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Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect [Vince Lombardi]

Hi there! [Updated December 2010]
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I'm a Nature photographer from Buenos Aires, Argentina mostly interested in Landscapes & Night Photography. I use a myriad of open source software and make all my stuff public.

I'm a positivist photographer, I try to avoid sad images. People are very rare in most of my pictures except of my family or special situations. I consider people as moving things that ruin my landscapes :)


Photo by Daniel Ricagno

Where to Start?

I have a lot of pics in flickr. Maybe you want to start here since they are ordered by interestingness so I guess the good ones are first... who knows? (click on the image thumbs below)


I'm an admin of the Luminous Landscapes group. We try to collect some of the best landscpes without man-made elements from flickr photographers, if you like the idea please join us!

A Night Photo:



I like to capture the night sky along with the landscape, I like shooting stars, the moon and the milky way.

And some Weather:



What I like to shoot:

Nature Landscapes
Night Landscapes (I might call them astrolandscapes)
Storms and weather related events
Infrared landscapes
Panoramas



Interestingness Watch:

25 Most Interesting photos
Flickr Explore photos

My stuff:

Canon 5DII;
Canon 17-40L
Canon 24-105L
Canon 70-200 f/4 L + TC Kenko 1.4
Sigma 15mm Fisheye F2.8

Manfrotto Tripod 055: 728B
Several filters (most used ND400, R72IR, 830nmIR, ND8, GND, etc)



Software I use
I only use free software so you can just go and download these and experiment too.

Gimp (photo editing chief executive)
Hugin (for panoramics and perspective correction)
Enfuse Gui (to blend exposures)
NoiseWare community edition (Noise reduction)
UFRaw (Raw Processing)
QTPfsgui (HDR)

I also use Registax / DeepSkyStacker / IRIS / CombineZM

I also use several Gimp plugins and I wrote a couple of Gimp scripts myself.

Techniques I'm interested (mostly)
(Links to my sets experimenting with them)

Landscapes;Night Landscapes;HDR; Daytime long exposures;Panoramas;Infrared Photography

And more....
Among other experiments I've been also playing with:
Tilt & Shift Miniature Fakes, 360x180 equirectangular panoramas, Macros,Stereographic Projections & little planets,Droste Effect,Harris Shutter Effect,Vertoramas,Cinematic Pictures,Double Exposures,Split Toned Images,Dyptychs and sequences,HDTR Images,Recursive Projections and Fractals



Contacting Me

Thanks for visiting my profile!
If you have questions or something to say I'm usually fast to answer mail or flickrmail.
My Blog: The amazing Light
Twitter: twitter.com/lrargerich

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