Quote:Join professional nature photographer Bryan Maltais on an exhilarating journey into the world of landscape, macro, wildlife, and astro photography. This all-encompassing book is your ultimate guide, starting with basic exposure settings and progressing to advanced techniques. Discover how to transform a regular lens into an ultra-high magnification macro lens, capture razor-sharp images of birds in flight, create dazzling star trails with long exposures, turn roaring waterfalls into silky masterpieces, merge multiple frames into gigantic panoramas, and much more. Alongside captivating stories from the field, you'll gain essential composition knowledge and powerful editing skills in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. Discover what critical features to look for in digital photography gear to buy once and buy right. Designed to fast-track you from beginner to ace, this guide provides clear, engaging content without the complexity of a physics textbook. With innovative techniques and insights drawn from Bryan's 25+ years of experience shooting and teaching, even seasoned photographers will uncover new ways to capture extraordinary images.

Topics covered
Auroras, Comets, Eclipses, Focus Stacking, HDRs & Blends, Grand Landscapes, Abstract Landscapes, Insects, Lightning, Meteor Showers, The Milky Way, Panoramas, Photoshop & Lightroom Editing, Rainbows, Silky Waterfalls, Starbursts, Star Trails, Video, Wildflowers, Wildlife.

Chapters
1. Gear-What to Know Before Buying
2. Camera Settings
3. Depth of Field and Hyperfocal Distance
4. Managing Light & Exposure
5. Principles of Composition
6. The Shooting Environment
7. Landscape Photography
8. Night Sky Photography
9. The Landscape Beneath the Nocturnal Sky
10. Wildlife Photography
11. Macro Photography
12. Shooting Video with your Camera
13. Protecting Nature in the Age of Social Media
14. Lightroom and Photoshop