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With over 30 books to his name, Charlie Waite’s distinctive images are recognised around the world and his work has received wide critical acclaim over many years. A recent article in the Royal West of England Academy of Art Magazine featuring Waite’s work commented ‘Waite’s landscapes are rare perfections of light, colour, and composition, and offer the viewer a luxuriant...
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...Comparison we ran by clicking here. Thanks for visiting! How to Compare We’ll be limiting ourselves to the digital domain which means scanning but we’ll use a microscope to see how much detail there is actually on the film itself for those who might want to use the analog darkroom. Here are the possible ways to compare. count lines -...
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...happy shooting handheld, others who are tied to tripods and like to take their time over compositions may struggle. As for alternative ways of seeing Svalbard for a landscape photographer, there aren't many. Pros and cons of big versus small ships: Bigger ships will offer more comfort and onboard facilities (and less likelihood of sea-sickness). In general trips aboard bigger...
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...shadow creates a very atmospheric body of abstract work that seduces you. (Well! me anyway) Steve Deer for his unique ‘high key’ take on the world, his imagery is instantly recognizable and I really enjoy the whimsical element in much of his work, he is a very talented photographer. You can see more of Terry Gibbins’s images at: http://www.terrygibbins.com ...
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...points for an intimate woodland experience. For more detailed information, go to https://mountainstoseatrail.org/ The Photo Experience There are many miles of opportunity here (114, actually), and the weather changes everything. If the cloud deck is low and settled on the ridges, then many miles of foggy, misty compositions await. The mood changes when the sun comes out, at which time...
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...you feel you need to progress artistically without worrying about how it will be perceived by your current audience. I gather you were a little surprised with your Landscape Photographer of the Year commendations in 2014, and while you said that you didn’t think the images would ‘fit’, you felt that you ought to enter them? The Take-A-View LPOTY competition...
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It’s interesting how circumstances can combine such that even if you have what others might consider to be iconic landscapes on your doorstep, your photographic curiosity takes you away from the obvious through a choice of composition, photographic technique, and/or print processes. Stuart Clook’s work mixes places beloved by 21st century filmmakers, audiences and adventurers with 19th century photographic and...
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...The other aspect that comes in from your work is the use of lenses. You use a few normal-ish lenses but also lenses such as Tessars, Xenars, Ektars and are you using a large format camera? 5x4? DH: It’s all in 5x4 TP: Your using mostly older lenses? That don’t have shutters, so it’s barrel lenses. The most common one...
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...the sand dunes at Death Valley, Kathy noticed the smaller but no less complex miniature landscape of the dry mud flats at our feet. The abstract compositions that resulted were very personal and expressive. I particularly love the unconventional composition and cropping decisions that Kathy decided on when working with this circular motif. The ambiguity, mystery and symbolism of the...
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...offers precise control of perspective/focal planes and a large ground-glass screen for image composition, features he considers indispensable to his contemplative style of photography. This, his first major exhibition, combines each of these elements to depict the changing phases at Thorp Perrrow throughout the seasons and is the culmination of more than fifty visits to photograph the arboretum. It is...
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