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Hot Summer Tips
This Article Features Photo Zoom Proxy Falls in Oregon is an expansive falls that allows you to key on sections and composite them later for a very high-resolution image. Here, Lepp took four...
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10 Steps To Photographic Fulfillment
Oregon Tulip Fields. Lepp achieved sharp focus over acres of neon-colored tulips by focus stacking. He used software and a technique perfected and shared by his colleague Rik Littlefield of Zerene...
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Triumph Over The Color Cast
This Article Features Photo Zoom A four-capture panorama of the Cascades of Central Oregon photographed by George Lepp from a small airplane. The images were sharp through the Plexiglas® window, but...
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Taking It Slow
This Article Features Photo Zoom George Lepp gave this coastal landscape a misty, dreamy look by using a neutral-density filter to slow the exposure in bright conditions. Montaña de Oro State Park,...
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Lepp On Fall Color
This Article Features Photo Zoom Above and right: Sometimes you have to leave the beaten path to capture a subject that everyone else has already done. How do you make it your own? The iconic Crystal...
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Look! Something Shiny!
This Article Features Photo Zoom Starring The Sparkles Specular highlights, those seemingly random pinpoints of light reflected from shiny surfaces, can be huge distractions in photography. As...
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Talking Technique With Future Pros
This Article Features Photo Zoom Ice Crystals. Using manual changes in focus, nine images and Zerene Stacker software, Lepp rendered a completely sharp image of a translucent bladder seed pod frosted...
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What’s In My Bag
Watching You Watching Me. George Lepp photographed this lion and her cub in Botswana's Okavango Delta; a 500mm lens maintained a respectful distance. Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EF 500mm ƒ/4L, 1⁄2000 sec....
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Stop, Thief!
Polar bear with second-year cubs, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Tech Trending: Photographs That Take Themselves Q Have you noticed lately all those fine photographs floating around out there, seemingly...
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Stacks Of Blooms
A finished, retouched, focus-stacked image of a tulip bed in Butchart Gardens, British Columbia, reveals tack-sharp detail from the closest blossom to the back row. Nine images were captured with a...
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What’s In A Name?
Keeping track of image files is a challenge for every serious photographer. George Lepp's system employs file names containing a unique, descriptive code. As a particularly complicated example, the...
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Extended Vision
Big Lens/Little Bee Eater. These tiny, beautiful and elusive birds are sought after by wildlife photographers in Botswana's Okavango Delta. Because the temperature was unusually cold, this individual...
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In The Eye Of The Beholder
Art Vs. State Of The Art. Lepp offers two floral images—one is scanned film with soft effects and one is tack-sharp from edge to edge, front to back—as fodder for the discussion of nature photography...
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The Spectrum Of B&W
Let It Go! The spring flower displays at The Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, look like the grounds of a "Frozen" ice palace when captured in infrared using an IR-converted...
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Not So Sharp?
George Lepp photographed this cactus patterned with fine needles and tiny flowers with a Canon EF 180mm macro at 1⁄45 sec. at ƒ/11. Nineteen stacked images rendered the subject needle-sharp from front...
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The More Things Change
Nice And Slow. George Lepp's rendition of White Branch Falls in the Oregon Cascades shows milky, flowing water where, in fact, the falls rush, sparkle and spray everywhere. Canon EOS 5D Mark III, EF...
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To Chimp, Or Not To Chimp
This chimp loved George Lepp's camera and clearly enjoyed playing photographer. If the chimp clicked the shutter, who owns the resulting image? The Hand That Rocked The Copyright World Making the...
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Winter’s Sparkles
Ice By Design. The delicate patterns of ice that form along the edges of small waterways are favorite winter subjects. George Lepp photographed these along a creek in Lamar Valley in Yellowstone...
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Work Around The Weather
Butterflies To Scale: At 4X, this image of a small section of a butterfly wing reveals the fascinating contours of its scales and vein structure. For Lepp, butterfly studies are complex studio...
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What’s The Best?
Ice Formations. This Arctic landscape of giant ice boulders is actually a small formation. Lepp achieved extraordinary detail and resolution from a consumer-level camera and lens combination, the...
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The Look Of Spring
A montage of roses created with nine exposures on a single frame; for each capture, the handheld camera was repositioned within the composition. Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 180mm macro, 1⁄180 sec. at ƒ/8,...
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From On High
George Lepp captured this four-image panorama of central Oregon's Mount Washington from a Cessna 172 using a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a Canon EF 24-105mm ƒ/4L lens at 85mm, 1⁄1000 sec., ƒ/13, ISO...
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Pixel Wars And The High-Res DSLR: Pay To Play
Lepp photographed this peregrine falcon (a rehabilitated bird at Central Oregon's High Desert Museum) with the 50.6-megapixel Canon EOS 5DS. Note the high resolution of the cropped image and the...
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Look Sharp!
TOP: 11mm, 126 Degrees, Rectilinear Lens; ABOVE: 15mm, 180 Degrees, Fisheye Lens. I prefer a rectilinear lens, one that's corrected for both the verticals and horizontals in the frame. We get a lot of...
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Keeping The Wild In Wildlife
“Copter View”: The red lechwe, an elusive, swamp-dwelling antelope, is difficult to photograph in its own environment. A gentle approach from the air and long reach (400mm) captured this beautiful...
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Gear To Go
Bristlecone Pine in Snow. This image of one specimen in an ancient grove was captured in a remote area of California’s White Mountains, where Lepp was camping. In field locations such as this,...
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Background Check: Spring Cleanup
Lupine and Goldfields. In these two examples, Lepp used a longer lens (the Canon EF 180mm Macro) to photograph wildflowers at different ƒ-stops. At ƒ/5.6, 1/1000 sec., and ISO 200 (above, left), the...
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Worth The Effort
Balloon Classic. Lepp captured this panorama of a scene from the Colorado Springs Balloon Classic using a handheld Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III with a Canon EF 24-105mm ƒ/4L IS USM lens at 50mm. The...
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Telephoto Technique
Lilac-breasted roller. With birds, you never know when a close-up and personal opportunity will present itself. Lepp was working from a vehicle in Botswana, using a monopod-mounted Canon EOS-1D Mark...
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Light On Wildlife
Eyeshine On A Rufous Hummingbird. Photographed with a long lens and projected flash attached to the camera’s hot-shoe, this hummer shows some serious blue eyeshine, predictable when the light source...
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