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Large Format Lenses – The Standards
When people first try out large format photography and they come to the choice of lens for their first kit, they typically make a few common mistakes. more
Large Format Camera Accessories
Once you’ve bought your large format camera, it’s time to look at the ‘extras’ that you’ll need in order to take pictures. more
Camera Types for Large Format Photography
For the uninitiated, the different types of large format cameras available can be daunting. more
An Introduction to Large Format Photography
A look at some of the most prominent photographers in the world reveals a significant minority still use film and many of those also prefer to capture their compositions using said unwieldy contraptions. more
The History of Moonlight
I have never understood anybody who seems disinterested in the night sky and this fascination to photograph it began on Dartmoor, right at the start of my love for photography. more
Creative Lightroom Pt 7
In this instalment of the Lightroom videos we'll be looking at Lens Corrections module. This corrects chromatic aberration, vignetting, distortion and perspective correction. more
Creative Lightroom Pt6
Continuing in our Lightroom for Landscape series, Joe Cornish and I are looking at the radial selection tool and also we're taking a closer look at the hue, saturation and lightness sliders. more
Creative Lightroom Pt 5
We looked at the basics of graduated filters in a previous video and in this first episode Joe Cornish and I look at the graduated filter in more detail and introduce the radial filter. more
Focussing Tilt Lenses
The live stream we recently broadcast about tilt and shift in landscape photography goes through an awful lot of ground on this subject, a lot of which could benefit from some written explanation. I’m not going to try to do all of this in one issue though, so I thought I’d start with an overview of the different ways of focussing a DSLR tilt shift lens. In this issue I’ll show you a method that relies on the way more
Creative Lightroom Pt 3
In this issue’s Lightroom guide we took an introductory look at the adjustment brush and graduated filter brush. more
Creative Lightroom Pt 2
This current instalment talks about possibly the most important panel to understand for the broad processing of images within Lightroom. more
Creative Lightroom
In the first part our new guide to Lightroom for Landscape Photographers we take a look at the environment - how you view and assess images. more
Grouped Masks
We’ve written about using masks in Photoshop before now (see links) and we’re still of the opinion that, combined with curves and hue/saturation adjustments, masks are the key building blocks of post production. Quite often it’s difficult to make the right mask selection though and we’d like to introduce a technique that allows a more fine grained control combining different masks together; and also over the way colour, tone and saturation can be adjusted together. First of more
Polarisers, Shutter Speeds and Flowing Water
I think it would be safe to say that the vast majority of us have taken photographs of water flowing over rocks in a river at some point or other. The way water dances over stones, the way the bubbles dart back and forth and surface foam lazily traces paths through our waterways is enough to keep a photographer in action for most of a decent sized compact flash card. I was recently in Glencoe, Scotland and saw a particularly more
Intentional Camera Movement and Multiple Exposure Photography
Our first instalment of Doug Chinnery's series on using Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and Multiple Exposure (ME) creative landscape photography techniques more