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Exposure Blending
One of our accepted goals as photographers is to ensure that our final ‘product’ is correctly exposed (we’ll come back to what ‘correctly exposed’ actually means later). Digital cameras can supposedly record 13 stops of dynamic range but real world tests show that although it’s possibly to detect differences at the 10th, 11th and 12th stops, they are swamped by noise. The real dynamic range of a good DSLR is about 8 or 9 stops. To put the that 8 more
Michela Griffith
This issue we're talking to Michela Griffith, a photographer who lives near Buxton and whose landscape work I originally saw in the 'Developing Vision and Style' books and whose site I saw quite recently whilst investigating women in landscape photographer (a question I raise with Michela and one we'll no doubt return to. In most photographers lives there are ‘epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. more
OM1 Winner!
And we have a winner for our 'win a full frame camera' competition. We had 20 entries and picked out David Langan as a winner. David Recommended a flickr photography by the tag of 'Hogne'. We'll be contacting him in the next few issues. David wins an Olympus OM1 combined with two lenses, a 50mm f/1.8 and a 28mm f/3.5 and a bunch of film (neg and slide) and a few drum scans. David will be writing something about his more
Chris Bell – Book Review
Tasmania, Primal Places Now this book is something else. Joe showed me this a couple of years ago and I was immediately taken. The reproduction and paper quality is superb and the pictures, oh my! I've included a few extracts below but all I can say is "buy this book". The narrative is also very strong, short exracts of a life in the wilderness. Don't expect any mention of photography, this is all about the wild and all the better more
Nature’s America – David Muench
David Muench is one of the first great colour landscape photographers. With a huge back catalogue of publications, he has influenced a generation of photographers and has created many of the places Americans now call icons. Tim Parkin and Joe Cornish go through the book "Nature's America" discussing its influence on Joe and the assets of the photographic skills shown inside. We hope you enjoy it (apologies for the video quality - hopefully it's good enough for the purpose.) Part more
Paul Moon
This week we're featuring a great photographer who has spent a lot of time championing a beautiful part of the country that gets a too little attention. more
The Arca-Swiss D4 Geared Head
I took delivery of a new Arca Swiss D4 Geared Head from Robert White in May 2011 and was immediately impressed by its small dimensions and its quality engineering. more
Brockwell Park
Autumn in the walled garden I first wandered into Brockwell Park with a camera about five years ago, the park entrance being only a few metres from my front door. Before this it had been nothing more than a pleasant green space to cross on the way to the station at Herne Hill, or the venue for occasional summer picnics. When I could, I traveled to my more
E(igg)volution of an idea
2005, October Having recently returned from a week long visit to the Isle of Eigg, processed the sheets the sheets of film and completed the digital work flow I have taken a little time to look back over images made on previous visits going back to my first in October 2005. Eigg offers a wealth of photographic opportunities throughout the year right across the island more
Anthropomorphism in Landscape Photography
Seeing Ghosts? I keep seeing human behaviours and emotional states in photographic subjects which I know full well are not human and don't have such characteristics; trees, rocks, clouds, that sort of thing. In other words, I've recently been anthropomorphising images wildly. Obviously, I know I'm merely projecting these human characteristics, and I'll assert my confidence up-front that it's not just me sliding into early dementia here: Flickr and the like are awash, judging by the comments, with 'malevolent' weather more
Escaping the Rut
It’s inevitable that we all reach a point in our photographic journey when we begin to draw nothing but blanks. After downloading the contents of your memory card or getting your freshly processed images back from the lab, you realise that there isn’t even a single image amongst them of any worth. Weeks, or even months, without an image of note can begin to chip away at your creative more
Paul Gallagher
We'd like to thank Paul Gallagher for taking part in this enlightening video. We talked about everything from composition to use of film developers optimised for scanning. We hope you enjoy and would love to know your feedback. Part One https://youtu.be/SFOrSdsqy6k Part Two https://youtu.be/EoeoNj4FjDY Part Three https://youtu.be/WyLj24hFfnI more
Chelsea Flower Show – An Outdoor Gallery
David Anthony Hall is an Irish landscape photographer specialising in very large prints, mostly panoramas, of groups of trees (although this is not all he does). He has recently worked with a garden designer to produce an outdoor garden exhibition for the Chelsea Flower show... You've recently had your photographs used as part of an exhibit at the Chelsea Flower show. Can you let us know a little about how more
Paul Mitchell
I have too many cameras and lenses! and the biggest mistake I have made in the past is thinking I can take them all. more