Michael Bolognesi Photography

Masca Valley, Tenerife 2016

Rainier is the true Star Location: Reflection Lake, Mt Rainier National Park

This is an image from the famous Belvedere Mansion in Val d’Orcia, Tuscany. For many years this was an image that I always wanted to add to my portfolio. On my recent trip to Italy I finally had the opportunity to shoot it and was rewarded with almost perfect conditions.

La Tejita Exposed - This a very long exposure shot from the most iconic beach in Southern Tenerife, Playa de la Tejita.

================================= Supermoon Amidst Volcanoes Me and my buddy @raicorosenberg had been talking for long that we wanted to bag a shot of a rising supermoon behind Mt Teide from this lesser known angle. Shots like this require some planning. By using apps like TPE or PhotoPills you can calculate and pinpoint exactly where/when the moon will rise in relation to your intended position. This August the rising moon was taking place an hour after sunset so I could take advantage of the late twilight glow to get a clean shot of the landscape, rather than shooting it backlit by the harsh moonlight later on. Then I waited for the moon to rise to get the shots needed for the moon and stars. If you are shooting landscapes with the moon in the frame by using a wide angle lens it will appear much smaller than you perceive it in reality. Wide angle lenses tend push your background away and the solution is shooting the moon with a longer lens. Later on you simply blend it in during processing and resize it accordingly to better represent what you actually saw at the scene, thus creating a more compelling image. Location: Chinyero, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Spain ================================= ▪Cam: Canon 5D Mk3 ▪️Lens: Canon EF 17-40/4.0 & EF 70-300/4-5.6 L ▪Exif: ISO 400 - 6 sec - f/9 (landscape) | ISO 100 - 1/160 sec - f/9 (moon) | ISO 3200 - 30 sec - f/4 (stars) ▪Edit: Adobe Lightroom 5 & PS CC ================================= 🔺Sponsored by @Lucroit Systems🔺 ================================= Check out @christerolsen_ ================================= (at Chinyero)

I opted to do a two image blend for this shot as few clouds were around. One frame for the overall scene and one frame for the stars which I carefully blended into the final image.