01Open project ↗Camera educationShort-form field explainer
10mm → 800mm
One visual idea, made instantly legible: how the world changes as a lens moves from ultra-wide to super-telephoto.
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Cyrus Olinger Astro + landscape photographer
Photos fromafter dark.
Big sky.
Sharp stories.
Astrophotography, field films, and camera lessons that make a technical idea land in about thirty seconds. Based in Southern California, usually somewhere with no phone signal.
TRACKEDSTACKED · FINISHED · FIELD TESTED
01 Astrophotography
02 Landscape
03 Short-form film
04 Camera education
05 Image licensing
Selected field work
Built outside.
Finished with intent.
Nightscapes, destination stories, camera lessons, and the occasional quiet human moment. Picked for the idea inside the frame rather than the number under it.
View the complete work index ↗01Open project ↗02Open project ↗NightscapeJoshua Tree, California
Joshua Tree After Dark
A tracked 4 × 16 frame panorama built to hold both celestial detail and the feeling of standing beneath it.
03Open project ↗Field storyNorthern Vietnam
The Long Way Through Vietnam
A location-led short film that treats the journey, rather than a checklist of landmarks, as the narrative.
04Open project ↗Aerial + fine artLençóis Maranhenses, Brazil
Flower Dune Lagoon
An aerial study of wind, water, shadow, and scale, carried from expedition image into a physical print edition.
10MM800MMCamera education · public snapshot
Make the technical
impossible to ignore.
One focal length idea, shown rather than explained. It turned out to be the kind of camera lesson people save, send to a friend, and still understand with the sound off.
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- likes on the original reel
- 252
- public comments
- 10→800
- millimetre progression
For brands + destinations
Field stories with
something real inside.
The best briefs start with a place, a problem, or a genuine curiosity. Logo placement is the easy part and it comes last.
Explore partnership formats ↗Field production
Campaign photography and short-form film shot in real locations, with a plan that survives contact with weather.
What this can include ↗Creator integration
A camera lesson or field story built for an audience that already shows up for this subject, disclosed clearly and written to be worth watching.
How integrations work ↗Hybrid + licensing
Production, publishing, archive licensing and usage terms scoped as separate rights so nothing gets renegotiated mid-campaign.
See how licensing works ↗NIGHTFRAME · by Cyrus Olinger
NIGHT
FRAME
The night-sky field manual, free to use.
258 field notes plus a set of planning tools that actually calculate things: when real darkness starts where you are, how much the moon will ruin, and which targets clear your horizon tonight. No account, no paywall, nothing uploaded.
From field to wall
Flower Dune
Lagoon.
Seasonal rain fills the gaps between the dunes at Lençóis Maranhenses and turns a desert into a field of lagoons. From the air it stops looking like landscape and starts looking like pattern.
- Place
- Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil
- Perspective
- Aerial landscape
- Edition
- Fine-art print
After you hit send
What actually
happens next.
No discovery funnel, no six-week onboarding. If it is a fit you will know quickly, and if it is not you will know just as quickly.
Read the partner FAQ ↗- 01A straight answer
Yes, no, or here is a better version of the idea. Usually within a few days.
- 02A short creative route
The concept, the field plan, the deliverables, and what happens if the weather turns.
- 03Rights before capture
Usage, term, territory, exclusivity and disclosure agreed while it is still cheap to agree them.
- 04Field, edit, deliver
Production, post, one feedback round, final files in the formats you asked for.
Behind the frame
One practice.
Two horizons.
Cyrus works between two scales. The ground, where weather and access decide whether an image is possible at all. And the sky, where the subject has been travelling toward the sensor for a very long time and does not care about anyone’s schedule.
That covers tracked nightscapes, deep-sky imaging, aerial and travel work, short films, and lessons meant to make the craft less mysterious.
A clear brief starts here
Bring the right story
into the field.
Photography · Short-form film · Creator integrations · Destination stories · Image licensing · Field testing
Start a partnership inquiry ↗