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This week we’re featuring a great photographer who has spent a lot of time championing a beautiful part of the country that gets a too little attention. 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 [...]
There has been little choice and many compromises for those wanting to benefit from a geared head. The Manfrotto 405 / 410 have been the only game in town and although very good for the job have suffered from a reputation for poor engineering and are not long lived before needing repair or replacement. They [...]
I first wandered into Brockwell Park with a camera about five years ago, the park entrance being only a few metres from my front door. Before this it had been nothing more than a pleasant green space to cross on the way to the station at Herne Hill, or the venue for occasional summer picnics. [...]
We’d like to thank Paul Gallagher for taking part in this enlightening video. We talked about everything from composition to use of film developers optimised for scanning. We hope you enjoy and would love to know your feedback.
We’re back with our film tests so sorry for those of you who are purely digital. The tests are really useful for the large number of people who are coming back to film or starting to use it for the first time. I only plan to do another two or three full comparisons such as [...]
Having recently returned from a week long visit to the Isle of Eigg, processed the sheets the sheets of film and completed the digital work flow I have taken a little time to look back over images made on previous visits going back to my first in October 2005.
Seeing Ghosts? I keep seeing human behaviours and emotional states in photographic subjects which I know full well are not human and don’t have such characteristics; trees, rocks, clouds, that sort of thing. In other words, I’ve recently been anthropomorphising images wildly. Obviously, I know I’m merely projecting these human characteristics, and I’ll assert my [...]
It’s inevitable that we all reach a point in our photographic journey when we being to draw nothing but blanks. After downloading the contents of your memory card or getting your freshly processed images back from the lab, you realise that there isn’t even a single image amongst them of any worth.Weeks, or even months, [...]
David Anthony Hall is an Irish landscape photographer specialising in very large prints, mostly panoramas, of groups of trees (although this is not all he does). He has recently worked with a garden designer to produce an outdoor garden exhibition for the Chelsea Flower show… You’ve recently had your photographs used as part of an [...]
Paul Mitchell has been on my personal radar for quite a while since seeing his quadruptych(?) of pictures from Covehithe in Suffolk. Since then I’ve come to appreciate the range of styles and subject that he works with. Yes he’s a film photographer but it’s his eye for composition that works here, not the medium [...]
We get a few people saying that Great British Landscapes is a little ‘Film biased’ and so to try to balance things up a bit, we’re holding a competition to ask people to suggest their favourite digital photographers. Everyone who provides a suggestion and accompanies it with a reason why, will be entered into a [...]
Last week my wife and I accompanied Joe Cornish to a small cinema in Hyde Park, Leeds. Despite the strong temptation, we weren’t going to see ‘Kung Fu Panda 3D’ and definitely not ‘Hangover 2′. This was ‘Joe Cornish 1′ in a leading role in ‘With Landscape in Mind’, a production by Environment Films. Joe [...]
I spent a few days on the north Cornish coast in March and chanced upon a really good week. In fact perhaps too good as the weather was mainly of very hazy sunshine and even foggy evenings. This led me to concentrate more on details than the grand vista, but I did have some fun [...]
I’ve read a few times in the past months that ‘light’ is always the most important thing in photography. Every time I read this I’ve felt a little more uncomfortable. This week a colleague pointed out another occurence in the popular press and as I was in the process of writing a couple more articles [...]
Minor White only really had one major publication of his own in his lifetime. Mirrors Messages Manfiestations was published in 1968 and is a strange work. A combination of spiritual guide book, artist catalog, diary extracts and poetry it is a wonderful distillation of his approach to his work and life. Although some of the [...]
Some photographers have an extended influence far beyond their public notoriety. Minor White epitomises these individuals. His work in analysing and teaching photography created a whole host of ‘followers’ and in some cases ‘acolytes’ and his writing still inspires today, but a lot of people don’t know his photography (or may be put off by [...]
The purpose of this article is to consider some aspects of working with a book publisher as it pertains to landscape photography. The themes of the article will be based around a recent publication of my own called ‘Mull, Iona, and Staffa’, which is my third book of landscape photography. I will also comment on [...]
After our article on black and white last issue we thought it would be topical to take a look at some of Joe Cornish’s black and white photography. This brought up a few nice surprises along the way. We’re looking at quite a few photographs and here are a small sample of them (there are [...]