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

This week on the Photog Adventures Podcast I give you the FIVE TIPS you need for Winter Milky Way Panoramas! I won't tell what they are here so you still have to listen to me :D but I cover everything from the perfect window of opportunity for panorama as well as what hours during the night you can expect to be out there to be able to capture that perfect panorama window. The absolute best news is what is happening in February and March and what incredible fun challenge those months are bringing! I hope you will all join me in taking on the challenge of Winter Milky Way and what we get to do in February and March!

The challenges and successes of Milky Way Photography in North Carolina! I just got back from my first Milky Way Workshop out on the East Coast and enjoyed some successes and crazy stories while out there! In this episode, I will go over FIVE THINGS: 1- Depressing Meal 2- First Night Near Fatal 3- Blue Ridge Parkway Milky Way "The Good and the Bad" 4- Rocks at Fort Fisher Milky Way "The Good and the Bad" 5- Final Goodbye to the Milky Way core at Caswell Beach Next week's episode: Winter Milky Way Panorama!

WORKSHOP DEAL: https://bit.ly/3uiLNCs Buckhorn Wash Pictograph Panel: https://bit.ly/3TlT7YX Arches Trailhead: https://bit.ly/3S1H7KX Hoodoo Village Parking: https://bit.ly/3MwT3TS In this episode I share my FIVE FAVORITE less traveled locations here in Utah. Often we go to the famous landmarks but wish we were somewhere with less people! These five locations will provide amazing views and easy to love compositions for either Milky Way or Landscape Photography. Throughout the episode, I share stories from each location while also describing the terrain, challenges and benefits of photography in these off-the-beaten-path locations that are still nearby classic Utah destinations.

Aaron Martinez joins me to give us the inside info on his rise from Hobbyist photographer to having a FULL-TIME CAREER as a "Visual Journalist" or Staff Photographer for one of USA Today's Circulation of Austin, Texas Newspapers. He shares what worked and what he was missing in his interview process and spills some secrets on how one can join him as a career Journalism Photographer in an industry that is getting tougher and tougher to find a good paying job in. We also here his story of a potentially life-threatening wildlife encounter while in New Mexico and the story behind my absolute favorite picture out of White Sands National Park that Aaron captured years ago! I just LOVE his image! See Aaron's Portfolio here: https://aaronmartinez.myportfolio.com/ See that White Sands image: https://aaronmartinez.myportfolio.com/chasing-light SAVE 50% OFF TEN OF MY WORKSHOPS HERE: https://bit.ly/3pJbhFb This is a 1-DAY sale only, so if you are reading this on Friday, August 20th then CLICK ON THE LINK ASAP! Sale ends at Midnight Friday night! :D -Aaron

Perseids are going to be great this year! The timing with the moon is working out really tremendous for us this year and so the annual Perseid Meteor Shower is going to be the best we have had in several years! So let's get ready for it! Know the best mornings to go out and tips on how to take advantage of it as best as possible! Kirk Keyes and Rhonda Pierce joins me on the podcast to talk the Perseid Meteor Shower and Rhonda's transition to a mirrorless Canon camera. Read Kirk's Perseid Meteor Shower article over on MilkyWayPhotographers.com: https://bit.ly/3CbbS9P

Phil Sisto joins me to talk Milky Way Photography in the less-mentioned Capitol Reef National Park here in Utah where he was the 2020 Artist In Residence! Phil shares how he got the gig and the secrets to a good application. While also dishing on the great situation he had there with the amazing house they gave him to use while working there! From amazingly deep mud cracks around Cathedral Valley to making a 45-minute hike THREE HOURS LONGER, Phil shares his successes and misadventures while being the Artist in Residence. Phil uses Star Trackers in his Milky Way Photography and shares his best tip for post-processing the masked blend of your foreground and sky in photoshop. If you are seeing the podcast cover art I used from Phil, you are NOT getting the full glory of that image and will need to go Phil's Website to see this amazing image from the beautiful Milky Way at the top and the incredible hyper-foreground of the deeeeep cracks in the mud! It is an amazing shot! Check out Phil's Work right away! Website: PSistoImages.com https://psistoimages.com/ Instagram: P.Sisto.Images https://www.instagram.com/p.sisto.images/

I am back! It has been a long seven months while I have been focused on finalizing my Divorce and I am VERY HAPPY to report that I am 100% completely done! I am fully divorced! I am a single man again! In this episode I update you on my move, my 3-week girlfriend who went crazy on me, my goals for the future and the upcoming workshops which will be my LAST photography workshops for a very long while. I am so happy to be back in the saddle again without any of the weight of the divorce challenge looming over me anymore that I record THREE NEW EPISODES of the podcast that will all be released soon! I am really enjoying being back at it! I hope you enjoy it too!

Using the data from my 2021 Milky Way Photography Almanac, I know exactly how many perfect nights there will be next year! Join me here or on Facebook where I recorded this LIVE today and I will share with you that answer! Also, I will teach about the unique differences of Southern Hemisphere Milky Way Photography and why they have a month-to-month advantage over Northern Hemisphere Milky Way Photogs. GET MY 2021 MILKY WAY PHOTOGRAPHY ALMANAC: https://aaronkingcreative.clickfunnels.com/2021-almanac-pre-order1607025017776 FACEBOOK VIDEO LINK: https://www.facebook.com/aaronkingsphotogadventures/videos/737515047162725 Link to MaryBeth's Awesome Winter Panorama: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIMdTAEnX7p/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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!

With three napkins filled with the scrawls of locations and weather predictions strewn around her, MaryBeth announced the next likely location for the workshop. Copper Harbor! A discussion and a decision later. We were heading West! MaryBeth had woken up early that morning to find us an opening in the skies so we had a better chance of seeing the Aurora should the conditions arise. The evidence of her hours of meticulously checking multiple weather models & predictions filled the napkins with data written in a legibility only MaryBeth was capable of reading. As she gathered her nearly falling apart napkins she laughed to herself and commented aloud, "See what I mean about rather being a crack addict than an aurora chaser?" Implying that it might be even less crazy to be on crack than participate in the chase she loves best. In this podcast, I share some of the what went wells and could have been betters about last week's Upper Peninsula Aurora Workshop. From weather and aurora chasing, to the sights and waterfalls of the Upper Peninsula and my first chance using a Tiffen Fog Filter to capture Orion in the darkest sky most of us had ever been under, this past week lived up to the Photog Adventures motto of getting out there on an adventure! Image of the before and after of the Tiffen Fog Filter on Orion: https://bit.ly/3fcuOtM Tiffen Double Fog 3 Filter: https://amzn.to/35CNuj6 !! Be sure to pick up one that matches your lens !!

MaryBeth Kiczenski and Kirk Keyes join me as co-hosts to talk about the new Coronal Holes and what that means for Aurora Photography and they get to be my audience while I share a story about people being A-Holes to each other out doing Milky Way Photography. Aurora Season has begun and we are in a Solar Minimum. Which means we are in the valley heading back up to the mountain peak. The roller coaster that is the Aurora has an 11-year cycle as it goes up to the MAX and then down to the MIN and right now we are excitedly transitioning away from the min and heading towards the max again! During a Solar Minimum, Aurora Photographers pay close attention to when Coronal Holes open up on the sun and can plan on consistent Aurora activity while the coronal holes are pointing at us. We have the coronal holes coming back around to face Earth and we are about to head into some more exciting Aurora activity, so I have on MaryBeth on to give tips for beginner Aurora Photographers and learn more about how to predict aurora. Keep up on Aurora at SpaceWeather.com: https://bit.ly/3nMLeg7 Link to the Space Weather Woman YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3jZlFWT

Oh the smoke!! Car troubles in the thick mud at the Salt Flats & playing with water as a mirror in your composition! Milky Way Photography already has the Moon & Clouds to fight with, this year the smoke became more of a problem than most years! In this episode I begin with talking about dealing with the smoke during the Out of Moab Conference. Smoke Map at Airnow.gov: https://bit.ly/34sKaFA After two nights of perfect skies we started getting it really bad by the time we were in Arches National Park but as you can see in Royce's image down below, it still was possible to come away with a great image! Check out Royce's Image of Nic up inside the arch: https://bit.ly/3cVa2gR Rounding out the podcast, I share a story of trying to get the mirror Milky Way out at the Salt Flats, dealing with car troubles and then a tip for making your own mirrors out in Moab. Join MaryBeth and I in the Upper Peninsula! https://bit.ly/3jCLUSC

A fantastic treat for those of you who share my love of Erin Babnik! Erin joins the podcast to talk about her snowmobile workshop in the Dolomiti where she captured - BY HAND - an absolutely brilliant photo-stack of swirling snow and glowing Dolomite Mountains through the atmospheric clouds! Just love the image! You can see her image "Reverie" here: https://bit.ly/3hWvDq5 The podcast begins with us plugging the upcoming CREATE PHOTOGRAPHY VIRTUAL SUMMIT! It is an online-only zoom conference where Erin Babnik will be kicking off the teaching as our Keynote Address. The Conference is in February over Friday Feb. 19th and continues for three days ending in the afternoon on Sunday Feb 21st. After we talk about what she is teaching during her Keynote, I ask Erin about her process of finding images that match her quality level. Erin gets into detail about her process while at camera and then in post-processing to make the images we have grown to envy! Learn more from Erin here at her website: ErinBabnik.com Direct link to her Workshop Reading List: https://bit.ly/3i1iUCG Thanks for listening and get out there for an adventure of your own!

Alyn Wallace joins me back in June during the heat of the Covid-19 lockdowns to share his love of Milky Way Photography. After we bemoan the lack of opportunities to go out with our cameras, Alyn talks about what makes his Milky Way Photography stand out, his tip for clean images and we both geek out over what we both absolutely love about Milky Way Photography. Then Alyn shares his "what went wells" & challenges behind three of his favorite images. See if you can spot the very unique phenomenon that occurs in La Palma that is unique to Milky Way Photography in the Canary Islands. Thank Alyn for joining us on the podcast by checking out his content over at his Website & YouTube channel! Website: https://alynwallacephotography.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxQ3Dx6K95hpLpdJjTRIlg Link to the Upper Peninsula Aurora Workshop with me and MaryBeth Kiczenski here: https://bit.ly/3jCLUSC

To celebrate - in a slightly macabre way - the four-year mark of the Photog Adventures Podcast, I invite on Blake Fair to share with us his near-death experience capturing the Milky Way out at Corona Arch! Through his words of caution we all can be better prepared for going out on our for Milky Way Photography. You can read the news article about the experience here: https://bit.ly/2Fbevjc Thank Blake Fair by following him over on his Instagram @FairImage! Blake's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairimage/

Michael Ver Sprill of Milky Way Mike fame on YouTube, joins the podcast to share the story of his Covid-19 Quarantine and tell us about his FIRST Milky Way of 2020! Mike went out to Assateague Island to get away from the New Jersey light pollution and captured three beautiful timelapses of the rising Milky Way Core over the Atlantic Ocean! In one of his captures, he had an incredible looking timelapse that starts on the inside of a tent and while watching the Milky Way rise through the open door of the tent it moves THROUGH the tent opening and out to reveal the entire horizon! It is a VERY COOL timelapse that you need to check out his YouTube channel and see for yourself! See his trip to Assateague & his timelapses here over on his Milky Way Mike YouTube Channel here: https://youtu.be/Qnwj76vpeUY Trip to the Marshes & Wildlife Refuge: https://youtu.be/gG476KQuvIY Follow Mike at Instagram and his website here: @Milky_Way_Mike and MilkyWayMike.com After sharing Mike's first Milky Way, I take him and you through the myriad of failures that led to me seeing my FIRST Milky Way of 2020 all the way in April! I share the fear that welled up in my imagination as I stood out there alone on that cliff wall capturing my SECOND SUCCESSFUL Dual-Exposure Milky Way Panorama! Be one of the 26 students to get my Milky Way Course at the $30 discount before it goes back up to the full price of $97! https://bit.ly/33I5JRF

Josh joins me to talk about the presentation we will be teaching together during this week’s Out of Chicago LIVE Conference and then he tells me about an image that I am STILL boiling with envy about! Join us at Out of Chicago LIVE! This weekend for three days of online global photography instruction! Get your access here before Thursday! 
https://www.outofchicago.com/live/ After the fun of celebrating our chance to still teach during this Covid-19 craziness, Josh shares with me his story about an image of his that I had NOT known about yet and I can’t believe I had my head in the sand so much! I LOVE THIS IMAGE! I can’t believe how much I love it, such a fantastic composition and high quality execution that it was a lot of fun to hear the story behind this shot. Here are Kertu's and Dany's IGs: https://www.instagram.com/kertu.ee/  https://www.instagram.com/danyeidphotography/  Coming up on a future episode, Josh will join me again to talk about the FULL STORY of creating this shot and I cannot wait! See you at OutofChicago.com/live! Support Josh by going to JoshuaCripps.com and sign up for his email list so you can get in on his future online course offerings!

