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Technique Tuesday: Shooting the Aurora Borealis
Recently my staff received the following question in regards to the above image:
"Was this photo a single shot, an HDR blended, or some other technique?"
Short Respond:
this is from the good ol' days when you shot a slide (single exposure in this case) and waited a few months to see if anything turned out…
Medium answer:
All the details – Catechism EOS-1N, Canon EF 17-35mm lens, f/2.8 at 30 seconds, Fujichrome Provia 400 film, Gitzo G1325 tripod.
Loooong Answer:
The aurora borealis, or the "northern lights" as they are frequently called is an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs equally electrically charged particles from the sun make gases glow in the upper atmosphere. Despite the dryness of this scientific explanation, information technology is difficult to view the aurora borealis without experiencing a sense of wonderment and mysticism. It remains one of the most dazzling sights in the natural world.
To go this image, I flew to Fairbanks, Alaska, then drove eight hours north to the Brooks Range on the famous pipeline road to Prudhoe Bay. The Brooks Range lies within the Chill Circle and thus provides a more predictable run a risk to run into the aurora borealis. I timed my journeying to coincide with a half moon considering the snowfall-clad range would be properly illuminated past the half moon'due south low-cal. A full moon might actually have been too bright during the required 30-second exposure. I discovered that despite the fact that the aurora is in continuous motion, a 30-2d exposure is unremarkably fast enough to yield proper exposure and reasonably abrupt lines within the displays. When I photographed this display, I was unhappy with its colour, which appeared to exist a dull, pale green. When I returned domicile and developed the film, I was delightfully surprised to discover that the picture picked upwards the reds.
This photo is featured in the book "Edge of the Globe, Corner of the Sky" too as existence available as a fine are print.
Are there whatsoever photos in my drove y'all'd like to hear the story behind? Drop a comment below – your proffer could spark an thought for a future weblog post!
#MondayMemories – Serendipity in Goa, India.
In this particular case, the facts behind the shot are nothing special. Workers had been putting gravel onto the parking lot of a restaurant in Panjim, Goa, which kicked a lot of dust into the air. Pedestrians were simply going near their business. However, when backlit by a late sun, the scene became street art–performance art. The activity of putting gravel down created an amazing atmosphere for a nicely layered paradigm.
Standing back from the scene, I used a 70–200mm zoom, which enabled me to shoot a series of shots without interfering with the people and so that they would not pay attention to my presence. I positioned myself looking directly into the late afternoon calorie-free so that the dust kicked into the air would be filled with low-cal. I was non so much concerned almost capturing details and faces of the people, as much as I was with the positions of the bodies within the frame. I kept shooting and reframing the shot as the scene inverse every couple of seconds when the workers threw on the next load of gravel and different people came through the scene. I honey the layering effect of the calorie-free and grit that comes from the backlight.
Photo tip: Dust, rain, humidity, fog, haze all add dimension to a scene when shot with backlight, calorie-free behind the conditions. It creates temper and interesting changes in tonality and light, as well as creating layers in depth. Exist conscientious that brilliant atmospheric conditions do non cause your photographic camera to underexpose the scene.
Photographic camera & settings used: Canon EOS-1Ds, EF 70–200mm F2.eight lens, f/7.1 for ane/160 sec., ISO 100
Excerpt from Photographs from the Border.
#TequilaThursday – Easy Instagram Quick-Start Guide!
My life volition ever exist virtually travel and explorations. When restrictions are relaxed – and both myself and my staff have done our due diligence to assess chance factors to ensure we travel safely – y'all tin can bet I volition be back out at that place in the field leading workshops in the safest manner possible.
That brings us to the question: "What becomes of Tequila Time with Art when Art is travelling once again and not always home?"
The answer? I don't intend to stop doing Tequila Fourth dimension, and in fact, fourth dimension zones and connections permitting, I'm truly fascinated virtually the possibilities of sharing what I can while I'm on the route.
