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Thomas Peck’s Critiques
Photography can be a frustrating art form. It delights to pose questions and not to provide answers. Take this eerie image by Kilian Schönberger. Why are these trees bent at the base and straight at the top? What is going on? more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques
Landscape photography is a slight misnomer, in that a large number of landscape photographs have as their subject not land but water. Or at least they take the interaction between water and land as a starting point for their imagery. more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques
If our reading of a picture is based on a literal, descriptive level, then the inclusion of a figure in the landscape has a very simple function: it is there to suggest a sense of scale. The figure acts as a basic juxtaposition between a known height/size and the rest of the content of the image. However, if a photograph is also to be read on a more metaphorical level, then the inclusion of a figure suddenly becomes much more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques – Untitled
Do you like modern art/photography? Especially abstract modern art…? Or does it frustrate you? Does it feel like the artist is being deliberately obscure, cloaking an image in obfuscation, and then calling it Art! I must admit I can have both reactions… But with this image by Sandy Weir I’m definitely in the former camp. To me this is beautiful, delicate and wispy. And yet on first viewing I had no idea what it was a more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques
It’s quite incredible that such a vision can be brought to life from an iPhone. more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques
Abstract photography, which is how I would almost classify this lovely photograph by Michéla Griffith (click here to read previous articles by Michela), engages the viewer in a completely different way from other photographic genres. Unlike a landscape or a portrait there is a momentary hesitation, a second of uncertainty, as we ponder what it is that we are seeing. Abstraction demands engagement; the viewer must work to see and recognise. Why is this picture only almost an abstract? more
In Sympathy with the Landscape: the photographic pastoral
In a previous article we looked at Alan Hinkes’s photographic depiction of the Sublime. High up in the Himalaya, in the death zone, Hinkes photographed awe-inspiring landscapes, where man was insignificant and puny in the face of massive and indifferent nature. Hinkes, whether consciously or not, was tapping into an artistic genre. In the 17th and 18th centuries artists had deliberately sought to capture the emotional impact that particularly mountain landscapes had created in the viewer. The exhilaration more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques
Much photography is descriptive in a literal sense. Sharp lenses, high resolution cameras transcribe in great detail and clarity whatever subject the photographer choses. The viewer recognises instantly what is being shown; as a result interpretation is relatively simple. That is not the case with Doug Chinnery’s wonderful moody seascape view above. (Click here for other articles Doug Chinnery has written for On Landscape.) Here we have the opposite of the ‘straight shot’. The norms of photography have been subverted. more
Blind Critique Live Streaming, 20th May, 8pm
We're re-introducing our blind critiques which we ran last year. This is where we'll be inviting photographers along to provide feedback on submitted photographs from our subscribers. Getting feedback on your photography is critical to your progression as a photographer. For most photographers this typically happens when they meet up with some friends on when they post images on Flickr more
Joe Cornish and David Ward Discuss Photos
Last week we ran a webinar with David Ward and Joe Cornish where each photographer chose three of their colleagues images to discuss. The video is now available on You Tube but we've transcribed the content and included the images at higher resolution here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzTMr1JClrU Tim: Hello and welcome to ‘On Landscape’ and we’re here with Joe Cornish and David Ward. David/Joe: Good evening. Tim: And we are doing something fairly new in a way. Normally we’re critiquing other people’s work but you’re more
Blind Critique Dav Thomas and David Breen
Dav Thomas and David Breen, the two directors of Triplekite Publishing, took part in one at the end of January and it was most enjoyable to take part in more
Blind Critique with David Clapp (Part Two)
We had to run a second Blind Critique Webinar with David Clapp because of the volume of submissions. We might have gone a bit quick through these but we hope you got some good feedback. more
Joe Rainbow
We recently took a look at a fantastic photograph by Joe Rainbow of Gunwalloe Scales and asked Joe Cornish to critique it and also asked him how he would approach the post processing of it. The results, whilst not far from Joe Rainbow's version, show some interesting aspects of technique and style. The original picture is shown below. https://youtu.be/5Xj34IfOHiE You can see more of Joe Rainbow's photography at more
Chris Goddard
This week I asked Chris Goddard from the south of Wales to send a couple of pictures of Mewslade to me to 'critique'. I'm not a huge fan of the term critique - hints of criticise but that is far from what I want to do here. The two photographs are wonderful interpretations of an area of the world that I visited and found very difficult. If you want to see some more of Chris's pictures, take a look more
Robert Garrigus
Robert Garrigus volunteered his photographs to be the subject of Joe Cornish and Tim Parkin's photography critique and what a good couple of compositions they were too. Many thanks Robert. Part One https://youtu.be/362kVm1OB-w Part Two https://youtu.be/B6bOVnMVc1M more