Get your copy of my Milky Way Course at: https://AaronKing.PhotogAdventures.com 
For the first 30 minutes I talk about what the Corona situation meant for me and Photog Adventures. The derailment and the coming changes to Photog Adventures due to the Corona Virus. In classic Aaron King style I truly am an open book about the goings on around here and explain why the major change is coming. IF YOU CAME TO THE PODCAST FOR THE DEEP SKY DISCUSSION WITH IAN NORMAN SKIP TO 31:24. At minute 31:24 it’s TIME to think Deep Sky Astrophotography! This episode is part one of TWO EPISODES teaching Deep Sky Astrophotography. Part ONE is all Ian Norman & Diana Southern from LonelySpeck.com joining me on my Live Stream to teach Deep Sky Astrophotography with your DSLR & the LRGB Post-Processing Method to bring the MOST out of your current gear without buying all the expensive trackers, telescopes, CCD cameras and EQ Mounts that will come with Narrowband DSO Astrophotography! This podcast includes highlights from the Live Stream, but you can go to Facebook with the link down below and watch the whole hour with Ian & Diana. Ian & Diana STARTS AT 5 hours 32 minute mark on the live stream here: https://www.facebook.com/photogadventures/videos/261512944865253/ Podcast 154 Coming VERY SOON with PART TWO of this Deep Sky Astro Get your copy of my Milky Way Course at $30 before it hits 100 sold and goes back up $97: https://bit.ly/33I5JRF Join the Guild at https://www.MilkyWayPhotographersGuild.com/

Welcome to the first ever Milky Way Photographers Guild Podcast! Join the Guild here: https://www.milkywayphotographersguild.com/ The Astro Photog Podcast is exclusive to members only of the Milky Way Photographers Guild. This week's episode covers the TEN THINGS YOU MUST DO BEFORE MILKY WAY! Doing these ten things will prepare you to have your most successful first night out for Milky Way that you can expect to have! TIME MARKERS TO JUMP AROUND TIPS EASILY 3:10 TIP ONE | Know the Moon & Milky Way 11:36 TIP TWO | Find a dark sky location 15:11 TIP THREE | Will there be clouds? 20:23 TIP FOUR | Know Gear! Camera & Lens 23:08 TIP FIVE | Know Gear! Live View 30:33 TIP SIX | Know Gear! White Balance 33:54 TIP SEVEN | Know Gear! Shutter 38:16 TIP EIGHT | Know Gear! Histogram 43:48 TIP NINE | Know Gear! ISO 45:21 TIP TEN | Know Gear! RAW & NR 48:42 BONUS TIPS

Chris Smith joins me on the podcast to talk about the Out of Moab Conference and in-between the love fest for the upcoming Out of Moab Conference, we share Chris' challenges with leading conferences, discuss any imposter syndrome he had at the beginning of his photography career, the thing that scared him from hiking a mile, the insanity of scheduling 100 people's activities for each conference and the time he got made fun of by Ansel Adams' assistant! Join me & Ian Norman, Eric Paré, Royce Bair, David Kingham to name a few of my favorites coming to the Out of Moab conference in September! https://www.outofchicago.com/moab/ USE DISCOUNT CODE "KING" TO GET $250 OFF!

Sigh...I never ever ever wanted to tell this story. It truly is embarrassing for me and I can’t believe I just put it to permanent record and included it on a podcast! Ugh I am starting to really regret this. BUT I haven’t released a new episode in three weeks so this is coming as a perfect punishment. Also, I have three new announcements that will be explained here mixed with three stories. I won’t say what the announcements are other than to summarize what is coming in this way: Season Four -> NightScaper Nightmare -> The Guild? -> Most Embarrassing moment of 2019 -> The Contest! Enjoy! Here is a great blog talking about the Klakkur Hike so you can understand more what my hike was like: https://fortheloveofwanderlust.com/klakkur-hike-the-faroe-islands/ PS If by chance you got curious why I would go to a conference for computer software that is supposedly going to help me with Photog Adventures, then definitely check out these two links. One will give you a taste of what I love about Russell Brunson's Teaching methods for online businesses but through the perspective of 30 other successful entrepreneurs and you can try out Clickfunnels for 14-days. CLICKFUNNELS 14-DAY TRIAL: http://bit.ly/2OwXQIv 30-DAYS SUMMIT & ONE FUNNEL AWAY CHALLENGE: http://bit.ly/2vAfbcE

Joined by Kirk Keyes and Rob Ryan we share untold stories from 2019. Between Kirk's National Media name snub, Rob's fear of Owls but not Snakes and my own new juvenile arch-nemesis out at Escalante we share some funny success stories & annoying situations from 2019! Rhonda's recommended snake protection - Turtleskin Snake Gaitors: https://amzn.to/2Foku0C

ONLY SOME of the authors behind MilkyWayPhotographers.com join me on the podcast to share some of their favorite Milky Way Photography tips, stories, articles on MWP.com and their favorite Milky Way locations that they have been in 2019. Aaron Martinez, our famous Pentax representative who casually captures Milky Way with Mountain Lions nearby, lives in Texas but spends most of his Photography time in New Mexico and his favorite spot to get out to is the very nearby Bortle 2 area of City of Rocks! MaryBeth Kiczenski, obsessed Aurora zealot and nicknamed MegaRally, said that her favorite location of 2019 and ALL-TIME was being out with me at Escalante, Utah at Devil’s Garden because of all the options there and how her Metate Arch image came out so well she actually printed it to metal and it hangs proudly in her place! Kirk Keyes, the Managing Editor of MilkyWayPhotographers.com and one of the first ten if not FIVE fans of Photog Adventures, said that his experience at Delicate Arch in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah was his favorite Milky Way Photography experience of 2019! PODCAST UPCOMING RELEASES NOTE: Several Podcast Episodes have been recorded but a confluence of issues with guest and co-host timings, MWP.com website issues where I crashed it updating it for my failed Black Friday sales along with other casualties have pushed things WAY back! But these episodes are ALL COMING OUT THIS WEEK! So stay tuned and stay safe this New Year’s Eve! Happy 2020 and wishing you all the best in the coming year! :D -Aaron

Using Highlights from Podcast Guests from Episodes 18, 21, 22, 30, 34, 47 & 59 I consolidate all of the Milky Way Photography Advice I received in the 1st year of the podcast! You will hear from Me, Royce Bair, Bryony Richards, Ian Norman, Eric Benedetti, Mark Gee, Joshua Snow and Michael Shainblum! Get advice from FIVE of the 30+ Speakers presenting at the 2020 NightScaper Conference! BUT! DON'T JUST LISTEN HERE!! Come join me, Royce Bair and these amazing Milky Way Photographers in Kanab in 2020 at the NightScaper Conference! REGISTER NOW AT: http://nightscaper.weebly.com/ USE DISCOUNT CODE "ADVENTURE100" TO GET $100 OFF! ROYCE BAIR kicks off this highlight reel of advice with a lesson on PROPER EXPOSURE WITH A CORRECT HISTOGRAM, then talking about making the most of hazy thin clouds or using a DOUBLE FOG FILTER to show off the true color of stars and then finishes with an answer to a Listener Question that gives you the ultimate response to the concern of having your best lens for Milky Way being a weak f3.5 aperture lens. Royce tells us a few things you can do to overcome that limitation. BRYONY RICHARDS teaches me about the science behind the colors of the Milky Way and what certain colors tell us about the stars. Then Bryony explains the SEVEN DIGITAL FILTERS approach to post-processing. IAN NORMAN begins his advice with a direct message to brand new Milky Way Photographers and answering whether their camera is good enough for Astrophotography. With a brilliant explanation of the MERITS OF SHUTTER VS. ISO in deciding how to expose your Milky Way Image. Then he tells us his GO-TO METHOD FOR A HIGH QUALITY MILKY WAY and what lens he uses and how in order to get that ultimate quality. ERIC BENEDETTI emphasizes QUALITY IN YOUR LENSES! He gives us a scientific example to explain why certain lenses are NO GOOD for Milky Way Photography and hits the point hard that large apertures and even avoiding wide angle lenses can be great! MARK GEE advice to get out there and work through the challenges of getting out there. DON'T GET HUNG UP ON PLANNING. Go to a location you like and do it! And don't worry about noise reduction, if you do mind a little noise in your images then definitely FIX THE NOISE WITH A STACK OR PANORAMA. JOSHUA SNOW takes us through his system of CREATING A STACKED MILKY WAY IMAGE all the way from capture settings to post-processing with Starry Landscape Stacker to get rid of noise. MICHAEL SHAINBLUM ends the year of advice sharing a story about going out and doing Milky Way Photography & timelapses commenting on the fear we sometimes feel out alone out under the stars as well as the wonder of hanging out under the stars and enjoying them until something goes wrong. Remember, if you are a Milky Way Photographer, our yearly event to get together with other like-minded awesome Milky Way Photographers is at the NightScaper Conference! This event is your chance to mega-rally and capture night after night of GREAT Milky Way Photography in Southern Utah, Arizona and anywhere else you drive by on your way to the NightScaper Conference in Kanab! Sign up now and join me next year using the "ADVENTURE100" Discount code over at http://nightscaper.weebly.com/!

Mark Gee joins Aaron to talk Southern Hemisphere Milky Way Photography in New Zealand! Giving us tips on stacking, capturing, composition and where to go in New Zealand! First we start off talking about the differences of capturing the Milky Way in the Southern Hemisphere right down to the timing of when to go out due to the Milky Way Core being too high in the sky at the beginning of the night. Then we move into some major capturing, stacking tips from Mark that are terrific tricks to bring the most out of your Milky Way Photography. Mark explains his "Good" image approach that includes the daytime scouting that is usually hard for most of us that can't leave to our location until after work and usually too late before sundown. What is Mark's MUST BRING for anyone coming to New Zealand for Milky Way? What are the reasons Mark loves the Great Barrier, Central Plateau, Cape Palliser, Mount Cook and why is Wellington the BEST CAPITOL of ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD? Find out now on the Photog Adventures Podcast! Lens Heater Option #1: https://amzn.to/35MVnk0 Lens Heater Option #2: https://amzn.to/2BloJbj WATCH MARK'S DAY TO NIGHT TO DAY TIMELAPSE HERE: http://bit.ly/2PajWBJ Follow Mark Gee: WEBSITE: http://theartofnight.com/ FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theArtOfNightPhotographyGroup/

COME FOR THE ADVENTURE, STAY FOR THE MIS-ADVENTURES! The amazing adventures and awful mis-adventures of my most recent Faroe Islands trip! If you love the idea of coming to the Faroe Islands you will definitely want to hear about all of the tremendous things that happened to me, Kathy and Rhonda out in the Faroe Islands. I guess I couldn't just experience amazing aurora, beautiful light, cloud inversions, Paragliders, rastafarian/surfer dude cows and some of the BEST moments in the Faroe Islands without ALSO having plenty of things go wrong. Boy did they. I wonder if anyone will count up the misadventures and tell me how bad it actually was....still recovering. :D Join me in the Faroe Islands or out for some Milky Way Photography in my 2020 Workshops! https://workshops.photogadventures.com/store-front

MaryBeth Kiczenski joins Aaron and Kirk Keyes on the podcast to talk about her 23-Straight Nights of Milky Way Photography. We go over the "Rally" that ALL Milky Way Photographers need to get used to doing and why she is known as MegaRally! MaryBeth shares with us what went well and what could have gone better on her month long adventure of capturing the Milky Way every night in Michigan, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula. Then she goes over her 2-Night Blitz for Aurora and why those two days were actually tougher than her 23-straight nights of Milky Way. Link to MWP Article where MaryBeth shows her taped up key: http://bit.ly/2mV1yAH

As we get too crazy into our photography hobby, there are areas that we just drop off the hobbyist map and try to turn it into a side hustle. Don't let the stress of worrying about the wrong things ruin this hobby for you! Have fun as a Photographer again! I am joined today by Jeff Harmon who co-hosts the podcast with me today as we tackle this topic that is becoming more and more common in the world of Photography. We take ourselves and the fun of photography way too seriously! Bonus, while Jeff shares his recent adventures in the beginning of the podcast we are joined by MaryBeth Kiczenski! MegaRally! Enjoy!

