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Adventure photography is one of my hobbies as a photographer. Taking photo on rainforest and mountain ranges, Adventure photography as far as I know is very abusive and dangerous to your cameras.

Here are some issues and tips you need to know and be aware to minimize damages to your cameras during adventure photography

Sweat – from your head to your arm and trickling into your hand and surely find its way into your camera. Be sure to bring some gloves, this will prevent sweat from running straight to your camera. This will help you protect your hand and fingers from sharp edges.

Tripod – Bring the lightest tripod. Many a times when we didn’t bring ours with us, the moonlit landscape made us scrambling, looking for rocks, boulders, tree stumps and trees to place our long exposures.

Lens and a walkabout lens – Bring two good lenses and one “trek lens” 17-85mm (or wide with fixed aperture like F/2 and a 70-200mm with a fixed aperture (F/4). Forest is frightening nightfall place and you need that fast lens F/2. Trek lens is the lens that you walk with along the trail and your zoom lens that go from 18 to 250 or 28 to 300.

Camera Battery – last 1 day in the forest during your adventure photography. If it’s your first experience on adventure photography you would be shooting anything you haven’t seen before. If your SLR can take AA, bring more. Testing your SLR energy consumption rate is important.

Cold Drains Batteries – If one you are shooting along the mountainous region, expect that your battery deplete its charge 50% in 3 or 4 hours doing nothing. Make shure to keep your battery from cold.

Memory Card at least 4GB – You be shooting and taking pictures something like 4GB – 6GB a day as well bring portable storage device. Separate your blank memory card and its container on your pocket and filled memory card on your bag. Your camera’s LCD says you have 15 shots remaining, obviously replace the card.

Shoot Raw – Shoot raw instead of TIFF or DNG, CRW for Canon cameras, NEF for Nikon cameras and PEF for Pentax camera. Some definitions are lost during the conversion on any other format. RAW saves everything that it saw. RAW is probably the most dominant format for post-processing. It allows you to manage more over the images.

Vest and Cargo Pants – For outdoor photographers. Your vest is great to keep things like your blank memory cards, filters and spares. I recommend the vest with the waterproof pockets and with ventilated mesh. It keeps the camera and bag straps from slipping off your shoulder.

Swiss Knife – Get the one with the longest blade. A 4 inch sharp blade can shave off a young coconut faster than a machete. Make sure you have one on you at all.

Lighter dark at night – As for the lighter, you can use that to start a camp-fire or cook something when you are lost or stranded in the woods/forest during adventure photography.

Compass/Map/GPS – study the forest you are trekking. Remember the landmarks on the terrain in relation to the compass heading. For the GPS, get the type that can read signals indoors. Most hand-held GPS are useless inside the forest and you need to find an open window.

Tent – You need a waterproof and wind resistant tent. Two Man tent is enough to keep you and your things.

Backpack – put everything very important first you need into this bag, 50 litres will do. You could get a bigger backpack like the 70 litres but the bigger the backpack, you probably end up with a broken back or a slipped disc.

Adventure Photography teaches you to be good and condemnatory of your own works in just about all other photography such as potrait, street, architectural, landscape, macro, action/sport etc… you have to work with what is available.

Beside your camera equipments, the most essential factor is your health and fitness. By being physically fit and healthy, you will enjoy your adventure photography that goes with it.

Las Vegas PhotographerJasper Ferrer started his photography at the age of 19, He lives in Las Vegas and anywhere he goes, he brings his camera and start taking event pictures. Visit his blog at Las Vegas Photography for updates. Check out his Las Vegas Commercial Photography featuring food, architecture, advertising and trade-show portraits.

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When I was a newbie I always wonder why a efficiently taken picture can give the impression of being so full of impact. I wanted to take a picture that have colors are bright or a sunset that almost feels humid, a sky that is so lucid and blue or even a portrait shot that look so mild and soft.

The secret behind this professionally taken picture is the smart use of the filters. A lens filter in film photography is attached to the front of a lens. The illumination of light passing to the camera is affected by the filter and these results to different effects in the ending image. The D-SLR cameras still uses physical filters and this allows for better manage of the effects of the filters.

If you are using a DSLR camera, here are few descriptions of some general photography filters that you can apply to generate exciting effects

If you are using a camera with threaded lens, a UV filter will be approximately necessary to keep on your camera all the time. It is a colorless filter and its function is to maintain the ultraviolet light and dropping the atmospheric haze to capture the images clearly.

Polarising filter gives you deep, rich and high contrast colors. The polarizing filter removes out the reflections by preventing light from a specific angle from passing through to the camera’s film. It enhances the image by deepening the colors and it’s also useful in shooting through surface of water and glasses which are reflective.

ND filters or natural density filters reduces the amount of light that passes the camera’s sensor without touching/affecting anything else such as color. This allows you to create special effects such as slow shutter speed.  The ND filter is useful if you want to balance the light approaching from the sky. With ND filter, it reduces the amount of light and slow shutter speed to create effects

Every now and then your films can appear dry on a cloudy day. Your camera may capture an image that can appear overwhelming. Warming filters help to add a little warmth for a more desirable effect. Sometimes strong warming filters can give that additional touch to a bright sunset.

Cooling filters is the opposite of warm filters and are less or frequently used by us photographers.  Cooling filters add saturation and impact to a boring sky. A Blue filter can give you a cool, cloudy morning feeling

The  Soft-Filter are less common filters which is great for portraiture, Intensifying Filter increases the individual color saturation and Infrared Filters increases the special effects of infrared energy to create strange light effects especially on green foliages

Las Vegas PhotographerJasper Ferrer started his photography at the age of 19, He lives in Las Vegas and anywhere he goes, he brings his camera and start taking event pictures. Visit his blog at Las Vegas Photography for updates. Check out his Las Vegas Commercial Photography featuring food, architecture, advertising and trade-show portraits.

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