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Seeing the wood for the trees
When I started out in landscape photography I read about “the rules” and tried to practice them like a good boy: something in the foreground, path through the photo etc etc, but it didn’t take me long to come to [ read ]
Plustek Opticfilm 120
In the world of scanning there are three categories: the flatbed, the dedicted film scanner and the drum scanner. In recent years the only ‘pro’ scanner that you could buy new at a reasonable cost was the Epson V750: a [ read ]
Joe Cornish Processing Loch Maree
We’ve had a few requests for more post processing videos and the last time we had Joe Cornish in the office we asked him to talk through one of his recent images from a workshop that he ran alongside David [ read ]
Chamonix 045F1
Intro For many years a couple of Ebony models ruled the roost when it came to the top level of luxury in 5×4 field cameras. The two Ebony models bearing the magic designation of “U”, the 45SU and SV45U, were [ read ]
Platinum in Genesis
We’ve already discussed Sebastio Salgado’s Genesis exhibition, but this month also sees the release of 50 selected platinum prints also on display in London, at Phillips de Pury. As someone who prints with inkjet, silver and more recently alternate processes, [ read ]
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Cities offer photographers a myriad of photographic opportunities but capturing wild untamed landscape isn’t generally one of them. This raises the question: where do urban dwelling landscape photographers go to practice their craft? The obvious answer is out of town, [ read ]
Visual Flow – Ian Plant and George Stocking
“Striving to come up with a solution to the never ending, constantly changing visual puzzle that is our universe” – George Stocking There are literally hundreds of books about composition out there and I think I’ve browsed or own most [ read ]
Al Brydon
This issue’s Featured Photographer is an old contributor Al Brydon. Al has been intriguing us with his crepuscular concoctions for a while and we wanted to ask him some of the usual questions and get an update on this and his ‘two photographer’ [ read ]
Inverting Negatives Refined
A while back I wrote a small tutorial on how to invert colour negatives using photoshop. At the time I promised a video but was still working on the technique. Since then the process has been refined a little and [ read ]
Issue 57 PDF
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on Joe Cornish – Reader’s Questions
These interviews and Q&A podcasts are not only very enjoyable in their own right (like listening to a radio discussion), but also excellent to listen to while scanning or post-processing images. Thanks Joe for introducing the two wildlife photographers you mentioned: they produce different but equally inspiring and unusual work. Adam [...]
- Adam Pierzchala, 22:12 11th Feb
on Put Your Questions to Hans Strand
Yes, medium format will have a tough future. Though there are still people (including myself) who think it is worth the extra cost to get an extra edge. The difference is more obvious when you make large prints. A one meter wide print from medium format will convince you about [...]
- Hans Strand, 20:37 1st Feb
on Samantha Gibbons
Hi Samantha, it was great to see your images and to read how you feel about photography! I like what you say, "how beautiful the landscape around us really is.. It’s almost religious", as I feel almost the same! Your vistas have this subtle but intriguing light but I also like [...]
- Beata Moore, 10:09 30th Jan