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Tag: January
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25 January, 2014 – Phase One IQ250 – First Report and Video Interview
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. -
19 January, 2014 – Hard Skills and Soft Skills
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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16 January, 2014 – The Rangefinder ? A New Video
The Rangefinder
‘Truths’, ‘Mystique’ & Practice with the Leica M240
We have just published our newest video titled "The Rangefinder: Truth, Mystique & Practice – Leica M240"
In our 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, and should appear in customers’ subscriptions within 24 hours (01/17/2014)
The video is made up of a three segment discussion on Rangefinders between Michael Reichmann, Sean Reid of reidreviews.com, and Mark Dubovoy. It was shot on location in Ithaca, N.Y. in the Spring of 2013.
At an hour and twenty minutes, this wide-ranging discussion looks in detail at the Leica M240, the Fuji X-Pro1, focussing techniques, Window Viewfinders and Electronic Viewfinders, a comparison to DSLRs, the use of R lenses on an M Leica, the suitability of Rangefinders for new photographers, the cost of Leica and others, a recent history of Rangefinders since the advent of SLRs, Rangefinders use for ‘quiet’ or ‘stealth’ photography, a look at what’s new in the M240 over the M9, the shortcomings of the M240 – in the varied opinions of the three participants, Leica lenses, their ‘mystique’ and finally, the use of Leica M mount lenses on other cameras.
Sean Reid of reidreviews.com, a widely recognized writer about rangefinder and window finder cameras, was a participant in our new video. You should know that Sean has just published a review of the Sony A7R and will be publishing follow-up articles that look carefully at side by tests of the A7R and M-240 with various rangefinder lenses. Reidreviews is a subscription site.
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15 January, 2014 – Bower Cine Lenses
Whether you’re shooting with a DSLR, Compact System Camera (CSC) or large sensor interchangeable lens video camera, you probably have discovered two things about lenses. Those that are designed for still cameras are far from ideal when used for cine work, and lenses designed for cine work are very expensive. Explore the alternatives in this article. Read . . .
Explore The Land Of Polar Bear – Luminous-Landscape’s Svalbard Workshops this July
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.
FIND OUT MORE
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12 January, 2014 – Hasselblad H5D-60 Review
It’s been quite a while since I reviewed a Hasselblad system. But, I have now been working with a Hasselblad H5D-60 for the past five weeks. In many ways it’s been like revisiting an old friend, and I’ve greatly enjoyed the process. My review of the H5D-60 is now online.
For the past several days Kevin Raber, Lars Svanstrom and I have been exploring and photographing within the mountains of central Mexico. It’s been a remarkable experience, visiting hidden valleys and obscure villages that are rarely seen by Gringos.
Special thanks is owed to Lars, whose knowledge on Mexico spans some 40 years of photographing here, along with his excellent Spanish. He helped us find locations seldom seen by visitors.
One of the images from that shoot is now on the Home Page. I’ll have a small portfolio of images from this trip here some time next week.
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.
FIND OUT MORE
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8 January, 2014 – Death Valley Sunset
Have you ever come home from a landscape shoot, especially a sunrise or sunset and found the images on your computer after importing don’t look exactly like you remember seeing them? Today Kevin Raber shows how he worked Death Valley Sunset.
Check out the NEW July 2014 Svalbard workshop to visit The Land Of The Polar Bear. Hope you can join us on this one.
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6 January, 2014 – Last Minute Antarctic Berth Available
Due to a sudden illness one of the people attending our Antarctic Photographic Expedition which begins later this month has had to drop out.
If you are able to join this exciting trip on short notice please email Kevin Raber right away for further information on what to do.
If a shooting trip to Antarctica later this month is a bit soon for your schedule, we still have a few places left in our Jan 31 to Feb 9, 2015 Antarctic Expedition.
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2 January, 2014 – NEW Svalbard Workshop, Street Photography And Italian Law
Happy New Year from the Luminous-Landscape team. Thank you for visiting and supporting us. We wish you the best for the New Year.We are predicting another great year for photography. This is a Photokina year and this usually means it will be a year of new and interesting innovations and developments in cameras, lenses, software and printers. We’ll make sure we keep you up to date on the latest news of some of the more interesting products as they come along. Here at LuLa we have a lot of projects in the works. We are leaving for our 2014 Antarctica workshop in just three short weeks. We also are launching today a NEW workshop for this July in the northern polar regions (see below for more details). Look for other workshop announcements in the coming weeks. And, for you video subscribers we have some ambitious projects in that area too with what we feel will be some great informative and instructional videos. By the way we still have a few berths available for the second 2015 Antractica workshop.
This past summer I was able to travel for the first time to the Arctic Circle on a photographic workshop offered by some friends of mine. After having been to Antarctica on numerous occasions I was not sure the Arctic could match up. Well, I was wrong and the trip was one of the best I have been on. The landscapes were amazing and the Polar Bear encounters were incredible. Luminous-Landscape is happy to announce two Svalbard Workshops this July. This is a small boat trip with 11 participants per trip. Check it out HERE…
I stumbled upon a fun website and thought I’d share it with you. This site is known as Sightsmap and shows a world map of where the most Panoramio images were taken. You’ll understand more when you visit the site. What’s fun is to zoom into street level in a city like New York. Based on the map it looks like Europe has embraced Panoramio more than other areas of the world.
We kick off the New Year with a short article and link to a blog by Andrea Monti. Andrea’s story Street Photography And Italian Law . . . deals with the legal aspects of photographing people and things in public. Practical information for all of us.
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1 January, 2014 – December Antarctica Expedition Contest Winner
The December winner in our 2015 Antarctica Expedition Contest is Edwin Leong of Burnaby, BC. Congratulations Edwin.
Edwin is now a finalist in the contest and also wins a free lifetime subscription to all LuLa videos.
You can also enter the contest. Every purchase at our online store is an entry, and each annual subscription is equal to six entries.
The grand prize is an all-expenses paid Antarctic Expedition worth $ 15,000. Find out more.
It wouldn’t be the holiday season without a sale, now would it?
So we’re having a 25% Off Sale on everything in our online store.The sale runs through the end of New Year’s Day – today!!
To obtain your 25% off on any purchase just enter…HappyNewYear-25pc
…in the Coupon Code box when you check-out.