Photog Adventures Podcast: A Landscape Photography and Astrophotography Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

This week on the podcast I am joined by my first guest in a very long time, Jeroen Linnenkamp! Jeroen and I were talking about star color and he had the question about whether shutter could ruin star color the way that high ISO will blow out star color. I wasn't sure if there was a threshold when the exposure would start clipping the star color by shutter alone and so Jeroen did an experiment and shared the results with me for Milky Way Wednesday and today he talks about what those results mean to him. Along with that Jeroen shares adventures of Milky Way Photography from the Netherlands and a story about a beast that could have killed him while out enjoying fields of heather. Whether you are in the southwest of the United States or the low lands of Holland, Astrophotographers are always risking life and limb for the shot! Say thanks to Jeroen for joining the podcast by subscribing to his YouTube channel and following his instagram! Links below! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@StarScaperPhoto Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeroenlin/

This week on Milky Way Wednesday I was joined by Clarence Spencer of SpencersCamera.com to answer all questions about Astro-modified cameras that the Milky Way Wednesday crowd could think up! In case you missed it and thousands of you most certainly did, here is a replay of the awesome breadth of knowledge that Clarence shared with my YouTube audience! This winter we all have been challenged to capture a Winter Milky Way Panorama and one of the most critical steps to a successful one is using an Astro-modded camera. Thanks to Clarence's business SpencersCamera.com we all have an affordable way to get that camera to use this winter! In between questions from the audience, Clarence also showed us how he edits his astro-modded images to give you a head-start once you capture your own astro-modded Milky Way image! Link to YouTube Video Version: https://youtu.be/OBblwHSoEYM

If you want a great sunset and I want a great Milky Way and beg nature for clear skies, I am going to ruin your landscape photography. Skies. We constantly complain about them. We want the opposite sky than we are getting more often than not. Depending on our type of photography, we might benefit or lose. In this episode, I talk about the different conditions, goals, mindsets and challenges faced by Landscape Photographers vs. Milky Way Photographers. We all want light but there is this curious love we have of LIMITED light. We want the light we have to exist but also be uniquely limited in some way so that it looks even more awesome to us. Join me as I detail the differences in both disciplines of photography, share another story from the Upper Peninsula workshop and encourage all of us to get out there and enjoy the conditions coming up that actually gives BOTH types of photography really great skies!

Andrew Marr is one of the top Landscape Photographers from Australia and we had a chance to hang out with him and talk the unique challenges of Perth, Australia area and the one thing you wouldn't expect from a coastal city like Perth. No clouds! Often, he can't even go out in the summer because there just are zero clouds in the sky let alone a quality and dynamic sky! We go over some of his favorite nearby locations in Perth, one of the crazy cool places he goes in his winters that is 17 hours away from him and we get a chance to hear about the behind the scenes of his trip to the UK where he hung out with Adam Karnacz of First Man Photography and a BONUS trip to Iceland! Follow Andrew's Work at: http://andrewmarr.com.au/ Or his YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSviZyZi6hJLDr5qpqpWEGA

The FOURTH episode of Astro Photog to get you excited about the newly returned Milky Way Core and next week's Lunar Eclipse! Get your long lenses ready to go for an awesome Blood Moon on the LOW horizon in the United States right before Sunrise! Article on Lunar Eclipse: https://goo.gl/SChbyL More on Lunar Eclipse: https://goo.gl/4E6dai

We talk with James Kelly about our upcoming Faroe Islands Workshop that is going to be a tremendous experience that we couldn't have imagined and really hope twelve of you will want to join us this September! James talks about his connection to the Faroe Islands, his years of experience there, the weather, culture, awesome potential for Landscape Photography and the blast we are going to have from Sept. 10th through 17th out there! Learn more about the workshop here: https://goo.gl/oe5BB3 The Faroe Islands are an archipelago of eighteen islands half way between Scotland and Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean. We have created this workshop for you to experience photographing some of the most breathtaking scenery on offer with steep sided mountains that rise out of the sea to almost 1000 meters making them the tallest cliffs in Europe, small fishing villages with grass covered roofs, huge cascading waterfalls that flow strong after the smallest rainfall, deep like fjords and black sand beaches with tidal pools scattered all around. Each location we visit will offer a new adventure and we will even make the drive into the heart of the mountains of Vestmanna, Spáafelli on Suðuroy and to the summit of Sornfelli that stands almost 2500 feet above. The Islands are a true source of inspiration to anyone who visits. With the constant changing weather making every photograph unique.