Join me in 2020 at one of my Photog Adventures' Workshops! http://bit.ly/2lSlvY6 In this bonus episode, I take 30-minutes to highlight the 2020 Schedule to help you guys decide which adventure you would like to join me on next year! Go to PhotogAdventures.com and click on Workshops or use this link: http://bit.ly/2lSlvY6 Join me in the Bisti Badlands, North Rim, Toadstool Hoodoo, Escalante National Monument, Bonneville Salt Flats, Crater Lake & Oregon Coast, Southern Utah, New Zealand or the Faroe Islands! 2020 Photog Adventures' Workshops: http://bit.ly/2lSlvY6

David Thompson - a Landscape Photographer who Nick Page recently called his favorite Post-Processor - joins the podcast and teaches us what "epic light" means, shares a truly amazing Epic Light moment and gets us interested in Swamp Photography! Hear Nick Page compliment David in this video here: https://youtu.be/Jo6xonIhAOo?t=2081 David is an expert hobbyist photographer whose reputation for beautiful images has landed him workshops & Skype calls teaching photography throughout the year while he keeps a full time day job. After David shares with us his three favorite Landscape Photography areas and tips for newbs on how to take the most advantage of these areas, we learn from David a great perspective on light. How to work with it, anticipate it and he names several situations that should be considered "epic light" even though it isn't the classic blown up sky. Then David completely turns 180-Degrees and shares with us one of the most envious tales I have ever heard about epic light out at Factory Butte! His image actually has a Rainbow perfectly symmetrical arching over Factory Butte with a sky crazy pink! Instagram link to that Factory Butte Image: https://www.instagram.com/p/BllUKc9Dgic/ What an amazing shot! Dang we really are jealous! Beyond the amazing image, David shares with us the juggling act he was going through while trying to capture this shot and the endurance and optimism required of him and his friend Paul Rojas to even STAY in the Factory Butte area; especially after what happened to them the night leading up to this sunrise! Lastly, I share the Instagram message attached to that image from David that talks about a principle that what we know as "epic light" is completely relative and will change as you gain more experience in Landscape Photography. Follow David Thompson on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/davidthompsonphotography/ David's Website: https://www.davidthompsonphotography.com/

Jenna Martin - despite being landlocked in Billings, Montana - created and mastered a majorly interesting niche in photography: Underwater Portraiture! And not just Fine Art, but actual families come to her from all over to get a spectacular and candid family portrait! Jenna shares the challenges, the gear, the dedication of her models and her crazy determination to experience exactly what her models are experiencing! If they don't get a wetsuit, she doesn't get a wetsuit. Whether it is a freezing cold lake or a chlorine picture ruining pool, Jenna is dressed in the same comforts or lack thereof that her models are. In the second half, Jenna shares a story about a mystery figure in the water next to her model and it is in the picture here over on her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BHREyfwhlmA/ Jenna also shares her experience giving a Ted talk, one of my personal goals in life, and the details behind the scenes on what Ted Talks require of you is way off what I expected! We had a blast hearing about her experiences and crazy admired her tenacity going for a type of photography that has so many quirks about it that there are unpredictable challenges like what makeup her models have to wear underwater! It really is a fascinating story and we think whether you would actually someday consider doing underwater photography yourself or not, you will love to hear about Jenna's work! To follow Jenna's Photography, go to her blog at: http://jennamartinphotography.com/ More of her images at Instagram and be like Eric Pare and follow Jenna! https://www.instagram.com/jennamartinphoto/ Keep up with Jenna through her podcast too! Creative Chaos Podcast: apple.co/2zOa87J

In this edit from a long lost episode recorded back in April, Brendon joins me on the podcast sharing FIVE THINGS WE LOVED about the Create Photography Retreat! #1 The type of Amazing, Enthusiastic people that came to it! #2 The Array of Classes & that it is only getting better! #3 The Great People BEHIND the Retreat! Brian Hanson! #4 It is one of the GREAT retreats FOR BEGINNERS! #5 Small Class Settings allowing everyone time w/ instructor! If you have been on the fence about coming to the Create Photography Retreat, this episode will be the thing that pushes you over the edge! It was a true blast being a part of it and I can't wait for 2020! Join us at the Create Photography Retreat in 2020! https://createphotographyretreat.com/

Today we are joined by Enrico Fossati all the way from Italia! A land I have a true love for and feel myself longing to return all the time! In this episode we are also joined by my father acting as my co-host who also helps me with any Italian translation. We begin the episode hearing Enrico's bucket list locations and to no surprise he ALSO can't wait until he can get out to New Zealand! A bucket list location for seemingly ALL photographers! :D Enrico recommends to us the Val d'Aosta area of the Italian and French Alps for a location that we all add to OUR bucket lists if we are interested in a dynamic, more wild version of the Dolomites in Italy. And he describes many locations in Italy that we all should practice our hand at landscape photography on even though they can be certainly over photographed by all tourists who go there. In the second half of this shorter episode, Enrico shares with us a story of a crazy weather day that he must seek refuge from the thunder and lightning and finds himself in a position to capture his most famous image. A shot inspired by his love of the Lord of the Rings city of Rivendell. Throughout the podcast, Enrico recommends to us two artists that inspire his work: John Howe who did the Conceptual Design for Lord of the Rings. You can see some of his work here. And Albert Bierstadt who is famous for paintings of famous landscapes from the United States. His final recommendation to us, is to know the area and learn the times when the light is best. Not everywhere is "best" to capture around sunrise or sunset so that can't be an automatic thought as a Landscape Photographer. You need to come back often and experience the area. If you are in a location you don't have more than a day or two there come early so you have 6+ hours to experience the area and you might just find that the harsher mid-day light is the best light for that landscape and offers you wondrous opportunities to create a composition you will never forget! Follow Enrico Fossati's work here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enrico.fossati/?hl=it 500PX: https://500px.com/efossati Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enricofossatiphotography/ Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/efossati/

My Milky Way Hero, Royce Bair, joins me on the podcast to share his thoughts on the recent Nightscaper Conference & the changes coming to the 2020 Nightscaper Conference in Kanab, Utah! Join Photog Adventures there in 2020! Go to NIGHTSCAPER.COM and use "ADVENTURE100" to get $100 off! We also spend an hour just talking Milky Way Photography hearing about Royce's recent adventure out to Fantasy Canyon and get tips and tricks on tackling that small space that is uniquely filled with crazy hoodoos but also tormented by nearby light pollution in a way that requires you adjust your low-level lighting and color balance accordingly. Then Royce gives us a 101 level Course on correct low-level lighting techniques and incredible insight on his Post-Processing methods for Milky Way Photography! Join Photog Adventures and Royce Bair at the 2020 Nightscaper Conference in Kanab and use the "ADVENTURE100" Coupon Code at checkout to get $100 off the price! Go to NIGHTSCAPER.COM! Remember to use the Photog Adventures Coupon Code "ADVENTURE100" at checkout!

If you love Landscape Photography and Storytelling you are going to LOVE this podcast with Joshua Cripps! The audio quality from Josh gets better as the podcast goes along as he gets closer to his mic on his end. Less little echo and much louder. Best in segment two starting at 36:26. So after an intro and admittedly a little too much joking around we get into Josh's travels, workshops and all the world traveling he has done. 8:31 We ask him where he would consider his top three favorite Landscape Photography locations. One of them quickly becomes one of our top five bucket list locations! In order of his mentioning them, China, New Zealand's Fiordland National Park area & the High Sierras of California. Follow Kyle Oberman here the instagrammer that is living in China and has some great images of not oft traveled locations in China: https://www.instagram.com/kyleobermann/ 28:30 Then we get the What Would Joshua Cripps Do method of Composing an image where you consider the compositional balance and then you consider the emotion you are feeling. Then you convey that emotion with your shutter choice. Josh gets to an awesome location, gets his camera out and thinks "What am I trying to convey? What is speaking to me? Is there motion in the scene? How Do I feel?" and with all this he gets his portfolio worthy shot. 36:26 In the second segment, Josh shares with us the craziest world travel story I may have ever heard! Let's just say that there are tiny ponies involved in a decision only 20-year-olds would think to do. Oh to be 20-something again! If you want to follow Joshua Cripps' photography go to his website: https://www.joshuacripps.com or at his instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshuacrippsphotography/ Gear Mentioned by Josh in this episode: Nikon D850: https://goo.gl/BF4K8F Nikkor 70-200mm f4:https://goo.gl/4vSNWP Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8:https://goo.gl/izJnDJ Nikkor 18-35mm f3.5-4.5:https://goo.gl/pyQTGN0

We begin the hangout talking about Matt Payne's podcast F-Stop Collaborate & Listen. If you have never heard of his podcast or have been considering listening to it, this is your chance to hear from the creator yourself what makes his podcast different interesting and why I definitely recommend it as a way to feel like you are hanging out with some of your favorite Landscape Photographers. Listen to F-Stop Collaborate & Listen here:https://www.mattpaynephotography.com/f-stop-collaborate-and-listen As we start getting into the Mountaineering Photography discussion I check whether he made the leap to a smaller camera body mirrorless system and he has as expected from someone paying attention to every pound in his bag. I am able to play the devil's advocate and get some really candid feedback from a guy who switched from Nikon to Sony and what the cons are if any to the Sony mirrorless options out there. Matt's Why he chose Sony article & weight spreadsheet: https://www.mattpaynephotography.com/choosing-sony-full-frame-camera-equipment-for-backpacking-and-weight-calculation-tool It should be noted, Matt doesn't have a Sony A7R3 and so he was not able to comment specifically on that model. Then we hear about Matt's Photography process, how he approaches his compositions as well as some inspiring advice on how we all can benefit from changing our perspective and expectations when going out to do photography so that we can get the most out of the experience. And keep the motivation to keep on keeping on! To round out the podcast, Matt shares with us some mountaineering adventures and words of caution for those of you considering more hiking and mountaineering photography in your future! The awesome Zeiss Loxia 21mm f2.8 lens he was gushing about:https://amzn.to/2ELyyTm Camera Lens Sleeve similar to the one he talked about:https://amzn.to/2GAzHim Freedom of the Hills Book: https://amzn.to/2LtcygA Laowa 15mm F2:https://amzn.to/2LwqXJd Similar Portable Anker PowerCore 20100:https://amzn.to/2BEJvlI Gaia GPS:https://www.gaiagps.com/ Lists of John website with all the mountain peaks of the US:https://listsofjohn.com/ Follow Matt Payne at: https://www.mattpaynephotography.com/ & http://www.100summits.com/

We hang out with Gavin Hardcastle talking his new YouTube channel, his adventure out at Crystal Mill in Colorado, what it means to make the effort to get a good composition and what advice he has for new photographers or new YouTubers! Follow more of Gavin's work at https://www.fototripper.com/

