To capture the incredible detail of the milky way or target deep sky objects with a DSLR camera, a star tracker is critical gear. Sitting atop a sturdy tripod just below the camera, star trackers slowly rotate your camera to…
Digital photography has changed the way our cameras see light. Human eyes only see part of the light spectrum. We call that the visible spectrum. A digital camera sensor is not limited in the same way. It can record light…
For people who are curious about modifying a DSLR for night sky photography and want to know what that actually looks like in real use. You might have a camera you already use for Milky Way shots. You might have…
Culture, culture, and more culture. While Angkor Watt gets all the attention (thanks to the Tomb Raider movie), there are several temples. Bayon Temple, for example, is a richly decorated Khmer Buddhist temple just a few kilometres away from Angkor Watt….
A month in Vietnam brought new foods, sights, and perspectives. A battle raged among the places I visited in Vietnam as history, culture, and communism butted up against the rapid pace of capitalization and industrialization. Within these lands, diners pay…
Landscapes (and interiors, too) are often composites of two or more images. That’s because movement, the angle and intensity of light, depth of focus, and nearby/distant objects come into play. Let’s take a look at how. Compositing offers opportunities to…
Painted Skies Aurora My plan was to capture an Aurora reflecting on water. Buffalo Lake or Cartwright? The two are hundreds of miles/km apart. Buffalo was closer. Cartwright was darker. I checked the cloud forecast at Windy (amazing app), saw…
Non-destructive Camera RAW Photo Editing Check out this video for a quick run through of editing RAW photos quickly, then utilize Photoshop adjustment layers to continue the non-destructive editing process. It’s audio-free, and steps are separated with a numbered black…
My first hike after breaking my ankle posed new challenges. Titan Falls. If there ever was a name of a location to get me excited about going, this was it. Located west of Longview Alberta off the forestry trunk road…
The skies over Alberta were overcast, except for one small spot 4 hours away. Camera Settings | KP Scale & Range On September 15, 2023, lady aurora came to town. Near Edmonton’s eastern bedroom community of Fort Saskatchewan, lies Elk…