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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
Edward Burtynsky at the Photographers’ Gallery
Edward Burtynsky : Oil 4th floor (Barbara Lloyd Gallery) installation © Dennis Gilbert Courtesy The Photographers’ Gallery The Photographers’ Gallery at 16- 18 Ramillies Street © Kate Elliott Courtesy The Photographers’ Gallery The Photographers’ Gallery reopened to the public on Saturday 19 May after more
Introduction to Sharpening
Quite a few readers have asked us about sharpening over the last few months. It’s such a big subject that it’s probably best to split up into a series of posts which means that this issue we have an introduction to blur and sharpening. The first step is to understand what blur is, where it comes from and what it looks like. Let’s take a look at two types of blur. Types of Blur The first type of blur is probably familiar more
Adventures of a Landscape Photographer – Part 1
The alarm goes off at 4.40am. Outside my tent it’s minus 3 degrees with a cold northerly wind that’s been trying to blow the tent off the mountain throughout the night and even the dog is cold! It's just started to hail again and as the first signs of daylight are beginning to show in the sky, it's clear that this isn't going to be a classic sunrise! Believe it or not, this is Scotland in May and not more
What is Landscape Photography?
Joe Cornish "The landscape, the whole landscape and nothing but the landscape." But what is landscape? We know that everyone in the On Landscape community (the authors, the subscribers and general readership) is passionate about landscape photography. But when four of us got together to discuss the subject recently, (comprising Onlandscape founder Tim Parkin, photographic guru David Ward, photographer and designer Andrew Nadolski and me, Joe Cornish), we struggled to find agreement about what landscape photography actually was! It is only human more
Am I a Landscape Photographer?
“On Landscape”, is a veritable, virtual on-line temple of landscape photography. So the question posed by the title of this piece might seem almost sacrilegious to some of its readership. Whilst I obviously feel an affinity for the ethos of the magazine and the work presented I seriously wonder if a photographer should be (or even can be) predominantly defined by their subject matter. Schools or genres are of course commonplace in art but photography is amongst the most more
Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire
I had not visited Sutton Bank before despite (or possibly because) it being such a well photographed landscape location, most famously by Joe Cornish who has visited here many times. In 2011 I received a phone call asking me if I were interested in meeting up to discuss a project to provide photographs for the visitor centre refurbishment, something I was more than happy to do (as you can more
Challenge Yourself!
Twisted Birches If, like me, you spend time on photo-sharing websites, both sharing your own work and viewing what others are getting up to, you will doubtless be aware of the dangers of getting too comfortable - complacent, even. Once you get to a level of ability where you can reliably produce images which receive lots of positive comments from your peer group, there is more