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22 February, 2014 – Kitchen Stories and Other Realities

23 Feb

Over the years I have had the privilege of working with and shooting with some amazing photographers.  Photography to many of us photographers is like a good game of golf.  We can get out there with our friends shoot images, talk about what a great shot it was and feel bad when we just can’t seem to get the shot.  I find it a lot more staisfying and less frustrating than chasing a ball around and trying to whack it with a stick.  Well, Jackie Ranken takes the game of photography to a new level.  I have had the pleasure of working with Jackie on a number of workshops and discovered as a result a whole new way of seeing.  She is one of the most creative landscape photographers that I have ever met and she has certainly gotten the attention of her fellow Australian and New Zealand photographers when she started entering landscape images into major competitions with flying toasters in them.  

I was shooting with Jackie two years ago and while we were out she found about ten feet of twine.  The rest of the day she took this twine and interjected it into the shots she was making.  She was wrapping bushes with it, dangling it from trees and laying it out on the ground.  I found it totally refreshing to see this.  Later during this trip a number of friends shooting with me stopped at an overlook to shoot a landscape vista and the bottom of the overlook hill was a bunch of old refrigerators, stoves and metal junk. One person in our group couldn’t help themselves and said “I see Jackie was already here”.  

We hope you enjoy Jackie’s article “Kitchen Stories” and Other Realities. Luminous-Landscape will be working with Jackie in New Zealand this December and our Antarctica Workshops in January. If you can join us for these workshops you’ll get a chance to see Jackie in action. 

                                                                                                Kevin Raber, Publisher

 Are you planning on attending this year’s WPPI Trade Show and Convention in Las Vegas March 3-5? If so drop us an email. Kevin and Chris will be there reporting on the show and it would be great to meet some where and say hi.

Don’t forget to check out the Luminous-Landscape "Land Of The Polar Bear" workshops this July

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18 February, 2014 – Fuji X-T1 Field Report

18 Feb

Possibly the most innovative camera maker today is Fujifilm. From unique sensor designs, to unique viewing systems, Fuji is constantly exploring new ways to help photographers capture images. Now, with the soon-to-be-released Fuji X-T1 the evolving X system has reached a maturity of sorts. Our contributing editor, Nick Devlin, recently traveled to the US Southwest and Canadian Midwest with an X-T1, and gives the net’s first field report on this exciting new camera.

You can win an all-expenses paid photographic expedition to Antarctica, along with air fare from anywhere in the world. The value of this prize is $ 15,000.

The Luminous Landscape wants you to try any of our more than 60 training or travel videos and our new free video player. Each purchase is an entry, and an annual subscription that includes all previous as well as new videos counts as six entries. The winner of a free lifetime subscription is also chosen from each month’s entries.

 

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16 February, 2014 – Panasonic GM1 Field Report

16 Feb

The new Panasonic GM1 is a tour-de-force of miniaturization. It takes most of the capabilities of the GX7 and squeezes them into a body smaller than just about any interchangeable lens camera ever made. But, is this a "good thing"? Find out in Michael’s hands-on report from Antarctica and Chile.

You can win an all-expenses paid photographic expedition to Antarctica, along with air fare from anywhere in the world. The value of this prize is $ 15,000.

The Luminous Landscape wants you to try any of our more than 60 training or travel videos and our new free video player. Each purchase is an entry, and an annual subscription that includes all previous as well as new videos counts as six entries. The winner of a free lifetime subscription is also chosen from each month’s entries.

 

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13 February, 2014 – Fuji X100s Review

14 Feb

 

There is one camera company that is really getting noticed these days, and that is Fuji. They seem unstoppable as they continually are releasing new cameras and lens at a very fast pace. They stand apart with their APS-C X-Trans CMOS II sensor. It all started with the X100 and since that introduction Fuji has followed with numerous other X branded cameras. Not forgetting where their roots are they released the next generation X100s a few months ago. This little camera has a huge following and if there is a camera that has done retro right it is the X100s. Alain Briot a regular contributor here on Luminous-Landscape switches gears from his regular essays and does a Camera Review Of The X100s.

We are very excited about the new Fuji X-T1 camera recently announced. In addition Fuji has made a number of new lens announcements. We are eager to try out the new 10-24mm zoom. This lens combined with the 18-55mm and 55-200mm zoom will make a formidable kit. We will be posting articles and information on all this in the near future.

Are you planning on attending this year’s WPPI Trade Show and Convention in Las Vegas March 3-5? If so drop us an email. Kevin and Chris will be there reporting on the show and it would be great to meet some where and say hi.

