WHERE HOWARD GOES
Travel photography and storytelling by Howard Cheng
Photography 101
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Photographing the Milky Way from 37,000 ft
In September 2024, whilst on an Asiana Airlines flight to South Korea, I shot the Milky Way from a plane. This was my first time trying to shoot the galactic core, let alone from a plane. It took me a while to work out how to do it — I documented my planning process in…
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Review: Capture One Enhanced Denoise
Capture One has always been one of those editing apps which I seem to have a love-hate relationship with. I initial bought Capture One with a good discount when I bought my first Leica. I had used pretty much as my sole editing tool until they really started pushing their subscription model. One of the…
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Shooting the Aurora
With just over a month to go before the start of the 2025 / 2026 northern lights (aurora borealis) season and with solar activity levels still being quite favourable, it might be the time to think about a trip to where you can see the aurora as well. What is the aurora? Without being too…
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Does sensor size matter? Not as much as I thought
One of the biggest questions which is asked when buying cameras is about the sensor size. It matters, right?… right? Well – maybe yes, maybe no, maybe both. Having first shot with an APS-C sensor before moving onto full frame, then shooting with APS-C again, then full frame again, and then now Micro Four Thirds,…
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PlanIt Pro: an app that might actually have earned its ‘pro’ title
As we approached September and October 2024, news of a once-in-lifetime visitor to grace our night sky excited many people around the world. Initial estimates identified comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as having possibly last materialised in the night sky above Earth some 80,000 years ago, although other estimates place the comet’s orbital period even longer…
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Photographing the Milky Way from 35,000 ft
Table of contents A window seat to the stars A couple of weeks ago, while sitting in seat 30K on an Asiana Airlines A350 making an overnight flight from London to Seoul, I was grinning like a Cheshire Cat as I posted on social media a photograph of my Leica Q3’s back LCD screen. The…