Sony is at it again. This time they have announced the NEW 16-35mm G-Master lens. This is a lens myself and a lot of Sony users have been desiring and speculating about for quite some time. The Sony 16-35mm G-Master lens has a usable f/stop of 2.8 throughout its total zoom range. This lens is available for pre-order at B&H Photo and Amazon This article has numerous … [Read more...]
Go Big or Stay Home
This past 2 years, my wife Diana and I decided to make photographic excursions around the U.S. and Europe. We have made some exciting discoveries and done what we consider pretty good work documenting photographically the landscape of the various places we have visited. This year, after a month of time off from our last 1-year adventure, we decided to visit Alaska for a … [Read more...]
Fuji GFX 50S – A Sunday Road Trip
Fuji GFX 50S At least once a month I try to do a Sunday road trip with my wife Debra. She's a passionate photographer like me and we enjoy heading out to a destination and looking for adventure on the way. On Sunday, May 7th 2017 we decided to take the Fuji GFX 50S out for a road test. Fujifilm was kind enough to send me a GFX 50S along with a 63mm, 32-63mm and a 120mm … [Read more...]
American Family – Michael Reichmann Endowment Grant Recipient
Zach Roberts Luminous Endowment Michael Reichmann Grant Recipient An American Family I was born and raised in Strasburg, PA and lived in New York City for many years, working as a bartender. That's where I met my girlfriend, who I moved to Sweden and started a family with. I have now lived in Stockholm since 2013. I applied for the … [Read more...]
Congratulations, You are an Artist!
Photographers are remarkably resistant to the idea that they are artists. Not every photographer, of course, but in a group of photographers you'll usually find that the majority resist the idea. Some might unbend enough to admit to being Fine Art Photographers, which oddly enough doesn't seem to include being an Artist. I've illustrated this piece with a handful of pictures … [Read more...]
The 2017 Zion Fine Art Photography Summit
Introduction Each year for the past 15 years l have offered an event called the Fine Art Photography Summit. This event used to be organized jointly by Uwe Steinmueller and myself. When Uwe passed away in 2014 I continued organizing the Summit with my wife Natalie. The goal of the Summit is to offer an event that covers all the different aspects of fine art photography: … [Read more...]
Art To Find A Way In
The Importance of Knowing that you can enter and once there—stay awhile Museums are not like a Starbucks which is designed for your comfort and encourages a repeat visit for the food and the social aspect one experiences there. My family’s last visit to a museum resulted in our son, four at the time, almost placing his prints on a Van Gogh. There was a restriction on the … [Read more...]
Trading Places – Luminous-Endowment Grant winner
The Luminous Landscape Grant – Victoria Piersig – ON, Canada Grant amount $5,000 WHEAT the bread we eat | ORE the cars we drive | GYPSUM the walls that define the rooms in which we live In 2011 I secured my first passage aboard one of the last Canadian-built lake freighters still operating in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway with the intent to reacquaint Canadians … [Read more...]
My Fuji Journey
I’ve been a Nikon guy since carrying an FE-2 and a bunch of manual focus lenses up to the Mount Everest base camp twenty-five years ago. There have been many Nikons between it and my present D800 that’s part of a package of over twenty lenses and accessories. I like the durability, ergonomics, and image quality of Nikons, even the way they feel in my hand versus other … [Read more...]
The Scanning Process
Abstract This is the second part of a two-part article on bulk scanning slides and negatives using a Nikon Coolscan and VueScan software. The first part described the problems associated with scanning large numbers of analog images, and how these tools, along with the lowered cost of disk space make it possible to digitally archive large numbers of images. In Part 2 I look … [Read more...]
Sony a9 Review – Early Hands On Preview
I wish you could hear the Sony a9 capture 20 frames per second. But you can’t because it doesn’t make any sound at all. There are a lot of things the Sony a9 does that are different than any other cameras. The a9 changes many things about taking photographs, and when you look at the big picture, it defines a whole new realm of possibilities for photographers, no matter what … [Read more...]
Observations on Chroma Optimizer (“CO”) Usage Canon Pro-1000 Printer
Users of this new line of printers have been raising questions about the role and volume of CO (Chroma Optimizer) consumption, having observed that CO cartridges need more frequent replacement than other inks used in this printer, relatively more CO seems to be used for smaller sheets than larger ones and CO is also being used for matte paper, contrary to other information that … [Read more...]
Sleepless Over Sony’s a9 – What Is It Really, and Who Is It For?
Yes, the a9 is sick-fast, arguably sickest-fastest general purpose camera out there. But I actually lost sleep after shooting with it for a full day, wondering “why this camera, why now, and for whom?” The rise of mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras is incontrovertible, part and parcel of the equally incontrovertible fall of DSLRs. You don’t need to take my word for it – … [Read more...]
The Luminous Endowment Grant Winners – April 2017
The Luminous Endowment Grant Winners - April 2017 We are delighted to announce the Winners of the first series of Luminous Endowment Grants for 2017. Once again, the standard of submissions was very high and we received more entries than ever before from many countries around the world. Our deep thanks and respect to all those who submitted Grant applications. Also a very … [Read more...]
The NEW Sony A9 Camera and 100-400mm G-Master Lens – A Game Changer
Updated with links for ordering from B&H and Amazon I was invited to New York at the last minute for a very special event. An event so special that the Sony media department called personally to invite us. Sure enough, Sony surprised everyone today with the new A9 Camera and the 100-400 G-Master lens. One of the things I have been most impressed with regarding Sony over … [Read more...]
