By Michael Reichmann Milky Way #2 Pentax 645z with 35mm lens @ f/4.5 122 seconds at ISO 12,800 One of the most beautiful sights in the night sky is the Milky Way, the band of stars and dust lanes that stretches from horizon to horizon. Our ancestors could always see and wonder at it on any clear night. But with the invention of electric light our skies in cities, towns … [Read more...]
Landscape Aerial Photography Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently been receiving a lot of attention in the press, both good and bad. UAVs (remotely piloted vehicles, drones) have been popular for decades as a hobby, with the primary goal just being the fun of remotely controlling model aircraft, including model airplanes, helicopters and multi-rotor copters. But just in the past couple of … [Read more...]
Post Processing Panoramas
Kevin Raber's articleHaving Fun with Panoramasis a great introduction to the process of creating a large image by combining smaller, overlapping pictures. For that article, he assumed that the result would look just the way you want it, needing only horizontal adjustment and cropping. Sometimes things do work out that nicely, but it isn't common. Most of the time, you need … [Read more...]
its-all-a-blur
By Michael Reichmann Rider #3. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. March, 2014Olympus OM-D E-M1 with Zuiko 50-200mm f/2.8 @ ISO 5001/10 sec @ f/3.5This article is about creating impressionistic images of subjects in motion. But before proceeding, a word of caution. These images were taken at a bull fight in Mexico. I am not a big fan of bull fighting, indeed I find them … [Read more...]
Death Valley Sunset
The image above was shot in Death Valley with a Phase One DF camera with a 28mm lens and IQ180 digital back. This article will explain how to maximize the image potential for sunset images like this. This shot was made during a PODAS workshop. We had just finished an afternoon of shooting in Beatty, NV, and were headed back to the hotel when things began to change … [Read more...]
