News, tutorials and photography tips from The Photographer's Ephemeris
We’re approaching the 12-month countdown to the 2026 total solar eclipse, which most viewers will see from either Iceland or Spain. It’s always interesting to ask, “ What if we had the same weather on eclipse day as we’re seeing this year? ”
When planning a night photography or astrophotography shoot, the weather is a critical factor. It’s not just the obvious factors, such as the absence of rain and clouds; many other elements conspire to create or prevent great conditions.
Seeing and Transparency, along with light pollution and smoke, are two of the most important considerations for astrophotographers in determining where and when to plan a shoot. We’re pleased to be offering new Seeing and Transparency forecasts with Photo WX, our weather service for photographers.
Lighting is a critical aspect of architectural photography and something you should plan for in advance. Depending on the circumstances of your project, you may be able to pick and choose your time freely (e.g. personal projects, planning future travel), to exercise some choice within a finite time window…
At the end of our last article, we had corrected the converging verticals and the slight horizontal yaw of our photo, and yet things still aren’t quite right…
In this third post about architectural photography, we’ll look at how to fix converging verticals in your shots of buildings. If we can’t avoid unintended converging verticals in-camera, we must fix them in post.
In this second post about architectural photography, we’ll discuss equipment selection (cameras, lenses, tripods, and tripod heads) and some of the implications of the gear you have on hand, particularly in post-processing.
This is the first in a series of brief introductory articles on architectural photography. We’ll cover everything you need to know in order to plan, execute and process your images of buildings to a high standard. In this part, we’ll consider perspective and how it applies to architectural work.
We’re delighted to introduce Photo WX, our new weather service designed especially for photographers. You can now access weather maps designed especially for photographers, directly from the site.
And all of sudden, it’s September, the beginning of climatological autumn here in the northern hemisphere. It’s perhaps the most exciting time of all for outdoor photography - changing colors, unpredictable weather, and all-too-brief moments of perfect conditions to shoot the change foliage.
The photo above shows a rather unusual combination of subjects for southern Wyoming. This was taken during last month’s famous G5 solar storm, where the Aurora Borealis…
So, it finally happened. After months of prep and work to add solar eclipse features in Photo Ephemeris, we finally got to see the April 8 total eclipse! We traveled on a no-frills tour to a location near Torreón in northern Mexico.