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A Simple Trick To Eliminate Lens Flare

September 6, 2017 by Vic Berardi 12 Comments

Lens Flare

I recently acquired a Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 Lens to use with my Canon 80D body for tree photography. The lens is considered a wide zoom, but it doesn’t go so far as to give a fish-eye effect. It does capture a very wide angle of view, however— with its widest angle at 107°. As wonderful as this is for capturing the full width of a large area, it can also come with some tricky conditions to deal with. One of those is glare. Since I’m somewhat new to using this lens, I ran into this issue recently while photographing the crowns of large trees and pointing the camera directly upwards.

Here I am pointing my camera directly up towards the crown of the tree you see directly behind me. I wanted to capture as much of the trunk and crown as I could: [Read more…] about A Simple Trick To Eliminate Lens Flare

Filed Under: Landscapes, Tips Tagged With: glare, Landscapes, lens flare, light, sky, sunlight, trees

Watch The Perseid Meteor Shower This Week

August 11, 2015 by Steve Berardi Leave a Comment

Photo by anttler (used under the CC-Attr-NC-ND license)
Photo by anttler (used under the CC-Attr-NC-ND license)
Every year between July and August, you can watch the Perseids meteor shower in the night sky. This year it’s supposed to peak on the night of August 13, so any night this week you should be able to see a good amount of meteors streaking across the sky. And, the Perseids is especially great this year because it occurs during a new moon, so the meteors won’t have to battle the brightness of the moon in the sky — allowing you to see MUCH more! 🙂

To increase your chances of seeing some meteors, it’s also good to get away from the light pollution of cities. You want the sky as clear and as dark as possible. [Read more…] about Watch The Perseid Meteor Shower This Week

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: astronomical, astronomy, august, comet, dark, july, meteor, meteors, moon, night, perseids, shower, sky

How To Photograph The Aurora Borealis

February 2, 2015 by Jeff Stamer Leave a Comment

Wiseman, Alaska  Nikon D800E /14-24 Nikkor f2.8 / 15 seconds/ ISO 3200 -- Photo by Jeff Stamer
Wiseman, Alaska Nikon D800E /14-24 Nikkor f2.8 / 15 seconds/ ISO 3200 — Photo by Jeff Stamer
Surreal, scintillating and sensuous, the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) have mesmerized humans since the dawn of time.

Unfortunately, they’re a sight few get to experience unless you happen to live in the far northern (or southern) parts of the globe. For the rest of us, seeing this awe-inspiring phenomena involves quite a bit of traveling and expense! If you are going to invest the time and treasure to cross this off of your bucket list, then let me help you take great Aurora photographs. [Read more…] about How To Photograph The Aurora Borealis

Filed Under: Landscapes, Tips Tagged With: aurora, borealis, iso, landscape, low light, night, northern lights, sky

4 Steps to Photographing the Milky Way

September 24, 2014 by Jeff Stamer Leave a Comment

The Milky Way arcs over Bryce Canyon in this 7 frame image stitched together in Photoshop / Photo by Jeff Stamer
The Milky Way arcs over Bryce Canyon in this 7 frame image stitched together in Photoshop / Photo by Jeff Stamer
Technological progress in camera sensor sensitivity during the past decade has dramatically enhanced low-light photography. The ability to photograph the Milky Way is perhaps the most awe-inspiring result of these advances.

This post will give you the basics you need to start making your own Milky Way images. If you really get hooked and want more details, check out my more detailed post. [Read more…] about 4 Steps to Photographing the Milky Way

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: exposure, full frame, low light, milky, night, shutter speed, sky, star, stars, tripod, universe, way

Use PhotoPills To Plan Your Next Milky Way Shot

July 24, 2014 by Steve Berardi Leave a Comment

PhotoPills
PhotoPills
One of the great things about being a photographer in this day and age is that we have a ton of awesome tools available for planning our landscape shots. I’ve talked about many of them already, including The Photographer’s Ephemeris, PhotoPills, Google Earth, and Stellarium. Together, these four tools can help you answer just about any question you have about a potential landscape shot.

Well, one of these tools (PhotoPills) just added an awesome new feature to their app: a 2D Milky Way Planner. And, the creators just published an excellent tutorial on their website on how to use this new feature.

So, if you’re interested in photographing the Milky Way in one of your nighttime landscape images, be sure to check this out! [Read more…] about Use PhotoPills To Plan Your Next Milky Way Shot

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: dark, galaxy, landscape, milky, night, photo, photopills, plan, sky, stars, tutorial, way

Introduction to IR Photography

May 20, 2013 by Steve Berardi 2 Comments

Photo by Steve Berardi
Photo by Steve Berardi
Infrared (IR) photography doesn’t get much attention, but it can be extremely useful for photographing landscapes in black and white. It’s known for capturing strong contrast between vegetation and the surrounding landscape.

So, here’s a brief introduction to IR photography and its effects: [Read more…] about Introduction to IR Photography

Filed Under: Landscapes, Tips Tagged With: black, dark, desert, effect, filter, infrared, ir, landscape, monochromatic, monochrome, photography, sky, trees, white

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