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— Bryan

Blue-sided Tree Frog in Costa Rica

The Photography Library

Bryan's resources for digital photographers

Treat yourself to some reading from Bryan’s library of resources for beginning and advancing digital photographers. Here you’ll find advice on buying and using cameras, including some of the handouts (PDFs) Bryan provides to students in his digital photography workshops.

Red Fox by Mary Whitcomb

Buyer's Guide to Cameras

Everything you need to know about cameras for botany, birds and other wildlife or nature photography, including 2020 camera reviews.

metering

Photography Fundamentals

Shutter, aperture, ISO, color balance, metering, focusing, flash, exposure compensation and other essentials.

Panasonic Lumix

You and Your Camera

Bryan's concise, one-pager on the buttons, dials, menus and other important features on your digital camera.

Sunrise on Monhegan Island

The Nature of Nature Photography

Another one-pager with general advice for shooting birds, insects, sunsets and other wonderful things outside.

Blue-Gray Tanager by Bryan Pfeiffer, Costa Rica

Mega-Zooms and Birds

Advice on how to photograph birds with your point-and-shoot, mega-zoom camera.

Epargyreus clarus

Mega-Zooms and Insects

Advice on how to photograph insects with your point-and-shoot, mega-zoom camera.

Ruddy Turnstone at Fort Macon, North Carolina

Point-and-Shoot Birds

A sampling of images I captured not with SLR gear, but rather point-and-shoots costing no more than $450 each.

Common Buckeye by Bryan Pfeiffer

Mega-Zoom Gallery

Some crazy shots showing the amazing range, from near to far, of point-and-shoot mega-zoom cameras.