long exposure

No more Noises: DXO can be the saver for Hyper Long exposure photography ?

I'm not fun of Noise reduction. It can eliminate noises, but also it can kill the details too. But my stereo-typed thought for NR is about to end. Please check the full review of DXO' AI Noise reduction "DeepPRIME".

2023.02.07

software

Behind the scenes: The blast at North

Let's look the behind scene of Yoshihiko's recent image. You can find some interesting story, raw and other interesting fact.

2022.10.14

postmortem

5 tips for Waterfalls Black and White photography

In my archives, there are so many waterfall and stream pictures. I would like to share them, including some of my favorite waterfall pictures from the past. Along with those pictures, I'll share some tips for shooting waterfalls in monochrome.

2022.10.01

TIPS

Behind the scenes: Age of the Steel

Let's look back to Yoshihiko Wada's favorite images with a lot of materials and raw images.

2022.03.11

postmortem

Long exposure comparison :Z14-24mm F2.8S vs Nikkor14-24mm F2.8G

There is no doubt NIKKOR Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S is superb lens. However is there really necessary to replace legendary, acclaimed NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED to the expensive predecessor. I compared the both two lenses with hyper long exposure in the real world.

2022.01.25

lensND

Behind the scenes：Underlines -Ⅰ-

Travel is no-no these days due to covid-19 pandemic. So instead of going away from my home, I’ve been focusing on my local areas to shoot local bridges. This blog post is postmortem and behind the scenes with many original data from my new panorama cityscape series: “The Underlines”

2021.09.11

panoramaTIPSworkflow

OLD LENS DIE HARD: Recommendation for old Nikkor PC lens

PC(Perspective Control) lens is a very special lens and expensive. So how about trying "old pc nikkor"? They are sold around $300 or so. Is image quality bad? NO Not at ALL!! I will prove in the post.

2020.07.13

gearslensthought