We are honored to have our image, Uprooted, included in this exhibit of Viewpoint Photographic Art Center member photographers work at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. We have been involved with Viewpoint for 18 years through volunteering and George is a past president of the organization.

We had a great half day expedition to the historic Oroville Chinese Temple Museum with a group of fellow photographers in November. Above is one of our images of the alter in the main temple of the museum complex. The temple dates from the 1860s when there was a large and active Chinese community in Oroville. 

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Marketed as the "Smart Camera Assistant", the relatively new Arsenal remote camera controller is an interesting little device. It is the brainchild of software developer and amateur landscape photographer Ryan Stout. While its primary market appears to be for point-and-shoot photographers, our initial interest was in the manual and time-lapse modes. The new company had a very successful Kickstarter campaign having raised $2,650,310. We were intrigued so we bought one to try it out.

There are two types of image stacking methods that are popular today. "Focus stacking" is used to extend the depth of field. Whereas "exposure stacking" can be used to extend the apparent exposure time. This post is intended to be a quick introduction to the latter.

Note: Some would say there is a third type called "action sequencing" but we consider that to be somewhat distinct from focus and exposure stacking. At least for our purposes. 

When to use exposure stacking