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We are proud to announce that photographer Ryan Dyar has joined the Squiver team. Ryan is known for his atmospheric landscape images and his popular post processing video tutorials. Not only that, he is also a great guy to travel with and to learn from, which is why we asked him in the first place.
Due to popular demand we have added a second Namibia Untamed tour for 2016, and Ryan will lead that tour. If you are not familiar with Ryan’s work, then first: shame on you, and second: www.ryandyarphotography.com/
If you want to visit Namibia, look no further. We were the first company to offer specialized photography tours to Namibia and there is no better organized Namibia tour out there. Also, we are still the only one that offers microlight flights over the famous Namibian sand dunes.
This image was shot on one of those microlight flights, an amazing experience. Microlight airplanes are the best way to take aerial photographs. Better than hot air balloons, as they only take you where the wind blows. Better than airplanes, as they go way too fast, have to stay very high, and you often have to shoot through low quality, scratched windows. And better than helicopters, because of those same scratched plastic windows, and you can only shoot in one direction. From a microlight you can shoot in all directions, also straight down.
What you see here is a gyrocopter, basically a two person helicopter without roof or windows. We used one of those for a few years, but we no longer do. I asked my pilot to fly above them to be able to include the gyro in my photograph for sense of scale. The photographic opportunities are endless when you’re flying over this sea of sand, sculpted by the light.
If you're interested in joining Ryan to Namibia, please check out our website for more information, images, video clips, and a very detailed tour PDF: www.squiver.com
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550-year-old dead trees in Deadvlei, Namibia
photo by: Sergey Aleshchenko
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Where dunes and ocean meet. A trip with a four wheel drive. Sandwich Harbour is a lagoon on the Atlantic coast of Namibia, lying south of Walvis Bay, within the Namib-Naukluft National Park.
Our recent #Everynewmoon adventure took us deep into the heart of Namibia.
When adventure calls ~ It's our duty to answer.
This is an extract of a larger panorama that I am working on.
Never before have I seen skies so dark and a landscape so breathtaking.
Conon 5DmkIII, canon 14mm f/2.8
Auch in Namibia, gelegen im Südwesten des afrikanischen Kontinents, gibt es spannende Eisenbahnen! Auf Kapspur verkehren hauptsächlich Güterzüge, bespannt meist mit Dieselloks aus dem Hause GE aus den 1960er Jahren. Vorherrschend ist dabei die Reihe 33-400.
Auf dem Weg aus Richtung Botswana kommend, wurde am Endbahnhof der Strecke Windhoek-Gobabis am Bahnhof Gobabis geschaut, und tatsächlich stand dort Lok 483 mit einigen Güterwagen bereit. Welch ein Glück! Nur kurz nach unserem Eintreffen fuhr der Zug dann auch bereits ab. Leider ist die Strecke nicht besonders spektakulär. Kurz hinter Witvlei passiert der Zug immerhin das Schild mit der Aufschrift "Okasewa Ranch", welches auf eine nahegelegene Farm hinweist.
Just a bit of compare and contrast. The dunes of Namibia's Namib-Naukluft National Park are a little like chameleons in their ability to alter their appearance, prompted by the time of day, the geological make-up of the sand, the weather and sky conditions and the individual quirks and settings of the photographer's equipment.
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Star trails of Deadvlei, Namibia ðŸŒ
Under the previous star trail image you've asked me lots of curious questions about star trails I photographed in Namibia.
So here are some tips for you how to make star trails!
Plan your trip to some dark sky location, like Namibia, Atacama, Bolivia, Australia. Any suggestions of your favorite locations are appreciated in comments.
Plan the position of the milky way and southern cross (stars will "spin" over southern cross). I use @photopills app for planning
1) I used wide angle, 14-24 mm Nikkor + Nikon D850, and 24 mm on my second, d810 (24-70). This image is from shots on D810.
2) I setup 25 s shutter speed, f/2.8, iso 4000. Why 25s? I also wanted to make timelapse + pick up single stills (single frame 25 s with stars as dots, not trails)
You can use rule of "500" to calculate right shutter speed for your lens. Let's say, you use 20 mm lens, then it's 500/20=25 s
3) Iso is high to get more stars and colors. If you don't want timelapse and stills, but your main goal are colorful star trails then it's better to use iso ~1600.
3) use fast lenses, like 1.8 or 2.8. Lenses with aperture 4 is usually much darker for night photography. You can make lens suggestions in comments, my choice is 14-24 nikkor lens.
4) I used in-camera interval timer. Check if you camera has one. Otherwise you need programmable remote release. Nikon cameras have interval timer.
5) I setup interval 2 s between shots. 1 s might be bad as camera will not have enough time to write a photo on sd card + overheat the sensor==increase noise
6) for Nikon cameras there's a crazy thing you should know about: interval there means not 2 s between shots, but time before start of exposure and finish + 2 s. For example, in my case of 25 s shutter speed + 2 s interval, the "Nikon interval" is 27 s!
7) on d850 I used electronic shutter, so it was possible to get 700 shots against to 400 on d810
8) after sequence of images is done, make a "blue hour" photo, or photo with light in the scene. For both published images I used a blue hour photo with 15 s shutter speed, iso 320 and f/7.1
That will make foreground with much better quality and get rid of hot pixels.
9) I use starstax software to merge all sequence into one star trail image
10) before merging photos I process one photo (usually from middle of the sequence), increasing saturation and vibrance a lot and meanwhile decreasing blue channel saturation in HSL
Decreasing exposure -2 ev if it's shot on iso 4000. Highlights and whites are also decreased.
11) process in Photoshop merging blue hour shot and star trail shot. You can use my techniques from Danielkordantutorials.com including luminosity masks to bring awesomeness to nice photo
Most of Namibia is dry, bone dry (and did I say, dusty). This river bed kept some water and thus the greenery.
As the sun dips below the distant mountains, the Namibian sky ignites in a breathtaking display of golden hues. Clouds catch the last rays of light, creating a dramatic and serene moment in the vast desert landscape.
The trees always amaze me. Underground water does the trick: those in the far distance mark a former river swallowed up by the migrating dunes.
Namibia is a beautiful country and can offer to the visitors such an amazing scenery very often.
When you drive your 4x4 you want to stop every 5 minutes and the journey gets longer and longer!
This one by Nikon D800 + Nikkor 24-70 f/2.8 at 24mm f/8 1/250s 64 ISO.
Swakopmund, Namibia
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Namibia. Dead Vlei.
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