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Heritage - Durdle Door, Dorset. 🇬🇧I guess I settled on “Heritage” as a title for this print, as this place is as much about my own heritage as it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of the UK’s “Jurassic Coast”. 🧗🌊And with that comes one of my biggest worries for this area. Beyond the crazy summer of disgraceful behaviour by hundreds of thousands of visitors to this spot, for years there has always been friction between the local community and the “landowners” - despite public access being granted through the South West Coastal Path. (Those who live locally will know what I’m talking about 😉🤦‍♂️🙄 )It’s a shame when genuine natural beauty spots become political (and politicised), but such is life in 2020 I guess.For me, however, as a photographer - all that can be forgotten in an instant when the sun pops up over the hills, illuminating the early morning sky with fiery red tones while the sea retains its stunning blues below.It may take more than one attempt to get it, but when those jigsaw pieces fit, wow - what a picture they build! 😎🌅(And what details they offer when you zoom in, too 😉 )#DurdleDoor #Dorset #Coastline #JurassicCoast #Landscape #Seascape #PaulReiffer #SouthWestCoastPath #SouthWestCoastalPath #Sunrise #SkyFire #RedSky #NaturalArch #RockFormation #PhaseOne #PhaseOneXT #VisitDorset #MediumFormat #LongExposure #FrameAveraging #DurdleDoorBeach
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An astro-conundrum for the clever folks of Instagram… 🤔This was literally just me playing the other night - seeing how the Canon R’s dealt with high ISO along with the relatively new 15-35/2.8L lens. ✨ 📷At the end of testing Milky Way shots, I switched to play around with low-ISO long exposures over Man-O-War beach. For clarity, this was never intended to be “a shot”, don’t worry(!) - but loading it up today, I spotted something odd.During a 15 minute exposure at ISO250. F/2.8, 15mm - these spots appeared in the sky. 🌌While I know exactly how to edit star shots, and while I enjoy shooting the night sky, let me be the first to say I am by no means an astronomer…. And hence the question here to those more hands-on with this stuff.Take a look at the squares, the crops, especially the last image (number 3):1) Is simple - it’s the effect of clouds blocking and uncovering stars thought the exposure as the earth turns and they move. 2) Is likely a plane/satelite/even a meteor (apparently that was going on this past week) - but again, not unusual. But… 3) The line of dots. (In the last crop image) They appear to be relatively geostationary to the earth. Checking previous frames, they’re there (appearing as stars), but they don’t seem to move in the same way as others. While they DO move, it’s a tiny, tiny, amount from frame to frame (so, not a sensor issue, from what I can see).So what did I capture? Geostationary satellite(s)? A line of non-moving planets? Weird lens flares?! 🛰Genuinely interested to know!#Astrophotography #NightSky #ManOWar #DurdleDoor #MilkyWay #WhatIsThat #CanonEOS #RFLenses #WideAngle #StarTrails #LongExposure #PaulReiffer #PopQuiz #NameThatStar #LightTrails
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Ah, the Aurora - but is it the Northern, or Southern, Lights? 🤔In the game of popularity, you’d have to say the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) wins - a quick search for tags on Instagram will tell you that. ✨But if you ever get the chance - make sure to take the time and effort to see the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) too. While similar, trust me, they’re not the same.Where greens and yellows typically flood the northern sky from vantage points such as Canada, Iceland, Greenland and Norway - it was the pinks, reds, and golden glows that greeted us that night in the Southern Hemisphere, as we camped out at the Waipapa Point Lighthouse on the southern coast of New Zealand.Of course, the classic shots of Iceland’s glacial lagoons and waterfalls with their dancing colours above will never get boring - but there’s something special, in my mind, about seeing both sets and their differences as the solar winds hit each of the earth’s poles.And yes, after a few hours stood out in the cold, being “inspected” by the local sea lion colonies, I found a rather unambiguous way to make my feelings known in terms of what I wanted for dinner that night. 🥧 😂#Aurora #AuroraBorealis #AuroraAustralis #NewZealand #PureNewZealand #WaipapaPoint #Lighthouse #NorthernLights #SouthernLights #PaulReiffer #NightSky #AstroPhotography #ShootTheStars #Gullfoss #Iceland #Differences #ExploreTheWorld #SouthernHemisphere #LightShow #LightPainting
