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In Depth (of field)
Our last article on depth of field took an overview of all of the ‘techniques’. This article is the first one to look into depth of field in depth but don’t worry, we’ll also break out now and again to give you some simple ideas for use in the field. The first thing to cover is “What is depth of field?”. A lot of people have the assumption that everything in the “depth of field” is sharp and everything outside more
Natural Affinities – Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams
Whilst there is an undoubted link between painting and photography, there are very few books combining landscape photography with landscape painting. more
Picture Play
The recent sale of Instagram for $1 billion to Facebook has got me thinking about how many people use cameras today and how we - as “photographers” - might learn something from the playful approach of ‘casual users’. First, a little history: the rise of Instagram has been truly meteoric; the service was launched in March 2010 and by March this year had over 30 million subscribers and more
Why I love the Abergavenny hills
But if place isn’t important to landscape photography then I don’t really see the point; surely there is a reason we go out to capture what we do? more
Hamish Roots
In most photographers lives there are 'epiphany’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your two main moments and how did they change your photography? I think perhaps the first instance would have to be around the time I was first introduced to photography by my father when I was still quite young. He encouraged me to experiment and explore what the camera more
Printing Wester Ross
We've covered printing in a video with Joe before but with it being such a minefield it doesn't hurt to go over another example to perhaps pick up on a few more details. In this example, Joe is printing an image captured whilst on a scouting trip in Wester Ross whilst he was also testing out the Mamiya 645 camera with the Phase digital back. https://youtu.be/raKUHe1oqfA more
The New iPad
When you start the new iPad up it just looks crisp. Looking closer it’s what you don’t see that makes such a difference. Pixels.. You can’t see any of them. more
Dark Beach Project
Imagine making a photograph without any defining boundaries, the chances are the image could be vague and unfocused in relation to communicating the subject. more
Taming the Complex
The following is an excerpt from Jon Brock's Blurb book 'Vision and Craft'. Find out more about the book here. Taming the Complex Of the many aspects to photography, the art of composition has most intrigued me over the years. I cut my photographic teeth photographing ‘inner landscapes’, pointing the camera downwards and constructing images quite literally out of the patterns that exist in the ground beneath my feet, more
Depth of Field
Introduction Being able to get your picture sharp where you want it to be is one of the key aspects of a landscape photographers craft. It is also one where there is a lot of misinformation and confusion. We hope to provide a brief overview of the different techniques accomplish this goal and to make this the start of a series of articles where we will dive into each technique in greater detail. Depth of Field There are hundreds of web more
The Nikon D800 – The Landscape Shooter’s DSLR?
F16 3sec ISO 100. Raw file processed in Lightroom and Photoshop. Nikon 24-70 f2.8 focussed manually. No filters It wouldn’t be an understatement to say that the Nikon D800 has been hotly anticipated. Since the rumours of a 36mp Nikon DSLR started to appear on the internet last year interest in this class-leading camera has been steadily building. Landscape photographers, probably more than most, have been eager more
Not So Trigger Happy
It was with of trepidation that I received the Olympus OM10 from Tim. Other than putting a roll of film through an EOS Elan I have been a digital shooter... more
A Click of Photographers?
We landscape photographers aren't well known as an overly social bunch and adding to that a hidden undercurrent of competitiveness (or possibly a gushing waterfall in some people's cases). However, there is a lot to be gained from cooperating for mutual gain. A few photographers from Galloway have done just that - combining their forces to create "The Galloway Photographic Collective" with a mission statement to.. increase our presence more
The Landscape Photography Award
Photography competitions, there are literally thousands of them. Most of them are thinly veiled attempts to accrete free images for commercial use (we recommend you read more about this here before entering any competitions). But all photographic competitions have a couple of major issues The first is the fact that people must want to enter in order to 'win' - this sounds obvious but no competition can hope to declare the 'best' of anything you have to enter, usually more
Hindsight – Difficult Light
One of your favourite features of the magazine, and one you've been asking us to feature as often as possible, is the Hindsight series where we talk to Joe Cornish (and other photographers) about a few of their photographs. This issue we're back with Joe and talking about a set of pictures taken in difficult light and that also happen to reflect the change in photographic medium that Joe has made over the previous decade. Firstly we have what more