Petersen’s PHOTOgraphic Digital Photo Guide, available only on newsstands, is a beautifully designed quarterly with 48 pages of up-to-date tutorials, uninterrupted by advertising from cover to cover.

What makes this publication unique is that each issue is devoted to a single topic, enabling you to make the most of your digital camera and shoot like a pro.

This issue of Petersen’s PHOTOgraphic Digital Photo Guide is devoted to landscape photography. It is very difficult to be a photographer and not want to shoot landscapes. They beckon to us. If you love to capture beauty, landscape photography has it all—fields of flowers, mountain ranges, waterfalls, sand dunes stretching as far as the eye can see, rocky coastlines, glaciers, and more. Photographers want to accurately capture these wonderful scenes, but the first lesson you must learn is that cameras and lenses don’t duplicate what
we see.

How many times have you heard someone say, “The pictures don’t do it justice. You should have been there.” There are several reasons why photographic equipment doesn’t give us a precise replication of a scene. First, our eyes have peripheral vision. A camera doesn’t. We also have binocular vision because we see out of two eyes. That gives us depth perception. A camera only has monocular vision and therefore depth can only be implied.

Volume 3 - Landscape Photography
Landscape Photography Get Close Minute details in nature are captivating. Rock textures, flowers, lichen, seashells, fungi, and leaf patterns make incredible pictures that reveal a world seldom noticed by people. 7.14.08 | Jim Zuckerman
Landscape Photography Black And White While fine black and white landscape photography is quite possible with digital technology, just like with shooting film it takes significant manipulation of the original image to make a good black and white print or digital file. 7.14.08 | Jim Zuckerman
Landscape Photography Silhouettes One of the most effective ways of dramatizing a landscape or a wildlife subject is to capture its silhouette. The combination of a strong form with a beautiful background is unbeatable. 7.14.08 | Jim Zuckerman
Landscape Photography Sunrise/Sunset If you want to immediately improve your landscape work, start shooting at sunrise and sunset. ItÕs that simple. Low angled sunlight is magical. 7.14.08 | Jim Zuckerman
Volume 2 - Mastering Composition
Mastering Composition Unique Perspectives Compelling compositions can come in many forms, and they can also come from unique points of view. 4.14.08 | Jim Zuckerman
Mastering Composition Leading Lines One of the things that makes a photograph successful is that attention is directed to the subject. This can be done with good lighting, muted backgrounds, or graphic design. 4.14.08 | Jim Zuckerman
Mastering Composition Moving Into The Frame One of the traditional compositional guidelines that many artists and photographers adhere to is that a subjectÕs movement should go toward the center of the frame. 4.14.08 | Jim Zuckerman
Mastering Composition Eight Kinds Of Lines The one element that defines the success or failure of a composition is the lines that make up the image. 4.14.08 | Jim Zuckerman
Volume 1 - Exposure Techniques
Exposure Techniques Using Handheld Meters In The Digital Age A typical handheld exposure meter actually provides you with two ways to meter. 12.15.08 | Jack Neubart
Exposure Techniques Exposure Basics II Now we come to how exposure and creative photography go hand in hand. 12.15.08 | George Schaub
Exposure Techniques Exposure Diagnostics One way to help avoid overexposure is to use the Highlight Warning feature in the Playback menu of your camera. 12.15.08 | George Schaub
Exposure Techniques Hands-On Exposure Control When I began as a photographer, my biggest concern with metering was having an image that just “came out.” 12.15.08 | Ibarionex R. Perello
Exposure Techniques Dynamic Range Dynamic range is the ability of the sensor to capture a certain range of light and dark, or brightness values. 12.15.08 | George Schaub