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I have now had a Linhof 3D Micro tripod head for over two years. I had used the Manfrotto geared heads 410 and 405 for at least a decade before this, but had become frustrated with their vulnerability to minor knocks and was in search of something more robust and reliable. http://www.linhofstudio.com/products/Linhof-Heads In truth the 3D Micro is not really...
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...FROM: David Baker: Many thanks for an interesting article Tim. Lensculture has recently published a 'guide' which may assist/add/subtract to the issue: https://www.lensculture.com/../insiders-guide-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-photography-competitions If you've got any ideas or techniques that you use to help pick 'competition winners' please let us know in the comments below. Or for that matter if you just have any comments about competitions in general....
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...area I have not yet explored. This is where the influence of Eugene Atget and Rene Burri comes in. Who do you think we should feature as our next photographer? Lewis Baltz. Urban, suburban based work is very bleak, brilliant. You might need to ask some different questions or just write an article. Clive can be found at : http://www.clivevosper.com...
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...Just one was shortlisted by LPOTY. D: Why do you think entering competitions like LPOTY is a good thing for photographers and photography? T: These competitions offer a challenge to photographers to produce their very best work. All too often, our images stay on the hard drive and don't get the finishing attention they should. When you enter a competition,...
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...is just a personal thing, if I can’t edit the image within 10 minutes of turning on the computer, then the image has gone beyond what the scene meant to me. The LEE grads used are to give more accurate tonal details, meaning less time stuck in front of a computer. Although my subject matter and approach to images has...
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...thought it would be good to cover one of Quintin's earliest and latest projects; a trip to Greenland and Egypt respectively. Before you took on the Greenland project you worked as a commercial photographer. Can you tell us how you ended up in photography and what the commercial work primarily was and how it came about? When I was a...
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...can find that here. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRhoA7XIdWA[/youtube] and here we expand on a couple of the questions raised from the webinar Prophoto or AdobeRGB Quite a few people asked about whether they should be using Prophoto or Adobe RGB when they export to photoshop and we won’t lie, there are differing opinions about this. However, we’ve done quite a bit of research...
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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. We're also pleased that he's updated his website www.thenorthlight.com recently with some excellent pictures from the last few years. Can you tell me a little about your education,...
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...would subsequently lead over 50 more trips to various locations around the world. When leading tours, what is the most common mistake made by generally competent photographers? Good question Tim! I had to read this carefully to make sure I understood what you were getting at – presumably you don’t mean mistakes made by “generally competent photographers” who also happen...
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...- however it's the results that matter and I found myself coming back to the book after my first glance, dipping in and appreciating the relaxed composition of various pictures. It was only after doing this for a while that I started to realise how much I liked the book. Although initially only a smaller group of pictures impressed me,...
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