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10 February. 2014 – Photographing The Arctic

11 Feb

 

This July Peter Cox, Kevin Raber along with Morten Jørgensen will lead two small ship tours to the Arctic region around Svalbard, Norway.  This is a very unique workshop as it is a small ship trip with 11 participants on each trip.  This area is known as Land Of The Polar Bear.  We will be photographing landscapes, wildlife and polar bears.  Ten years ago Iceland was hardly a blip on the radar for photographers.  That was until Luminous-landscape did some workshops there.  We feel that Svalbard is the new Iceland.  This is your chance to be one of the first to explore this region and come back with some amazing images.  The small ship we will use is ideally suited to photograph polar bears in this region since it has a main deck close to the waterline.  To get a better idea of what you can expect from a trip like this, read Peter Cox’s article Photographing In The Arctic – Svalbard 2013.  This is a trip log from a trip we did this past August.  And when you are ready to sign up for this year’s trip you can find out more information HERE.

Are you planning on attending this year’s WPPI Trade Show and Convention in Las Vegas March 3-5?  If so drop us an email.  Kevin and Chris will be there reporting on the show and it would be great to meet soemwhere and say hi.

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7 February, 2014 – The Phase One IQ250 CMOS Fully Realized

08 Feb

 

The NEW Phase One IQ250 has received a lot of press in the last few weeks.  We had a chance to work with this new back as well as share it with a number of participants on our recent Antarctica workshop. Look for an article on how it performed soon. Today, Doug Peterson of Digital Transitions shares a behind the scene look at what it took for Phase One to bring this new CMOS chip back to market. Read Doug’s article – The Phase One IQ250 CMOS Fully Realized.

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5 February, 2014 – Michael’s Antarctica

05 Feb

Initial thoughts and images from Michael’s LuLa workshop and expedition to Antarctica in January / February 2014. This will be followed up by a more complete article by Kevin within the next week or so.

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3 February, 2014 – Back From Antarctica

03 Feb

We are back in Chile after a very successful and incredible adventure to Antarctica.  The Luminous-Landscape team of Michael, Kevin and Chris as well William Neil lead a group of 63 photographers on a non-stop adventure.  We had the most incredible weather making every day perfect for photography.  We couldn’t have asked for a better group of participants and the Antarctica XXI Expedition team was absolutely the best.  We are now working our way back north and to home over the coming days. Once we get our feet on the ground we will have a lot more about this trip as well as a lot of other news. There are only a few berths left for the second Antarctica Trip in 2015.  After experiencing this this trip I would highly recommend that you sign up now as we are sure once we start publishing images and the trip log that these remaining spots will go fast.

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25 January, 2014 – Phase One IQ250 – First Report and Video Interview

24 Jan

Phase One announced today their new IQ250, 50 Megapixel medium format back, which uses a CMOS sensor for the first time in a medium format. This sensor is made by Sony, the first time that a Sony sensor appears in an MF product.

Part One of our on-going analysis of the IQ250 features online a video interview with Phase One executives, a video on how the back’s Live View works, and sample ISO 6400 images, as well as our initial impressions of the back. The article contains price and delivery information, which incidentally begins this coming week.

Kevin and Michael are leaving today (Jan 24) for two weeks in Chile and Antarctica, and will be testing the IQ250 on this expedition. Part 2, full report and video coverage will follow.

And speaking of Antarctica –
we have a few spaces left on our January 31 through February 9, 2015 Antarctic workshop.

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19 January, 2014 – Hard Skills and Soft Skills

20 Jan

 

Alain Briot. Longtime contributor to Luminous-Landscape changes direction a bit in his essay Hard Skills and Soft Skills. This will be a new series in his essays. Hard skills are factual,technical and quantifiable. Soft skills on the other hand are subjective, artistic and difficult to quantify. Read on to see how these skills are part of the photographic creative process.

We have just published our newest video titled "The Rangefinder: Truth, Mystique & Practice – Leica M240"

In Our Store, do a search for ‘Rangefinder’. For those wishing to purchase it individually, the price is $ 12.50. It is without extra charge for our annual subscribers.

Explore The Land Of Polar Bear – Luminous-Landscape’s Svalbard Workshops this July.  This is a small group workshop and a truly special chance to photograph the Arctic wildlife, especially Polar Bears.

You can win an all-expenses paid photographic expedition to Antarctica, along with air fare from anywhere in the world. The value of this prize is $ 15,000.

The Luminous Landscape wants you to try any of our more than 60 training or travel videos and our new free video player. Each purchase is an entry, and an annual subscription that includes all previous as well as new videos counts as six entries. The winner of a free lifetime subscription is also chosen from each month’s entries.

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