When you’re in the exact spot in which you photographed a Vatnajökull ice cave a couple of years prior, to find yourself stood in a dry gravel parking lot, you realise just how fast and visibly Iceland’s glaciers are disappearing…
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Masterclass – The Professional Photography Tuition Series
Join Paul for our series of specialist, in-depth, masterclass sessions on key photographic topics, where we demonstrate best practices and how to get the the most from your landscape or cityscape photography.
Homestead – Sunrise With The New Phase One XT Rodenstock 40mm Tilt Lens
The new Phase One 40mm XT Tilt lens from Rodenstock opens up a new way of shooting on an already incredible camera system while testing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Elevation – New Landscape & Cityscape Styles, Exclusively For Capture One
Introducing our brand new Capture One Styles Pack: Elevation – with 8 professionally graded looks to help you bring the feelings you captured in your images straight to the eyes of the viewer.
Shooting The City – Paul’s Top Tips For Great Urban & Cityscape Photography
Learn how to get the best cityscape images with Paul’s tips on capturing the energy, excitement and movement of these incredible places around the world.
Frame Averaging – A Complete Guide To The New Long Exposure Triangle
The Ultimate Guide to In-Camera Automated Frame Averaging and Flexible Long Exposures by Global Phase One Ambassador, Photographer, Paul Reiffer
Capture One 21 Released – A Guide to the New Features
The complete guide and review of Capture One Pro 21 – All the new features & updates explained by ambassador & professional photographer, Paul Reiffer
Comet Neowise – NeoWhere? Finding the Coolest Thing in the Night Sky
As the brightest comet in nearly a quarter of a century, you’d think that catching a glimpse of the huge cosmic ice-ball otherwise known as C/2020 F3 “Comet NEOWISE” would be easy.
Dual Exposure+ – Testing the New Phase One Lab in Miami’s South Beach
Phase One’s latest Lab feature review – Dual Exposure+. 18 stops of DR and the ability to capture perfectly exposed highlights with virtually noise-free shadow details.
Launching Capture One 20 – New Feature Review of Phase One’s Latest Image Editing Tools
Paul’s review and guide to the latest features released as part of today’s Capture One 20 upgrade – Phase One’s professional image editing tool.
Get the Free Interactive Guide to Long Exposure Photography with Phase One
Access Paul’s tips, tricks & techniques, written and compiled together with the team at Phase One in our free interactive guide to Long Exposure Photography
Mono Lake – Shooting ‘The Other World’ for Nearly 20 Years
While relatively off-the-beaten-track, Mono Lake’s incredible “tufa” formations across its shoreline bring photographers from far and wide to capture these unusual scenes – Paul Reiffer.
Firefall – Capturing the Winter Glow of Yosemite’s Horsetail Falls
It’s so rare to find solitude in the world when combined with a stunning natural phenomenon; Yosemite National Park’s “Firefall” delivers both nature and crowds
Splash! – Water Drop Photography with High Speed Freeze Flash
Experimenting with MIOPS’ “Splash” kit – designed to make water drop photography more of a science than an art. A guide by Paul Reiffer – Photographer
Behind The Scenes – Shooting the Phase One IQ4 150MP Launch Images
The Phase One IQ4 150MP Infinity Platform ships at the end of this month, and for the past week I’ve been their focus in the latest marketing campaign.
Light Pollution, Astroklar & Natural Night Filter Review – Do They Really Work?
Light pollution: Increasingly a challenge for city dwellers and photographers alike. Those deep, dark skies that I’m lucky enough to see full of stars out in the countryside are becoming an endangered species in their own right as the world’s population continues to rise and urban areas inevitably expand. The problem is, with all that light bouncing around, our view of the night sky (and ability to capture it) continues to diminish on a daily […]
Capture One – Advanced Masks & Adjustments, Bridging the Filter Gap
Glass filters are an essential part of many landscape photograpers’ kit bags, but what happens when there simply isn’t the perfect filter for the scene before your eyes?
Paul guides you through how Capure One’s advanced masks and dynamic range recovery tools can help bring that image back to exactly what you saw.
Stonehenge : Photographing the Inner Circle at Sunrise
Stood in the crisp air of a spring morning, enjoying the view through Stonehenge across the Wiltshire countryside; it was all too easy to forget for a moment that what I was photographing had been built over 4,500 years ago – by our Neolithic ancestors – out of 25 tonne “sarsen” stones transported for over 20 miles to be here. It was a morning that had been planned for a while – with weather that seemed set to disappoint. The nearer I […]
Chill Out : The End of Winter in Iceland
For the briefest of moments, the sound of cracking had stopped – the huge iceberg formations that feed Iceland’s iconic Jökulsárlón (or “glacial river lagoon” when translated) had steadied and the tide was turning. While often full of baby icebergs which have fallen away from the surface of the Vatnajökull glacier, finding one of this size in isolation resting in still water (with very few people around to distract) was quite unusual. Even better, the stillness […]
Spellbound : Iceland’s Northern Winter Waterfalls
It’s a truly amazing feeling – that moment when you walk up to a location that’s taken ages to get to, having planned it for months, with doubt all along the way that you’d even arrive – to find the exact scene you were hoping for. With a mix of relief, awe and then urgency; it was time to shoot the stunning Aldeyjarfoss waterfall, in the North-East of Iceland, before the weather closed in after our ice-bound […]
Graduated? Reverse? Neutral Density? Paul’s Quick Guide to GND Filters
They can be the difference between a nice picture and a “wow” photograph, but I’m always amazed by how many people still seem to believe the phrase “photographic filter” means nothing more than an Instagram effect on their iPhone. The use of filters forms a significant part of my landscape photography workshops around the world, along with talks and presentations I deliver for manufacturers and camera brands, as they’re often the most misunderstood addition or tool in any photographer’s kit bag. In […]
New Zealand Nights : Aurora Australis & our Galaxy Above
Seeing the northern lights (aurora borealis) in the sky above us is becoming an increasingly popular to-do list item, but despite being fortunate enough to have seen them a few times now, the lure of seeing the southern lights (aurora australis) during our time in New Zealand was just too tempting to ignore. We’d been lucky so far, really, when it came to night sky photographs. While not my favourite subject, hunting for the right location, angle, […]
Paul’s Tripod Buying Guide
I need a tripod – but which one? In a market which is saturated with manufacturers and all their unique solutions, choosing the right tripod can be almost as tricky as the decision making process that went in to buying your camera. There are so many confusing options out there and I’m often asked “which is the best tripod?”, but the answer is never a simple one. The tripod that is best for me is […]
Inside Antelope Canyon – Paul’s Complete Photography Guide
It’s a location that features on the bucket list of many photographers, and it’s a magnetic one at that. Having already visited both Upper and Lower Antelope Canyon 6 or 7 times since my first visit in 2011, I still have the urge to return every now and then to capture the other-worldly scenes of light-trails, stunning rock formations and shadows throughout these two natural wonders just outside of Page, Arizona. Sadly, there is a lot […]