Aaron is joined by Alan Dyer and we get to nerd out about the Comet Wirtanen! This information is from months ago! Enjoy learning from Alan Dyer, but the comet is nowhere to be seen. The next Comet in our night skies will be 2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) which will be here towards the end of 2019. This comet is predicted to possibly reach magnitude 10. 2017 T2 PanSTARRS will be well placed for northern hemisphere observers moving from Auriga in to Perseus. This comet will not reach perihelion until 04 May, 2020. Check out this list for all visible comets right now: n.html">http://www.aerith.net/comet/future-n.html Here is Alan's image from last night he tweeted to show what the comet looks like: https://twitter.com/amazingskyguy/status/1069853719930368000 Read up more on capturing Comet Wirtanen from Alan's blog: https://amazingsky.net/2018/11/30/follow-comet-wirtanen/ Alan hails from the North, beyond the Night's Watch of Montana and experiences the challenges of Milky Way Photography when the season brings weeks without full darkness but also has the majesty of amazing aurora! Alan can go out can capture the Milky Way Core in the south and look north and capture amazing Aurora! This aurora has led Alan to doing more and more timelapses so we get into specifics on processing and come away with some great processing program tips! One that I expect to use right away! Alan's Website: http://www.amazingsky.com/index.html Timelapse Programs: https://timelapsedeflicker.com/ http://www.timelapseplus.com/

We continue our sharing of the Patron-Only Podcasts with this interview of our friend and awesome photographer Alyce Bender! Aaron was really sick and so Brendon interviews Alyce on his own and we get a great interview coming from a world traveling Landscape Photographer transitioning from hobbyist to professional. Something we all want to do! This week Aaron gets a break and Brendon interviews Alyce Bender. Alyce is an outdoor travel loving photographer. She has traveled and lived all over the world. She will also be teaching at the Create Photography Retreat in Las Vegas. You can follow her on Facebook & Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/abenderphoto/ https://www.instagram.com/abenderphoto/ Her main website is https://www.abenderphotography.com/

Recorded LIVE from our Facebook Live Stream with Ryan Smith back in March! Learn from Ryan Smith as he teaches us about Printing and Selling our Landscape Photography & Milky Way Photography Prints! Combining his professional experience as a corporate trainer with his passion for photography, Ryan has a knack for sharing the technical aspects of photography in an easy to understand way through various workshops, tours, and events through the west and the Hawaiian Islands. He enjoys adapting to the various needs of his attendees whether it's in the field learning the technical side and composition techniques, or if its in the classroom focusing on perfecting post editing techniques and helping achieve a print ready image.

With sorrow in this episode I announce that Brendon Porter is no longer a part of Photog Adventures due to a medical diagnosis of one of his daughters. The extremely concerning situation has forced Brendon to back out of Photog Adventures and he may never be able to come back. But with an attitude of celebration, I share highlights of Brendon from the last three years of podcast episodes! Funny things he has said, funny stories we shared about him, funny mistakes that he made and I end with his advice for all of us taken from three years of "What did you learn in..." episodes. I want to say goodbye to my Adventure Buddy and Partner in Photog Adventures and personally thank Brendon for all of his great work co-hosting the Photog Adventures Podcast! Listening to all these highlights really makes me already miss him on the future episodes. It is going to be so different without you, my friend! All the best wishes for your family!

Join the Milky Way Photographer T-Shirt Giveaway here: http://bit.ly/2YE2XZG Milky Way Mike joins us to talk the challenges of East Coast Milky Way Photography. How he cuts through the light pollution, where he goes to avoid New Jersey light pollution, why fishing can help you get better Milky Way Images in some places and shares a story where he rode his bike several miles to gain access to a landmark for a Milky Way shot that doesn't even exist anymore! Follow Milky Way Mike at his website: http://milkywaymike.com/ or watch his YouTube videos here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MVphotovideo Check out his Botany Bay Plantation video here: https://youtu.be/ossnhDSUBCA Thank you Patrons for supporting Photog Adventures and making this podcast possible!

I am joined by Matt Newman to talk his amazing adventure of solo climbing a mountain peak at Crater Lake in February. Yes....FEBRUARY! At risk of death, Matt braves the elements alone to capture a beautiful early Milky Way over Crater Lake. He returned alive but frost nipped and sunburnt! The ultimate oxymoron of winter torture! :D We also talk about his success getting that Crater Lake image picked up by Universe Today for their Cosmos Publication as seen here: https://www.universetoday.com/139658/our-book-the-universe-today-ultimate-guide-to-viewing-the-cosmos/ Continuing on his success getting his image used for that publication, he is awarded a Shortlist Recognition for the 2018 Astronomy Photographer of the Year in the Aurora category. All Contest Winners: https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2018 Listen to Matt describe the process of participating in that contest and join me in submitting your work to the 2019 contest! Matt's website here: http://www.matthewnewmanphotography.com/ Follow Matt's photography on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matthewnewmanphotography/

Alyn Wallace shares his adventures out in Europe. He explains the necessary steps to getting a light pollution-free image of the Milky Way and shares his process and the reasons behind it. Alyn shares the experience of capturing the Milky Way out on the Canary Islands where La Palma is his favorite Milky Way Location. The dark sky location along with the amazing ability to drive above the clouds to get away from it all! The image used for the podcast cover art this episode is from one of his nights out at La Palma. In the second segment we go through three adventure stories Alyn had where without spoiling anything he put a Yoga Instructor at risk, found out he wasn't alone in a swamp and it wasn't even an animal! Follow Alyn Wallace on his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxQ3Dx6K95hpLpdJjTRIlg Read the blog about the Mark Gee-Like Moon shoot: https://alynwallacephotography.com/blog/2017/5/2/yoga-moon-the-most-nerve-racking-photo-i-ever-took Check out Alyn's work at his website https://alynwallacephotography.com/

This episode comes from our Patron-Only Podcasts and today we start opening up those episodes for everyone! Please listen to this episode Twice! Wayne really shares some amazing insights on his process and it is a terrific episode! Enjoy! Wayne starts out by telling us about how he plans out his entire Milky Way season - yes, it's all planned out. He talks about how he discovered his love of Milky Way photography when he was on a trip to the Southwest a few years ago. When he started out shooting photos of the Milky Way he used to make shots of the Milky Way. But now his photos are focused on interesting foregrounds with the Milky Way in the background. He discusses his approach to lighting the land, exposure, panoramas, processing, decreasing noise, masking, Photoshop, cameras, and lenses. After Wayne shares all his best photo secrets with us, he then tells us an awesome story about one of his shots. Like the time he took a photo of Predator with the Milky Way. Yes, THE Predator, like in the movie The Predator!

Here is a quick update about where we have been and most importantly WHAT IS COMING to the podcast over the next week! :D Thanks for your patience! We are off to the final leg of our travels! A drive to Utah from Vegas!

Brendon and Aaron finally get a chance to get back out there with their cameras and celebrate 3-years of doing Milky Way Photography on a 4-Night Trip that of course…didn’t entirely go to plan. Beginning this trip with a cancellation as clouds ruined our chances of getting a Milky Way out at Royce Bair Milky Way Butte, we are forced to make a 5-hour detour drive to Richfield, Utah for a print that was as tall as Aaron! This print was a gift to Canyon Country Lodge out in Escalante and it was huge! Barely fit in the pickup we rented! Knowing time is precious, we take off from Escalante that same night and begin the trek to Moab with only one stop off at an amazing Martian-like landscape. The area is one we have been many times before but we did NOT know about this spot to capture from. We have actually passed the road that leads to it several times and missed out on many opportunities for a great image! Having used our skills in Google Earth scouting and matching terrain from an image up with terrain we are familiar with we discovered its location and worked to get our first image out there. The drive through the night was going to be worth it! We hoped. After sharing a nightmare sleeping condition story, we spend the rest of the podcast on being in Moab and our amazing morning at Island in the sky. Classic what went well and what could have been better, we break down the successes and failures are Island in the Sky and Aaron shares that he may have just captured his second or first best image of all time! As far as Milky Way Photography goes, this image might be his best depending on who you ask. Aaron has his favorite but this new shot is easily his second. It’s amazing how we can capture an amazing portfolio image and not even recognize it until you post-process it! We also go into the merits of extremely long exposures to bring in your landscape foreground. When you hear advice from Royce Bair and Wayne Pinkston, who both have amazing bodies of work in Milky Way Photography, you want to copy them anyway you can to get your own great images. But to this point, I was not doing long exposures for the foreground despite seeing it in their photography and hearing it here on the podcast. But in this circumstance - Island in the Sky - a nice long exposure bringing out all the foreground detail was benefit instead of a way to light up distractions in your composition. Long exposed foregrounds is NOT something you should do in every Milky Way Image. So we talk about our recommendations on when it IS going to work for you. See the Photog Adventure behind the scenes story of the images we captured that morning here on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/dYf9QIaEhbY Watch the Milky Way Wednesday where Aaron breaks down even more details from that trip and shows how he processed the sky panorama and ground panorama stitching them together with Photoshop: https://youtu.be/tqefUkIFBdU

Jeff Pedersen has JUST returned from a 16-Day adventure out in Kenya, Africa! He shares with us priceless tips on how to pack, travel and prioritize gear to be able to get all your gear to Kenya successfully through the 2-day flight nightmare you go through. Then we hear the amazing energy the Maasai Warriors drive the jeeps the photographers are all in around the area. These drivers are dedicated to getting you the image of a lifetime and they don't go nervously around to all of the animals. They speed! All the specifics of Camp Entim is shared by Jeff, along with great tips on how to capture the best shot. If you have ever considered doing Wildlife Photography in Kenya, this episode is a mini-course on everything you need to consider and why you should consider Camp Entim for your next adventure! Here is the video from Jeff of Camp Entim: https://www.facebook.com/jeff.pedersen.79/videos/10210782367914514/ Follow more of Jeff Pedersen's work here: https://www.facebook.com/redcliffsphotography/ Jeff's Website: http://redcliffsphotography.com/

We are joined by Scottish Landscape Photographer Kim Grant and learned something we almost never hear from Landscape Photographers! "I don't use my tripod all the time." Learn from Kim's fantastic and bright perspective on Landscape Photography and getting intimate portraits with the landscape around you to take advantage of a trip that might not be working out perfectly thanks to weather. Speaking of getting intimate, there is an Easter Egg clip in the middle of this podcast from an old YouTube clip where Brendon said something he just didn't quite...mean. Kim summarizes her favorite recommendations for those of us wanting to get out to Scotland. Her website and workshops: https://www.kimgrantphotography.co.uk/ Follow Kim Grant over on her Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/kimgrantphotography/ Subscribe to her YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvkiZKobeYV4qO-KSvrL_9w

Today Brendon and Drew take the reins of the podcast as they both had experiences without Aaron and so Aaron takes a side seat in this episode other than to begin the episode. Brendon and Drew begin talking about their experience hunting Foxes in the snow in an urban park where these foxes are active. They share what went well and what they need to do better next time. LINK TO ERIC BENEDETTI'S STAR TRACKER COURSE: http://bit.ly/2NyykAB Tony Northrup's ISO is Fake YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVuI89YWAsw Here is Drew's Red Canyon Drone Footage: https://youtu.be/nY6BLDJE7gg

Winner of January's "Photog Favorite" is Jeff Anderson! Follow Jeff at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/upperleft_jeff/ After gushing about Jeff's awesome Oregon Waterfall Image, we get into a highlight reel of our fun Patron Only Podcasts we have on Mondays. This episode features hilarious or inspiring stories from Alyn Wallace, Gavin Hardcastle, Enrico Fossati, Matt Payne & Joshua Cripps in that order! Starting off with ALYN WALLACE and without spoiling anything he put a Yoga Instructor at risk, found out he wasn't alone in a swamp at 3am and what came after him wasn't even an animal! Follow Alyn Wallace on his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxQ3Dx6K95hpLpdJjTRIlg Read the blog about the Mark Gee-Like Moon shoot: https://alynwallacephotography.com/blog/2017/5/2/yoga-moon-the-most-nerve-racking-photo-i-ever-took Check out Alyn's work at his website https://alynwallacephotography.com/ Then GAVIN HARDCASTLE shares with us a crazy near-death situation he puts himself into in Ireland. Follow Gavin Hardcastle on his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IC-t-t5TTmXOFWhwy8R5A Check out Gavin's work at his website https://www.fototripper.com/ We continue on with ENRICO FOSSATI he shares with us a story of a crazy weather day that he must seek refuge from the thunder and lightning and finds himself in a position to capture his most famous image. A shot inspired by his love of the Lord of the Rings city of Rivendell. Follow Enrico Fossati's work at his website https://www.enricofossati.it/ After Enrico's Dolomite story, we stay in the mountains with MATT PAYNE as he shares with us some mountaineering adventures and words of caution for those of you considering more hiking and mountaineering photography in your future! Follow Matt Payne at: https://www.mattpaynephotography.com/ & http://www.100summits.com/ For a finale, we share with you our favorite completely nuts story that comes from JOSHUA CRIPPS. Let's just say that there are tiny ponies involved in a decision only 20-year-olds would think to do. Oh to be 20-something again! Follow Joshua Cripps at: https://www.joshuacripps.com Thank you so much Patrons for all your support and making episodes like these possible! If you would like to join us as a Patron, please go to https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures and become a Founder of Photog Adventures!

