
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 Distant Horizons
It must have been rather fab to research this, and it's terrific to encounter artists involved in the genre.
- milouvision, 11:20 16th Junon Camera Survey
It might be interesting to see how the votes would stack if you asked in three months to repeat the survey, I for one missed the original request. It's a very interesting survey and nice to see that Pentax still have such a large following, likewise the medium and large format categories, [...]
- Douglas Salteri, 08:54 16th Jun
on Is Adobe Creative Cloud Bad For Photographers?
Great article Paul! I hope Adobe will continue to develop Photoshop with new features for photographers. I would love some new adjustment layers, how about midtone contrast (a.k.a clarity)?
- Magnus Lindbom, 07:32 16th Jun