I need your assist though if you're tuning into Tequila Fourth dimension via Facebook rather than Instagram!
The fact of the thing is that going live on Instagram is a much more convenient tool for the format we use on Tequila Fourth dimension. When I'grand traveling again, I just can't add more than equipment to my pack or steps to my setup to back up multiple platforms. I am aware at that place is both hardware and software that exists to make this easier, but I don't need one more process to deal with on my travels. To that end, we've created a quick and elementary guide to getting started on Instagram for anybody willing to brand the transition!
Bask the guide and drop your Instagram handle in the comments and then we can trade follows! Nosotros volition follow this post upwardly with one focused on publishing your own content side by side week. For now, lets merely get yous started!
Stride i: Creating Your Instagram Business relationship
The proficient news is that if y'all are already on Facebook, joining Instagram is easy as they are owned by the same company – you lot can use your Facebook login data to sign upward for Instagram. Offset yous'll need to cull which platform or platforms y'all'll need Instagram on. The most popular method is through a smartphone app, and here you volition also do the majority of your uploading of images.
iOS/iPhone App download
Android App download
You can also create an account through any web browser past going to www.instagram.com.
TIP:
When yous create an account, be sure to create a username that is unique, memorable, and like shooting fish in a barrel to blazon for others so you lot're easy to find!
Step 2: I'm in, Now What?!
If your just goal is to view Tequila Time then the only thing to do is detect me, follow me, and wait for Thursday's at 5:30 PST!
What you lot should be seeing on your smart phone should look somewhat like the left side of the prototype blow – it might differ slightly from the Android app or the web browser version, and since you may non be post-obit anyone just yet your feed is probable not populated. The color coding on the correct will help us break the interface into iv sections explained beneath.
Let's first from the lesser and work our manner upward:
Main Menu Navigation:
The yellow section is your navigational bar that volition take yous to the various parts of instagram. The house icon is your dwelling screen, and it encompasses what you lot see in both the cyan and greenish areas above. The magnifying glass is where you lot would go to search for members, posts or other content. The foursquare with the + in the center of the card is where you do your ain personal uploading and posting of photos with comment. The center is where you can see your interactions with other members whether that be someone'south like on your photos, a comment, or more. Finally, the round icon on the right represents your personal Instagram feed, and you tin go hither to see what your personal page looks similar to others whom visit you lot.
Your News Feed:
The blue area is your feed, much similar your news feed in Facebook. Over again, it'south accessed via the firm Icon on the lower bar. When those you follow postal service new photos, they volition announced in your feed. Here y'all tin see my adept friend Daniel Dietrich has posted an owl that is apparently also an exercise enthusiast. Under the photograph you tin use the heart icon to apace "like" Daniel's photo, or hit the text blurb to leave a comment. The newspaper airplane would allow y'all to share Daniel's postal service either to your story or to other people directly. Finally on the right yous can bookmark the image to visit subsequently. this feed can slide upward to reveal more posts.
Activity Feed:
The green section is where you can see recent activity from people you follow who are most agile. This is an of import section – when I go alive, you'll meet my icon in this list with the "live" tag on it. This is where you'll want to go on Thursday's at five:thirty to join me! This section slides horizontally to reveal more folks you follow.
Championship Bar:
Finally at the meridian of the page is the red section. On the left is a camera icon, and yous can go here to take photos and videos with diverse filters, merely most importantly this is where you lot would also first your own alive broadcast if yous wanted to! Once more yous have the paper plane icon on the correct where y'all tin share the page to others.
With this info you should at least be able to create an business relationship and find me, as soon as this evening at 5:30 for today's Tequila Time! This mail service is already long – next week we volition follow up with instructions and tips for uploading your own photos and getting some followers.
See yous tonight!
#TechniqueTuesday – Freezing the Activity & Loftier ISO Cleanup
Happy Technique Tuesday!
