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Sigma 35mm Art
One of the things I was wary of when starting On Landscape was including too many reviews. There are so many reviews out there already that adding a few more ‘yeah this looks quite good, 92%’ posts wouldn’t really contribute a lot. However, I did get a lot of people asking for my opinion on various items, from cameras and lenses to tripods and raw converters and when I feel I’ve had something to add beyond what is already more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques
Much photography is descriptive in a literal sense. Sharp lenses, high resolution cameras transcribe in great detail and clarity whatever subject the photographer choses. The viewer recognises instantly what is being shown; as a result interpretation is relatively simple. That is not the case with Doug Chinnery’s wonderful moody seascape view above. (Click here for other articles Doug Chinnery has written for On Landscape.) Here we have the opposite of the ‘straight shot’. The norms of photography have been subverted. more
David Higgs’ Weald
The following is a transcription of the screencast recorded after spending a day out with David wandering the Weald and waiting for the coated paper to dry for one of his platinum palladium prints. Tim Parkin: Hi, we’re here with David Higgs, just spent the day in Ashdown Forest David Higgs: Doing a lot of walking, chatting and not many taking pictures! That’s fine TP: Nothing wrong with that, just great being out seeing the world. Also looked at the exhibition, more
Peter Scammell
Although he has always taken photographs, a move from London to Devon gave his photography new impetus. more
Blind Critique Live Streaming, 20th May, 8pm
We're re-introducing our blind critiques which we ran last year. This is where we'll be inviting photographers along to provide feedback on submitted photographs from our subscribers. Getting feedback on your photography is critical to your progression as a photographer. For most photographers this typically happens when they meet up with some friends on when they post images on Flickr more
Photography Road Trip
Our two-stage photography road trip had been planned since the autumn of 2013. Starting in San Francisco in early May 2014 a friend from California and I drove 1500 meandering miles to Seattle over a period of about 8 days taking in stretches of the coast, redwood forests, lakes and volcanoes - dormant, and not so. In Seattle we joined up with a group of friends for a 9 day trip around the Olympic Peninsula, the Columbia River Gorge more
Not a Master
In my images I wish to impart something of my relationship with them, but not something entirely independent of them. more
Endframe – “Iberia Quarries #3” by Edward Burtynsky
Once Upon a Time, before the internet and Amazon, there were bookshops that specialised in Photo books, and the best of these was Beyond Words in Edinburgh. Neil McIlwraith still runs Beyond Words as an excellent online service; nevertheless, it is hard not to feel a sense of loss for the sheer indulgent pleasure of browsing in a place devoted to the photographic image. On my last visit to (the analogue?) Beyond Words I acquired Edward Burtynsky’s book, more
Issue 91 PDF
You can download the PDF by following the link below. The PDF can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat or by using an application such as Goodreader for the iPad. We've split the PDF into highest quality and small download versions now. The high quality is about 80mb and the small download version is about 20Mb. Click here to download issue 91 (high quality, 83Mb) Click here to download issue 91 (smaller download, 20Mb) more
The Science of Lenses – Part Two
Those Dotted Lines (Astigmatism) OK, we’re back to the dotted lines and these need a little more explanation as they’re quite complicated. I want to show you in a diagram what is happening as a verbal explanation is quite difficult. What I want to show is that for a single point source of light, there are two possible planes in which it can be in focus. Very odd and it took me a while to understand myself but with the more
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
Larry Monczka and Kathleen Pickard
I came across their work last year and found it appealed on a number of levels. They delight in finding the beauty in small things that are easily overlooked. more
Endframe – “Low Hows Wood” by Joe Wright
The customary introduction to an End Frame article is to write about how difficult it is to choose a single image that has been inspirational in one’s photographic development. I’ve read those introductions myself and thought: “come on, how hard can it be?” Turns out the answer to that is “very”! My task is maybe somewhat easier by the fact that I’m not a very well read photographer. By which I mean that I don’t have a vast knowledge of 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