This post will cover my planning process for a shoot, in particular the various software I use to do so. I run all these apps/websites on my iPad, which I carry with me when scouting and shooting.

I came across this old pier a while back in Port Phillip Bay, while scouting the location I decide...

This tutorial will cover the contrast masking technique I use to blend a foreground image with a stacked startrail image. It can also be used on a single image to isolate the sky from the foreground for the purpose of applying selective processing, and can be used to replace skies or other elements in an image...

I never got around to doing one of these posts for 2013, better late than never.

Tripods and saltwater are a bad combination. Here is a breakdown of the cleaning process I use whenever my tripod has been in the ocean.  The tripod is a Gitzo 3532s, but the basic principle is the same for all tripods.

Make sure you have everything you need...

A while back I upgraded from the D7000, 10-24 and Lee 100mm filter system to the D800E, 14-24 and the Lee SW150 filter system. While the camera and lens were big upgrades, the SW150 filter system was a step backwards from the standard Lee system in a  few areas...

There are a number of different ways to stack images in Photoshop CS6, I've found this method to be the fastest and it uses the least amount of PC resources.

The number of images you select at a time will be determined by the amount of available ram you have in your PC...

The bag is an F-Stop Loka with the extra large ICU (internal camera unit). The F-Stop website doesn't list the extra large ICU as an option for the Loka but it does fit, although there's not a lot of space left in the top compartment. I also have the large ICU, the dividers in the picture are from both the large and extra large ICUs...