When it comes to photographing birds in flight, our equipment has to find the right balance between weight, autofocus speed and accuracy, and image quality. While many lenses offer some variation of this, there is one particular family of lenses made by all camera manufacturers that are the perfect combination of all three.

Wildlife photographers face many challenges in the winter that are unique to the season. Above all, however, the impact that cold ambient temperatures have on our camera’s ability to focus is one that if not understood will completely ruin your photography.

While everything about the way our cameras meter light and handle auto-exposure modes like aperture priority and auto-ISO is based on the concept of 18% gray, is it still relevant in wildlife photography today?

More often than not, the first composition we setup with our subject is not the best. Especially when we are working with an animal that is rare or unique, it’s easy to forget the importance of experimentation and especially story telling with our photographs.

Despite all of the marketing hype behind eye detect autofocus, there are just as many times it fails as it succeeds.

In today’s world of increasingly sophisticated autofocus systems, it can be all too easy to fall into the trap of becoming reliant on this technology. There are still many situations in which autofocus fails completely.

The disassociation between art and science is only a modern problem. Throughout history, the divine proportions of geometry have also played a major role in the way we see, interpret, and create.

Creating photographs with black backgrounds, or what is more appropriately called chiaroscuro and tenebrism, is not something that should be faked in Photoshop.

When should you use auto-ISO? The answer is becoming increasingly rare.

Despite what so many wildlife photographers think, using automatic modes like aperture priority usually makes makes getting a proper exposure more difficult.

Step up your wildlife photography game by understanding how to use backlighting and silhouettes in big compositions.