If you've been paying attention to the blog or caught last week's livestream, you lot already know I'm keeping myself occupied lately working on a new series of educational videos releasing very soon. If you follow me you lot know that I'thousand an artist first and a technician second – I learn to utilize applied science as I need information technology, but unlike many photographers my groundwork lies in fine art.
That existence said, my upcoming lecture serial will touch on many of the technical aspects of photography as well, for instance using a high shutter speed to capture water aerosol around the high-speed movements of this pocket-size painted bunting.
Freezing the action here requires a fast shutter speed – in this example I've chosen 1/6400th of a second. I've achieved my goal – the aerosol and the bunting are sharp! Withal i problem you may run into depending on the available lighting is the loftier ISO required to get plenty lite from such a brief exposure. In this case my ISO was bumped all the way upwardly to 5000 – well beyond what most photographers are comfortable with.
Personally I accept ever pushed my utilise of ISO; if the photo truly requires a high number to go the effect and freeze the action like I want information technology to, I am okay introducing a fleck of noise. Much of that can be removed later in post. Every bit an example, hither is a close-up of this image with one side using Topaz Denoise AI, and the other the original epitome:
Equally yous can run across, Topaz does a great chore of removing much of the noise in the prototype while retaining details. I highly recommend that regardless of the software you apply to remove dissonance, that this is your first footstep in your edit. As you tweak levels, colors, and other attributes of your image, they may overly raise the noise making it harder to retroactively remove. After you remove the noise, you tin then go back and re-introduce some sharpening where needed, selectively avoiding areas with big swaths of color that will just end upward looking noisy.
That volition accept to be a lesson for some other solar day – enjoy your week, stay safe and healthy!
#TechniqueTuesday – 10 Tech Tools of the Trade!
Since we are all probable spending a piddling More than fourth dimension on our computers and less time out and about shooting, I idea it might be proficient to compare notes on what everyone is using these days to edit, organize, and promote their photos.
Serious photographers seem to come in some combination of iii varieties – those who beloved the medium and the feel information technology can bring through travel and interaction with the globe around us, those who love using the photographic camera as a tool to create artistic statements, and those who really -really- love tech. I am definitely more a combination of the first two types – but to really maximize your potential, you need to embrace all three to some extent.
I'm fortunate to have a staff to assistance me with the minutiae of all of these tools, and together we've come up upward with a listing of some of the software applications and web services nosotros use. If you lot have whatever suggestions for myself and fellow photographers, go out a comment!
Ten Tech Tools of the Trade (In No Particular Order):
1.) Adobe Lightroom / Photoshop
AW: Lets go the most obvious tool out of the way first equally I'm sure most people are familiar with Adobe'south tools. I spend most of my time in Lightroom, where I employ it as both an organizational tool, and to add some mail service processing to my photos. Most of the tools yous'll find here keep photography at the forefront, simulating many traditional practices in a much more simplified and speedy way.
AW Staff Note: Fine art rarely uses Photoshop, nonetheless when I'grand preparing his photos in final edit for a volume projection or print, information technology pays to have more control over the fine details. There are lots of tips out there for things like enhancing sharpness, reducing noise, and much more.
AW: And speaking of reducing noise:
two.) Topaz DeNoise AI
AW: This is a tool I've only recently started using. In the by, about de-dissonance tools operated roughly the aforementioned, or at least to my eye seemed to have similar results. This app from Topaz uses a new procedure to remove nose, and so far it works not bad.
AW Staff Note: It does take some time to process however, so brand sure you have the time to spend getting everything just right, and pack your patience! Non that Fine art is e'er impatient. . .
AW: Moving on. . .
3.) Adobe Premier / Aftereffects / Audition
AW: I've got nothin. . .
