Sorry, it has been a little while since my last post. I was away for a few weeks running a workshop and then in major catch-up mode. Today’s image was made in Chicago a few weeks ago. I love this classic shot but maybe not the big letters spelling TRUMP on the beautiful building.
I will be posting a lot of rust pictures from Antarctica this is part of a project for a small book I am working on. Hard to believe there is so much rust there. Read about this more under the articles tab.
I had the opportunity this past winter to visit Lofoten, Norway. It’s an amazing place. Almost like a fairy tale. Tall mountains, big skies, and gorgeous coastlines. I won’t lie to you, but it was crowded with photographers. Plus it was hard to photograph there. There aren’t pull offs on the roads and there is no shoulder, just gullies. We saw a lot of people who slid off the road into these gullies.However, if you didn’t mind walking and parking a bit of a hike away you could find locations like the one in the picture above. I did a 35-second exposure for this shot. It blurred the sky and smoothed out the water. While I really loved the location I probably won’t visit there again as the crowds of photographers makes it hard to enjoy.
I love cities for a lot of reasons, especially for all they offer a photographer in subjects that can be photographed. I take walks on the streets early in the morning and shoot people, buildings, light and shadow and even elements like door knobs. I usually work with long lenses. These were taken with a Fuji XT2 and a 100-400 zoom.
I see some cool things and places in my travel. This image reminds me of a secret base in a James Bond movie. It is a water intake facility stuck out on Lake Erie. We took a Buffalo fireboat to get here. It is really a cool place and old. It is the intake for the city’s water supply. I shot this with a wide angle lens. I had lots of fun exploring this structure.
It’s been a few weeks since I posted last. Sorry, I have been a bit underwater with projects and just had no more time in a. day. I have been doing a. good job on catching up and I’m now in a position where I can start this on a more regular basis again. Today’s image was made in Iceland at a classic location. It’s been photographed a million time, but I tried to do something different by making a pano image of the falls and the mountain.
Buenos Aires is a fun city to visit. I sometimes stop and spend a day in the city on my way to Antarctica. It can be a dangerous place too. In the tourist area, there are a lot of street vendors all trying to get your money. Tango dancers are probably the most fun though. There is usually a couple and they do some amazing tango dancing. Then they spot you and if you are a male the girl comes to you and the guy goes towards the male. They show you the steps and how easy it is to tango (not). Then they ask for money. Of course, you pay it over and hopefully, your friends have taken a shot of you doing your dance. This photo is of the girl waiting for her partner to finish so they can find their next customer. As a street photographer travel in a group, watch your back, don’t carry a lot of gear and you’ll find a rich environment for great images.
This past week I was off the grid at an event held by Sony. The evnt was for thepress like myself to preview two new lenses the 12-24 and the 16-35mm. Both are outsanding lenses. I also tried out the 100-400mm. The shots below were made with the 70-200mm and shot on the new a9 camera. I loved the opportunity to shoot a model. I used Capture One and a number of layers to get the look of the final image.
I had the honor this week to spend a day with one of the photographers whose work I admire most, Edward Burtynsky of Toronto. Ed’s work is truly amazing and he allowed Luminous-Landscape to visit his studio and do an extended multi-part video interview with him. His photography is about the landscape that has been changed and touched by man. The discussion and his photography are inspiring. We look forward to sharing this video as soon as we have it edited. It will be released in chapters. I’ll post here when it is available.
This a pano I did a few years ago of the Chicago Skyline from a jetty at the beach where all the Volleyball games are held. The original was printed to be 8 feet long. Shot with a Phase One IQ 180 you can see details like people standing in windows. I did this by determining the proper exposure by doing some trial shots. Then I placed the camera on the tripod for vertical photos. I then shot 10 images. The camera movement was from left to right and had about 30% overlap per frame. When I got back home I loaded these into Capture One and processed and adjusted the images and then made sure each had the same settings. Then I opened them in Photoshop. I had Capture One output full-size tiffs. These were then stitched in Photoshop using Photomerge. I printed the print using 24-inch roll paper so the height is 24 inches and the length was almost 8 feet.