We are crazy privileged to be joined today by Landscape Photographer Extraordinaire Erin Babnik! We got to pick the brain of Erin and learn so many fantastic tips that only PART of those tips could fit in one podcast! The entire interview with Erin is going to come out for our Patrons next Monday. If you want to hear that part of the episode, please join us at https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures and you will have full access to this episode and all of our Monday Interview podcasts. We begin this episode with a Clip from Tony Northrup talking about 20 Photography Misconceptions that you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsWGkUT5A_Y See Brendon's secret Photography project now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/liEatPivAFM Erin shares with us exclusive behind the scenes info about two new pictures of hers that have not been fully processed and released yet. In the first story, we get inspired by her understanding of the Dolomite area where she captures an image that you have to know the terrain so well to be in the right place at the right time! Then in the second story, working through challenging weather conditions in the Iceland Highlands, Erin comes away with a composition based on a hidden gem that most likely no one will ever be able to recreate! Rounding out the episode, Erin shares with us a favorite post-processing technique of hers - Color Theory - and shares with us a cliff's notes version of how to accomplish quality color theory in your images. For the full story, please read her article here: https://www.photocascadia.com/creative-applications-of-color-theory-in-landscape-photography/ Then a piece of gear that she wouldn't be without is her telephoto lenses and she shares with Brendon her favorite lens or two and how she uses layering to build depth when using such a long Focal Length. You can read more about her article "Creative Uses of Extreme Focal Lengths" here: https://erinbabnik.com/new-article-about-developing-as-an-artist-through-exploration-2/ Please sign up for a workshop with Erin Babnik or follow her work at her website: https://erinbabnik.com/

Today we talk about Macro Photography! Last week we recorded a Macro Photography session using what macro gear Brendon and Drew had on them and experienced a lot of what went wells and what could have gone betters. Join us as we talk about the pros and cons of certain macro lenses, get giddy about Carnivorous Plants and share some beginner tips and necessary gear to get into the fun and patience requiring art of Macro Photography. Zerene Stacker Software: https://zerenesystems.com/cms/stacker In the last half of the podcast, we talk about the fun experience we had capturing the Total Lunar Eclipse on Sunday evening and the challenges and benefits of shooting with a 70-200mm lens and using a Celestron Nexstar 6SE telescope connected to a Canon 6D. Amazon link to the iShoot Rail system: https://goo.gl/q8DsJ7 Celestron Nexstar 6SE: https://goo.gl/wwVJve Celestron Adapter for T-Ring connection: https://goo.gl/EasdzE T-Ring Custom for Canon Body: https://goo.gl/MBvkeA Join the Live Event Alert Squad here: https://pages.convertkit.com/dae71eed74/0d5736ff99 Join us on a Milky Way Workshop at https://photogadventures.com/workshop/

After a hectic and yet less accomplished year photographically, Brendon and I look back on what we learned, what mistakes we made and what we need to do in 2019. From a hectic schedule and challenges due to Aaron's divorce to successes like seizing the moment when we made our first trip out of the country to the UK, Faroe Islands and Iceland.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT and a hang out with Mike Olbinski! The full interview with Mike Olbinski is over on the Patron Only Podcast feed, but here is an extra segment the Patrons - also known as the Founders of Photog Adventures - haven't heard yet and some advice for getting your Storm Timelapse Photography Licensed! Enjoy the FIRST free Podcast of 2019, Brendon and Aaron sharing their goals for 2019 and hope you will join us with the whatever the announcement is!

We are joined in studio by the Senior Product Development Engineer at Really Right Stuff Matt Burk! We get a chance to drill down into what makes a RRS Tripod worth the money, what the difference is between the mark 1 and mark 2 tripods, give him some hard hitting questions challenging the RRS quality, build and whether the products are "over-engineered". Then in classic Photog Adventures fashion we ask Matt about his photography stories and he shares with us the trip to who knows where out on the California Coast along the Pacific Coast Highway. Join us as fanboys of Really Right Stuff gear by checking out their site with your stocking stuffer cash: http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/ Join us out at the CreatePhotographyRetreat for a 1-Night Workshop! https://photogadventures.com/cpr

We were LIVE over on Facebook with Jordan Younce last night talking Real Estate Photography for beginners. What you guys need to start doing it now, what you need to consider for getting hired, when to shoot, what you can expect from clients and how you can keep your day job and still look legit to potential clients. Then we talk about Jordan's secret new project that he is really excited about! He used to be PictureMonk, then he was Road to Full Time and now he is doing a new project that is 110% of what he wished he was doing from the very beginning! We only get so many details from him, but one of his pillars is QUALITY over QUANTITY and encourages even Aaron to make changes to how he is doing YouTube. A Photog Adventure Podcast wouldn't be a Photog Adventure Podcast without hearing about a Photog Adventure and Jordan shares a quick harrowing tale from a sunset shoot that left him scared of spiders and breaking public property!

We attended the Really Right Stuff Grand Opening of their new Headquarters here in Utah a few weeks back and that got us thinking about quality! We always felt that RRS was way overpriced and definitely out of our price range for now, but after spending an afternoon going through their facilities we realize that they are NOT overpriced but priced for QUALITY! The quality is top notch and we left that facility convinced that their quality was worth every penny!

Brendon interviews Derek Sturman. Derek is a Utah based photographer that is going all over the southwest capturing the beauty that he sees. He has an amazing eye for landscapes, and his milky way shots are top notch. He shares his stories and struggles of shooting landscapes and night-scapes in Utah, California and beyond. You can follow Derek on Instagram and Facebook, or check out his website for workshop info. https://www.instagram.com/dereksturmanphotography/ https://www.facebook.com/dsturman.photo https://sturmanphoto.smugmug.com/ Check out Photog Adventures Merchandise at our new site: https://merch.photogadventures.com/ Have a great week guys!

We talk about our completely unexpected safe opportunity to capture a Milky Way at Thor's Well and warn you NOT TO DO IT unless you have similar conditions of low low swells and low tide. The conditions were perfect for us to camp out on Thor's Well until the Milky Way was visible for a November Milky Way and it was amazing with several challenges! Then we shared the stories and fun of capturing the last Milky Way Core of the season out at Cape Kiwanda and a lazy Sunrise out at Cannon Beach! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! More details coming! Check out Photog Adventures Merchandise at our new site: https://merch.photogadventures.com/ More merchandise coming in time for Black Friday! (Prices will not change, feel free to order now!)

In this first of three episodes about our Oregon Coast Listener Adventure, Aaron and Brendon share stories from our first two days. The Milky Way Photography opportunities at Secret Beach and Bandon along with the several Photog MISAdventures that occurred. We will finish the Oregon Coast Listener Adventure next week and then the following week hear from all of the participants that joined us out in Oregon.

With the huge milestone of hitting 100 Podcast Episodes we are joined by most of our Photog Adventure team, the admins from our Facebook group and our hero Jeff Harmon. Through Jeff's generous recommendations to his listeners to follow the Photog Adventures Podcast we went from less than 1000 listens to around 7000 listens in less time! Jeff single-handed put Photog Adventures on the map faster than we were getting it there and we really owe him a lot! We ask the Admins and Jeff about their favorite misadventures these last two years and the story behind their favorite image. Jeff talks about the Create Photography Retreat and shares insight on his presentations and why we all should take a chance on a retreat like this one, especially one like this that is so affordable! Follow Jeff on the Photo Taco podcast over on the Master Photography Podcast Network.

Milky Way Mike joins us to talk the challenges of East Coast Milky Way Photography. How he cuts through the light pollution, where he goes to avoid New Jersey light pollution, why fishing can help you get better Milky Way Images in some places and shares a story where he rode his bike several miles to gain access to a landmark for a Milky Way shot that doesn't even exist anymore! Follow Milky Way Mike at his website: http://milkywaymike.com/ or watch his YouTube videos here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MVphotovideo Check out his Botany Bay Plantation video here: https://youtu.be/ossnhDSUBCA Thank you Patrons for supporting Photog Adventures and making this podcast possible!

Brent's life as a University Professor and professional photography. The ups and downs with his recently closed Lens Rental company BrentsRentsLenses.com His workshops coming up in 2019 that take you to amazing travel locations in Croatia that were EASILY added to our bucket list locations after hearing about them. Then we round the episode out hearing some photography adventure stories from Brent's past that will make you weep! You can follow Brent Bergherm from his website BrentBergherm.com or on the Latitude Photography Podcast one of the fantastic podcasts on the Master Photography Podcast Network!

Wayne starts out my telling us about how he plans out his entire Milky Way season – yes, it’s all planned out. He talks about how he discovered his love of Milky Way photography when he was on a trip to the Southwest a few years ago. When he started out shooting photos of the Milky Way he used to make shots of the Milky Way. But now his photos are focused on interesting foregrounds with the Milky Way in the background. He discusses his approach to lighting the land, exposure, panoramas, processing, decreasing noise, masking, Photoshop, cameras, and lenses. After Wayne shares all his best photo secrets with us, he then tells us an awesome story about a one of his shots. Like the time he took a photo of a Predator with the Milky Way. Yes, a Predator, like in Aliens vs. Predators! Wayne will be presenting at Royce Bair’s First Annual NightScaper Conference May 1st – 3rd, 2019 in Moab, Utah. Photog Adventures will be presenting as well. You can find a link to this conference a little further down this post.

Aaron surprises Brendon and Photog Adventure's Rob Ryan, Daniel Lindhardt and Brent Huntley with an on-the-spot request for best advice to give photographers who have been learning for four years at least. On Photog Adventures - and most photography podcasts - the tendency is to teach beginners. Give tips great for people NEW to photography or that photography style. But there are people out there who are veterans now and really know their camera but still want a podcast about photography. This week's topic aims to give some food for thought to those of you 4+ year veterans. But as you listen, you will notice how a certain theme comes up over and over again. Does it describe you? Want to learn Milky Way Photography or join us in the Faroe Islands? Join us on an adventure here: https://photogadventures.com/adventures/

In this week's episode we go LIVE on Facebook and discuss several topics, but I bring to you an edited down audio-only version of our discussion about Barry O'Carroll's PetaPixel article "20 Composition Techniques That Will Improve Your Photos". After announcing an additional podcast EACH WEEK to the Photog Adventures Podcast feed that is NOT Astro Photog and available to Patrons-Only. We go into great detail on every tip that Barry shares in his PetaPixel article. Work on bettering your photography with these reminders or brand new ideas to use in your compositional process!

