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The Outdoor Show
What's On
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Web Design with WordPress
Tim Parkin provides an overview of this powerful web development platform
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Curves for Saturation and Contrast
More creative uses of a core Photoshop's feature
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Why do People Photograph?
David Ward examines our motives for making images
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A Ramble in Wales
Charles Twist's take on photography
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More ‘Books from Beyond Words’
Book reviews
Tim Parkin
The Outdoor Show
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 [ read ]
Web Design with WordPress
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 [ read ]
Curves for Saturation and Contrast
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 [ read ]
Why do People Photograph?
“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. [ read ]
A Ramble in Wales
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 [ read ]
More ‘Books from Beyond Words’
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 [ read ]
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