Tim Parkin

Adventures of a Landscape Photographer – Part 2

As you will know from Part 1 in the last but one issue, I spent over a week on Skye and Harris in the Outer Hebrides building up some stock landscape images in May of this year. Having travelled from   [ read ]

Sharper Still!

In my second article on sharpening I’ll steer away from the theoretical and move onto the practical. Ignoring the ‘magic’ of deconvolution sharpening and the legacy of unsharp masking for a moment, lets have a think about what sharpening can   [ read ]

Farewell to Oban, Welcome to Bridgnorth

So, we’ve finally made our move back South across the border and down into Shropshire. Of course it was not without pain, both physical (try lifting an Epson 9880 printer up a tight staircase) and emotional. In the final weeks   [ read ]

Diffraction Limited?

I was browsing through a few lens reviews in a couple of print magazines I receive and I noticed something a bit strange. Now most of us have the received wisdom that diffraction affects every lens and you can’t do   [ read ]

On Golden Rules…

The great American landscape photographer Ansel Adams wrote, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” Well, not the most specific tip on composition that I’ve ever come across! For artists of all kinds, mastering the problems of composition seems   [ read ]

Velvia – The End of a Legend?

It’s no secret that we’re an equal opportunity magazine as far as film and digital are concerned, so when a few days ago Fujifilm UK issued a press release that declared Velvia 100F would be discontinued completely and Velvia 50   [ read ]

Photography and the World of Books – a Talk by Joe Cornish

We have a visitor to Joe’s gallery in North Allerton last year to thank for Joe’s appearance for one of the talks at the annual Buxton Festival. Many of us have a book or two or more by Joe on   [ read ]

Mark Banks

Mark Banks works with Joe Cornish helping to deliver workshops and post processing tuition out of the North Allerton gallery. In most photographers lives there are ‘epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your   [ read ]

Lens Cast Calibration

Last issue we visited Chris Ireland’s “Universal Lens Calibration” tool that allows one to take a ‘white wall’ shot and then use this to remove dust, fix vignetting and also remove any colour shifts caused by wide angle lenses and   [ read ]