After TWO YEARS of working on Photog Adventures, we look back on where we have been, some stats and answer questions about what has surprised us most, what we have learned and some of our favorite moments in these past 24 months. We wouldn't have lasted two years without you, our listeners, and we are very grateful for the time you put into listening to our podcast, coming to our YouTube and Facebook Live presentations and watching our content on YouTube. It wouldn't have been so much fun without your comments, facebook messages and your constant support! We have had a blast producing this podcast and all of our other content and have you guys to thank for keeping it the fun it is and not feeling like work! :D We especially want to thank those Founders of Photog Adventures out there that have been supporting us through Patreon.com for months! We really really appreciate all of you and have plans to bring you even more great content this coming third year of Photog Adventures. Keep listening and in the second segment I tell the story of when I actually thought Brendon had died! For 10 mins at least, I thought he had finally done it and killed himself accidentally. We announce our participation in two Photography Conferences in 2019! Create Photography Retreat in Las Vegas from March 28th - 30th, 2019 The Create Photography Retreat is an experience open to photo lovers of all skill levels who want stellar instruction, TONS of hands-on shooting opportunities, new life-long friends, and a supportive environment. Sign up under https://createphotographyretreat.com/photog/ before tickets go up in price! Royce Bair's First Annual NightScaper Conference May 1st - 3rd, 2019 The first annual NightScaper Conference has been scheduled for May 1-3, 2019 in Moab, Utah - gateway to Arches and Canyonlands! Don't delay, recent count is that there are only 113 conference spots still left! Register here:  conference-scheduled-for.html">http://intothenightphoto.blogspot.com/2018/10/nightscaper-conference-scheduled-for.html

On our way back from the Faroe Islands, we spend four full days in Iceland trying to get the most Landscape Photography we can as choose Diamond Beach, the Icebergs of Jokulsarlon Lagoon & Kirkjufellvoss as our main destination points. We quickly discover that the tourists suck out most of the fun but highlights like diamond beach, glaciers, the amazing views on the road trip and the Kirkjufell area make up for the hasty scouting trip through the world's most mecca like destination for Landscape Photographers. Show notes at PhotogAdventures.com/ep93 has videos and some pictures from the trip. Look for more on our YouTube channel soon!

Now back from the Faroe Islands Workshop, we wax poetic in our love of the unique beauty there! We can't emphasize enough how all Landscape Photographers should spend a week there! And definitely hope you will consider coming with us and James Kelly! Consider joining us for a Faroe Islands adventure here: https://photogadventures.com/faroe

We travel to the United Kingdom on our way to our Faroe Islands workshop and spend our entire Saturday at the amazing, incredible, beautiful Lake District! Hanging with listener, subscriber and fast friend Paul Thomson, we get to see some major landmarks of the Lake District all around the beautiful Derwent Lake! We talk about the woes and fun of travel to the UK, our challenges driving on the left side of the road, our new unending love for the Lake District and our Landscape Photography successes and failures at Derwent Lake, Ashness Jetty, Honister Pass, Lamore Falls, Ashness Bridge and Surprise View! At the end of the day, we hang out with a group up at Surprise View and discover that we had been hanging out with listener John Haswell the whole time!

We are live tonight! Photog Adventures Podcast Episode #90 with Clarence Spencer! Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9D4CwXYlJqs We are talking Astro-Modified Camera bodies! Help your Milky Way Photography get more color without going for Star Tracking to get it! Join us as we hang out with Clarence Spencer to talk the benefits of a Full Spectrum or Visible + H-Alpha Filter cameras and other options we have for Astrophotography.

On the final day of our last Milky Way Workshop of the year, we are joined by our really fun group on the podcast to tell the stories from the 5 days we spent together. From our challenges with the rampant wildfires ravaging the west, to the really disappointing cloudy skies we survived one of the most skunked workshop weeks we have every experienced and hopefully will EVER experience.

For the first time, Brendon has taken Photog Adventures through the Slot Canyons in Escalante. Drew and Brendon hit up Spooky Gulch and Peek-a-Boo Slot. Sharing first impressions of the drive there and the challenges of hiking the area and how they definitely brought too much gear along with them on the hikes. They make Aaron jealous as they describe the many arches down there and a spot that would be just amazing for a vertical Milky Way that we definitely have to do before the season is over! Then after all the waxing poetic and romantic about the amazement of the experience, they describe a harrowing experience where a mother and two little kids frantically approaches them as they are leaving the canyon. This mother split up from her parents and daughter trying to find a way out of the canyon with her two little kids but now the parents and daughter have not made it up yet! It had been three hours since they ran out of water and this woman was scared for the real possibility of losing her family to the elements! Between Drew's Drone and the experience of Mountain Goat Hartely, the guys are able to locate the missing half of the family and give Hartley the exact position to go find this family to rescue them and help them out safely. The description doesn't do the story justice, listen to the podcast, it makes you excited to be a part of humanity hearing how everyone grouped their talents together to rescue this family. See Drew's Portfolio here: DrewArmstrong.com Drew's Escalante Images: https://goo.gl/oTT3UF If you enjoy this podcast – please leave us a review at iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite source for podcasts. Thanks for listening and supporting Photog Adventures! If you aren't a Founder of Photog Adventures already consider joining us here at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures

Happy Perseids everybody! It is the week of the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor shower. This coming Aug. 11th. 12th and 13th mark the three mornings that will showcase the peak of the Perseids with as many as 50 meteors an hour often more! So how do you get the most out of this opportunity? Today on the Astro Photog Podcast, Aaron goes over advice for those WITH and WITHOUT plans to photograph the meteor shower then ends with a new segment Geek Time in honor of Brendon's Gear Time. In the Astro Primer I give the news most of you already know, it is New Moon week and with that comes great nights EVERY night. The Northern Hemisphere has a vertical Milky Way from the moment full darkness starts up until the Galactic Core sets on you early in the morning. The core sets LONG before the Astronomical Twilight period begins so plan on going out at the beginning of the night. The Southern Hemisphere night begins with the Core high in the sky and then moves into a better position for photography come early morning before the Galactic Core sets beyond the horizon around 4am Perth, Australia time. The highlight of the Astro Primer is the main subject of today's podcast, the Perseid Meteor Shower! One of the year's BEST Meteor Showers is appearing without the moon again and is set to make 2018 a magical time for Meteor Shower photography! The podcast begins with general Meteor viewing tips as given from the EarthSky.org article linked below. The tips are: 1- Find a dark, open sky with as little obstructions that you can get so you can see all the many meteors across the sky 2- Give yourself at least an hour of observing time to see a lot and most importantly, get your eyes adjusted to the darkness of night 3- Know that all meteors all come from a single point in the sky, the radiant 4- Bring a reclining chair and some warm drink of your choice to fully enjoy in massive comfort 5- Be patient! All good things come to those that wait! In the ad today I once again remind and encourage all of you fence sitters thinking about joining us in the Faroe Islands to know that it isn't too late to join us in September! Register your spot here: https://goo.gl/jYZEZd In the second segment I go over tips for your Meteor Shower Photography. The tips are: 1- Wide Angle lens and obviously the largest aperture you have 2- Take a Timelapse and more importantly PRACTICE taking a timelapse before you go out 3- Shutter 30 seconds with 3 seconds interval between each shot for your timelapse settings 4- Battery Grip/Power bank/Goal Zero/Timer to remind you to check your battery. Anything to make sure you capture for hours 5- LOTS of memory card space so you can constantly be capturing so you don't miss a meteor 6- Capture the Foreground during Blue Hour or Light Paint it. Get that Foreground sharp and clean 7- Combine Foreground and your many meteor frames using Photoshop doing your blend of choice Then lastly in our first episode of GEEK TIME I teach the origin of the Perseid Meteor Shower thanks to the Comet Swift-Tuttle and explain the consistency of meteor showers. Thanks for listening and supporting Photog Adventures! If you aren't a Founder of Photog Adventures already consider joining us here at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures Remember! Get out there and have a Photog Adventure of your own! And this weekend on the 11th, 12th and 13th is a GREAT time to start! :D Articles mentioned in the podcast: EarthSky.org: http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-perseid-meteor-shower Space.com: comet-swift-tuttle-perseid-meteor-shower-source.html">https://www.space.com/33677-comet-swift-tuttle-perseid-meteor-shower-source.html Nick Page's video about fixing Halos: https://youtu.be/ohGqYQ1Oa7U

James Kelly from Photog Adventures UK joins us on the podcast to talk his recent adventures out in the Faroe Islands and get us all excited again about going to the Faroe Islands and even some of you lucky ones who join us in September for our 7-Day Faroe Islands workshop. Learn more about the workshop here: goo.gl/oe5BB3 James talks about doing Wedding Photography in the Faroes, the challenges of the weather and the awesomeness of the terrain if the bridezilla can handle it. In the second half of the podcast we talk about a Piano Metaphor for learning Photography. I won't give it away now but know that we shouldn't feel ashamed of the photography choices we make as we are learning and even when we get good at our photography. James Kelly shares his philosophies of composition, photography planning and how he gets the most out of his photography adventures. Follow James' Podcast The Photographers Craic here: https://goo.gl/DjY5Gm See James' images and Wedding Photography here: https://jameskellyphotography.com/

LIVE STREAM! with LonelySpeck's Ian Norman!! If you aren't following the Facebook Photog Adventures Page (PAGE not the Group) then you might have missed out on the opportunity of hanging with Ian Norman live. Ian is one of our ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Milky Way Master Gurus and the creator of LonelySpeck.com and many popular YouTube tutorials helping us all be better in our Milky Way Photography! In this episode we start with talking about Ian's hike up Mt. Whitney and doing Milky Way Photography on his way down then move on to our LIVE listener Q&A where he tackles photography technique and processing questions from those participating in the LIVE Q&A. Then for Segment Three we do an extended Gear Time where Ian talks Sony Camera bodies and gets everyone thinking about changing over to the Sony Sensor!  Follow Ian and his wife's adventures at http://northtosouth.us/  and over on their Instagram @northtosouthtravel. Learn more Milky Way Photography tips over at LonelySpeck.com! NOTE: Be prepared for long, unedited portions of the hangout with Ian during the live Q&A. Segments Two and Three are better enjoyed watching the live feed off our Facebook Page but I included them here in case you prefer that. I apologize in advance for what turns out to be my worst "one more thing then lets end the podcast" ever. As I say it about three times and the podcast extends another 30-45 minutes!

We get a second opportunity this year to hang out with our favorite Milky Way Photography Master Guru Royce Bair along with all of you who could attend the LIVE Facebook Q&A! It is always a privilege to talk Milky Way Photography with Royce Bair and this hangout was no different! We begin hearing about Royce's recent trip to Palouse Falls doing Milky Way Photography on the dangerous cliff edges there. The challenges dealing with multiple photographers in one location and doing Low-Level Lighting to share with all. Royce also updates us on the situation for low-level lighting in National Parks telling us which parks in the area are allowing it while still not allowing the old tradition of light painting. Then the Q&A starts with awesome fans on our Facebook Live Stream and we go over many topics ranging from best way to bring out the Milky Way core without looking overly processed to which camera body gives us the best smoothest astro shots despite its low megapixel count. Hint it is a Sony! Royce takes some time to teach us his tips for handling stars between tree branches when doing star tracking or stacking photography, how working WITH the moon can be amazing for your photography and reminds us about the Mars Opposition occurring right now. Come join us and learn from the great man who brought us the eBook Milky Way Nightscapes which you can buy a copy for yourself here: https://goo.gl/9F9PPf

We travel to Oregon and continue the #TheGreatMilkyWayChase. Follow us as we shoot the Milky Way and visit Bandon, Thor’s Well, Cook’s Chasm, the Sprouting Horn, Heceta Head Lighthouse, and Crater Lake National Park. Along for this Photog Adventure was Claudia Halbert and Kirk Keyes. We discuss what a great spot Bandon is for both the sunset and the Milky Way, why Thor’s Well is probably not a great place for the Milky Way, shooting lighthouses at night, and why Crater Lake National Park is one of the best places ever for night photography. Aaron had a rant about the situation of buying gasoline in the State of Oregon. Since you can’t pump your own gas in most of Oregon, you can only refuel during the hours that the gas station is open. On the Interstates and in larger towns, stations can be open 24 hours. But in smaller towns, they will close overnight. And once they close, the station attendant goes home and they turn off the pumps. So, plan that when you come to Oregon to keep your tank full! It’s a several hour long drive to get to Crater Lake from the Mid or South Oregon Coast. It’s an unbelievable place and well worth the trip. Crater Lake is nearly 2000 ft. deep and has some of the purest water in the world. The color of the lake is an amazing shade of blue. And the skies there are some of the best for Milky Way photography. Items Discussed in this Podcast: The following are Amazon Affiliate links. Clicking on and buying these items helps us produce this show. Sony a7III – https://amzn.to/2Kyk6xj Tiffen Color Enhancing Filter is part of this kit – https://amzn.to/2yYmnRd

