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...a wonderful stream of 5 experimentation and each photograph is well considered in terms of composition and light. Do you compose instinctively or do you spend a lot of time on each photograph? Thanks for the compliment Tim. I guess I’d have to call it instinctual, as I’ve never had any training or attended workshops. Some...
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...was a section where we are invited into Joe's train of conciousness whilst he is composing a shot. To be honest it was a little unnatural to begin with although by the time it finished it was working fine (and someone commented that they would have liked more of it!). The remainder of the film was with Joe talking on...
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Paul Mitchell has been on my personal radar for quite a while since seeing his quadriptych(?) of pictures from Covehithe in Suffolk. Since then I've come to appreciate the range of styles and subject that he works with. Yes, he's a film photographer but it's his eye for composition that works here, not the medium he works in. I hope...
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...about 13EV and the foreground about 5-6EV in the darkest areas). The one issue with taking images of long distance views is that any difference in focal lengths can't be compensated for by 'just getting a little closer' so we can't use these results as a resolution comparison without taking into account the slight differences in focal length. These differences...
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...were even possibly story telling but compared with those I had been looking at either the composition was poor, lighting wrong or both, I set out at that point in time to learn more & improve these aspects of my own picture taking skills, in fact that is when I started taking pictures rather than bland records & I am...
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...response gave me the strength to take the project a step further into the territory of art. How to develop the ideas? and lay instead an ancient child I find I have a need for complexity in my project ideas. Complexity helps avoid the formulaic, it helps originality and it helps avoid the banal. I usually start a project with...
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...interview. You can see more of Iain's work at http://www.iainsarjeant.com and you might be interested to know that his first book, released last year, has come third in the Scottish Nature Photography book awards. Read Iain's book review & Tim's interview with Iain. You can buy this book from the Orcadian online bookshop here. Birch Tree in Autumn Birch...
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...hold on a moment. Aren't they all a little bit, well, samey? Don't they all seem to use similar techniques, effects and compositional devices? Haven't we seen the same handful of famous locations before? Photography is a means of communication and, like other means of communication, depends on mutual understanding of a common language. So, what are all these very...
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...from the natural world. Specialising in landscape and abstract macro work, he sees photography as a way of interpreting and sharing the beauty he experiences day-to-day. His photographs distil the complexity of the world into artful compositions that exhibit clarity, intensity and graphic simplicity. You can see more of his work, along with the work of his co-conspirators at www.incphoto.com...
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...as if I needed more, I was constantly reminded of the power and poetry of his work by the liberally displayed prints scattered around the walls of the room. What do you think of the Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition? (Chris Tancock was highly commended in the very first one in 2007) “Um, it’s a very good commercial enterprise...
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