This image is from Iceland and a beach close to a glacial lagoon. What happens is this large glacier produces icebergs and these icebergs float around in this giant glacial lagoon. eventually they find their way to the ocean. There they float and eventually get thrown up on shore and left there at low tide. It is amazing to walk onto this black sand beach and see these bergs. Hundreds of them on a typical low tide as far as you can see. Each one beautiful. You could spend hours there shooting.
Last spring a group of friends and I went on our annual Mancation. It’s a group of 10 guys all well known photographers and we pick a spot and we shoot for a week. We also drink a lot of wine, pick on each other, tell jokes but more than anything else enjoy a common passion – photography. This shot was taken on last years trip when we visited Olympic National Park in Washington. We explored the whole park and stayed at three different hotels. The weather was absolutely perfect for the whole trip and we were surprised on how much green we saw. This shot was made with the Phase One P65+ at a roadside waterfall. Exposure was about 1/8th of a second. The detail in this image is extraordinary as you would expect from a 60 megapixel camera. One of many waterfalls shot on this trip.
The Australia Outback . . . an amazing place with immense landscapes. This was photographed with a Phase One P65+ set in vertical position and stitched from 5 images. It’s just a nice image to view not to mention amazing place to visit.
I love Chicago and especially the buildings and bridges. Everything there just feels massively solid. I love shooting with the Phase One P65+ and I do a lot of hand held work with it. So, on a visit last year to Chicago I got up early and wandered the streets. This is one of the shots I came back with. I like it because it shows the old rivets and solid steel feel of the bridge and then a modern shiny sky-scraper arising from the right side. Shot with a P65+ and a wide angle lens hand held.
Speaking of architecture, Phase One is going to be holding an Architecture PODAS workshop in Chicago this summer. This will be a unique workshop lead by two of the greatest architecture shooters of today. Each participant will get a Phase One camera and P65+ back to work with. It will be three days of intense interior and exterior shooting as well as classroom time on post production and business. Watch www.phaseone.com/podas for news on this soon. Sign up on the site if you want to receive more information.
Back to the blog after a few days of traveling and having some surgery. I had a bit of basil cell cancer removed from my face and thought it would be a cake walk but by the time I was through, I now have like 30 stitches on my face. I am told the scar won’t be bad. At my age a few scars are good to have.
The photo today was taken in Death Valley. There is an old abandoned Borax mine in Death Valley junction that I had a blast shooting at. This is a shot taken with a Phase One P65 and then played with a bit on the iPad. I like the whole feel.
Speaking of Death Valley, I am leading a workshop there in April. Visit www.phaseone.com/podas for details.
The redwood forest, is one of my favorite places to explore camera. This picture was done a few years ago in Northern California at the Redwood Forest. The best way to shoot this force is a drive down a road, find a spot you like, I walk into the forest. After a little while you will always find a spot that has more ground in the background and the right light. Such as it was with this particular picture. This was photographed with a Phase One p45+ camera. The detail the actual print is truly amazing. Click on the images to see larger and then click again, use the back arrow to return to original.Hope you enjoy.
Down the street from my home is the mid-west’s premier concert hall – The Palladium. It is one beautiful building. This os supposed to be one of the mots advanced state of the art concert halls in the US. I have enjoyed the privileges of doing photography at the center. This image was done with a Phase One P65+ 60megapixel camera and a 45mm lens. It is a pano image comprised of eleven images stitched together in photoshop. After the stitching was done I did work on perspective as well as retouching imperfections of the building which is final stages of construction. With eleven images stitched together with each image being 360 megabytes each you can just imagine how big the image is. Needless to say the quality and detail is spectacular. Click on the image to see a larger view, click on it again to see even larger, use your back key to return to original image.
I had the opportunity to photograph around Iceland on two visits there this year. One area I visited with my guide Daniel Bergman was a Geo-Thermal field. It was a different kind of place. First is smelled like a million hard boiled eggs. Then there were hundreds of holes in the ground with bubbling and boiling water. This water was obviously very hot and you needed extreme care while shooting in the area as not to fall in a hole and get burned. This image was shot looking at one of these areas but what makes it is all the steam coming off similar places in the background. This was shot with the Phase One P65+.
Sometimes when exploring in remote parts of the world you stumble upon some unusual things. This shot was taken in Antarctica and is one of two rusted tanks that we found. Apparently a long time ago at this remote base Americans used these modified tanks as a means to get around. What was really interesting is that the tanks were fitted with rotary aircraft engines. This was show with a P65+ camera and the detail in the image is just amazing. Capture One allowed me to go in and pull details in the shadow area and the bright snow to make an excellent image.
Today’s iamge is a shot I did of a rail car at an old rail yard near Indianapolis. I love peeling paint, rust and such. This is one of those peeling paint shots. It was shot with a P65+ and then worked a bit in Photoshop and on the iPad. Then output for this blog. Just something I was having fun with.