Author Description

This book shows you how create stunning photos using a digital camera. We explore 25 of my wildlife photos while learning 25 secrets about how to hold a camera, lighting, background, getting close to a subject, paying attention to color, adjusting for cloud cover, trying different angles, patience with moving subjects, taking multiple photos, including the surrounding environment of animals, focusing, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and more. I take almost 40,000 wildlife photos each spring and summer, and I include some of my best pics to illustrate how I compose my photos. Photos: painted turtle, geese, deer, tree squirrel, cabbage white butterfly, wasp, common bluet damselfly, beetle, blue dasher dragonfly, black swallowtail butterfly, monarch butterfly, red carpenter ant, black swallowtail caterpillars, eastern pondhawk dragonfly, six-spotted neolema, pill bug (roly-poly), long-jawed orbweaver, wolf spider, asparagus beetle, crab spider, orchard orbweaver, spotted cucumber beetle, long-legged fly, damselfly, brown water snake, and more. This book is part of a series I created to show wildlife enthusiasts how to use a digital camera: How to Use a Digital Camera - Composition How to Use a Digital Camera - Lighting How to Use a Digital Camera - Background and Bokeh How to Use a Digital Camera - Depth of Field How to Use a Digital Camera - 20 Simple Guidelines How to Use a Digital Camera - 25 Secrets to Success How to Use a Digital Camera - Macrophotography and Insects