by Trent Sizemore | Aug 9, 2019 | Blog, Gear
Even with recommendations all over the internet, I see questions daily on how to get started with a good wildlife photography setup. If you ask online, you’re likely to get dozens of different answers, which really doesn’t help you narrow down. Below...
by Trent Sizemore | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog, Technique
If you were to ask me what my favorite time of the year to photograph Yellowstone is, my usual answer is early spring for bears and baby animals. Not far behind that would be the fall elk rut, the peak of their annual mating season. Elk are the most abundant large...
by Trent Sizemore | Jul 28, 2019 | Blog
Start with Facebook and Instagram Social media is here to stay, and just having a website for your photography isn’t going to help you if you don’t have a way of getting viewers to it. If you aren’t posting your photos often on social media,...
by Trent Sizemore | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Q&A, Technique
Thanks to everyone who submitted questions via the Facebook group and Instagram! If you asked a question that isn’t answered below, I still have a list of questions to answer in the future. Do you use third party lenses? Sigma and Tamron make great sharp lenses...
by Trent Sizemore | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Reviews
To preface this “review” I have to say I’ve fully switched from the Canon 5D Mark IV as my main wildlife camera (read my previous review here). The EOS R image quality is as good if not better, is half a pound lighter, and has several useful features...
by Trent Sizemore | May 28, 2019 | Blog, Technique
Photography is without a doubt a technically challenging thing to take on. With dozens of buttons and settings in the menu, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the technical stuff and not get familiar with the fundamentals. If I had to simplify...
by Trent Sizemore | Apr 13, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Post Processing, Technique
Like anything, wildlife photography is full of misconceptions. New photographers see rules and guidelines from the experts, and believe they have to follow every last one or they won’t be a good photographer. Here are a few common beliefs that just aren’t...
by Trent Sizemore | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Post Processing, Technique
When you want to get closer to your subject, you have a few different options. Roughly from best to worst those are: getting physically closer, using a longer lens, using a teleconverter, using a crop sensor camera, or cropping in post processing. If none of the more...
by Trent Sizemore | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Technique
A frequently requested topic for the blog has been how to photograph in mixed light (such as sun and shade together). One area will be bright and the other will be dark, so which do you expose for? This great blue heron below is an example of a fully shaded subject...
by Trent Sizemore | Mar 15, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Reviews
Hunt’s Photo & Video let me borrow one of the new Canon EOS R mirrorless cameras while I’m in Florida leading my bird photography workshop, and so far I’ve been very impressed. I really haven’t missed my 5D Mark IV since I got the EOS R. I had...
by Trent Sizemore | Jan 20, 2019 | Blog, Post Processing, Technique
If you regularly edit images on a dark background, in Lightroom or another program, you may be leaving your images too dark (or too bright). See the image below, on a black background, where the image seems to be bright enough. Because you’re referencing against...
by Trent Sizemore | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Technique
Every evening a couple of local foxes make the rounds through the streets just outside our apartment. I’ve seen them during the day a few times, but for the most part they come out around sunset and stay active through sunrise. Photographing wildlife after...
