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Tips for Photographing Fall Foliage Featuring Alyce Bender  Fall provides us the opportunity to capture stunning landscapes with bold colors, but only for a short period of time. We have asked Tamron Pro Ambassador Alyce Bender to share some of her top tips for photographing fall foliage. To see more of Alyce Bender's work, visit her website: https://www.abenderphotography.com/ .

Alyce Bender is known for her passion for biodiversity, vulnerable species, and environmental awareness, all documented through her carefully captured images. But though you’ll find many traditional nature and wildlife photos in her portfolio, Alyce also enjoys creating abstract and impressionistic imagery that taps into a different side of her brain.“Instead of simply taking a photo of a crane in flight, for example, I’ll try to create the visual personification of that,” she says. “In other words, I want you to feel that emotion you feel when you see the crane in flight, or two rivers coming together. I want you to puzzle over the image a bit and let your brain create a story to accompany it.”To take the photos for these particular collections, Alyce uses the Tamron 150-600mm VC G2 telephoto zoom. “This lens gives me the reach I need to focus in on areas of detail, texture, and movement, for both my traditional nature and wildlife photos and for my fine-art work,” she says. “Its versatility is a huge draw for me. I’ll often get bored while sitting around waiting for wildlife to show up to photograph. It’s amazing that I don’t even have to switch lenses to switch gears and create my more abstract work.”Alyce tries to keep her fine-art images as simple and minimalist as possible, without using filters or Photoshop to create the movement and blur in her photos. “It’s all done in-camera,” she says. “People already know what a bison, bear, or coastline filled with reeds looks like, so I want to present my subjects in a different way. It makes the viewer pause and think a little more about the image.”CLICK HERE to Read on for Alyce’s explainer on the thought process behind each piece created here with the 150-600mm G2 lens.

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Adapted from the NIKON USA website. Read the original article here. Springtime… Days are warmer, longer and filled with the sights and sounds of nature’s rebirth, from flowers blooming in vibrant colors to the chirps of baby birds and other animals making themselves known. Everyone’s restless from spending winter indoors so it’s a great time to go outside and an even better opportunity to make great photos.Gardens full of tulips, daffodils or wildflowers make for great scenic portraits. And if you don't have your own garden, visit a park or arboretum. (Just don't pick the flowers!)However, if you're taking pictures in your own garden, or somewhere you know its ok to let your little ones pick flowers, give your child a basket to put newly picked flowers into and follow her around as she selects the precious blooms. You can zoom in for tight shots, or fill the frame with the wonderful colorful flowers. Get down low on her level instead of shooting from your height pointing downwards.And a great portrait doesn't always have to have the subject smiling at the camera—or even looking at the camera either. Candid photos, where you capture your subject doing something naturally can be more timeless and express more feeling to the viewer.When taking a portrait of your youngster looking at the camera you can use a shallow depth of field to separate her from the busy background of flowers. To take a portrait using a shallow depth of field, place the camera on aperture priority and select the widest aperture your lens offers. For some lenses, it will be f/1.8 or f/2.8. For other lenses it may be f/3.5 or f/4. Flowers in the background will blur softly, giving more prominence to your subject.

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Whether you're new to photography or perhaps you've been a photographer for a while but have been looking to improve your skills, we've compiled a list of things to take on in the new year!

When the temperature drops, our cars sometimes stop working right, our bodies prefer being wrapped in fuzzy blankets by a warm fire and our cameras spend more time on a shelf, especially if we typically do most of our shooting outdoors during the warm months.