AW Staff Note: These are tools nosotros use to edit audio and video. Information technology'southward not a huge part of what we practice, but as they can come packaged with the other adobe tools we use it doesn't hurt to have them. Premier is used primarily for cutting and editing video clips; AfterEffects is kinda like photoshop for video, and Audition is for editing sound clips to remove things like echo, mic popping, etc. . . they are complicated programs but just simple enough that about things you might need to do, you can find a tutorial online to become you through information technology.
AW: Video stuff!
4.) Handbrake
AW: Sitting this one out again!
AW Staff Note: Yes. Art doesn't utilize this 1 himself either, but when we are working with video files, they are often for the web and therefore require slightly less fidelity than if we were say, creating an HD TV show with all the Audio/Video bells and whistles. Just you lot besides desire to start with the best possible quality. That means huge video files. Handbreak is a corking (and complimentary) tool for taking huge video files and turning them into smaller video files that still look and audio smashing, with a lot of tuning available to get the outcome you want.
5.) Keynote / PowerPoint
AW: Ah! At present we are speaking my language again. Currently I'm living in Keynote working on Pathways to Creativity,a new series of seminars that volition be divided into chapters and fabricated available for download, aiming for this fall! These programs are simple enough. I create all of my presentations in Keynote, whether it'southward for an epic stage or a slide show at home. Lightroom does accept a congenital-in slide-testify feature as well, but Keynote gives me more than control.
AW Staff Note: Powerpoint and Keynote are like so if you're on a windows-based estimator, PP might be your selection. They mostly play nice together, but aren't without some small bug if you lot're going back and forth.
6.) Photoshelter
AW: I don't personally use Photoshelter often, just I have their plug-in installed in Lightroom. When I export my photos it can be pre-set to upload automatically to Photoshelter assuming I take an internet connection, so staff back home tin can see my latest photos.
AW Staff: Photoshelter is a neat fashion to store, organize, and share your photos online. We apply information technology to drive our stock site and host innumerable images. We've had very few if any service interruptions or down fourth dimension in my experience with information technology. There are a lot of options for sharing your work, and also protecting it with watermarking and small file downloads.
seven.) Instagram
AW: This one goes without saying – if y'all're taking photos, share them! And follow me – mayhap you'll get a follow back – in fact, if you leave your handle in the comments below, I'll be sure to do so.
AW Staff: One thing you'll notice about Art's Instagram folio is that we try to avoid the square ingather when possible and aim to preserve Art's preferred aspect ratio for his images. We accomplish this in a simple manner – a square background slightly off white (RGB all fix to 251), and then size the image to fit inside the square.
8.) Vimeo/Youtube
AW Staff: YouTube gets more traction, but I find Vimeo to be more than user friendly. The all-time solution is to utilise both if you're using these tools for promotion. Don't forget about the Handbrake tip – yous don't want to spend hours uploading a huge video that is going to soak up your storage space!
9.) Google Drive / DropBox
AW: Having a place to dump or receive files on the road or while travelling is incredibly useful. Both DropBox and Google Drive are expert options and like shooting fish in a barrel to use. Photoshelter is limited to just photographs, then having another way to store and transfer other file types online is necessary.
AW Staff: Some other shout out to wetransfer.com likewise, a free service (with some paid options) where you tin send files to people to download via emailed link.
ten.) GoToMyPC
AW Staff: Last just not to the lowest degree with everyone working from home these days, we utilise GoToMyPC.com to connect to the office. We've never had any issues using it, and later on the initial setup it's very easy to apply. At that place's likewise a file-sharing option to make transferring files between computers easy and painless.
AW: Well, that rounds out today'south list, though in that location are plenty of other tech tools out there. Comment below if y'all have whatever additions or suggestions for things we should be taking a look at while we have the time to do and then.
Stay safe and salubrious!
-Art
#TechniqueTuesday – Compressing Spatial Relationships
Happy World Wildlife Day! It's as well technique Tuesday, and today's tip was inspired by a question from Lowell E., Who inquired via my contact page – how exactly Do photographers make things, like the lord's day for example, seem so much larger in a photograph than it does in real life?
