Author: Kevin Raber

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The Carmel Performing Arts Center

The Perfroming Arts Center, Carmel, IN
The Perfroming Arts Center, Carmel, IN

This has been a fun week of photography.  I have had the chance to use the finest camera in the world as well as photographing in some of the best buildings in Indianapolis.  The image above was shot at the Carmel Performing Arts Center with the NEW Phase One 100MP camera on an ALPA camera with a 23mm lens.  This a rather interesting rig to shoot with.  I tethered the camera to a Mac laptop and individually fine tuned the images as it was taken.  This is an unusual shot as it shows the whole concert hall from the stage floor to the ceiling.  The detail in this image is incredible.

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Doing It The Hard Way

The Scottish Rites Cathedral, Indianapolis, IN
The Scottish Rites Cathedral, Indianapolis, IN

I grew up using view cameras and taking a long time to compose and shoot an image.  For a good part of my career I worked for Phase One a camera and digital back company making the best cameras in the world.  While at Phase One I shot many great photos and was patient doing my images.  It took a while to compose images and shoot with a Phase One system.  After leaving Phase One and joining Luminous-Landscape I have had the chance to shoot with almost every camera made.  I love the freedom the 11 frames per second and how fast I can see a shot and take it.  This past week I was shooting with the new Phase One 100 mega pixel that is on loan to me for a while.  I put the back on my ALPA technical camera system and went to shoot at two venues in Indianapolis.  I did this with friend and fellow photographer Chris Barrett from Chicago a notable interior and architectural photographer.  I had all these plans to shoot a number of different location but it just didn’t happen.  It took time to set up the shot and take it.  Some exposures were more than three minutes.  The image above was made at the Scottish Rites Cathedral in Indianapolis and took two hours to shoot plus some more work in post processing.  The detail in this image is amazing.  Hope you can at least enjoy it at the size above.

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Happy New Year

Chicago
Chicago

I hope you had a safe and happy New Years eve.  I had a nice dinner out then a quiet celebration at home with Debra and my son Scott who is visiting for the holidays.  Today will be a day and as matter of fact the next few days of testing a number of new cameras that have come my way.  I’ll be finishing up a review of the DP Quatrro O, RX100iv, Sony A7s II.  I’m starting reviews on the Leica SL, Sony RX100rII and two top secret cameras.  Never a dull moment.

Today image is an architectural abstract.  This was made in Chicago and done on an iPhone.  I challenged myself on one of my morning walks to shoot only with the iPhone and this is one of the many nice images I captured that morning.

 

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Black & White Waterfalls In Iceland

FB-BLG_DSC2680-1-ckint-bwI worked this image a lot in Photoshop and in color it looks real nice.  But, as I do with many images I decided to try it as a BW image and I liked it.  BW offers a lot and somewhat a nostalgic feel.  I have been going through the image catalog for 2015.  I shot 55,000 images this year.  Not one of my largest numbers but up there.  I so often have no time to work on images and thus get far behind on image editing.  The Holidays has allowed me a little time to catch up and as result I have several weeks worth of images to share on the blog.  Hope you enjoy this image and more to come.

Happy New Year.  This is my last entry for this year.

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Fall Colors – A Walk In The Woods

Fall Colors, Algonquin NP, Canada
Fall Colors, Algonquin NP, Canada

Taking a walk in the woods is always a nice thing to do, but with a camera it turns into an adventure.  This was made while walking through Algonquin NP in Canada.  As a photographer you train yourself to see the world in frames.  You look around at the surrounding environment and try to see things as if they were framed in the viewfinder of a camera.  You look, up, down, left, right and behind you.  And, if you are lucky you see a shot.  This one caught my attention and had all the elements of a defining image of fall.  Color, a fallen birch tree, mushrooms, pine needles and color.  I was dubious of such a strong horizontal of the tree going through the image but in the end I think it worked.

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Raber Foss Iceland

Raber Foss, Iceland
Raber Foss, Iceland

There is a story about this set of small and fast moving waterfalls in Iceland.  My friend and Icelandic guide Daniel Bergmann always drove by these falls which are located right on one of Iceland’s main roads.  Finally I made him stop and I shot my first set of images of these falls.  One each of my many subsequent trips to Iceland it became a tradition to stop here with the workshop groups we were leading.  Eventually he just nicknamed these falls after me as he didn’t know the real name of the falls.  This is a multi shot pano of the falls.

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Another Iceberg On The Beach

Iceberg Beach, Iceland
Iceberg Beach, Iceland

So, you may be wondering why I have been posting so many Iceland images.  The simple reason is I am enjoying the holidays and during some spare time that I normally don’t have I’m revisiting a lot of the trips I did last year and finally re-working the and editing the images.  Iceland was big trip.  Lots of incredible images were taken.  I have a lot from the helicopter which will soon grace these pages.  This one was done on the famous iceberg beach.  The challenge with the iceberg beach is shooting something different from the 1000’s of images that are shown from there.  I don’t claim this is different, just something I liked.  On the last trip I did many at this location using the iPhone so I could get something different. I’ll posts those someday too. This was shot with the Nikon D800e at 1.6 seconds.

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A More Subtle Iceland

Vik Beach, Iceland
Vik Beach, Iceland

Yesterday I posted a dramatic moment in Iceland.  They can be that way sometimes there.  This image is a bit more typical of Iceland.  Made at Vik a black beach, it was done at dusk and the light was gray with a hint or color on the horizon.  The beach is very large and there is a nice surf that rushes up onto the stones of the beach.  By dragging the shutter I was able to get the magical look to the surf and a hint of movement in the clouds.  This is one of those images you need to see as a print.