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Interview with David Ward
Last week we put a call out on Facebook and Twitter to solicit questions to ask David Ward in an upcoming interview. We had a great response and we chose the best questions and recorded the result. David was his usual cooperative self and I'm sure we could have gone on a lot longer. https://youtu.be/9obIgvvMZJI Here's a few of David's recent images and you can see more at his website https://www.davidward.photo. more
Phil Malpas
This week we have Phil Malpas as our featured photographer. Phil leads tours and workshop for various companies including Light and Land and My Photoschool and has books on the use of colour in photography, travel photography and a portfolio/guide book with Clive Minnit on 'Finding the Picture'. In most photographers lives there are ‘epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your two main more
The 10,000 Hour Rule
For a long time now I have been intrigued by the number of photographers (professional and amateur) who are, or have been involved with music to some extent in the past. Whether that be playing an instrument ( sometimes as a professional) or writing music for fun or to accompany their images or as I have done. I wouldn't be as interested if an artist had worked in two visual art more
Joe Rainbow
In most photographers lives there are 'epiphanic’ moments, however small they seem at the time, where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your two main moments and how did they change your photography? I think the first clear and decisive 'epiphanic' moment in my photographic career, was when I bought an Olympus OM 30 slr from a friend when I was about 17 years old and more
The Trouble with Conservation Photography
The truth is that “conservation photography” is green only in the very shallowest of senses. It smacks, unfortunately, of “do as I say, not as I do”. more
Olegas Truchanas
Continuing our series of video book reviews we take a short diversion to look at and talk about Olegas Truchanas, Peter Dombrovskis' mentor and friend. https://youtu.be/xmqeoqN3iSM more
Wild Rivers – Peter Dombrovskis
One of Joe Cornish's inspirations was and still is Tasmanian photographer Peter Dombrovkis. In this first of a series of videos Joe talks to Tim Parkin about the series of books that were published by Peter and his wife. The first book is 'Wild Rivers', the only book published during Peter's sadly too short life. https://youtu.be/fiJ7dGGFvxg Read more on Peter Dombrovskis Peter Dombrovskis Master Photographer Endframe: “Deciduous Beech In Winter, Cradle Mountain more
The Diffraction Limit
I think most photographers will have come across various online resources, books, magazines and blog posts telling them that certain apertures are 'out of bounds' and that in order to get the sharpest pictures they need to use a narrow band of apertures (usually f/5.6 or f/8 for 35mm cameras). As mentioned in last issue though, a test of some lenses seen recently where smaller aperture results on the D800 resolved more than the best aperture results on a more
Going with the Flow
From a photographer’s viewpoint, at times it’s been hard even to plan local trips when you can’t see the fields, let alone the hills, for low cloud and rain more
Sea Change – Michael Marten
Michael Marten's "Sea Change" recalls Ariel's song in Shakespeare's Tempest Full fathom five thy father lies: Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. And the book is all about a transformation and of that rich and strange - the movement of the tides and the opening and closing of the tidal zone. The idea more
Welsh Light – Glyn Davies
Glyn Davies has been living and working photography since an early age with a family connection with the arts that runs very deep. Educated in Photography, TV and Film he has taught photography and run a professional photography business for over twenty five years. His primary passion now is the landscape and after recent successes with his first three shorter books (including getting David Cameron to put his hand more
Nigel Morton
Landscape Photographer of the Year's loss is our gain this week where we're featuring Nigel Morton's images including a few classics that failed to get through the first round of Take a View. In most photographers lives there are 'epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your two main moments and how did they change your photography? Well as with most people there have been more
Adventures of a Landscape Photographer – Part 2
As you will know from Part 1 in the last but one issue, I spent over a week on Skye and Harris in the Outer Hebrides building up some stock landscape images in May of this year. Having travelled from Skye to Harris, I was enjoying the wonderful beaches with mountain backdrops around Seilebost and the Luskentyre Bay area. During my time on Harris, I experienced all four seasons, often within a very short period of time, including more
Diffraction Limited?
I was browsing through a few lens reviews in a couple of print magazines I receive and I noticed something a bit strange. Now most of us have the received wisdom that diffraction affects every lens and you can't do anything about it, f/22 must be avoided at all costs. Well, the results I was looking at showed a camera getting better resolution figures for f/22 than another camera at f/8 when both of the lenses were the manufacturer's more
Velvia – The End of a Legend?
It's no secret that we're an equal opportunity magazine as far as film and digital are concerned, so when a few days ago Fujifilm UK issued a press release that declared Velvia 100F would be discontinued completely and Velvia 50 would also be discontinued in sheet film form we couldn't help but be <understatement>a little sad</understatement>. The press release stated that more