Archives › 2011 › October
When one reaches a certain age the event needs to be celebrated with some pomp and in the last week of August I managed to get away on a tour of Iceland with Nature Explorer. With just 6 clients we were very comfortable in two huge modified Nissan Patrol cars and for a whole week [...]
Our minibus pulled quickly into the small lay-by and the doors flew open, my clients spilling out and gathering up their tripods and bags as they went. Before us lay a small Lochan behind which the pyramidal shape of Ben Stack reared, perfectly framed by a notch in the nearer hills. The whole scene was [...]
We’re travelling back in time a bit to find one of the first true landscape photographers. Gustav Le Gray was originally a painter but moved over to photography very early in its incubation. His mastery of the craft and art of photography make him, for me at least, qualify him for this accolade. I think [...]
This week we’re featuring Michael Paynton, a Hertfordshire based photographer who has been working backwards through the camera timeline, starting with a Fuji Digital and ending on with a Mamiya twin lens reflex. In most photographers lives there are ‘epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your two main [...]
Our first book reviewed here is one I should have done alongside the interview that we did a few issues ago. Steve Gosling’s video interview was very popular and you can see his book on pinhole photography below. The self-published book is a limited edition of 1000 with each numbered and signed by Steve and [...]
To mark the launch of the new Canon 1Dx camera, we are delighted to invite you to join our one-day photography workshops at a Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust venue near you FREE OF CHARGE – an inspirational day with top class speakers normally worth £85 but now free! Canon will have cameras at these events [...]
Quite recently, Luminous Landscape ran an article by Markus Zuber discussing a comparison between the new IQ180 Phase One medium format camera back and a 10×8 film camera. The results surprised quite a few people because the IQ180 outresolved the 10×8 by quite a large margin. The critics were quick to call the test biased [...]
Have you ever considered placing your images with an image agency? Perhaps you have had work accepted by a library and are waiting for the money to start coming in. Or maybe you have already realised that the financial reward for your hard work, minus commission, comes to little more than a few pounds per [...]
Guy Tal is writing an article for us in a couple of issues time but we thought it would be good to have a chat and record it as a podcast so you have something to listen to whilst you are out on location or just travelling to work. We recorded this using Skype which [...]
In our second post processing installment we take a closer look at curves for contrast adjustments and targeted brightening and darkening of the image. Many people have learned to use various Photoshop blending modes to make contrast or brightness changes but there are a couple of reasons that curves *may* be a better solution. The [...]
This issue features photographer David Mould who lives on the top edge of Glasgow with amazing access to Loch Lomond and Glencoe amongs others. David has had quite a profile recently with pictures selected by various websites for honourable mention. We asked him the usual and he supplied us with some great answers. In most [...]
Last Friday I went to see Joe Cornish’s new exhibition alongside Kane Cunningham at the Scarborough Art Gallery. What was the exhibition like? Well the premise was to look at some of the landscape art that the museum currently holds and to interpret these in a new way. Kane and Joe worked together on occasion [...]