David Clapp – Extracts

November 25, 2010 • Tim Parkin

David Clapp, TIm Parkin and Dav Thomas met up in the Peak District just as Great British Landscapes was being formulated. That first interview had a couple of problems (the Canon 5Dmk2 only recorded 12minutes at a time and the Panasonic GH1 only recorded 30 minutes but with bad sound, the main audio ended up corrupted – a litany of learning), however, there was enough content to make a reasonably interesting interview so apologies to David for cutting the odd stream of conversation short, we will repeat again in the near future! (There is a bit of a repeat at the start so apologies for the slightly unprofessional edit – hopefully, even though it’s a little raw, it’s still interesting for some of you. Better some slightly unprofessional content that none at all?).

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9 Responses

  1. cephotographer

    Thanks for this – very informative and reassuring in many ways. What a nice bloke :)

    On November 25, 2010 at 6:24 pm • Reply
  2. Charlie Packard

    Sadly the video doesn’t work for the free sub…

    On November 25, 2010 at 8:06 pm • Reply
    • Tim Parkin

      Sorry – I’m working on some icons to make it a lot clearer which features are ‘paid for’ and which are available using the free subscription.

      On November 25, 2010 at 8:11 pm • Reply
      • Charlie Packard

        Sorry Tim, I obviously misunderstood this statement :)
        “…This video is only available to members who have at least a free subscription. You can log in or register for a free subscription here and then return to the page…”

        On November 26, 2010 at 6:30 am • Reply
        • Tim Parkin

          Hmm… technical malfunction, will fix now ;-)

          On November 26, 2010 at 7:56 am • Reply
  3. Rob

    Thanks to David for a really candid view of what its like doing it for a living. Good interview

    On November 29, 2010 at 8:28 pm • Reply
  4. Jason Theaker

    Very frank amusing interview! Some interesting creative philosophy, and not just about photography.

    On December 23, 2010 at 12:03 pm • Reply
  5. jlbatista

    Really quite an invaluable interview, thanks. The absolute tenacity you’ve got to have to make a living from landscape photography is something I’ve only recently started to take on board. Interesting point about people with musical backgrounds being inclined to pick up a camera. Being a music student myself, I can confess to letting my guitar gather dust in recent times.

    Something that maybe wasn’t touched on is the balancing of commercial and purely expressive, artistic work. I’m sure there are compromises to be made in order to succeed with one or the other. This strikes me as the biggest struggle for somebody with a career in photography and a determining factor in the longevity thereof. You certainly need a lot of energy to be a landscape photographer, that much can be said!

    On January 3, 2011 at 3:37 am • Reply
  6. Sam Jones

    Excellent interview. Some of the views expressed by both David and Tim resonate with my own. I particularly like Tim’s ingredients and recipe analogy.

    On March 1, 2011 at 12:53 pm • Reply

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