Luminous Landscape News Feed- 7 Janaury, 2009 - This Month

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7 Janaury, 2009 - This Month

pI am now off-line until January 26th on my a href=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/workshops/antarctica-2009.shtmlAntarctic Expedition/a, so sorry ndash; no new content until then. But there are hundreds of reviews, tutorials and essays here that I'm sure you haven't read, so dive into the table of contents page for each of the major categories, a href=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/locations/Locations/a, a href=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/Essays/a, a href=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/Columns/a, a href=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/Reviews/a, a href=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/techniques/Techniques/a, a href=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/videos/download-videos.shtmlTutorials/a and the a href=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/Understanding Series/a to catch up on the things that you might have missed. We've been publishing now for ten years, so you have a lot of reading to do./pp style=text-align: center;font color=#ffcc00_____________________/font/pp style=text-align: left;As for the Expedition and what I'll be shooting with, it's quite a selection. Nikon, Canon, and Phase One have all been kind enough to lend me their latest cameras for testing and review, so I'll be able to work with the new strongNikon D3x/strong, strongCanon 5D MKII/strong, and strongPhase One 645/strong with their exciting new 60 Megapixelstrong P65+/strong back. I'll also have along my current long-terms test system, the 25 MP strongSony A900/strong.br /br /Commercial director and producer of the a href=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/video_journal/Video Journal/a, Chris Sanderson, will be using the Canon 5D MKII as his primary video camera to film the expedition. Frequent contributor to this site, photographer and long-time Canon shooter Nick Devlin, will be on the trip as well working with a 5D MKII. Both gentleman have field reviews for these pages in mind, so you can expect more coverage on this camera and how it made out in Antarctica here at the end of January./pp style=text-align: center;font color=#ffcc00_____________________/fontbr /br /span style=color: rgb(255, 0, 0);strongndash;15% SALE NOW ON/strong/span/pp style=text-align: left;While I'm traveling our customer service and technical support staff will be on the case, so please feel free to visit our on-line store and consider purchasing one of our highly acclaimed multi-hour video tutorials, Camera to Print, Lightroom 2, or Photoshop Camera Raw, as well as The Video Journal.br /br /In fact we're having a SALE for the next few weeks ndash; our annual While the Cats Away Sale. From now until January 26 every product in our online store is on sale at 15% off.br /br /Subscribers and regular readers of The Video Journal are probably wondering where the latest edition is. Needless to say, it's late. Very late. No excuses, but the reason is simply that Chris has been very busy the past twelve months producing all of our new video tutorials. He promises that the next Video Journal is now his top priority./pp style=text-align: center;font color=#ffcc00_____________________/font/pp style=text-align: left;br /a href=http://www.lenswork.com/Lenswork/a has just published their Jan / Feb 2009 issue and it features a portfolio of my work as well as an interview with me by publisher Brooks Jensen. The magazine's cover photograph is from that portfolio and was shot in Madagascar last year. Lenswork is also publishing two moderately priced original print folios of my work to coincide with this issue, which if you're a print collector you might be interested in./pp style=text-align: center;font color=#ffcc00_____________________/font/pp style=text-align: left;br /My best wishes to you for the start of 2009. See you back here at the end of January./pp style=text-align: center;font color=#ffcc00_____________________/font/pp style=text-align: left;br /Here is the weather forecast for Palmer Station, roughly in the area of the Antarctic Peninsula where we'll be in mid-January.br /br /Oh yes, at this time of year near the Antarctic Circle sunset is at midnight and then sunrise is less than three hours later at about 2:45 am. Shooting light ndash; 24 hours. For photographers sleep is not an option.br /nbsp;/p ...

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