Photog Adventures Podcast: A Landscape Photography and Astrophotography Podcast

After a whirlwind week down in Arizona for the ImprovePhotography.com Listener Retreat, we hang out in Zion National Park with Rusty Parkhurst on way back home. Recording from an ironing board in our hotel, we take time from our Grand Finale adventure to Zion to recap what we learned from the retreat. Plus we tell stories from EIGHT different Photog Adventures between Arizona and Utah where we had plenty go wrong and right for us in our photography. Please go out and follow Rusty's photography at http://rustyparkhurst.com/

In a whirlwind trip we drive all night to get as many nights in Yosemite as we can over President's Day weekend to capture the Firefall Phenomenon. We have three nights and four days to make this newly discovered but definite bucket list dream come true! Fighting through flooding, holiday weekend crowds and car troubles we have a valuable weekend in Yosemite National Park meeting many new friends and getting a chance to spread the word about Photog Adventures.

We get the awesome opportunity to visit with Ian Norman of LonelySpeck.com and pick his brain for brilliant ideas on how to work with light pollution using his Pure Night filter, why we should all be using a 50mm lens more in our Astrophotography, and more tricks of the trade to do with stacking, panoramas and how to record a seamless Day-to-Night Timelapse. Pure Night can be ordered here: http://www.lonelyspeck.com/purenight/ Less than 100 left! Follow Ian: Instagram @inorman: https://www.instagram.com/inorman/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lonelyspeck Website: http://www.lonelyspeck.com/ Travel Vlog: http://northtosouth.us/

Brendon and I have the privilege to hangout with Dr. Bryony Richards and have a blast sharing Astrophotography adventure stories from all over the world. From her time in Namibia, South Africa and New Zealand Bryony always loved the stars but it wasn't until a sleepless night in Utah when she found her love of photographing the crazy cloud in the night sky, the Milky Way.

We sit down with Rusty Parkhurst and talk about his success of getting an image of his noticed by a Tourism agency in Missouri that ultimately used one of Rusty's images for the 2017 Official Missouri Travel Guide! Rusty shares with us how his image was found and received by the agency and his top tips for having the same success with your photography. See more of Rusty's work on his website at: RustyParkhurst.com As well as his articles on ImprovePhotography.com

Hanging out & talking Winter Landscape Photography in Southern Utah with Photographer Nathan St. Andre. We go over many tips on Winter Photography in that area from locations to smart clothing to survive the temperatures and remain comfortable without going out like the kid from the Christmas Story where he couldn't put his arms down. Link to the awesome map Nathan talked about that has all of the Slot Canyons in the US and some in Canada: http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?62130-The-Super-Amazing-Canyoneering-Map Follow Nathan: http://www.standrephotography.com/ http://www.facebook.com/nathanstandrephotography/

Extra Podcast episode where we share the 25 mins we spent talking about Royce's fascinating film and photography background. If you like the idea of getting into the weeds on aspects of how film for movies was edited, color corrected and hear about it from the perspective of a photographer who greatly enjoyed the transition from Film to Digital. Then you will enjoy this bonus excerpt about Royce Bair's professional background. Regular Podcast episode returns on Monday the 6th. NOTE: During the podcast Royce mentioned some early digital to analog film output and couldn't remember the names of the machines. They were the Solitaire and the Kodak LVT. The Solitaires were used to output digitally retouched files to 35mm slides or negatives. The cost up to $60,000 each. The cine models were used to output special computer effects for some of the Star Wars movies and other special effect movies (often done by Lucas' "Industrial Light and Magic" division). They often had up to a dozen of these film recorders going day and night to output the film for the movies (because it takes 24 frames for just one second of on screen time); http://www.promarketinc.com/pdf/mgisolitairecineiiiflx.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_recorder For larger color transparencies or color negatives, used for large printing (4x5 and 8x10), the Kodak LVT was the better film recorder technology. They cost about $170,000. https://artofplatinum.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/light-valve-technology-lvt-platinum-printing/ Back in the mid 90’s Replicolor.com, here in SLC, had 3 Solitaires and one LVT.

