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Copyright © 1983 to 2016 Richard I. Pietz Photography
Equipment
Cameras:
One Nikon D4 body and one Nikon D3 body
Digital:
A Lexar Professional 32 GB XQD 1100x, four Lexar professional 4 GB, and one 8 GB 800x compact flash cards and photo backup to a 250 GB Digital Foci external hard drive in the field or on location.
Lenses:
- Nikon 24-85mm F/3.5-4.5 AF G ED VR
- Nikon 80-200mm F/2.8 AF ED
- Nikon 18-35mm F/3.5-4.5 AF IF-ED
- Nikon 105mm macro F/2.8 AF D
- Nikon 300mm F/4 AF-S with a TC-14EII 1.4x teleconverter
- Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 AF VR ED
- Sigma APO 500mm F/4.5 AF EX HSM with 1.4x EX and 2x EX teleconverters
Accessories:
- Nikon extension extension tubes (PK-11A, PK-12, and PK-13)
- Nikon SB-800 flash
- Circular polarizers for all lenses
- Singh-Ray polarizer, warming polarizer and graduated and hard neutral density filters
- Variable 3 stop neutral density filter
- Nikon remote releases
- Photoflex Lite Disc reflector
- UV filters for lenses if needed
Tripods:
A Gitzo carbon fiber Model G2228 Explorer with a ball head is used for lighter lenses, and a Gitzo carbon fiber tripod Model 1325 with a Really Right Stuff BH-55 LR ball head is used for heavy lenses. Tripods are almost always used for all photographs taken.
Digital Processing and Printmaking:
Raw photos in Adobe RGB color space are downloaded from flash cards using a flash card reader attached to a high end Velocity Micro computer with 32 GB RAM. Photo Mechanic software is used to download, rename, and edit the pictures. The histogram in Photo Mechanic software is a valuable aid in selecting pictures for continued processing. The selected pictures are converted using the Adobe camera raw (ACR) converter in Adobe Bridge CC to ProPhoto RGB color space. After completing the editing in ACR, the files are saved in the DNG format and archived. Adobe Photoshop CC is used to complete the color corrections and touch up work. Prints are made in Adobe RGB (1998) color space as desired on an Epson Sure Color P800 printer. Master files with layers intact are archived in Adobe PSD format.
Original transparencies and color negative film, when used, are scanned using a Nikon Coolscan 4000 ED scanner. The digital images are transferred to a high end Velocity Micro computer with Windows 10 and 32 GB RAM to be processed in Adobe Photoshop CC which is used to complete the color corrections and touch up work. Original and master files with layers intact are archived in Adobe PSD format. Prints are made using an Epson Sure Color P800 printer. All photographs are cataloged using Phase One Media Pro.
All photographs appearing on this site are the property of Richard I. Pietz. They are protected by the U.S. copyright laws with an embedded invisible watermark (Digimarc) for Richard I. Pietz, and they are not to be downloaded or reproduced in any way without the written permission of Richard I. Pietz.
