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Why Size Really Doesn’t Matter
I had the pleasure of coming along to Tim’s Big Camera Comparison which featured in Issue 28. As we know, being the ultimate geek, Tim loves to compare pretty much everything photographic – cameras, resolution, film, colour, you name it. And congratulations to Tim for putting together such a thorough and informative test. I got the chance last week to look at print outs from the test of the landscape view, some differences were noticeable on more
Web Design with WordPress
We started our series on web design recently and it’s about time we continued. We’re going to take a look at something that a lot of people have been asking recently and that is ‘Wordpress for photographers websites’. I've been developing websites since 1994 (my first was a website to coordinate a collaborative research project I worked on whilst working at Manchester University) and over the last decade have incubated, grown and sold an Internet marketing and development consultancy. more
Photography and the Creative Life
To me, photography was an extension of my love for the wild; a means of capturing, documenting and sharing the things I’ve seen and the places I’ve been... more
Introduction to Curves
You must have come across curves, even Lightroom has a basic version of them. But what is it they do and how can we understand them and use them effectively more
With Landscape in Mind
Joe and I filmed a few short videos for With Landscape in Mind and not all got used. For your delectation (members only) we're including all videos here. more
Masters of Vision
Pete Bridgewood organised another ‘Masters of Vision’ exhibition at Southwell Minster. We went to the preview night, what’s changed since the last event? more
Fix You
My photographic career/obsession/love/passion – call it what you will - began with a flattened instamatic 110 film camera. Sleek. Fitted the pocket. Easy load cassette film. It even extended to reveal the shutter release. As a bit of a gadget freak even then I confess to being instantly hooked though technical “control” was not one of its stronger points. And so I quickly progressed to my beloved Ricoh more
Chris Bell
We've been wanting to feature Chris Bell for some time. He's a favourite photographer of both myself and Joe Cornish (Joe showed me his book Primal Places some time ago). It's also become a favourite of most people who I've shown the books to. Chris continues the environmental and artistic work of Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis. His work has it's own look though, one which makes the most of this amazing island. more
I am Camera
In actual fact, I am not, and therein lies the theme of this article. As human beings we all have command and control of a computer that far exceeds in sophistication and integration anything built by NASA, and yes, that is our brain. (If only it felt that way when I reach my afternoon 'dip' around 16.13 each day!). A great deal of the brain's performance is devoted to vision. more
Landscape Photography and Book Publishing
The purpose of this article is to consider some aspects of working with a book publisher as it pertains to landscape photography. The themes of the article will be based around a recent publication of my own called ‘Mull, Iona, and Staffa’, which is my third book of landscape photography. I will also comment on books produced by other well known photographers. Publishing a book of photographs, on a specific theme is a very satisfying enterprise and an essential part more
Composition – Photographing Trees
Blair Loch – Sony A900, Sigma DG 28-70 - Dav Thomas Well we’ve introduced the two most important aspects of composition, balance and flow, what next. Well, we could talk about these two alone for quite a while - the idiosyncracies of each of these will be part of our discussions in future episodes. In this issue I’d like to talk a little about taking photographs in more
Composition – Introducing Flow
Last issue I took a look at the concept of balance in composition. The second main concept that I want to cover is the concept of 'flow'. Flow describes the natural directionality in a composition and it also describes the way the eye will flow around a photograph. Firstly it may help to cover a few psychological/perceptual ideas that pertain to composition and how our eye moves around a picture. Research has shown that our eyes find it impossible to more
Composition – An Introduction to Balance
Balance in Photography The concept of balance in photography is not a new one, just this week I received another book on composition that says “The components of a great photograph should always be in balance” which is great as long as you know how to identify components and how much they weigh. The more detailed articles on composition and balance may end up drawing a fulcrum and showing two objects on it, one big and one little, with the more
Robert Garrigus
Robert Garrigus volunteered his photographs to be the subject of Joe Cornish and Tim Parkin's photography critique and what a good couple of compositions they were too. Many thanks Robert. Part One https://youtu.be/362kVm1OB-w Part Two https://youtu.be/B6bOVnMVc1M more
Hindsight – Dancing Trees
This issue of the Hindsight series takes a look at a set of images from Joe Cornish's back catalog. more