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Technically, you could say this was 10 years in the making……but in reality, it took a global lockdown to finally force me to do what I’ve wanted to do for a long time:To tell our print story. 🎥 🍿Our prints are special. They’re unique. They capture a single moment that will never occur in that same way again. 🌄I wanted a way to show people what really goes in to making an image - from the initial idea, through to hanging the framed photograph on a wall after it’s been hand-crafted in London.And I think we did it.Today, we’ve relaunched our limited edition print pages - each print has its own “micro-site”, showing the framing options, what goes into making them, and why I’m so proud of them. We’ve revamped the way we make, certify, and thank our planet in return for each and every finished product we create, and our new pages show exactly that.It took a few 4am starts, some traffic tickets (oops), and a lot of digging into the archives to find the footage from the past 10 years - as well as hoping and praying for good weather on filming days this summer - but I’m as proud of this video as I am our images. To those involved (you know who you all are), a huge, huge, thank you. 👍Check the link in my bio for the full version of the video (this is just a teaser in here!)… 🎥Hope you like it 😎 🙏#MomentsThatLastALifetime #Moments #Creating #BehindTheScenes #TheMakingOf #PrintStory #LimitedEdition #FineArtPhotography #FineArtPrints #InteriorDesign #WallDecor #BespokeArtwork #CustomPrints #BTS #PaulReiffer #OurStory #Launch
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Always use a condom! - Or at least a plastic bag… 💦A Hefty-Sack will do - your camera will thank you for it.Whether it’s sitting behind a waterfall or heading into dusty Antelope Canyon (which is sadly now off-limits - nothing to do with COVID, all to do with over tourism) - I can’t count the number of disappointed faces I’ve seen over the years when people look at their kit on the way home. 🤦‍♂️What they thought was “little bit of dust” has turned their camera red with a thick layer of sandstone - or the “few drops” of water has trashed their camera forever.Now I’ve always been impressed at how “sealed” certain cameras are, and not bothered protecting some of mine as a result - but as a general rule, if you’re going in to one of those environments, a few things to consider:1) Wrap up! - There are specialist “sleeves” or just use a plastic bag to seal everything from the outside. That includes buttons - but give yourself enough slack to rotate lenses, dials and zooms.2) Tape up! - Use strong (removable) tape to seal the edges, leaving only two openings - the viewfinder and the front lens element (or filter). The rubber viewfinder cap can be removed for an even better seal.3) Filters - If using a filter on a holder, mount it and seal to that - don’t rely on the seal of the holder to protect the rest of your camera.4) Do NOT wipe - BLOW! - Dust is essentially ROCK. Wiping tiny particles of rock down the front of your lens/filter is never a good idea.5) Keep it cool - Your camera will struggle to manage heat inside a bag. Just saying…6) Don’t change! – Stick to your lens decision (zooms help) and don’t plan on changing batteries in that environment. Consider it an off-limits container until you’re safely away.And please, WHATEVER you do - don’t undo all that work by removing the bag the second you get “away”. The dust/water on the bag itself will find its way to your camera if you’re not careful removing it. 😔Get it home, clean the outside of the plastic (or use a Dyson) and carefully remove the camera condom - being careful not to spill the contents. 😂(Sorry, couldn’t resist!)Happy shooting 😜#AntelopeCanyon #CameraCondom #PhotoTips
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Artificial UN-intelligence is ruining our view of the world. 🤮There, I said it.People keep pumping “AI” as a progression for photography. It may well be in Photoshop-ography, but in CAPTURING the world that is actually before our eyes, I call absolute and utter B.S. 🤬This shot, during the midnight sun season in Iceland - wasn’t planned. I’d left my “proper camera” in the car, and just had my Canon with me. (Which was dripping after shooting for only a few seconds!).It was the first time in 4 days that the sun had actually appeared, but that was the FUN of it - chasing that light. ☀️I mean, even when it did, it wasn’t clear enough to co-operate with a sunflare - but it was the exploring, the trying, the “seeing what you can make from these ingredients” - THAT’s the fun of photography.So enter the joy of AI - Artificial Intelligence.First, with my old software hat on, what most of the industry is selling right now ISN’T actually any form of real A.I. I won’t get bogged down with it, but I call BS on >50% of software out there purporting to hold some form of evolving intelligence.Second, WHY would we want to “replace the sky with one click” or “automatically enhance a sunset”?Isn’t a real sunset incredible enough for us?Isn’t a foggy sky JUST as impressive as a set of "simpsons-clouds” - IF you’re willing to take the time to capture it well?And WHY would you let some piece of software like Skylum’s “Luminar” absolutely trash what is a perfectly impressive scene in the first place?Photography is as much about the experience of shooting as it is the final result. If our world is turning to software to “enhance” every experience - then how awful have our experiences become? Or even, how numb have WE become? 😔Keep it real folks - stop following the pied piper over that cliff of one-click-photo-destruction.And yes, that third image is a raw screenshot of what Luminar’s “AI” wanted to do to “enhance” my image. 🤦‍♂️#Photoshopography #Luminar #RealityCheck #TakeItDontFakeIt #WhatISeeRightNow #Waterfall #MidnightSun #Iceland #PaulReiffer #Software #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Unintelligent #ImageEnhancer

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