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A Plea for Broader Horizons
The early American landscape photographers fascinate me, recording ‘wilderness’ has largely set the tone for the majority of landscape imagery produced today. more
41 Megapixel Phone Camera!
OK - we've been keeping a place open for this one.. Nokia have just out specced nearly all of the camera companies in one fell swoop. The new Nokia 808 will have 41MP!! This looks like a typo when you first see it. FORTY ONE MEGAPIXELS! Well, my first reaction was - must be a fake - but no, lo and behold they've actually created a camera with more megapixies than Nikon's new D800. more
Anti-aliasing and Moire
For those who don’t know, Nikon’s new DSLR is a 36 megapixel blockbuster, for the ‘e’ options you pay an extra £300 and have the anti-alias filter disabled. more
Broken Line, The Silent Respiration of Forests & Stone Walls
Book reviews - Olaf Otto Backer, Takeshi Shikama, Gus Wylie, Mariana Cook & Sean Scully. more
Baxter Bradford
In this issue we’re talking to Hampshire/Cornwall based photographer Baxter Bradford whose prints from around the granite coastline and Kimmeridge I first saw whilst staying in the Mount Haven Hotel near St Michael’s Mount. In most photographers lives there are 'epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your two main moments more
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Glacier…
One of my ‘best’ pictures was ‘taken’ at the face of Franz Josef Glacier on New Zealand’s South Island. The sheer scale of that monumental wall of ice. more
Colour Correction with Curves
I’ve written quite a bit about using curves to adjust tonality and brightness but curves can be a lot more flexible tools than this more
Loitering in the Countryside at Night
It was only a matter of time before I ended up loitering in the countryside at night. This series is my attempt at challenging my own relationship with and understanding of the landscape around me. When I was contemplating my next project, night time seemed an obvious choice for a few reasons. It would be technically and physically difficult and would certainly initially be fairly unpredictable in terms of what I would achieve photographically. Starting with no plan was as more
Leeming and Paterson
As landscape photographers we are fundamentally solitary predators. Away before the dawn and skulking home long after sundown. Shying the pack culture. Lost in "the zone" of image capture meditation. It is a personal space of peace and calm I love to frequent. A place I feel I am at my best, away from intrusions and thoughts that invade much of the reality of the every day. And indeed, when more
The Myth of Universal Colour
While we were working on the Big Camera comparison, one of the things that became quite clear was that the different sensor devices we looked at were producing images whose colour was quite different. More importantly, when we tried to fix the colour from one to look like another, it proved impossible. This rung a few bells with me from a couple of years ago when I was looking at whether it was possible to simulate Fuji Velvia 50 by more
John Parminter
We're talking to a fell runner turned photographer this issue (I wish I was as fit!) and someone with a fascinating take on the classic mountain photography genre. What photographic moments have most transformed your thinking about photography (or have just had you jumping up and down for joy!?) This is the hardest question Tim and I actually left it last to answer; I do know though that I am not more
David Hockney and the Yorkshire Wolds
Bradford-born artist David Hockney has recently filled the walls of the Royal Academy with an exhibition of his landscape paintings, iPad drawings... more
Truth and Lies in Photography
"The camera doesn't lie". This famous phrase suggests that what appears in a photograph is a direct reflection of reality... more
Joe, Andrew and an IQ180
When Joe Cornish pondered the possibly of purchasing the IQ180, Tim Parkin and Andrew Nadolski joined him on a walk through Bilsdale... more
On Meaning in Photography
Photographic description alone will never be inspirational, never make a heart beat faster, never bring a tear to another’s face... more