Publisher's Note: On occasion, The Luminous Landscape sees fit to support and promote unique or useful photographic technologies and campaigns by small start-ups and individuals. The terrain of new camera tech, programs, and plug-ins is one that requires much sifting through. Sam's offerings continue to be beneficial products in the field of lighting and the advancing of … [Read more...]
Seitz Roundshot VR Drive II Review
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 … [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 … [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 … [Read more...]