Great Question Lowell!
The simple respond – use a telephoto lens! Now, it should be noted the sun itself is not getting larger, rather it's an optical play a joke on where your bailiwick is appearing larger as your lens dials in on it. Photographing a subject a quarter of a mile away, for example, is relatively a short distance compared to the sunday at 93 one thousand thousand miles abroad.
For more than information, here's an extract from The New Art of Photographing Nature:
COMPRESSING SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS: TELEPHOTO LENSES
AW: As I was driving downwards the Flathead Valley in the Montana Rockies, I noticed this homestead fix confronting the distant mountains. The get-go shot was taken with a 50mm and nearly closely resembles what I saw from the automobile as I drove past. I recognized the possibilities, but this clearly was not it. Information technology incorporated too much sky, too much foreground, and the dark furrow of world leads your eye away from what was most important to me in the composition.
In the second shot, I zoomed in with a 300mm lens, creating a telescopic outcome, and brought the mountains closer in relation to the farm. I knew this was what I wanted–the farm with the looming backdrop of mountains. I placed the farm in the bottom and cropped so only mountains were above information technology, creating a sense of dramatic vertical rise. For the last shot I used a 400mm with a one.4 teleconverter resulting in 560mm focal length, bringing me even closer. Past making the image a vertical I was able to emphasize the rise of the mountains, and using a polarizer allowed me to create a little more drama. For my money, this is the strongest image in the series.
MH: Hither again is a adept case of what the camera can exercise that the middle cannot. The only way nosotros could gauge this epitome would be to hike a long way to get very shut to the subcontract. But even so you would not have the aforementioned perspective, with the subcontract and the mountains and so strongly juxtaposed. This sense of drama is created by the pinch of distance only achieved past using a powerful telephoto lens.
Think you have a great question that might prompt information technology's own Technique Tuesday post? Submit a question via the contact page!
Here are some other great resources relating to the field of study:
How to Get Behemothic Sunday Effects in Mural and Portrait Photography
How to Photo the Sun
Catch Me at the Kenmore Photographic camera Digital Photo Expo This Weekend!
Expert news if you're in the Pacific Northwest and could use a niggling photographic inspiration to recharge those chilly fall batteries – the side by side two weekends volition see me back abode for a few events, and I hope to catch you in that location!
Equally you may know if you follow me, Wild Elephants was published this week. Thanks to anybody who pre-ordered. I'll exist signing those books this weekend and so we can send them out! The new trade edition of Man Canvas volition also exist officially published next week, but nosotros have received those likewise. I'll be attending the Kenmore Camera Digital Photo Expo this Saturday from ten:30 AM til 12:30 PM – come and choice upward your signed copy of either or both books! This is e'er an invaluable effect with plenty of resource on-manus to talk about the latest photo tech – don't miss it!
For those of you in the Seattle and Portland areas, there are still limited spaces remaining for both Photography As Art seminars happening in those cities – sign upwards to reserve your spot today!
If you'd rather gamble than secure a guaranteed spot, today is the concluding day to enter your name in our give-abroad, then bank check it out and enter your name earlier midnight for your chance to win a ticket!
Hope to run into you at one or ALL of these events!
Catch Me On November 2nd At the Kenmore Digital Photo Expo!
Please note – I'll only be bachelor at the expo myself on Sabbatum, November 2d from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM and I'll have my new books Wild Elephants and Human Canvas on mitt to sell and sign, along with a selection of my other popular books.
You should definitely check out both days of the expo if y'all tin can. There volition be a number of speakers on hand from a variety of backgrounds and companies. There is certain to exist something for everyone, and so much information to exist captivated.
If yous're in the market for new equipment, or simply a photography enthusiast looking to gather all the cognition you possibly can from experts in the field and those with the technical know-how to answer your equipment related questions – take advantage of this opportunity!
