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Focusing The Manual Way
Since I am mostly shooting landscapes I prefer using manual focusing. I have never really understood how to use autofocus when shooting a landscape. more
Issue 136 PDF
We'd really like to see some more submissions from our readership though so please don't be scared of sending us material. more
John Blakemore
In our third talk of the day, John Blakemore discusses the series of reinventions of his photography from his beginnings after leaving the RAF through his large format black and white projects and up to his current 35mm film work taken around his house in Derby. more
Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios
Our 4x4 feature is a set of 4 landscape photography portfolios from our subscribers: Alan Ranger, Dave Kosiur, Deigh Bates & Mike Prince more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques
Colin Westgate’s rather lovely image Island in the Mist is right on the edge of that minimalist/abstract divide. There are perhaps two clear hooks that anchor the picture in reality. more
The Workshop Experience
I was finally booked onto a residential workshop, my first, with Thomas Joshua Cooper at Peter Goldfield's Duckspool in Somerset. I'm not sure who or what I was expecting. more
On Becoming
Photography to me has always been a way of augmenting experiences, rather than something to pursue for its own sake. more
Fleeting Reflections
Having to return to the same location time and time again over several months, I began to notice shapes and patterns that motivated me to try to capture in photographic form the images that I was I visualising in my mind. more
Abelardo Morell
In the early nineties, Abelardo Morell’s decision to photograph the Camera Obscura effect led to an exploration of the interaction between the outside and the inside, initially in black and white and later in colour. He subsequently devised a portable room – effectively a tent fitted with a periscope – which enabled him to take his work outdoors, first into the desert and then into American National Parks. His images of the landscape have an impressionistic quality, but for more
Dalt Quarry, Borrowdale
One location that I have visited a number of times is Dalt Quarry, found not far from the footpath leading from Grange in Borrowdale towards Castle Crag more
Warped Topographies
Maybe obsessiveness is the essential to 'art' and creativity. Art not only creates a reaction and provokes a response in the viewer but it can also reveal truths about oneself as the creator. more
Issue 135 PDF
One of the constant contrasts in landscape photography is the supposed dichotomy between representing the landscape and wild and pristine and showing the effects of man on the landscape. more
Len Metcalf
Len's talk looked into his approaches to simplicity and the use of visual punctuation as a tool to create absorbing images. At the end of the video we include a short 'behind the scenes' interview about Len's work. more
Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios
Our 4x4 feature is a set of 4 landscape photography portfolios from our subscribers: Alan Howe, Gary Wagner, Gerard McGrath & Ian Moore. more
Wild camping in The Shetland Isles
For anyone looking to photograph somewhere a bit more off the beaten track, The Shetlands offer up something different, and with the low number of tourists you can have the place to yourself for days on end. more