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If you’ve done much Photoshop work, you must have come across curves. Even Lightroom has a basic version of them, but we’ve wondered what it is they actually do and how can we understand them and hence use them more effectively. First of all, lets take a look at how the basic curve works in [...]
I’ll admit to being heavily influenced by my workshop with John Blakemore and this has probably biased my review of this book a bit. However, given that declaration of bias I will also say that this is one of the most beautifully printed books I own, necessarily so if it is to reflect the prints [...]
This article is meant as a brief introduction to a photographer who gets very little attention this side of the Atlantic. We will hopefully be interviewing Carr in the next month or so and will write a longer article then. Carr Clifton is a hard working photographer who has done as much for the environment [...]
I wrote an introduction to developing your website a couple of issues back and although I wasn’t going to cover the copyright/image size debate again so quickly, a blog post from a fellow photographer (Chris France) made me think more about my reasons for publishing images at such a large size. (for those of you [...]
I came across Daniel Bergmann’s book quite by chance; it was lying on a coffee table in a remote hotel in the Icelandic Highlands. I was there on a photo tour run by Nature Explorer, an excellent local family-run company. But more of that in another article… Daniel Bergmann was a new name to me [...]
Our featured photographer this issue hails from Northumberland and has developed his landscape photography into a career after leaving the videogame industry in 2004. 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? Oddly [...]
Myself and Joe Cornish filmed a few short videos for With Landscape in Mind and some of those got used on the DVD as extras. A couple didn’t however, so in order to entice you to buy the DVD (if you haven’t already) we’re including all of the videos for members only here.
Andrew Nadolski was one of my inspirations when I was learning my photographic craft. On a trip to Cornwall I had read about his ‘End of the Land’ book and purchased a copy from Tristan’s Gallery in Wadebridge (which seems to be shut now). The pictures within blew me away. The range of shapes and [...]
I found Tim’s article (in Issue 15) on the link between the practice of photography and learning to play music thought-provoking in lots of ways, but one point it didn’t address was the similarities in the evolution of our artistic preferences as we learn the different arts. This is going to be emotive and probably [...]
Our featured photographer this month is Alex Nail whose Dartmoor sunrises blew me away last year. His crop of photography has been bountiful over the last year and we had a chat with him about the usual.. In most photographers lives there are ‘epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What [...]
I’ve been running the picture operation at The Times for about 8 years, the constant pressure of searching through the 12-15,000 images every day seeking the ever elusive front page while balancing budgets and looking after the safety of the photographers – some working in the most dangerous places in the world, is a huge [...]
This is an article that almost appeared on another photography website – maybe.. We’ve been reviewing various examples of the Phase One IQ180 cameras over the last months and although we’ve been happy with many things, there have been big problems with colour shifts when using wide angle lenses or with large camera movements. We’ve [...]
“Are you crying?!”, asked my girlfriend in an incredulous tone. I’d got to the third spread of photos in Bae, Bien-U’s Sacred Wood book, and for the first time in my life, I’d been moved to tears by photography. In my defense, I was somewhat on the tired side having spent days working relentlessly to [...]
I bought a range of books last year to survey the photographic landscape. One genre of book was the ‘pseudo portfolio’; a vanity publication posing usually as a geographic guidebook. The photographic section of most bookshops normally has a range of these from various publishers and they typically consist of a short narrative section at the [...]