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Also, don't forget to reserve your spot for my two upcoming Photography As Art seminars happening in November in both Portland and Seattle!
#TechniqueTuesday – Canon EF 16-35mm Lens & Wide Angle Shooting
The post-obit extract is from The New Art of Photographing Nature and The Art of the Photograph.
Getting Close with a Broad-angle Lens
AW – Often students in my classes will bring work that shows an interesting subject, only without enough information to tell a complete story. I find that one constructive tool for storytelling is using a wide-angle lens close to my subject, so that some of the background is included, creating a valuable sense of identify.
I find elephant seal weaners, fattened up then abandoned by their mothers, to be wonderfully cooperative photographic subjects. With this weaner, I laid flat on the ground in front end of it to photograph it on its level.
The hot-spring-addicted macaques in the Japanese Alps are another fun subject area. When their own hot springs were invaded by the furry monkeys, the man residents congenital a monkeys-only bound. This youngster hung around the side of the puddle, making a perfect bailiwick for a wide-angle shot, which allows me to add important background and context.
MH – Looking at the states with its liquid blackness eyes, the seal pup seems to be hoping we are his mother coming to feed him. Weaned at iii weeks, he seems a fleck lost, fifty-fifty indignant, that the tap has suddenly been turned off. With the spectacular landscape of South Georgia in the background, this image creates a sense of loneliness, seeing this lone pup by himself in this yard wilderness.
In the 2nd epitome, the Japanese macaques are so man-like that it's a little freaky. The monkey in the epitome seems curious, fifty-fifty mischievous, while his peers ignore his proximity to the photographic camera and wallow in the thermal heat. I dearest seeing an animal in its environment, especially 1 every bit unique as this. It enlarges our understanding of how they live and sometimes gives us clues equally to what motivates their behavior. Hither, the slight baloney of the wide-angle lens enhances the drama of the scene.
Strong Leading Lines
Another of import approach to using a wide-angle lens is to work with leading lines. Leading lines take long been of import parts of painting and other two-dimensional forms of fine art. A leading line is simply something that creates a line from foreground to groundwork and leads or directs the centre through the image. Information technology can exist anything that is visually distinct, that a viewer is going to find, and helps define the composition.
You tin can find all sorts of leading lines in the surroundings: tracks in the sand, edges of roads, cracks in rocks, architectural structures, and and then on. These tin can be used to straight the viewer'southward eye through a limerick and toward the main subject area. They are an excellent style to help the viewer understand your movie also as add a graphic element to the design of your image.
Wide-angle lenses help emphasize leading lines. This comes back to the concept of perspective. By getting in shut to nearby parts of leading lines, you spread them apart, however they withal become to the same vanishing point in the distance. That creates a very stiff change from foreground to background along those lines, something that will dramatically show off the elements of your photograph.
To understand this, recollect virtually a railroad track. If y'all stand on a hill and photo railroad tracks in the distance so they start at the bottom of your moving-picture show and go to the horizon near the top, yous will see them heading off to a vanishing indicate at the horizon. The railroad tracks will exist a certain width at the bottom of your composition. If you then put on a broad-angle lens and get right down on the tracks, the width of the tracks will fill the width of your image. The tracks are even so going to go off into the distance to a vanishing betoken, but now they go from the full width of your frame, creating an extreme change from foreground to background.
Don't exist afraid to get close to leading lines in club to emphasize how strong they are. And then oftentimes photographers back off from subjects like this and lose some of the affect because they don't have the same foreground-to-groundwork perspective.
#FridayVibes – Total Eclipse from South America
Having missed the "Eclipse beyond America" I scheduled a trip to Republic of chile to take hold of the recent total eclipse downwardly in that location. I take shot eclipse moments in the by but this time armed with Canon's new lightweight 600, a 2x and 50mp 5D… I was not just able to get the shot I came for – simply cropping in you tin can even see solar flares forth the edge of the sun!
Source: https://artwolfe.com/category/equipment/
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