A 400 Page Large Format Book by the late Michael Reichmann You can order here, just in time for the holidays: https://luminous-landscape.store/ I am pleased to announce our new offer of my father Michael Reichmann’s 20 year retrospective book! About: Published August 1, 2014, this large format, cloth bound, hard-cover book has 400 pages, containing 380 … [Read more...]
A PowerBook Once Again?
A PowerBook/MacBook Pro family portrait (mostly Apple marketing images) – 1991 to 2019 28 years ago this fall, Apple released the first Mac PowerBooks. They weren’t actually the first portable Macs. Outbound Systems and a couple of other companies had made portable computers that required the ROM chips from a Mac in order to run. Apple themselves had previously released … [Read more...]
Travels to Costa Rica: A Photo Adventure
Costa Rica is truly a photographer’s dream come true – whether it’s the beaches, volcanoes, rivers, jungles or the exotic flora & fauna – Costa Rica has it all with some of the friendliest people I've ever met. There are only a handful of destinations around the world where the prospect of animal interaction is central to the visit, and Costa Rica is certainly one of them. … [Read more...]
Sean Tamblyn follow-up: The Final Shuttle Launches
https://luminous-landscape.wistia.com/medias/potwnnwg5u In this follow-up to our piece on Sean Tamblyn's Georgian Bay photography, we take a look at the opportunity Sean had to document the end of NASA's space shuttle program, which first got him interested in remote camera work. Enjoy! Nick Taylor December 2019 … [Read more...]
Photographic Minimalism to the Max! The work of Marcus Cederberg
The nexus where the photographic, the photograph, design, and art meet, might look something like Marcus Cederberg's images. I spent much of my youth traveling to see my grandparents in West Palm Beach, Florida. The art deco, the pastels, and the sun-baked flatness of it all left indelible impressions on me as a child. Perhaps this is what initially attracted me to Marcus's … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Michael Reichmann 2015 The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not Joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.- Unknown Two months ago Irene and I had our second daughter Sol Reichmann. We are feeling grateful for a lot right now, especially chances to sleep. On behalf of Irene and I and The Luminous Landscape team, we wish the whole world-wide … [Read more...]
Batteries, Power and Workflow, Oh My – Part 1 of a series of short reviews of photographic accessories.
A Zendure SuperTank powering and charging a 15” MacBook Pro and an iPhone 6S+ while charging a camera battery. Note: Most of the equipment in this article was supplied for review purposes by manufacturers or distributors. Much of it will receive fuller reviews in the future, or appear in reviews of other equipment. Most photographers enjoy a good photographic gadget, … [Read more...]
Of the Leica SL2
The Leica SL2 A week after I thought there were no more cameras coming for the year (except possibly for an irrelevant Leica SL2), the surprising Leica SL2 arrived. What surprised me isn’t that an SL2 came, but that it isn’t irrelevant. Until it actually arrived, it was broadly assumed that the SL2 would be essentially a Panasonic S1r in a nice metal shell, for about … [Read more...]
Expert West Coast Photographic Printmaker to Liquidate His Entire Inventory of Rare and Prized Color Prints
This is where I did all my dye transfer printing for the last 30 years of that career. An impressive, high-tech, state-of-the-art facility to be sure, doncha think? Ctein is a friend to The Luminous Landscape, and the subject of various interviews and tutorials on the site. He is selling his astounding archive of work. This site and its founder has long supported Ctein's … [Read more...]
How large is your printer? (does the difference between 45 and 60 MP really matter)
A 44” Epson 9570 – it weighs about 250 lbs/115 kg, and it is wider and deeper than an upright piano. If you don’t have access to one of these (or its Canon equivalent), camera resolution has reached what you can use. There have been many breathless articles in the technology press lately about how the Sony A7r IV is the “best camera for this or that purpose”, due … [Read more...]
The Director as Photograph Maker: The Imagery of Scott Cudmore
Dream plan? I don’t know! I don’t really make a lot of plans. - Scott Cudmore I met Scott Cudmore about 10 years ago when he shot a short documentary on me surrounding a record I released (I am also a musician). I was struck then by his flexible and warm demeanor which was the kind of energy that puts actors, musicians (and people) at ease. An essential … [Read more...]
Macs for Photography?
Apple’s brand-new 16” MacBook Pro – it’s probably a great photographic workstation, but is it the only choice? For the more involved photographer (like most of the readership of The Luminous Landscape), the big technology companies are not really keeping pace with what we need. Some of us photograph seriously with phones as a secondary camera, many of us do … [Read more...]
Adobe, Why Have you Forsaken Us?
The future of Lightroom looks distinctly cloudy This week is Adobe’s annual Adobe MAX conference, where they set the direction of their products for the upcoming year – and there’s not much for photographers here, especially for subscription software where we’re paying for the updates whether we want them or not. As disturbing as the lack of updates is that what did get … [Read more...]
Chasing The Light & The Photographer’s Mindset
Photographers have been chasing the light since the 1820s when Nicephore Niepce successfully recorded an image using camera obscura. Before Nicephore Niepce, there were pioneers who contributed since the 1700s, creating a knowledge base from trial and error until Nicephore Niepce perfected the process with a lasting photographic image. My experience chasing the light as a … [Read more...]
SEAN TAMBLYN: GEORGIAN BAY BY KAYAK
https://luminous-landscape.wistia.com/medias/mxr0fjictt The 4th in our series on photographers and the environments in which they work takes us out onto the waters of Georgian Bay in Ontario. I've loved the landscape of 'the Bay' ever since first encountering it during a hiking trip in Killarney provincial park while in college and discovering the same incredible … [Read more...]
