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All I want is for people not to think of film as some defunct, irrelevant medium that even old fogies have ditched but as the culmination of a century of photographic progress and a valid alternative or addition to anyones photographic arsenal. more
Sacred Wood – BAE, Bien-U
I’d got to the third spread of photos in Bae, Bien-U’s Sacred Wood book and, for the first time in my life, I’d been moved to tears by photography. more
Landscapes of the Ribble – Andy Latham
I have come back to this book on many occasions, scanning and resting on some of the best pictures. I would say that 1 in 4 pictures really float my boat. more
e-Books – William Neill
William Neill assisted at Ansel Adams' studio in Yosemite and has worked with many of the top photographers in the world and in the process has himself become part of the group he studied with. more
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