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Stieglitz may not be the best photographer that the century has ever seen but you would be hard pushed to find a more influential one or one that pushed the bounds of what photography meant. His obsessive hard work pushed photography forward as an art like no other. His own photography stretched these boundaries as [...]
‘Honesty’ and ‘truth’ are two descriptors which are applied very frequently to the subject of landscape photography. Typically, they will be applied by ‘scapers who fall into one (or both) of two categories: the chap who searches tirelessly for the perfect scene and the perfect light (hopefully concurrently!) and the other who is not quite [...]
This issue we had the opportunity to spend some time with David Ward at his home near Hereford and he chose three pictures for us to talk about (well, mostly avoid talking about to be honest). David has inspired a lot of people in the UK through his photography and his workshops and having the [...]
If you’d like to take a telephoto landscape image of the full moon then hopefully this technical guide will help you to achieve that. An image of Staple Tor on Dartmoor shot at 560mm is being used as an example. Software The Photographer’s Ephemeris is the tool you will need to download in order to [...]
Myself and Dav Thomas went to report on the Outdoor Show last week and planned on spending a couple of days looking around and chatting with the exhibitors in the Photographic Village. However, the photographic village turned out to be a stall for GMC Publications, Joe Cornish and Andy Rouse, Ocean Capture and .. and [...]
This week sees a feature on Hugh Webster – originally born in Northumberland but having spent most of his life in Scotland, Hugh has his own stock photo library which used to be called the Scottish Highland Photo Library but is now Stock Scotland and previously ran the Highlands Development Photo Library. In most photographers [...]
What do Michael Kenna, Josef Hoflehner and Hengki Koentjoro have in common? I suspect many of you have guessed the answer already: they all work predominantly in black and white and use the square format. It’s popularity with arty landscapists means that I’ve come to think of the square format as the ‘fine art photographer’s [...]
I had the pleasure of coming along to Tim’s Big Camera Comparison which featured in Issue 28. As we know, being the ultimate geek, Tim loves to compare pretty much everything photographic – cameras, resolution, film, colour, you name it. And congratulations to Tim for putting together such a thorough and informative test. I got [...]
Enjoying landscape photography often requires that we have the right gear for walking and also, if we want to spend some time in the landscape, the gear for camping too. The Outdoor Show, now in it’s 11th year, obviously realise this as they now have a dedicated ‘Photography Village’ where there are a few exhibitors [...]
We started our series on web design recently and it’s about time we continued. We’re going to take a look at something that a lot of people have been asking recently and that is ‘Wordpress for photographers websites’. I’ve been developing websites since 1994 (my first was a website to coordinate a collaborative research project [...]
We’ve talked previously about curves of various sorts and how to manipulate contrast and we touched on the relationship between curves and saturation. In short, increasing the slope of a curve also increases the saturation at that point in the image.
“Why do we make photographs?” It seems such a simple question. But when I started to think about it I realised that actually it’s quite a big question and one that few of us have a fully conscious understanding of. In this article I will try to cover what seem to me to be the [...]
Fascination is a good place to start in my art. It comes from the Latin for a spell and quite appropriately describes the feeling of wonder which beckons me to stop and admire something beautiful or intriguing. It gets around the demand for aesthetics in artwork and legitimises the expression of diverse interests. It also [...]
This week we’re featuring two books from Beyond Words, Sam Abell’s ‘Seeing Gardens’ and Peter Niedermeyer’s ‘Appearances’. Seeing Gardens – Sam Abell Sam Abell (http://samabell-thephotographiclife.com/) is part artist/part journalist. His work for the National Geographic puts him firmly in the documentary camp and yet his photographs always seem to push to the creative interpretation, that [...]