The Great Milky Way Chase of Death and Insanity continues as we get out Fantasy Canyon, farm land, Escalante, Silver Lake and Little Moab! Nights 7, 8, 9, 11 and 19 are shared in this week's podcast. We talk about the challenges of making the most out of the Fantasy Canyon weirdness, the awesomeness of simplicity at a farm, the serendipity of good timing at Escalante, taking a break at Silver Lake and the great matchmaking it is to do Milky Way Photography at Little Moab. The Great Milky Way Chase has been a blast and so dang tiring but in these early days going out together we still had our wits about us and the excitement to get all over the world! In this week's "What's new?" Brendon goes on about the news of the 128 TERABYTE SD Card that is coming in the future! REMEMBER TO POST YOUR PICTURES over at Photog Adventures Listeners Group for the June Royce Bair eBook contest to be considered to win a free copy of the Royce Bair Milky Way Nightscapes ebook! Or you can buy the eBook right here: goo.gl/9F9PPf

In today's episode Aaron and Brendon go back to the Salt Flats for Night 2 and re-discover the Red Ledges area up Price Canyon for Night 5. The Salt Flats in West Utah are just next to the Nevada border, near Wendover. It is a very unique area, super flat surface and when the water puddles up, it can make for some very cool photographs. In Night 2 of the Instagram Milky Way Challenge Brendon & Aaron take the two hour journey out and find the perfect spot to shoot the Milky Way. Join them as they find the perfect balance in capturing the Milky Way with themselves reflecting in the water. Night 5 Aaron & Brendon had plans to shoot the Payson Temple and re-create the shoot Aaron took last year. Well, that plan fell apart as soon as they arrived on location. The Temple had super bright lights installed and the clouds came in and covered the milky way also. So they quickly devised a Plan B and set out towards Price Canyon, less light pollution and maybe, just maybe the high mountains would block some of those clouds. They looked at Photo Pills, and google maps figured there best bet was the Red Ledges area. As luck would have it, the area worked out surprisingly well.

We hang out with Adventure Photographer and Fujifilm Ambassador Dan Bailey and in an extended 35-minute first segment we get a passionate and convincing argument why we all should be using the Fuji camera system, what he did to become a Fujifilm ambassador, what makes him an "Adventure Photographer" and then end with tales from his adventure out in Scotland at the Shetland Isles riding a bike through the landscape capturing the whole experience with his Fuji camera on his back.  In the second segment we find ourselves suffering from envy as we hear the incredible details of what it is like being a pilot and owning your own Cessna Airplane in Alaska and getting to take off in the afternoon and travel the skies like we would travel country roads. Dan explains how amazing it is to fly around the mountain peaks with his Fuji in one hand and the other controlling the plane and getting to control the scene by flying around until he gets the light and angles JUST right. What an amazing thing to hear and what a terrible thing to hear. We spent the rest of the night daydreaming about owning our own plane someday and getting the chance to fly 45-minutes from home to an isolated glacier, land and explore the terrain as easily as we could drive down the street to a park and walk around with our cameras. Insane with jealousy is an understatement.  Lastly for Tip of the Week and Gear Time, Dan offers us some great lessons that years of experience has taught him like his method of finding a composition that he calls "Seeing Geometrically" and teaches us how to take advantage of that kind of anticipating the scene to get our best shot possible in action photography. Then if any of you own or are considering getting into the Fuji system, Dan has a great comprehensive eBook on the Fuji X-Series cameras and he explains to us what we can learn from his 250+ page eBook! In the very end, Dan exhorts us all to HAVE FUN in our Photography. Do not be intimidated, it should be a fun time to spend our time and do something creatively. Get out there and have fun!  Follow Dan Bailey at his Instagram @danbaileyphoto or from his website and blog at DanBaileyPhoto.com. Have or want a Fuji X-series camera? Buy Dan's best selling eBook here: http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/master-your-fujifilm-camera-with-my-x-series-unlimited-ebook/

To celebrate hitting a nice round number like 80 podcast episodes we do a LIVE Tech Test and Listener Q&A! Topics: Ukrainian TV Show has released the episode that we were a part of! https://youtu.be/YDk6ldgXtWA?t=27m41s AstroPhotog Podcast and changes coming up for the weekly AstroPrimer SLIK Milky Way Contest: https://goo.gl/uYy6Uu  Places we wouldn't go back to Brendon's only camera that he dunked in water....so far! How do you Post-Process your frames BEFORE Stitching your Panoramas? AVOID Auto White Balance when you do Panoramas and even with all of your Milky Way Photography Do we need Nodal Slides for our Panoramas? Money lost with gear, tires, engines, drones and anything else lost in a Photog MISAdventure Having issues with my feisol tripod L-Brackets and tripods saving time for your Milky Way Photography The road at Escalante and which vehicle you want for it After the Q&A we talk about our Milky Way Photography at Bryce Canyon Fairy Land Point where Royce Bair's ebook teaches us to do lgiht painting in Bryce Canyon in a way that you can't anywhere else in Bryce without hiking in there! Then we do a gear time about the Neewer lights that are MUCH CHEAPER than the F&V light that we have. We are talking the difference of $30 compared to $150! Neewer LCD Light Panel for Low-Level-Lighting: https://goo.gl/EhjL1j F&V HI-CRI LED Light Panel: https://goo.gl/nKgW3n Buy Royce's super informative and educational eBook "Milky Way Nightscapes" here: https://goo.gl/7oMpk3 CONTEST TO WIN ONE OF TWO COPIES OF ROYCE BAIR'S MILKY WAY NIGHTSCAPES BOOK! ALL OF JUNE to Capture a Milky Way shot somewhere you have never been before! So as long as you have never been there before, the Milky Way Shot will count! Submit to the Facebook Page under the Contest thread that will be added ASAP! :D (Think Saturday the 2nd of June)

White Pockets is a unique area of windswept sandstone near Kanab, UT. The sandstone there is not the typical red rock found in most of the Colorado Plateau – it’s not only white, but also yellow, orange, and even purple in places. And there’s Brainrock! It’s an amazingly interesting place for photographers. Jeff finds White Pocket to be more interesting than even another near-by location, The Wave. And White Pocket has many more locations to shoot than The Wave. The roads that access White Pocket consists of deep sand and patches of sharp rock. Four-wheel drive and high clearance are required. Don’t try this road unless you have experience driving under these conditions AND a vehicle that meets these requirements. Don’t try it with a car or even a RAV4-type vehicle. Don’t take a rental vehicle as you will violate your rental agreement. If you get stuck, towing fees will run about $1000 - $2000! THIS IS A DEMANDING ROAD! Jeff recommends not going alone – bring a buddy or two. Go with someone that knows the road or better yet, an authorized guide. It’s at least 2.5 hours for help to get there if you are stuck or have a medical emergency. Aaron got composition paralysis upon arrival, so he took a few shots with his phone, and then found some locations that the got super excited about. Using the wide-angle distortion of his Tamron 15-30 f/2.8 , Aaron used the leading lines of the wind-blown sandstone to frame up a shot. But the clouds were changing fast as sunset approached… Jeff and Aaron are looking forward to bringing Brendon out there someday – it’s going to be like watching a seven-year old opening presents at Christmas time! If you enjoy this podcast – please leave a review at iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite source for podcasts. Update from Episode 78 – We talked in about using the Metabones Speed Booster adaptors for Sony – they are for APS-C cameras, and not full frame. The speed boosting feature is not fully compatible with Sony Full Frame cameras – they are supposed to switch the Sony FF cameras into “APS-C Size Capture”. They should work fine with Sony APS-C cameras. Aaron found his Tamron was giving him color fringing on the edges of the frame. He finds this lens works great for Astro, but he wasn’t happy with some of the photos he took with it at White Pocket. Jeff suggested letting the camera convert the image from RAW to JPG by saving them as RAW+JPG when shooting. The camera conversion process Jeff says, in some cases, can make a JPG that sometimes looks better than the RAW, even when humans do the JPG processing. Jeff recommends bringing Sunpie Emergency Traction Mats They can be used to help your vehicle to get out of mud, sand, or snow. They cost about $70 for a pair on Amazon. For a sandy place like White Pocket, two pair of these might be best. Jeff’s final recommendation - If you go to White Pocket for Milky Way shooting, use lots of light when walking around. It’s easy to turn an ankle there so make sure you can see where you’re walking. Thanks to our Patrons – Support us: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures Thanks for listening / watching and see you next time! WEBSITE: http://www.photogadventures.com/ ABOUT: http://www.photogadventures.com/about/

We sit down with Kathy, Nicole and Venkat our Escalante Milky Way Workshop Participants and get their takeaways from this week of hanging out under the stars capturing the Milky Way in this amazing and beautiful place! We share our adventure of capturing the Milky Way at Devil's Garden, Dance Hall Rock and Sunset Arch. Our first Milky Way Workshop of the year and we get AMAZING dark clear skies and everyone just fell in love with the sights at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Venkat, Cathy and Nicole share stories from the trip, what went well for them, any challenges and what they wished they knew before coming. We stay at Canyon Country Lodge and have a great experience in this beautiful new hotel here in Escalante and get a perfect headquarters for all our adventures out into the desert. Reserve your next stay in Escalante here at the Canyon Country Lodge and tell them Photog Adventures recommended it! https://goo.gl/GCYSdA Buy Royce's eBook here: goo.gl/9F9PPf See our RedBubble Page here: goo.gl/FuiFcm Click on the words "AVAILABLE PRODUCTS 55" to see all of the RedBubble Options Show Notes WILL BE LATE and will be loaded to PhotogAdventures.com the Saturday after this podcast is released.

