. Not necessarily a new or dramatic idea, so I upped the mark just a bit and added the caveat, they have to be in flight, or just taking off. Ah, that is much better for the challenge. Setting the milkshake down, I immediately sat down and tried to plan a way to shoot an insect in flight, without the expensive high