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Lensless Landscapes – Steve Gosling
Pinhole photography is photography taken to it's most simple form. Just a small hole and some photosensitive material. There are a few people in the UK who have really mastered using this technique (see Paul Mitchell's work in one of our featured photographer issues). Steve Gosling has mastered this process over the years and has produced a wonderful book of 'Lensless Landscapes' which we have featured in a review elsewhere this issue. We caught up with Steve at his more
Moving on Up
Having become a proponent of digital post production I still, however, try to create the image as far as possible in the field. For me, it is still about the art of photography rather than being a mouse master. more
Books from ‘Beyond Words’
The three books borrowed were Lee Friedlander’s “Friedlander”, Marco Paoluzzo’s “Terra Borealis” and Thomas Joshua Cooper’s “Shoshone Falls” more
Developing Your Own Website
Whilst developing photographic websites for colleagues I thought it would be a good idea to discuss the aspects that need thinking about when doing so. more
Wynn Bullock
The big turning point in his photographic journey was meeting Edward Weston. Stunned by the beauty of his prints, he devoted to ‘straight’ photography... more
David Baker
I saw a sunset image by Guy Edwardes, the sea looked fantastic and the wave trails ethereal. I tried it myself and was caught - a coast hugger ever since! more
Mike Green
We're featuring another digital photographer this month** who is from Yorkshire and came to my attention with his wonderful image of an old railway fence above Dent station. His flickr stream contains some classic compositions and I hope you enjoy his work and comments as much as I did In most photographer's lives there are ‘epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your two more
This month I’ve been mostly photographing old stuff…
On days where the weather or the light conspire to make working wider landscapes difficult I like nothing better than to find something rusting and fl more
The Landscape Photography Workshop – Mark Bauer & Ross Hoddinot
Photographer’s Institute Press should be well known to landscape photographers, they are the company behind outdoor photographer but they also publish photography books. Examples are the classic “Nature Photography Field Guide” by John Shaw and the series of books by Peter Watson, Capturing the Light, Light in the Landscape, Reading the Landscape and Seasons of Landscape (of which I can highly recommend Capturing the Light). Their latest offering for more
Joe Cornish Galleries – Open Exhibition
A few months ago, Joe Cornish galleries made an open call out for entries into a competition to exhibit at the gallery. Entrants were asked to speculatively submit framed images and the winners would be hung at the gallery. more
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