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...curved track reinforces the geometry of the picture. Taken deliberately when there is only ploughed earth, as the normal maize crop would have cluttered the image. Taken in bright morning sunlight. 24-70mm lens at 50mm, speed priority: F7 at 1/500 ISO 250. Signed copies of the book are available through www.silentlandscape.com or through publishers www.helion.co.uk - £25.00 + postage. [/s2If]...
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...are both highly experienced and accomplished photographers, using digital compacts and smart phones for exploring subjects before turning them into final compositions on large format cameras. Our two dawns at Quiberon were rather too clear for the rocky shore but we had more workable soft light on the pristine sandy beaches at dusk. On the second day, while waiting for...
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...to safely use Walter Chappell’s process to make my own electron photographs. If any of you readers can advise on a set up that would be safe/doable in a small home darkroom, I would really appreciate it if you would reach out. Thanks in advance and happy printing! References A photography dealer based in Sante Fe, New Mexico: https://www.photographydealers.com/exhibitions/walter-chappell-into-the-light/ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/267451...
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...possibility, I will go after it. I’ll endure almost anything to get that exposure. I have to get that photo, regardless of common sense. Holga by Michael Kenna is published by Prestel. See www.prestel.com for details. Confessionali: Reggio Emilia (Corsiero Editore ) and Abruzzo (Nazraeli Press) are also available now. For more on Michael Kenna and his books, see http://www.michaelkenna.net/....
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...from this exhibition – so my advice is to grab it while you can – less than a month to go! MOMA The Tabernacle, Penrallt Street, Machynlleth, Powys, Wales SY20 8AJ. Tel – 01654 703355 Email: info@moma. machynlleth.org.uk www.moma.machynlleth.org.uk Pen’rallt Gallery Bookshop Diane Bailey and Geoff Young, Heol Pen’Rallt, Machynlleth, Powys, Wales SY20 8AJ. Tel:01654 700559 Email: penralltbooks@gmail.com http://www.penralltgallerybookshop.co.uk/ ...
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...the meantime, here is a sample of his pictures and don’t forget you can buy his book at Beyond Words (http://www.beyondwords.co.uk/) or check out his website (http://www.jantove.com/) p.s. Jan has called us back and is happy to take part in an interview so keep 'em peeled :-) Read Tim Parkin's article: End Frame – Reflection, Orsjon by Jan Tove...
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...for a very interesting composition. I had started to play about with several ideas using the nearest tree which seemed to mimic the tree further into the loch and there was some lovely low lying cloud but the light was far from interesting. I liked the replication of shape of both trees. I was not completely sold on the composition...
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...full-colour images Available in limited edition or as a standard book from 'Beyond Words' and other fine book stores. http://www.beyondwords.co.uk/p/1760/the-landscape I am sitting here at a table in a house in the North West of Scotland. For company, I’ve been sharing a glass of wine with Paul Wakefield and I’ve been working out how to review a book I’ve...
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...a digest of Mr. Burnet’s laws of composition9, but we have no faith in any “laws of composition.” A law, to be logical, must hold good in all cases; now the so-called “laws of composition,” are often broken deliberately by great artists, and yet the result is perfect. This is easily explained, for these so-called laws are mere arbitrary rules,...
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...or 8x10 it doesn't matter a damn. (However, an 8x10 frame on a light table and a good loupe is a rare joy indeed). https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/12/big-camera-comparison/ https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/12/camera-test-editors-commentary/ https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/12/big-camera-comparison-comments/ p.s. When we arrived at the study in Glencoe, the conditions were amazing and I quickly shot a hand held, five frame panorama on my Sony. Sometimes a lack of faff beats everything!...
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