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.

Travel photography calls upon every photographic skill you have. Since you will encounter every conceivable type of subject—people, landscapes, macro, wildlife, architecture, festivals—you will be challenged on many levels. You can certainly narrow your shooting to a specific type of subject matter, and many photographers do. For example, you could go to Costa Rica and only concentrate on hummingbirds. However, you would miss the butterflies, volcanic mountains, poison dart frogs, macaws, tropical flowers, the churches, and the culture.

For me, travel photography demands that you push yourself out of your comfort zone to try your hand at the types of photography you may have avoided up to now. If you only like to shoot nature, perhaps it’s time to start capturing portraits of children or city skylines at twilight. If you feel comfortable in shooting graphic design, such as windows, doors, colorful laundry, and architectural details, it would be great to challenge yourself and try your hand at wildlife photography. Who knows …you may be pleasantly surprised (and even amazed) that you are good at it. If you love capturing beauty, as I do, know that it comes in many forms. As you read this issue, keep that in mind. My entire orientation to travel photography is that my mission is to capture as many beautiful subjects as I can. That includes pretty much everything—faces, landscapes, dance, color, religious monuments, butterflies, sunsets, and anything else that appeals to me.

Volume 7 - Travel Photography
Travel Photography Wildlife Photography If your primary goal on a trip is to photograph animals, say on a safari or "eco-tour," this changes your approach to photography quite a bit. You have to think about many things that don't apply to other types of travel work. 6.6.10 | Jim Zuckerman
Travel Photography Dealing With Inclement Weather It is disappointing when you travel somewhere hoping for beautiful weather, and instead of sunrise and sunset lighting, beautiful cloud formations, and comfortable temperatures, you face a rainstorm, a dull sky, or even a blizzard. 6.6.10 | Jim Zuckerman
Travel Photography Gaining Access There are many situations that you will encounter in your travels domestically as well as internationally where picture taking is prohibited. It's a constant problem. One of the things I've learned over many years is that permission can often be granted to allow you to take the pictures you want. 6.6.10 | Jim Zuckerman
Travel Photography Posing People Shots On The Road I learned a long time ago that I couldn't rely on serendipity to get great shots of people when traveling. Once in a while I'd get lucky, but most of the time the background wasn't perfect, the lighting wasn't quite right, or the person wasn't wearing clothes that told a story about the culture. 6.6.10 | Jim Zuckerman
Volume 6 - Color & Design
Color & Design Colors Of Night If you have not been photographing at twilight or night up to now, you have an exciting adventure ahead. Because cameras have the ability to accumulate light over time, nighttime photographs can seem brighter than they do to our eyes. 3.6.10 | Jim Zuckerman
Color & Design Mood As much as I love to capture subjects with saturated color because of the powerful visual impact they offer, I also seek out the opposite end of the spectrum. Subtle and desaturated colors create impact in a very different way. 3.6.10 | Jim Zuckerman
Color & Design Color And Temperature Color and temperature don’t seem to have a direct relationship with each other, but light sources are often defined in terms of their color temperature, which is allied with setting the white balance in digital photography. 3.6.10 | Jim Zuckerman
Volume 5 - Choosing & Using Lenses
Choosing & Using Lenses Buying A Lens After you buy a good camera that allows you to change lenses, it will become obvious to you that it is not the camera that enables you to be creative in photography. It is the lenses. 1.12.10 | Jim Zuckerman
Choosing & Using Lenses Telephoto Lenses Photographers love telephoto lenses. We can't always get close to the subjects we want to shoot, and a telephoto lens allows us to fill a significant part of the frame with them. 1.12.10 | Jim Zuckerman
Volume 4 - People Photography
People Photography Photographing Children Photographing children is a joy because of their innocence, the honesty in their faces, and their beauty. 10.14.09 | Jim Zuckerman
People Photography Photographing Families Taking pictures of a family and doing it well is challenging. There are many things you have to think about to please both you and the people you are shooting. 10.14.09 | Jim Zuckerman
People Photography Window Light When I refer to window light, I am talking about the soft lighting that comes in through a window when it faces north or when the sky is overcast. 10.14.09 | Jim Zuckerman
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. 7.14.09 | 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. 7.14.09 | 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. 7.14.09 | 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. 4.14.09 | 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. 4.14.09 | Jim Zuckerman
Mastering Composition Moving Into The Frame One of the traditional compositional guidelines that many artists and photographers adhere to is that a subject's movement should go toward the center of the frame. 4.14.09 | 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