Does NASA Shoot RAW? An Interview with ASTRONAUT Randy Bresnik
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Jared Polin
4.4 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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I highly suggest you give this one a watch on YouTUbe when you get a chance.
Does NASA Shoot RAW? An Interview with ASTRONAUT Randy Bresnik SPACE
It all started with a question, "do astronauts on the space station shoot RAW?". I figured why not call NASA and find out. While on the call I thought it would be a good idea to ask if I could interview an astronaut on the actual international space station. This time around we didn't get to interview someone on the station but we did get to interview Randy Bresnik who arrived back to earth only three days prior to our interview. Randy's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/astrokomrade/?hl=en
We talked a lot about photography and the issues you may face in space as a human and a photographer. I was amazed by the fact that I was talking to a real life SPACEMAN and get to share the whole thing with you.
I look forward to bringing you even more interviews as we venture into 2018. It is my goal to do an interview with someone in SPACE in the new year. I'm planning on seeing a SpaceX launch as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Jared Polin Froano's Photo.com with a special interview section here that's going to be pretty interesting because we have somebody from space. |
| 0:14.5 | They're not actually in space currently, but they were recently, and that's more than I can ever say for myself. |
| 0:19.8 | But we've got Randy Bresnick here, |
| 0:21.9 | who's, are you in, are you in, where are you right now? Johnson Space Center, just back |
| 0:26.6 | on my third day fractal space. So you're back in Houston? Back in Houston. Yeah, which is super |
| 0:32.9 | awesome. So what is interesting is that I love the fact that I can just call NASA and set something |
| 0:39.5 | up like this, which is awesome. |
| 0:40.7 | But then I was going to really look forward to talking about photography-related questions, |
| 0:46.0 | and they said you would be the perfect person for that. |
| 0:49.0 | So what was the greatest challenge while in the space station while shooting photos in space? |
| 0:54.8 | It's trying to get the photos to look like what we saw off the naked eye. |
| 0:59.5 | We're able to, you know, see these incredible colors and vibrancy and all that. |
| 1:05.2 | But then you're shooting through the atmosphere. |
| 1:07.1 | And that would then show up in the photo. |
| 1:09.9 | And so it was tough, especially with, you know, |
| 1:12.1 | sunrise and sunsets where the sun was cutting through the atmosphere at an angle. That really |
| 1:16.4 | changed the way the photos look a lot once we actually got them on the shot, saw the image. |
| 1:21.6 | Wow. So did you have to use any special type of filters or the glass that you're shooting through |
| 1:26.5 | on the space station by any chance is it polarized? |
| 1:28.9 | Yes, we did have protection because otherwise we'd have a pretty bad sunburn up there |
| 1:32.8 | at our windows. |
| 1:34.4 | The other challenge we had was we actually have on the cupola, the main area and the best spot |
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