After a long hike, the day before our workshop group camped out along the trail in Patagonia. I arose before sunrise and found a number of areas to shoot the area as dawn slowly revealed itself.
Morning In Patagonia
New Orleans Cemetery
When I travel I like to visit places that define the region. In New Orleans because of high water tables, they don’t bury their dead but use methods like crypts and mausoleums. They are very interesting to photograph. I have visited some of the world’s most famous cemeteries like in Buenos Aires and Punta Arenas. These locations are gorgeous properties and they also use mausoleums for their dead. In any case, this image shows one of the areas of one of the many city cemeteries.
Sunset In Iceland
Iceland is where photographers go when they die. It’s a beautiful landscape and light never stops giving. Sunsets and sunrises are special every day. as a photographer, you don’t get much sleep in Iceland because there is so much to see. This sunset with the moon was made one evening after a hike up a mountain. The whispy clouds, sunset color, and moon make it simply work.
Antarctica 2020
This has been a strange year. It all began with loads of optimism and has turned out to be something totally surreal. The Worldwide Pandemic has changed everything. But, before the Pandemic started I was lucky to get an Antratcia Workshop in and with Art Wolfe and Michael Durr as well as 28 guests. We took this trip onboard The Magellan Explorer, a brand new ship run by Antarctica 21 the charter company I have been using for years. Thie trip was an incredible experience and I wrote an article over on photoPXL.com with four videos and the trip log for the trip. With this blog entry, I have included four photos but the article on PXL has a lot more plus the video will blow you away. You can find the article at Antarctica Workshop Expedition 2020 – February 15-21, 2020.
Please check it out and enjoy the content and think about joining us in November 2021 when we take a 21-day journey to South Georgia Island and Antarctica. This is the ultimate Antarctica Experience.
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Chile Soldiers
While in Punta Arenas I was taking a nap in mid-afternoon when I heard drums and trumpets. I looked out the window looking over the town square and saw soldiers marching through the street. I grabbed my camera and rushed out of the hotel and found there was a changing of the colors ceremony going on. So, I spent an hour shooting the ceremony and this is one of the shots I liked. I used a 100-400mm zoom on my Sony a7riv. I changed and did wide-angle shots and covered this event from multi-angles. It was a good exercise. I just like this image as it was defining without showing faces. What do you think?
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If you are interested in seeing more work by Kevin Raber and purchasing his work for your own, please visit RaberEYES.com
Kevin also runs workshops for photographers all over the world at Rockhopper Workshops
Kevin also has. a major website for all photography enthusiasts with articles, forums, tutorials, community and more at photoPXL.com
Kevin also shares his work daily on Facebook and Instagram
I Love Ice
Ice and more Ice. why do I like ice so much? This little ice formation I gound three years ago while photographing in Svalbard, Norway. We were cruising in our Zodiacs shooting glaciers when we came upon this piece of ice which was most likely from the glacier itself. I used a wide-angle lens and lower the camera close to the water to capture this image. I was supposed to go back to Svalbard this August for a workshop but that has now been canceled due to COVID.
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If you are interested in seeing more work by Kevin Raber and purchasing his work for your own, please visit RaberEYES.com
Kevin also runs workshops for photographers all over the world at Rockhopper Workshops
Kevin also has. a major website for all photography enthusiasts with articles, forums, tutorials, community and more at photoPXL.com
Punta Arenas Boat
Prior to taking a flight to Antarctica I usually have a few days to explore Punta Arenas. There’s a lot to explore in this southern Chile city. Sometimes I’ll take a taxi and hire the driver to take me to various places and wait for me. This was made along the waterfront and there were a number of fishing boats hauled out of the water and on blocks. So, I used a wide-angle lens and had some fun. It’s not an award-winning image but it was fun to shoot. I added the Orton effect to give it a bit of soft focus.
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Kevin also runs workshops for photographers all over the world at Rockhopper Workshops
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Antarctica and a Starry Night
This was photographed on my trip to Antarctica in February before the Pandemic was declared, This one shows starts behind icebergs. Just part of the beauty found in Antarctica
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If you are interested in seeing more work by Kevin Raber and purchasing his work for your own, please visit RaberEYES.com
Kevin also runs workshops for photographers all over the world at Rockhopper Workshops
Kevin also has. a major website for all photography enthusiasts with articles, forums, tutorials, community and more at photoPXL.com
It’s Been So Long – Sorry
It’s been too long since my last post. When the Pandemic was declared and we went into lockdown things changed a lot and this blog lost its priority for me. Then Debra’s dad got sick and died of Covid-19 and then Debra caught COVID and we have a crisis with that. For now, things have settled down and we are into a new normal. I can’t say I l like the new normal. But, Debra and I have decided to stay as much in s=isolation as we can and avoid other people. Somehow I managed not to get infected and thus I am really being careful. After seeing her spend 16 days in bed in what was by the worst sickness she ever had I would like to see f I can pass on that experience. So we only go out to the stores for supplies or do the curbside pick-up from our favorite restaurants.
During the lockdown, I have had a chance to go back through a lot of images. I am cataloging old sessions to make them easier to work with and reprocessing many of my images, Today we start off with an iceberg shot that was part of one of my stories One Iceberg Many Looks story. For this shot, I opened it on my Pad and then sued Snapseen and DidtressedFX+ to radically change the image for a more dynamic image. It’s just one was as photographers we can express ourselves using the many digital tools available.
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If you are interested in seeing more work by Kevin Raber and purchasing his work for your own, please visit RaberEYES.com
Kevin also runs workshops for photographers all over the world at Rockhopper Workshops
Kevin also has. a major website for all photography enthusiasts with articles, forums, tutorials, community and more at photoPXL.com
For The Love Of Penguins
These are two penguin photos I made on my last trip to Antarctica in February 2020. They were photographed with the Sony a7r iv and have a ton of detail. I processed these in Capture One 20 and used shadow recovery to bring out details in the black feathers and needed to highlight recovery in the white area of the penguin. I shot a lot of penguin photos and I always look for something different.
The top image was made from our ship as we passed an iceberg and the penguins were jumping onto an iceberg.
The image below was made onshore and it is a young penguin who is molting and trying to groom itself.
