Serious photo editing is now possible on a laptop – lousy iPhone shot of the 16” MacBook Pro editing an image in DxO while managing the catalog in Lightroom (it was also running Word, Safari, Mail and Acrobat at the time.). At the beginning of 2019, there was very serious concern about Apple’s continued commitment to photographers’ needs, and Intel was doing their … [Read more...]
Panoramic Photography: The Psychological Power
Photo: The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain Panoramic photography can create photographs with a psychological quality no other format can. Satisfy the logical side of our brain that we are seeing something realistic but overlay an unrealistic artistic layer and we create a mental dilemma about what exactly are we looking at. A natural field of view, corrected … [Read more...]
Street Photography: Where does the street begin and end? Part 1.
Santiago Chile The history of the pathway, the street, and the scenes they often lead to is a storied one. The trail is not so much a physical thing as an ephemeral one, a place in our collective imagination. Picture if you will, the most populated space in your town or city, it's energy, its culture. Picture the roads leading there, the square or congregating spaces. Where … [Read more...]
Visualization and The Evolution of Conscious Awareness
"No man steps in the same river twice, for its not the same river and he's not the same man". Heraclitus Is there a more familiar and oft quoted phrase in landscape photography than Ansel Adams famous: "previsualization". I always get a chuckle when I see this term as it makes me think of "confusing chaos", somewhat of an obvious redundancy. My guess is that simply … [Read more...]
An iMac Pro in a backpack! Two weeks with the 16” MacBook Pro
What fits in a small backpack, yet edits photos like a desktop workstation? A 16” MacBook Pro. Introduction: An Apple beauty shot of the new MacBook Pro The long-term review MacBook Pro has been here for two weeks now, and I have enough experience with it, both in heavy photographic workloads and in general use (e-mail, Safari and a lot of writing) to form some … [Read more...]
Blue Hour in a Zen Meditation Forest
Blue Hour in a Zen meditation forest with camera in hand at the base of Mt. Fuji, and I was awoken out of my slumber by the din of closing tripods behind me just as the magical blue hour rung its bell and the enchanting party of vibrant colors had begun. Quickly, I halted the gear being put away and illuminated the pathway with my headlamp extending the session for 15 minutes … [Read more...]
Understanding Focus
I often get asked for help on various matters photographic, and noticed a common denominator caused by confusion sewn when people try to teach less acquainted students about DOF – Depth of Field. Everything goes perfectly until the tutor tries to explain that a large aperture is represented by a low F-Stop, and then by closing the aperture that F-Stop number gets larger! At … [Read more...]
2020 Visions – A Year in Focus
Before our summary for the year that was, here's a forecast and declaration for where we are heading. Specific to the camera world, I see a very concentrated and continued shift towards niche markets. The professional or enthusiast photographer who requires a particular workflow will refine their set up to reflect their needs now that a proliferation of options and … [Read more...]
May the light fill your Holidays
The night before Christmas, I went for a walk with my daughter Ocean Rose along the boardwalk by the winter-wind swept beach where we live. This year our neighborhood covered a selection of trees along the beach in lights dubbing it "Light Up The Beach." I snapped this while Ocean stood gazing up at the glimmering display around us. I used my Lumix GH4 with a Metabones MFT … [Read more...]
A sturdy base and some light – part 2 of a series of short reviews.
I’m not sure the huge Robus RC-5570 was ever meant to be set up to its full height inside a small apartment? The hot shoe on that Z6 is very close to seven feet above the ground! The water bottle appears in a number of tripod images for scale – it doesn’t look very big here. 1.) Camera Support equipment (Robus, Oben and Arca-Swiss). Camera support is a longer … [Read more...]
Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey Through America’s National Parks
In trying to review this newly expanded version, It has been hard to know where to begin in covering Qt Luong's multiple award-winning Treasured Lands. This singular work has had many words said about it already. Some of the pre-eminent photographers of our time, many of whom have contributed here at The Luminous Landscape, have praised the work. In pouring over the imagery … [Read more...]
Kristie Muller: Penetrating the Veil of Now
Kristie Muller is an Artist and Photographer previously based in Toronto. She was born in Calgary, and recently relocated to Vancouver, British Colombia. I briefly met Kristie through mutual friends. I was struck by an immediate sense that she was both withdrawn and boiling over with energy and humor. In my estimation, these are equally apt descriptions of her work. This … [Read more...]
Michael Reichmann’s limited edition “A 20 Year Photography Retrospective” book offer
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...]