Back in July Brendon and I ran into Astrophotographer and Author Royce Bair out at Mirror Lake. Ever since we have been fortunate to call ourselves friends with the great man and great photographer! We sit down with Royce and ask listener Astrophotography questions while adding our own for an awesome hour of night photography advice! We go over how to overcome the challenge of a slow lens f3.5 or worse and crop-sensor cameras, the technique of stacking multiple images, location scouting for your image and your light painting, discuss which lenses are ideal for Astrophotography and Royce shares his pick for an awesome hybrid lens strong in both Astro and Landscape Photography! Buy Royce's super informative and educational eBook "Milky Way Nightscapes" here: http://intothenightphoto.blogspot.com/2015/01/milky-way-nightscapes-ebook-preview.html Learn more about Low-Level-Lighting here at: http://lowlevellighting.org/

We join listener Dan for a Photog Adventure out to Fifth Water Hot Springs. The blue pools of water and flowing streams were a fantastic Landscape Photography setting! The weather was perfect but the ride on the hard packed snow in fat tire bikes was miserable. We talk about the challenges of using Fat Tire bikes in the wrong situation and the awesome opportunity it was to go out with fellow Photog Adventurer Dan Lindhardt! ANNOUNCEMENT: The Podcast will be released EVERY MONDAY from now on. We have decided to make it a consistent day and so expect a new Photog Adventure Podcast every Monday! Thanks for listening everyone!

We complain about the challenges of winter photography but discover a website to help with that. Plus share a few untold stories from our adventures in 2016. The logistics of getting out in the winter turned out to be greater than Aaron anticipated but a website he discovered called TheOutbound.com looks to fix that! Then the guys talk about trips to Notch Peak, Payson Temple and the Silo from 2016 that hadn't been shared yet on the podcast.

Here at the end of 2016, we look at most of the gear and equipment we used in our Photog Adventures for Landscape Photography and Astrophotography throughout the year and share the PROS and CONS of each piece of equipment. Learn what we liked, what we thought needs an upgrade and wasn't worth having this year. Thanks for following our Adventures this year! Have a Happy 2017 and if you haven't already, make this the year you get out there and have a Photog Adventure of your own!

Looking for hidden gems in Utah, we travel to Francis Peak, the Strawberry Pinnacles and Guardsman Pass to scout photogenic locations. Join us as we talk about our July scouting experience up on the frigid mountain top at Francis Peak, the towering but annoying red rock pinnacles near Strawberry Reservoir and the perfect Sunday drive location Guardsman Pass.

Brendon and Aaron recap the major and minor things about Landscape and Astrophotography they learned throughout 2016. Following through on our commitment to get out with our cameras more, we ended up getting out twice a month or more! We went to awesome locations with our cameras and tried many new techniques. We sit down before Christmas and look back on what we learned from all of it and share with you the mistakes we made and the techniques we succeeded at.

Jeff Harmon the host of the Photo Taco podcast joins Brendon and Aaron to talk about photography, shooting in Utah and best practices of a Landscape Photographer. Jeff is the tech guru and host of the long running Photo Taco podcast over at improvephotography.com/phototaco/ a podcast dedicated to the beginner photographer and tip needing enthusiast photographer. Photo Taco is the perfect podcast for anyone just starting in photography who needs a great teacher, easy to understand to help you keep Lightroom running as quick as it can, size your photos for sharing online, tricks like exposure lock or back-button focus and pretty much anything else you can think of. We listen to Photo Taco every week and definitely recommend that you do too! Follow Jeff at: HTTP://JSHARMONPHOTOS.COM Instagram: @harmonjeff Twitter: @harmon_jeff IMPROVEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM/PHOTOTACO Instagram: @phototacopodcast Twitter: @PhotoTaco

Brendon and Aaron talk about the challenge of capturing the bright SuperMoon out in the Salt Flats of Utah. Once they arrived they were immediately faced with two obstacles that threatened to ruin their shots. The Salt Flats were completely flooded and clouds were building on the Eastern horizon!