Luminous Landscape Video Journal – Issue 8

Location: Iceland
• A Photographer’s Saga: follow Michael on a tour of the island – around its coastline and across the volcanic central highlands. The video forms a comprehensive guide for photographers with maps and suggestions for equipment and accommodation.

Technique & Equipment: Camera Mounts, Batteries & Storage

• Michael discusses and demonstrates tripods, heads, base plates and other accessories
• Batteries & Storage: some options for the battery and storage requirements of digital cameras when location shooting away from power sources
• A critique: Photoshop author Thomas Knoll, Bill Caulfeild-Browne & Michael offer some practical criticisms of the Canon EOS 1Ds

Lunar Eclipse in Death Valley
• Michael details the creation of a lunar eclipse photograph. Look over his shoulder as the full moon rises in eclipse over Death Valley

Interview: Norman Koren,
• An in-depth interview with scientist and photographer Norman Koren of normankoren.com

Assignment Competition: A Summer’s Day

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.

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