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Issue 56 PDF
Browse On Landscape on your Tablet, iPad or Desktop
4×4 Porfolio
The Art of Getting Out There
Johsel Namkung – A Retrospective
Book Review
Sebastião Salgado – Genesis
Natural History Museum, London
Andrew Gilbert Fine Art Gallery
An Interview
H3D39 vs D800 Quality
Part One
H3D39 System Possibilities
Part Two
H3D39 vs D800 Usability
Part Three
Fuji GSW690III Medium Format Camera
A minimalist approach to landscape photography?
David Langan
Featured Photographer
Photographically Speaking: A Deeper Look at Creating Stronger Images
Book Review
“I used to want to go to Iceland”
Letters - Giles Stokoe
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You may be pleased to know that we aren't featuring any Iceland photographs this issue - I know some of you find the current obsession with this small remote island quite peculiar and Giles Stokoe has commented on it consuming our social media pages in his 'Letter to the Editor' this month.
You have to wonder why Iceland is suddenly so popular but, like most things, it's mainly because it's cheap and has had some broad coverage in recent times. We need to remember that Eliot Porter was producing books of Iceland photography forty years ago so it's hardly a new thing.
What we do have this issue is a bit of a medium format digital special. These cameras have been plummeting in price on the second hand market and I heard of someone recently getting a H3D39 with camera and lens for the same price as a new D800 without lens. That was a fine deal but the price of the two are similar enough for it to warrant a bit of attention.
Owning your own gallery is a dream for some photographers and we interview Andrew Gilbert who gives us a bit of an inside track on what that has meant for him. We've book reviews, equipment tests and an exhibition review (Salgado! Must see!) so check the contents below.
Finally don't forget about our one to one live chat with Joe Cornish and David Ward on Facebook on Tuesday the 16th of April so turn up with your questions ready. We're also closing our online survey asking about what cameras you use soon so please take part for a chance to win a Michael Kenna Retrospective book.
That's it for now - thanks for your continued interest and support!
Tim Parkin
Issue 56 PDF
You can download the PDF by following the link below. The PDF can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat or by using an application such as Goodreader for the iPad. Click here to download issue 56 more
4×4 Porfolio
Our new feature this issue is 4x4, a set of four mini portfolios each consisting of four images related in some way. If you would like to submit your own 4x4 portfolio please visit this page for submission information. Mike Green Vanda Ralevska Nigel Clarke Julian Barkway more
Johsel Namkung – A Retrospective
The style, reminiscent of Eliot Porter but with echos of Harry Callahan in his abstract work, is one of considered detail. This are the illustrations to the never published Zen and the Art of Landscape Photography. more
Sebastião Salgado – Genesis
“Genesis is a journey to the landscapes, seascapes, animals and peoples that have so far escaped the long reach of today’s world” . April 11 – September 8 2013 The early morning media preview of Sebastião Salgado’s new exhibition. Genesis was well underway. Along with dozens of other critics and journalists, I had already enjoyed a welcoming hot coffee with pastries and was now marvelling at 200 stunning black and white prints on the gallery walls. Yet there was more
Andrew Gilbert Fine Art Gallery
Whilst on our pilgrimage to Devon last month Andrew Nadolski and I spent a wonderful evening with a bunch of photographers in an Exeter place of beer worship. One of the landscape photographers there, Andrew Gilbert, told us about the gallery that he had opened up nearby and we thought what a great idea it would be to visit and have a chat about how it was to open a gallery and a little but about his photography. more
H3D39 vs D800 Quality
The world of medium format digital cameras systems is one that is typically associated with either very hard working professionals or well heeled amateurs (or well heeled lazy professionals I suppose). more
H3D39 System Possibilities
OK so we’ve looked at the Hasselblad from just an image viewpoint but what else should we be thinking? Well in my opinion there are a few extra aspects of the Hasselblad system that are worth bearing in mind. The first is that, like any system, when you make a choice you are also buying into a range of lenses and with Hasselblad that range is particularly more
H3D39 vs D800 Usability
New MFD systems as we will call them are more expensive than a good car and depreciate at an even greater rate! more
Fuji GSW690III Medium Format Camera
Over the 25 years or so that I've been interested in landscape photography, I've used and experimented with many different types and formats of cameras. In the 'film only days' I used 35mm,120 medium format in 6x4.5, 6x6, 6x7 and 6x9, and I've used large format. Of course each has it advantages and disadvantages; all of them do some things well, and some things either not more
David Langan
David Langan has been a reader for some time and won one of our early competitions to win an Olympus camera. He's also published a book on his local City of Aberdeen. more
Photographically Speaking: A Deeper Look at Creating Stronger Images
Photographically Speaking is a book by the Canadian based photographer David duChemin, to get some of the practical info out of the way first: It's 272 pages long and is available in paperback or Kindle format more
“I used to want to go to Iceland”
However you react to a photograph after a period of time, you will take in the whole image and have some kind of reaction to it. more