In this article, I will review the VR Drive II panoramic system using the practical examples and experience I gained from using it in various situations. Due to space considerations, I will not cover the panoramic composition and the panoramic viewpoint, also I won't spend time on the actual stitching methods. If there is an interest in these subjects, I can address them in … [Read more...]
Gimbal / Monopod Use With Long Lenses
Long lenses are many things, including heavy, expensive, and hard to hand-hold. A tripod and full gimbal head is likely the way to go, as I've written about here before. But, sometimes a tripod isn't the right tool for a particular situation, and one of those is when shooting from the deck of a ship. Funny thing is, I used both full and side-mount gimbal heads i … [Read more...]
Practical Considerations For Time-Lapse Photography
What are time-lapses? Since the documentary movies “Baraka” (Ron Fricke, 1992) and “Planet Earth“ (BBC, 2006) the magic of the time-lapses caught the attention of many photographers and filmmakers. The viewer perceives differences by time-lapses, which are otherwise hardly discernible because the movements alter very slowly in real time. Good examples are a s … [Read more...]
Astrophotography-Next-Steps
The Next Steps By Michael Reichmann "Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."Plato "If this was easy anyone could do it."M. Reichmann NGC 7000 / The North American Nebula Pentax 645z with 300mm f/5.6 lens @ f/8Vixen SXD2 mount with Starbook 10.Post processing with Nebulosity3 and Lightroom.40 Light frames at 30 seconds … [Read more...]
Scannerless Digital Capture and Processing of Negative Film Photographs
by Mark D Segal & Todd R Shaner Remember the film era? It’s demise began setting-in roughly two decades ago, and about all that’s left is a reduced stable of good scanning hardware and those millions of negatives in countless personal and institutional collections that many people really intend to “do something about” - “one of these days”. The problem is that the truly hig … [Read more...]
