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Michael Frye may be known as the ‘Coloured Cactus’ man by those of you who have only seen him in the “World’s Top Photographers : Landsacpe” book but he has more than just a flashgun and some coloured gels to his name! He’s worked in the Ansel Adam’s gallery for many years and has produced [...]
In the first part of this discussion on aspect ratios I genuinely attempted to question the assumptions we all hold about aspect ratio, including the fact that four sides to our working ground is an inevitable paradigm. The responses received (Thanks Dav, Steve and Adam) helped me to accept that such scrutiny is rhetorical at [...]
This is the first post in a series of articles comparing all of the colour film available to the large format photographer*. Background Some of you may be asking ‘Why are you talking about film? Isn’t it nearly extinct?’ and if you only read the photography magazines, you might well be led to believe so. [...]
Introduction Could it be that the very things that make digital capture so appealing also inhibit the creative process of image making? Could those who make images using dSLRs or compact digital cameras benefit from eschewing speed and fine-tuning through capture/instant review, in favour of a slower, more considered approach? (more similar to that of [...]
Here is the first in a series of videos started with Joe’s ‘Post Processing Borders’ where photographers look at some of their own pictures and show how they post processed them. This first picture is one taken on the isle of Eigg and although it’s a little rough and ready (I’m learning how to present [...]
I must confess to having sat down to read this book with little enthusiasm.The book stores are full of ‘guides to digital photography’, promising much but delivering little of real value. My enthusiasm hit rock bottom when I read the sub title of the book – ‘In the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Great [...]
First, the man. There can be few landscape photographers in the UK who haven’t heard of David Noton. He has emerged on the crest of the digital SLR revolution as one of the foremost digital landscape photographers in this country. He has served his time, facing the struggles of all aspiring landscape photographers trying to [...]
We’re taking a little detour in our First Light series with a video covering two complementary images from Joe’s Scotland’s Mountains book – one you’ve seen before and one not. The first is a photo from Glen Orchy taken under very difficult conditions, bright blue skies in the mid-summer with ‘cooked’ green trees. The second [...]
Chris Friel is a photographer with a wonderful, natural eye – a modern day Faye Godwin perhaps. His photography is instinctive and all the more refreshing for it. A high bandwidth flickr stream has some stunning gems and whilst he is an extremely very accomplished black and white photographer, his colour experimentation is showing some [...]
I recently spent an amazing four days in Perthshire at the tail end of autumn. In truth the weather was far more wintry than autumnal. I encountered reedy frozen lochans, birch trees in deep glens covered in hoar frost, and snow capped mountains. However, the highlight of the trip actually started off with typical Scottish [...]
Bill Brandt is a photographer that is probably well known to a generation of photographers who worked in the sixties and seventies (and maybe the eighties) but unless you are the investigative sort, you may have only heard the name in passing and not realised that he had a passion for landscape photography (he is [...]
We thought christmas was a good opportunity to thank everyone of you who has supported the new venture by taking out a paid subscription, a free subscription or just by visiting and maybe talking about the magazine. We’ve had a wonderful start and have exceeded the ‘ad-hoc’ projections we had made. We’ve also had a [...]
In most photographers lives there are ‘epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your two main moments and how did they change your photography? There were really 2 moments that changed my photography. I have always aspired to take good landscape pictures but largely failed to reach my own [...]
It’s been an exceptionally cold start to the year which I find deeply annoying because my supposed ‘snowmobile’ is out of action and being repaired after a blown headgasket that I suffered on the return trip from Cornwall a couple of weeks ago. Being as the main reason for buying the 4×4 version was to [...]
One of the issues that sometimes comes up when doing landscape photography in the UK (and I’m sure abroad sometimes too, but I never go there) is that we have clouds; lots of them; All over the bloody place. This can sometimes mean that the only glimpse of the sun you get all day is [...]
I was an early adopter of the m4/3rds ‘compact’ system buying a Panasonic GF-1 with 20mm lens pretty much as soon as they became available. It promised so much. It was to replace the Canon G10 that I owned and carried everywhere as a recorder whilst on location with the LF gear and as a [...]
OK, I’m coming clean, and I think it’s only right that I do it publicly and nationally in this magazine. I have been having a secret affair. It’s been going on for about four years now but has been far more serious in the last two. Initially she modelled for me and I would visit [...]
In this First Light, Joe Cornish talks about three pictures taken in the Cairngorms for Scotland’s Mountains. Like before, we talk about one of the featured pictures, a picture that didn’t quite work out and finally – a picture that ended up as a personal favourite, despite not seeming so at the time.