We go LIVE on Facebook for Podcast 77 and have a discussion about Rusty Parkhurst's recent article on https://improvephotography.com/ "9 Tips to take your landscape photography to the next level". In our Landscape Photography, we all get there where we are enjoying our progress and have put in our practice of getting our f-stop right, bracketing like champs exposing for the highlights, composing great images, staying and waiting for good light and going the extra mile in our post-processing but then we hit a plateau. What can you do to get off that plateau and turn your landscape photography up to 11? During the discussion we actually are lucky to have had the delays with the tech when trying to go live for an hour and a half! Because Rusty Parkhurst was able to join us and we got instant feedback and comments from the great guy while going through his article! Listeners and Rusty chime in all the way through this podcast and it was a lot of fun for everyone involved! This is definitely something we would like to do more of in the future! Read the full article here: https://goo.gl/f5qfVF Follow more of Rusty Parkhurst at http://rustyparkhurst.com/

Has Star Tracking made Single Image Milky Way Photography just a waste of time? The answer is NO! With Royce Bair in studio we get some pros and cons of both types of Milky Way Photography and hear from the Master Milky Way Photographer how to best take advantage of our time out there under the stars and get the most out of our images whether or not you do any star tracking. Royce shares with us some post-processing techniques he likes to use to reduce the noise in his single image photography using Nik Collections DFine tool as well as going for the small effort of a mini stack to reduce noise. Royce continues on to talk about his use of a astro-modded camera and the benefits that come from that as well as his rule of thumb he likes to follow for what makes an image an Single Image, Stacked, Blend or Composite. Along with that he gives his thoughts on the ethics of divulging whether someone used a composite to get an image they have shared or sold as a print. Follow Royce at Nightscaper.com or on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/roycebairphoto/ Buy Royce's eBook here: https://goo.gl/9F9PPf See our RedBubble Page here: https://goo.gl/FuiFcm Click on the words "AVAILABLE PRODUCTS 55" to see all of the RedBubble Options

It is a Full Moon week, so it is even more crucial to learn what days are open for Milky Way Photography in today's Astro Primer and get reminded again why the Southern Hemisphere has a distinct advantage over the Northern Hemisphere for viewing the Milky Way Galactic Core year round! In today's episode I celebrate the FANTASTIC MOMENTS and confess the MAJOR FLUBS of my Eric Benedetti Star Tracking Online Workshop from over the weekend. There were some moments that were just magical that had everyone involved so crazy grateful for Eric's time, experience and knowledge! We learned so many great tips on how to not only become BETTER Milky Way Photographers but actually learned how to capably install and use a Star Tracker under our DSLR! We certainly got our money's worth with Eric's SIX hours of instruction we got on Saturday. And there is more to come too! Lastly, I go over three simple takeaways from the Workshop that highlight what we went over and what great interesting lessons are in store for those of us who have access to the workshop. Carboni's Astro Tools: http://www.prodigitalsoftware.com/Astronomy_Tools_For_Full_Version.html Annie's Astro Actions: http://www.eprisephoto.com/astro-actions Purchase the Replay and have Permanent access to Eric Benedetti's Star Tracker Online Course plus future content updates here: https://goo.gl/v5KPHq Follow Eric Benedetti at his website: https://www.ericbenedettiphotography.com/ Gear recommended for tracking: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Astro Package with Declination Bracket included $329 https://goo.gl/VLdx4d SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Equatorial Wedge Base https://goo.gl/Yj8ZPy SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Counterweight Kit https://goo.gl/ShxymX Cameras for the beginner: Nikon D7200 https://goo.gl/8yiR0F Canon T5i https://goo.gl/UEiaMk Lenses: Rokinon 16mm f2.0 https://goo.gl/7oSP1w Rokinon 24mm f1.4 https://goo.gl/1rpaFi Sigma Art 35mm f1.4 https://goo.gl/E9U6fKS Optional tracker that is slightly less expensive: iOptron SkyTracker Pro Camera Mount with Polar Scope $299 https://goo.gl/UuojC9

Retired California Firefighter & lover of Photography in the Deserts of the Southwest, Jeff Pedersen, joins the show and shares stories and tips from his time doing Wildlife Photography in Africa and how to make money as a Photographer working in Art Shows selling your prints. We go over our hangout with Jeff out at Death Valley and then hear his stories of being in Kenya at a Photography Tour that gave him eight days and 14 Jeep Runs to capture the beautiful animals of Africa. Hear his success stories and about the one animal that got away that has him definitely going back to Africa again! Then lastly, Jeff generously shares his top tips for handling your prints, sales and booth in order to make the most money you can out of your weekend at the art show. While it can be a great way to pay for this awesome hobby, he warns us about the investment of time, money and sweat in order to be successful. Follow Jeff's work over at his Facebook page & Instagram through @RedCliffsPhotography. Or visit his website at http://redcliffsphotography.com/ ZAPP for applying to Art Shows nationwide: https://www.zapplication.org/ Pro Panels for Art Shows: https://www.propanels.com/

This year's International Dark Sky Week is from April 15th through the 22nd and with the New Moon just yesterday we have a great week ahead of us to celebrate dark skies worldwide! In this week's Astro Primer I summarize the hours the Milky Way Core is visible this week in several places through out the world, North America, Europe at London and Italy, Japan, Chile, South Africa and New Zealand. Get your quick fix on what the skies are revealing to us with planets and meteor showers as well. Read the full article here: http://www.darksky.org/dark-sky-week-2018-2/ A paper on Street Lighting and Blue Light: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/Street%20Lighting%20and%20Blue%20Light%20FAQs.pdf Join the International Dark Sky Association here: http://www.darksky.org/ Join me April 21st and learn from the Star Tracking Milky Way Master, Eric Benedetti here: goo.gl/v5KPHq Join Photog Adventures at a Milky Way Workshop this year! MAY ESCALANTE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: goo.gl/Ue6GWX JUNE CRATER LAKE & BANDON WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: goo.gl/8pq81i AUGUST GOBLIN VALLEY, GOOSENECKS & NATURAL BRIDGES WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: goo.gl/i7bhTk

To our surprise, we get contacted at the end of last week by a Travel TV Show out of Ukraine! This show is called “Heads and Tails” or in Ukrainian “Орел и Решка” is the number one travel show in Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and 11 other countries! Heads and Tails features new travel destinations to their audience and show the most interesting things to do and places to visit. All with a pretty cool premise of flipping a coin at the beginning of each adventure and the winner of the coin toss gets an unlimited budget to do things with while the other only gets around $100! They also have a YouTube channel which has 1.3m subscribers. Which is awesome of course, but their TV Show gets 60 Million viewers! Amazed and honored, their producers of the show found Photog Adventures and decided we were the right guys to work with to help one of their Hosts get a Milky Way Timelapse in the world-famous dark skies of Utah! We take Anton and his small filming crew out to Goblin Valley Sunday night for an amazingly clear and beautiful night! In this Podcast we talk about the fun of being on a Travel TV Show, the interesting challenges of having a producer manage the narrative and create scenes and orchestrate everything from when we hand an extra pair of gloves to Anton to when we walk down the hill to our location for Milky Way Photography. Check out the “Орел и Решка” YouTube channel here to see the show we are talking about: https://goo.gl/szb9Sn Join me April 21st and learn from the Star Tracking Milky Way Master, Eric Benedetti here: https://goo.gl/v5KPHq Join Photog Adventures at a Milky Way Workshop this year! MAY ESCALANTE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/Ue6GWX JUNE CRATER LAKE & BANDON WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/8pq81i AUGUST GOBLIN VALLEY, GOOSENECKS & NATURAL BRIDGES WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/i7bhTk

In this bonus episode we share the stories of our Monday adventure back out to the Wedge Overlook and Buckhorn Wash area to look for our missing Inspire Drone. We share the fun and challenges of searching in this terrain, the beauty of this area, the dynamic clouds that made us weep tears of regret that we didn't have our cameras on us and you get to learn about Aaron's injury! Lots of fun in this quick podcast, enjoy! If you are considering any of our Milky Way Workshops there are three available to register for! Goblin Valley, Goosenecks and Natural Bridges Workshop: https://goo.gl/i7bhTk Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Workshop: https://goo.gl/Ue6GWX Crater Lake & Bandon, Oregon Workshop: https://goo.gl/8pq81i TWO MORE Workshop Dates are being set up for the Goblin Valley and Escalante Workshops and those registration pages will be setup soon! SHOW NOTES at: http://photogadventures.com/bonusdrone/

Needing a March Milky Way and some good stories for the podcast, we drive all-night to the Butte in Hanksville, Utah that Royce Bair told us about. This shot is best during an early season Milky Way so we made the sacrifice of getting out there Sunday night through Monday morning to try our luck at getting an awesome Milky Way Image like Royce Bair did last year. In classic fashion, the only clouds in the 10% cloudy sky were hanging low on the horizon South East of us and covered our Milky Way core for most of the morning and then traveled towards us making a window of opportunity crazy slim. Being forgetful these days, Aaron left his shoes and some REALLY important gear that may have ruined the morning more than the clouds did. Show notes at http://photogadventures.com/ep73/ MAY ESCALANTE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/Ue6GWX CRATER LAKE & BANDON WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/8pq81i

Are you stoked to join us for a Milky Way Workshop this year? Hope you are crazy excited because our first one is only a month away on April 16th through April 20th! In this first Milky Way Workshop of 2018, we are taking 12 participants out to Goblin Valley State Park, Goosenecks State Park and Natural Bridges National Monument! If you have considered joining us for a workshop, seriously consider this one as we are selling it for 30% off the regular price and that price includes all travel and lodging! During the first 20 mins we share details of the four-night Milky Way Adventure and get crazy excited for the fun we are going to have with those of you lucky to join us in April!  After the first break we announce MilkyWayPhotographers.com an entertaining way for all of us Milky Way Photographers to keep up on our achievements and rank ourselves from Beginner to Master Milky Way Photographer! Check out more at http://photogadventures.com/milkywayphotographers/. We have been going out as Photog Adventurers to the Milky Way since March 8th, 2016 and we just barely hit the milestone of two years since our very first Milky Way! Stoked about the milestone, we go over all the places we have been to do Milky Way Photography since that morning on March and recount our a few of our biggest Milky Way Moments. Show notes are found at http://photogadventures.com/ep72/

In this episode we recap our first adventure out to Joshua Tree National Park and capturing a Milky Way Panorama over The Eye or Cyclops Rock and the amazing Joshua Trees on our way out to the LA area. With changes to our plans of getting out to the Yosemite Firefall we found ourselves in the area with lots of extra time so we booked a Day Trip out to Santa Cruz Island of the Channel Islands! We get to see pygmy Island Foxes and beautiful birds as they fly around the cliff faces of the Island coastline and enjoy a day out in a location we had no expectations of getting to see this soon! We talk about the challenges of getting your Milky Way low-level lighting right in a location you don't know especially when you get there in the dark and have to work fast with a quickly approaching Milky Way. Then we cover the experience out at the Channel Islands and how to best go about a day trip to Santa Cruz and make the most of your time there. We had a great time on this trip and saw a lot of different landscapes, people, wildlife and enjoyed the adventure with minimal hiccups. In the end of the podcast we talk about an amazing occurrence as we return to the mainland leaving the Channel Islands further and further behind we get to live through one of the most amazing experiences we have ever had in our lives!

We spend a week in Death Valley with Jeff Pedersen and Tim McGowen doing Landscape Photography and Milky Way Photography over cracks, Badwater, Mesquite Sand Dunes, Charcoal Kilns and Racetrack Playa. In classic Photog Adventure style the curse lives on. February Milky Way Photography turns out to be fantastic just crazy brief and over the distant light bloom of Las Vegas. We talk about the challenges of really near foreground subjects in Milky Way Photography and remembering to focus stack! Show notes coming to PhotogAdventures.com/ep70 soon! But I wanted to get this podcast out ASAP so I will have to beg your patience as I add it later today! Check out our upcoming Workshops here: http://photogadventures.com/adventures/

Going out on a Saturday to the mini-Grand Canyon of Utah - the Wedge Overlook - for some fun location scouting and filming with the drone should be an easy going uneventful day. Well our trip with Daniel Lindhardt a couple Saturdays ago reminded us why some of you think of Photog Adventures as a Laurel and Hardy act or enjoy it because we are a couple of boneheaded photographers having a blast and you just enjoy our comedy of errors! This Photog MISAdventure starts out with some fun driving through Buckhorn Wash enjoying the Petroglyphs and Pictographs of the Archaic and Fremont Indians in the Barrier Canyon Style panel. But soon it turns into the panicked realization that we just flew our drone out beyond our reach, well at least not without a long hike! Come listen to how that 13-mile hike went and how the search turns out! GEAR TIME Tracker options: Tile Mate: https://goo.gl/eY8ciC TrackR Pixel: https://goo.gl/4A5bhV SHOW NOTES at http://photogadventures.com/ep69/

To start on 2018 really well, we joined Jeff Pedersen, Tim McGowen, Drew Armstrong & Kirk Keyes out in Moab to enjoy never sleeping and lots of Photography! We just missed Ed Shanahan out here, it was really too bad we missed him on this trip but he got an AMAZING sunrise at Mesa Arch that Monday. Jeff and Tim bragged about it allll week long as we never had that amazing of a sunrise at any location but some really great sunsets where the sky just blew up with pink afterglow! We capture the Windows area in Arches National Park both for Landscape Photography and Milky Way Photography as well as Star Trails at Balanced Rock one night. Then Mesa Arch, Deadhorse Point and the Gossips for sunrises. Other than being crazy sick with Bronchitis, it was an amazing trip! See images and videos in the show notes at PhotogAdventures.com/ep68