Do you feel like you’ve shot everything worth shooting at your favorite national park? Digging deeper may yield fresh results.

Arrive before dawn and stay until dusk to capture a rare and beautiful but subtle type of natural light I call glow light.

On only a few occasions during my 27-year career have I witnessed the extraordinarily colorful light I call gap light.

The best way I've found for PC users to align stars and reduce noise in night skies is RegiStar software.

The iOptron SkyTracker Pro camera mount moves your camera in time with the stars so you can make low-noise images with pin-sharp stars.

Use Photoshop's Stack Mode>Median utility to subtract noise in night images, not merely smooth it away, along with valuable image detail.

Viewing an image as a thumbnail on a white background can help you pick the best density for a print.

The question of authenticity is easy to answer for daytime images. For night images, it's a lot harder.

How can two photographs of the same wall, in the same light, one from 2 feet away, one from 4 feet away, have the same exposure?

Does shooting high-quality panoramas require purchasing specialized panorama hardware? The answer is sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Learn to make great images of high-contrast scenes by combining two frames in Photoshop, one exposed for highlights, one exposed for shadows

Learn the best metering strategy when making two exposures of high-contrast scenes, one for shadows, one for highlights.

Learn how I solved the many technical challenges I faced when creating Star Trails over Old Faithful.

Learn why setting a black and white point can dramatically improve your RAW files.

Here's how I made my photograph showing the phases of a lunar eclipse over Longs Peak.

Does the twilight wedge, Earth's shadow projected on the sky opposite the sun just before sunrise, reveal the curvature of the Earth?