Enjoy this Christmas Morning episode talking about our Goals for 2018 and recapping some of the "bests" we had in 2017. We begin the podcast talking about Jordan Younce's new adventure and the end of a chapter in his life. Then we go over his awesome recommendation on Picture Books, the best challenges, moments and images from 2017 and what we plan on doing in our Photography business goals for 2018! Sorry for the delay on this podcast causing all the Christmas Morning talk to be three Mondays too late, but a couple weeks of illness and crazy difficult time-sucking edits on the Oregon podcasts made it impossible to get this one out. Argh

In this second to last episode of 2017 we go over some of the major things we learned through more practice in our Landscape Photography and Astrophotography. Some of these can be obvious and are things we all know, but until you are out there enough and recognize when you are NOT doing them DESPITE KNOWING them or when you realize you are doing them just a little wrong it can make a big difference to your photography. After a year of going out to over 65 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS for photography in 2017 Brendon and I have learned a LOT about where our strengths and weaknesses lie. Thanks for being a part of this adventure in 2017 and we can't wait to report that we are practicing what we are preaching in this podcast!

In this CRAZY EXTRA LONG EPISODE we cover our adventures from Sunrise out at famous Thor’s Well, awesome but frustrating sunset at Yaquina Head Lighthouse, great sunrise at Yaquina Bay Bridge, an AMAZING and highlight of the trip Sunset out at Cape Kiwanda and then an equally amazing sunrise out at Cannon Beach to finish out our trip along the Oregon Coast in November. We are joined by listeners John Henry Maurice and Kyle Kephart throughout this podcast and at times it happens suddenly. Despite my best efforts editing them in, some transitions will be sudden. Apologize for that and the length of this podcast but there is just too much good stuff to get stingy in episode 64! 1 hour and 26 mins into this podcast listen as Brendon finally reveals that he has possibly FOUND his lost memory card that carried thousands of images from his entire first half of the Oregon Coast trip! Again thank you to all of you who joined Brendon and I on this Listener Adventure to the Oregon Coast! We really had a blast out there with listeners Drew Armstrong, Kirk Keyes, John Henry Maurice, Kyle Kephart and new friends Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho. Not going to be an adventure soon forgotten and definitely worth the extra long feature on the podcast. So many amazing places out in Oregon! If you haven’t been there yet, start planning to join us next year for the November Listener Adventure 2018! Check out Drew’s photography at DrewArmstrong.com and Kirk’s at KeyesPhoto.com! Follow Kyle Kephart on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/compellingimaging/ or follow his blog at http://www.compellingimaging.com/theblog/ Follow my Canon camera body cap guardian angel Casey Cooke on his photography adventures here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caseycookephotography/ Website: http://caseycookephotography.com/ Follow Josh Riggs on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/joshriggsphotography/ Follow Rafa La Madrid on his instagram at https://www.instagram.com/rafatheperuvian/ Here is a link to the NRS Boundary socks: https://goo.gl/csk5Xc Link to Drew’s NRS Zephyr Inflatable PFD fanny pack life-preserver: https://goo.gl/VtVa1a GAIA GPS Maps: https://www.gaiagps.com/

Second Part of our Oregon Coast 2017 Listener Adventure and this time we are in Bandon, Shore Acres State Park and at the Heceta Head Lighthouse! This trip had been fantastic but a day of rain moved us from the Brookings area up to Bandon with hope that the skies would clear by sunrise the next day and boy did the skies change! We talk about our working hard to take advantage of the gap in the cloudy skies at Bandon and later on Shore Acres on our way up to Heceta Head Lighthouse. We ended up barely catching a short-lived mostly clouded out sunset from the road at an overlook across the bay from Heceta Head Lighthouse and then hike up to the lighthouse to capture it at night while the lights are shining. It was a stunning adventure from Bandon to Heceta Head and was made even that much better with another day of hanging out with Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho! Again thank you to John, Kirk and Drew for joining us on the podcast to share their what went wells and challenges! Here is a link to the NRS Boundary socks: https://goo.gl/csk5Xc Silver Sharpie for labeling your memory cards: https://goo.gl/KzDPNK AirBNB: https://www.airbnb.com/ Really Good Photo Spots: https://improvephotography.com/rgps/