Photo by Steve Berardi In Bob Dylan’s great song, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit,” he proclaims, “There’s no success like failure, and failure’s no success at all.” It’s one of my favorite lines. I don’t always think failure is such a bad thing, because...

This past weekend, on my drive out to the desert, I was looking for radio stations when I stumbled upon one that was playing Christmas songs… already! It’s not even Thanksgiving yet! I had to listen for a few songs though.. they were playing “Jingle...

A few weeks ago, I explained how to use the histogram to get a better exposure. And although the default histogram will give you a general idea of an image’s exposure, there’s actually a special histogram that’ll tell you a lot more: the RGB...

Snowy Plover / Photo by Steve Berardi When you encounter wildlife, it’s pretty easy to get excited, isn’t it? It doesn’t happen often, so when you’re lucky enough, the first thing you’re probably thinking is, “wow, I do not want to scare this thing...

I first discovered John and Barbara Gerlach about a year ago through Nature Photographer Magazine. I remember looking at their photos for the first time and just saying, “wow!” They seem to have mastered every type of nature photography: everything...