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The Science of Lenses – Part One
We recently recorded a livestreamed webinar about lenses and although we went overtime by a considerable amount, the interest was very strong. As such we thought it a good idea to go into a little bit more about the science behind lenses without scaring people too much. Hopefully we’ll split the content into ‘easily digested’ with a few separate ‘geeky asides’ for those of you, like me, who like to know what is really going on. The first thing we’ll more
Interview with Finn Hopson
In March, I spent a weekend in Sussex, meeting and talking with other photographers such as Valda Bailey (who has been a previous featured photographer) and David Higgs (who had an exhibition which was reviewed in a previous issue and whose interview will be in the next issue). Finn Hopson owns the Brighton Photography Gallery and has recently put on the exhibition 'Southbound', which I mentioned in the previous issue. I caught up with Finn early one Sunday morning more
Lightweight Landscapes
Lightweight Landscapes – how camera choice can inspire creativity The second sentence of this article is the most important. I use a digital compact camera for all my landscape photography. You may or may not be surprised, but I find it very inspiring. A little bit of explanation is perhaps necessary, but that’s the basis for the collection of thoughts offered below. Some less important details: it is a Panasonic Lumix LX5, has a lovely Leica lens to which I can more
Face to Face with the Sublime
Inspired by Alan Hinkes presentation at the A Meeting Of Minds conference at the Rheged Centre in Nov 2014, Thomas Peck investigates how 18th century notions of the sublime are brought to life in 20th/21st century mountaineering photography. Something quite extraordinary happens when you watch Alan Hinkes present his pictures and talk about his experiences climbing the highest mountains in the world. You quickly realise that his photographs in the mountains are not the run-‐ of-‐the-‐mill dawn and dusk shots more
Choosing a new Camera System
At the end of last year I realised I could really do with upgrading my digital camera. This was prompted by a couple of things. The first was the fact that my current camera is heavy and combined with a chunk of glass that is the 28-135mm Minolta “Secret Handshake” lens it weighed almost as much as my large format camera. The second was that if I wanted to write about photography it made sense to be using a more
Manfrotto XPRO-3WG
Balls or Gears? If you're asking about tripod heads this is the main question. There are those of us who prefer the freedom, weight savings and holding power that ballheads can bring or the control and fine tuning that geared heads give you. I've always been a ballhead sort of person but having seen my colleagues subtly tweaking compositions with their Manfrotto 410's and 405's (not to mention the fantastic and fantastically expensive Arca D4's and Cubes) I must more
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