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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 Junon 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
There is a fascinating exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts that will be of interest to landscape photographers. David Ward feels that “Constable, Gainsborough and Turner virtually set the agenda for landscape and that their use of light and choice of subject matter remains relevant today.” Highly recommended, exhibition open until 17 February 2013.
One of several exhibitions I visited last Saturday…..handy because round the corner at the Chris Beetles Gallery (Michael Kenna) the fire alarm was stuck on and the Gallery unvisitable!
Constable / Gainsborough / Turner was worth a visit although only a very small number of works (one by each, if I remember correctly) were actually by the three major artists. Others were by lesser known artists and many, perhaps the majority, were engravings by specialist print-makers whose copies allowed the original artists to be become more widely known amongst the general public.
It struck me that those photographers who make composite digital images are partially following in the footsteps of the “picturesque” landscape painters of perhaps 200 years ago. These latter, if I understand it correctly, constructed their compositions according to “theories” of landscape appreciation, according to which certain aspects of the landscape should be placed in conjunction with each other in paintings, whether or not they did so in reality. Turner’s and Constable’s work was more true to reality but landscape photographers (in particular) with a clinical eye will easily see where liberties have been taken!
I do agree. The exhibition is well worth a visit.