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I wouldn’t normally mention political subjects on this blog but hopefully this goes beyond this. The governmane is currently proposing the sell-off of all publicly owned forests. We have to smallest percentage of forest land of any European country and our access to it is being eroded. This move would undoubtedly have a detrimental affect [...]
So you got an Amazon Kindle for Christmas! Lucky you. Lucky for me as well as Kath, my long suffering photographer’s wife, was kind enough to buy one for me and, I have to say, with no sponsorship involved, what a great little piece of kit it is too. No more the pile of paperbacks [...]
Introduction Before visiting the National Media Museum to see Fay Godwin’s latest photography exhibition, I didn’t know a whole lot about her apart from the fact that she was supposedly a ‘landscape’ photographer (although much of her work appeared not to be) and that she influenced many other landscape photographers of her era. After seeing [...]
As a percentage of images made, those which are actually printed is very small, more so with the advent of digital photo sharing on the web and especially for those who employ a machine-gun shutter firing philosophy. Nevertheless those special images which we do decide to commit to print, are clearly deserving of this accolade [...]
This issue we’re talking to Angie and David Unsworth, a photographic team (how novel) from Grasmere in the Lake District. A former painter, David works with his partner Angie to create beautiful images, nearly all taken within 10 miles of their house. A recent self published book (reviewed elsewhere this issue) is the first half [...]
ICC Profiles and colour management seem to be the bane of many photographers lives. Understanding why and how to apply them seems a little like magic. Most of this confusion arises because simple descriptions of how they work are few and far between. I hope this article can act as an introduction to the intricacies [...]
In this one hour video, Joe Cornish talks through his workflow for taking a file just exported from a digital Phase 45+ file using Capture Raw through to assessing the final print.
The author, Fran Halsall, teaches digital imaging at the Peak District Photography Centre and as such is ideally placed to capture the changing weather and light in the English Peak District. The Peak District National Park, the subject of the book, is a diverse environment full of photographic potential and easily visited by many of [...]
Continuing our reader profiles, I caught up with Alex Taylor on the phone last week and he told me a little bit about his passion for landscape photography. Like many photographers of a certain generation, Alex started with a Zenith camera, bought as a present when young (in this case a Zenit11 - mine was [...]
Well, this month I was going to be writing about remote graveyards and burial grounds that I have discovered or researched and visited on my wanderings. however, having closed the doors of our gallery for the last time on the 31st of December it has had the last laugh by keeping me tied up for [...]
As you may have read by now, I have spent the last week and a half looking at the life and works of Fay Godwin (click here to see our biography) and talking to various photographers about her work. The overall impression is one of an incredibly passionate, often difficult woman who had an almost [...]
I came across Angie and David Unsworth whilst browsing the lf-photo.org.uk forums. Someone had posted a link to a Cumbria newspaper (the Westmorland Gazette – link) which featured a photograph of a couple using a 10×8 camera. Being a bit of a large format junkie (and I am starting to include more digital photograpy into [...]
Hold on to your desktop Foreword: this article is written from the perspective of an unashamed iPad fanboy! There is a (decreasing) view that iPads are just doubling up on what can just easily be achieved with a laptop. However without entering into a debate you have to ask yourself the question why netbook sales, [...]
I’m looking at post processing photographs with haze or mist today at the request of Kostas Petrakis. The picture above isn’t particularly great but it’s as extreme an example as I could find for use in demonstrating my techniques. The picture below shows the whole picture followed by a sample from the mid-ground where you [...]
Joe Cornish spent some time talking about a set of pictures taken on one of his favourite trips from the Scotland’s Mountains work and which produced one of his favourite photograph (when this video was recorded anyway) and one of mine.
Introduction by Joe Cornish Had he lived, Galen Rowell would by now be 70 years old. That his name still resonates down the years says much for the power of his art. I still remember finding Mountain Light at Stanfords, Covent Garden, on a grey London day in 1986. The colour and compositional invention and [...]
Rule of thirds, rule of thirds – it’s all we hear from photography magazines, camera clubs and composition guides. According to these sources, the rule of thirds is the prime rule in photography and you should break it at your peril. In this article I aim to rip up this part of the rule book [...]
Michael Marten talked to me on the phone last week and we had a very pleasant chat that ranged from German romantic painting to victorian missionaries. We did get to cover photography at some point starting with Marten’s background as a half German, half British forces child. His educational career took him into the realms [...]
Tristan Campbell is a photographer whose work stood out for me when I started working with the camera. His pictures of the Hebrides were particularly interesting and had a unique style that transformed his pictures. Since those early pictures, I have watched as he started using a large format camera at a similar time that [...]
Galen Rowell, as you can read in the short biog in our ‘master photographer’ section, is one of America’s most famous landscape photographers. His career coincided with the massive growth in demand for colour images and adventure photography; his commissions took him all around the world. However, his ‘home ground’ was the Sierra Nevada and [...]
For those that don’t know (and you can find out more in this issue of the magazine), Galen Rowell was a photographer, climber and all-round adventurer. Born in California he and his wife sadly died in plane crash in 2002, but he left behind a legacy of fantastic photography, particularly images taken high up in [...]