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Interview with Anna Booth
There are sadly very few women 'in' landscape photography. Whether this is to do with the problems of being out in the landscape at odd hours of the day is for a different article. What is interesting is that the amount of 'interesting' women photographers is disproportionate to this lack of total numbers - again something for a different article but in the meantime we will ignore the gender and just celebrate the unique photography of Anna Booth. more
Welcome to Jenny Ward, Andrew Nadolski and other stuff
We'd like to update you on the changes taking place at On Landscape. We're changing a few things over the next couple of months which includes a bit of a design refresh, a few editorial changes (all for the good I assure you!) and we've also added a couple of new members to the team. Firstly Andrew Nadolski has been helping with the redesign and as soon as we more
Interview with David Unsworth
We were in Coniston having spent a great afternoon up Levers Water Beck and Church Beck and in the Quarries up at Crowberry Haws in the company of David Unsworth. As we strolled back I had the opportunity to ask David a few questions. Tell us a little bit about your work David Goodness, well it's all based in the Lake District. We live and work in Grasmere; we have more
Yes, But is it Art?
When I was at art college, I considered ‘artists’ to be a pretty odd bunch – I can say that because I didn’t consider myself to be one of them; I was a ‘designer’ which was a whole different kettle of fish. It appeared to me that art, back then in the late 80’s, consisted of collecting small quantities of bodily juices of varying degrees of unpleasantness, putting them in small containers and displaying them to a backdrop of more
That Sinking Feeling…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… well, not quite; back in the early nineties I was a big fan of the Acorn Archimedes computer. By many experts reckoning at the time, the plucky Brits had produced a machine that was more powerful and more user friendly than anything from across the pond. I fell in love with its beguiling operating system and its beautiful graphics more
Digital Emulation of Velvia 50
Ever since digital cameras first became available, people have wanted to emulate their favourite films. This was probably exacerbated by the fact that digital didn't have strong 'flavour' of its own to begin with and people fell back on what they already knew. The first film simulations were pretty crude - add a heavy tint of colour and turn the saturation up and down. However, as technology became more mature, the simulations got better. However, in the many years since more
Deadvlei
Under cover of darkness we left the tarmac of the road and embarked on a ten kilometre stretch of sand in the direction of Sossusvlei. My wife was slightly anxious. I’d never driven a 4x4 off road before, let alone in deep sand, in a Namibian desert, at night, and she knows full well how driven I am in getting pictures and that I'll generally do whatever it takes more
D800 vs D800E
There has been a lot of talk in the press recently about the new Nikon wunderkind and people have pondered on whether the D800 or the D800E should be purchased for different types of photography - the latter (E) having no ‘anti-alias’ filter which should provide a sharper image. Well Mark Banks and Joe Cornish just happen to have each of these camera versions and we thought we’d take the opportunity to run a couple of tests to see more
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 actually do to make an image look sharper. Well, as you saw from the last article, the sharpening effects look for ‘edges’, either lines or spots/dots, and add a little bit of extra lightness on the light side of the more
Farewell to Oban, Welcome to Bridgnorth
Old Police Station, 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 before the big day i felt increasingly as though i was making a huge mistake, never more so than when more
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 at once fundamental and tantalisingly out of reach. Little surprise, then, that there is a strong urge to codify composition, to provide not only practical instruction but also, in some cases, a theoretical basis to underpin this. The basic more
Rumbling Kern, Northumberland
Last Issue had a location guide for the Bamburgh area - somewhere you’ll agree is pretty well known already. Well this issue we’re going for a nearby location that very few people have been too. Tim Parkin It’s called Rumbling Kern and sits just below the ‘bathing house’ of Earl Grey (yes, he of the tea persuasion and also of sixteen children! You’d need a whole house more
Bamburgh, Northumberland
© Joe Cornish It was On Landscape holiday recently and being of a productive bent I thought I could combine a couple of nice walks in Bamburgh (for that is where our brief respite took place) with the re-kindling of one of the original goals of On Landscape, that being the 'Location Guide' . And what a location Bamburgh is! Most of you will no doubt more
Giving Beauty a Bad Name
On the 14 October 2010 this image by German photographer Thomas Struth sold for £169,250 at an auction in London (the pre sale estimate was £90,000). Thomas Struth - El Capitan (Yosemite National Park) Now many of the readers of this magazine might think this a vastly over-inflated price for a rather dull snapshot! I want to look at why a loose affiliation of people that more