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Focussing Tilt Lenses
The live stream we recently broadcast about tilt and shift in landscape photography goes through an awful lot of ground on this subject, a lot of which could benefit from some written explanation. I’m not going to try to do all of this in one issue though, so I thought I’d start with an overview of the different ways of focussing a DSLR tilt shift lens. In this issue I’ll show you a method that relies on the way more
Endframe – “Blue Hills” by Emmanuel Coupe
When I was asked by On Landscape's editor Tim Parkin to write an "End Frame" article for the magazine he said the hard part would be selecting the image. The image had to be my favourite photo from another photographer. I knew immediately which image I was drawn to so that part was easy, however to put into words as to the "why" of it all has eluded me a bit. It was just an immediate visceral response, wow. On any more
The Dark Wood Remembered
The dark woods of fairy tales are also magical places of imagination and transformation. Fears are overcome and we emerge from the literary forest older and wiser, ready to face the dragons of the real world. more
Rockpool Photography
I have long found the miniature worlds contained in rockpools fascinating and over the years I have taken the odd photograph from above with varying degrees of success (ideally using a polariser to cancel surface reflections). More recently, admiring oceanic photographs and noticing adverts for underwater housings for digital compacts got me thinking. It struck me that these underwater housings might offer a novel viewpoint on the world of rockpools, given I had no intentions of leaving the safety more
More Resolution?
There have been two constant declarations from photographers ever since the first digital camera appeared. The first was that they have "more resolution than film!" (even 3mp cameras!) and the second is that "it's as much as we need". As each increase in resolution of digital cameras increase, from 3 to 6 to 8, 10, 12 and more recently 24 and 36 megapixels - a substantial number of photographers would ask "Why do we need such resolution? I print more
Sarah Al Sayegh
Thus you can see some of my images in Kuwait are mainly shot in the seaside or the seascape and Many of my images in Kuwait represent Cityscapes as a way to document Architecture evolution in a Middle Eastern Country. more
Houston, We Have a Problem…
Following the recent Meeting of Minds conference, photographer and blogger Malcolm Ragget’s posted his personal summation of the weekend. (http://mraggett.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/onlandscape-conference-craft-versus-art/) David Ward - Eggum Boatshed In a thought-provoking article, Malcolm calls for landscape photographers to broaden their horizons and consider metaphor as a key ingredient of a good photograph. Toward the end of the post he makes a plea for “…delegates to think more deeply more
Its Not Grim Up North
Photography has inextricably intertwined with my life for nearly 40 years. I am not a photographer in the sense that I make my living out of it nor am I an artist but have used the medium to further enjoy outdoor pursuits and to scratch a technical itch with regards to cameras and technology. Photography was also a very necessary escape from a demanding career. Like any ‘craft’ I have learned how to make my images work, importantly knowing more
Endframe – “Moencopi Strata, Capitol Reef” by Minor White
Today, nearly five decades later, the same pools and springs, and the blissful comforting vastness of the desert, are what keep me going, too. But, I am not alone. more
The Burren
Some 20 years ago a passage in a biography of JRR Tolkien turned my life into a new direction. Back then ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ were by favourite books and I was especially intrigued by the detailed descriptions of the landscapes of Middle Earth. Naturally I wanted to know more about JRR Tolkien and what inspired him to create this fictive world in such detail. The little passage that got stuck in my mind described more
Photographing Deep Time
A momentary burst of light, a passing cloud formation, a crashing wave on the shore – so much of what we do as landscape photographers can often come down to a few fleeting moments as all the elements come together in front of us. In that moment all our knowledge and experience kick in and along with a little luck we hope that we’re able to capture the scene in front of us. more
Trip the Light
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” - Rumi My photography is based in the American Southwest and my motivation to explore a new location is simple curiosity. My interests in hiking, camping and backpacking and the various information resources I peruse on a daily basis keep a steady stream of luscious landscapes, descriptions and images constantly feeding more
Life after Take a View
When Tim Parkin asked me if I would consider writing an article for OnLandscape I didn’t really have to think hard to come up with a first topic. Thanks to Charlie Waite and Take a View there hasn’t really been much on my mind (or in my diary) for the last month. Competitions aren’t something that I spend a great deal of time with. Apart from the Take a View competition I don’t actually enter any. This year I more
Endframe – “Storm Warning” by Vic Attfield
As I sit down to compose this editions End Frame I am listening to the news on the radio, much of which is taken up by the on-going ‘weather bomb’ affecting the Northern parts of the UK. High winds, huge waves, rain, hail and snow! It seems fitting then that my personal choice of image is entitled ‘Storm Warning’. It has not gone unnoticed that previous End Frame authors have also had difficulty in choosing one’s personal, all time, favourite more
What is Landscape Photography …
For me, photography is first and foremost a creative pursuit. Therefore, everything I think of and do with my photography is influenced by this. more