Ooolala, Milky Way! The Milky Way’s galactic core is now visible in the Northern Hemisphere and rises in the early hours before dawn. Tis the season of galactic splendor in which my psyche oscillates between euphoria and frustration. Perfect “seeing” conditions are rare in New England. Correct forecasts are even rarer. Those of you who […]
Intentional camera movement, or ICM, is a technique that creates unique, painterly images. These are often a single photograph but can also be created utilizing in-camera multiple exposures or combining images in post. As photographers, we most often use our cameras to capture a moment in the literal sense, documenting it in a photojournalistic way. […]
At the beginning of the year, I load up my calendar with the celestial happenings that are coming up. These include planet events, lunar and solar eclipses, meteor showers, expected comets, Moon phases, and Milky Way core visibility. Interspersed with these events there are delightful surprises, like a juicy CME gracing our skies with aurora […]
Time. A simple word that has speed that ever increases. I feel like I just posted A Look Back at 2023 and here I am again, now looking back at 2024. Yikes! We don’t often ponder all the moments we experience in a year until we look back at the photos accumulated during the 365/6 […]
Winter offers spectacular, delicate beauty to be photographed. The challenge for photographing winter is not the cold temperatures but the fleeting window to acquire a successful capture. Snowfall can quickly become a salt inundated mess (a notorious scene here in New England) so time is of the essence to photograph it. Wind can quickly strip […]
One of the things that you often hear is that you can create art with any camera that you have, even your phone. Yes, this is true. However, there is another perspective to consider. Often people feel that it’s their abilities that hold them back from producing an image that they are satisfied with. The […]
The developers of PlanIt! have added a great feature to the Pro version of the app. You can now previsualize a shot with an aurora. Say what? How can you plan an aurora shot when the aurora is such an elusive event? It’s called planning forward while looking back. As we are into solar maximum, […]
Who? Viltrox is a relatively new player in the realm of third-party (relatively) low-cost lenses. They’ve been around since 2009 and their visibility is increasing thanks to the quality, especially their glass for Astro landscape photography. Viltrox manufactures lenses for Nikon, Fuji, Sony, and Canon. Check their website for your particular camera. This is the […]
The Comparison This review is for the Nikon mirrorless Z mount specifically, however it applies to all the various camera mounts Rokinon offers. I have owned the F Mount version of the Rokinon 14mm lens for almost 10 years. This lens is incredibly sharp edge to edge and has minimal coma aberration and next to […]
The Discovery I recently went on a photography trip to Oregon. I accumulated over four thousand images, including several time-lapse sequences shot over a week. When I returned, I copied the raw files from my two cameras to an external drive. I began editing a few images and also a time-lapse sequence. After working on […]
