5/29/2023 0 Comments Ptgui vs photoshop![]() Visiting an area at night is widely different than the daytime. ![]() One of the big aspects I love about astrophotography is the constant adventure. Rather than repeating what has come before and copying other people’s styles, I wanted to play with the vast arena that is astrophotography. I came up with the whole nexus panorama technique because I decided to experiment with the astrophotography style. Geoff Decker: To sum it up, experimentation and adventure. ![]() Tell us about your photographic identity. I enjoy shooting my quirky genres and selecting techniques that you would normally use for one and employing it in another. Nowadays I am much more comfortable in my own skin. And like many I fell into a grunge phase when HDR was big that I have luckily grown out of. Or as an artist I should have a style more like, which was always a comedic statement. I recall more often than not being told that the styles I was shooting was silly as I’d never make a career or livable wage off of my work. In a more serious sense, like most, my technique has evolved and there is a bit more confidence behind my photography. I feel like I’ve evolved as a photographer merely for the fact that I don’t leave the lens cap on as often as I used to… Geoff Decker: I’ve been shooting for roughly 15 years. How long have you been shooting? How do you feel you’ve evolved? And most importantly, experimentation is key. They focus on finding creative ways to light and embrace whatever scene you’re in and how to shape the scene to make it your own. Another portrait oriented photographer, his books Studio Anywhere are always an inspiring read. The second being author and photographer Nick Fancher. You can tell by his videos and his results he just has fun shooting and has an amazing time working on thinking outside of the box. While I don’t really shoot portraits all that often, the amount of energy and creativity he brings to his shoots are what inspires me. The first influence is Gavin Hoey, who is an amazing portrait photographer. Geoff Decker: So this is an odd one for me because my influences have little to nothing to do with the genres I shoot in. What photographers are your biggest influences? How did they affect who you are and how you create? I am quite the selfish shooter I shoot simply because it makes me happy and I enjoy the creative process. In college I obtained a Nikon D90 and I just fell in love with the format. ![]() Most of the film was never developed but I enjoyed the shooting. As a kid, I had a couple of point and shoot cameras a 35mm yellow waterproof Vivitar and a green 120mm Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle camera. Geoff Decker: So I’ve always enjoyed art but never had the dexterity to correctly draw or paint. But a rather interesting result was that, likely because the panorama algorithms were not too sure how to interpret the lens, it ended up curving the foreground making it look like the foreground was a part of a tiny planet. I kind of thought that I would get a much wider print with double the images. I wasn’t quite sure how this would affect one of these panoramas. This year I also invested in SIRUI’s Indigogo campaign to get their 1.25x Anamorphic Adapter. If I want something with a bit more awe, I’ll shoot around 24mm. If I want a more calm scene, I’ll typically shoot wider. Because of the narrowness of the final print, this choice is actually changes where the eye is naturally drawn, to the foreground or the sky. The wider the focal length, the thinner the milkyway is versus the longer the focal length, the wider the milky way. And of course, anything that might be comedic such as capturing the Milky Way behind a giant hot dog is not only fun, but encouraged. Then come season, I’ll travel back to said locations and hope that something interesting comes out of my travels. So off season, I’ll spend some time traveling and marking locations for possible shoots based on light pollution and interesting scenery. As photographing one of these panoramas can be quite challenging, finding some interesting foreground both in front and behind the camera within the vertical alignment of the Milky Way can be quite challenging, especially when limited by the location of the Milky Way. When photographing a nexus panorama, I do my best to locate or create interesting foregrounds. Geoff Decker: As far as creativity goes, I do a lot of on-the-fly experimentation.
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