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Postcards From Chile
Felt like a holiday and was intending to take another drive around Iceland this autumn but I changed my mind and my finger stopped the spinning globe at Chile. Also, a companion wanted to join me and she didn’t fancy sleeping in a car for a week
So this was a pleasure vacation and these images should be viewed in that context. I didn’t go just to take photos; I just happened to have my camera on me. Anyone hoping for long exposures at sunrise should stop reading and visit another post. We wanted to have a great time and enjoy the experience of this country and we fulfilled those criteria completely.
Chile is a vast and spectacular country, with the Atacama Desert and the Salt Flats to the north and the mountains and glaciers of Patagonia to the south. All braced by the long arm of the Andes mountain range. With private guides for just the two of us we managed to cram in quite a bit with no less than four internal flights taking us up and down the country from the mid point of the capital city, Santiago.
One particular ambition of mine was to see the flamingoes in the Salt Flats. But I also indulged myself with a swim in a hot spring at 4200m up in the Andes. We visited beautiful lagoons, salt mines and rock formations, and were treated the whole time to a wealth of information about the landscape and its remarkable geology. At one point our vehicle, with the ignition off and geared in neutral, was pulled uphill by magnetic minerals in the ground.
Patagonia was a little cooler but not too cold in their late spring. The scenery was reminiscent of Norway with ice-capped mountains looming over sapphire blue lakes and windy fjords. Wildlife was in abundance too with no shortage of guanacos, hawks, vultures, rias and cormorants.
One disappointment, given that Chile has the clearest skies in the world, was not getting a night sky shot of the Milky Way. Rather unluckily during our visit the Moon polluted the sky with too much light.
We also didn’t go to Easter...10Dec 6, 2018 -
Review Strobius StrobiStrip strip-light review
Arriving in a tightly packed box, I had two identical, nylon cylindrical cases. One contained a 50cm Strobius StrobiStrip, whilst the second contained a 100cm model.
After removing the modifiers, the first thing that struck me was the quality of the materials and construction. The diffusion panel seemed quite thin, yet durable, with four lines of stitching providing an extremely strong bond to the main nylon body. This theme of quality and care extended throughout the product.changing...6Apr 2, 2018 -
Studio Move's Christmas Show
I was hired to shoot at this annual event for a local dance studio since their regular photographer wasn't available. Finally the break I had been waiting since the day I started shooting at these kinds of events (for fun - I'd like to add)! The only downside was that I needed to sit in the audience and stay focused for ~7 hours to shoot over 70 different performances since I promised to deliver at least ~5 good pictures per act.
The youngest performers were 3 or 4 years old and to be honest I did struggle to get 5 good pictures of them. The adults though... Oh man, there were acts where I had 30-40 really good ones and had hard time trimming them down to ~10. I guess you win some and lose some, eh?
In case you're interested in reading more about the event and my choice of gear etc., you can do it on my website/blog: Studio Moven joulunäytös 2018 – TeemuP.net11Jan 21, 2019 -
Baby tortuga release tonight
My wife and I were at a beach close to where we are living in El Salvador today. An Australian woman noticed I had a camera and mentioned that there would be a release of 175 baby tortugas at 5:00, if we would like to come down to the waterfront.
The lighting was wonderful. It was a far more convenient time for photographs than in the black of night when many release the turtles. I had my Olympus E-M1 with the 11-22mm f2.8/3.5 four thirds lens attached. The people in charge, allowed me to go out beyond the line that they drew in the sand as a restriction for the viewers to stay behind for the safety of the turtles.15Jan 22, 2019 -
Dodging & Burning with Livetime
Back in the days of the darkroom, it was common to use "dodging" and "burning" to hold back or increase the exposure of parts of the paper during enlargement. The idea was to make a small cardboard cut-out that you mounted to a thin metal wire, and which you then waggled between the enlarger and the paper during print exposure. That way, you could increase or reduce the exposure of certain parts of the image so as balance the DR on the final print. It was very common as a technique to bring up the foreground to better match the sky on landscape shots.
Using the Livetime on Olympus cameras you can achieve the same effect at capture time. I used the technique on the shot33Feb 4, 2019
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