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Just before the New Year, Joe David and I recorded a podcast on the concept of "Truth to Nature". It's an idea that has its seeds in the romantic era of landscape painting when John Ruskin, a massively influential art critic and artist of the time, encouraged painters to closely observe the landscape and in doing so capture the natural...
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After featuring two articles on tripods recently, a review of travel tripods and a short overview of tripod spikes, I thought a general chat with Joe and David about their own experiences with tripods would make interesting listening. We cover a reasonable amount of ground and, once again, we hope you enjoying listening to them as much as we do...
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...than can be said for Photoshop). Here are the components and final panoramas for the examples used in the video Saltwick Here's Joe's components from our Saltwick trip And here's the vertical panorama generated in Lightroom Iceland Here's one of Tim's panoramas from Myvatn, Iceland And here's the resulting panorama generated by Photoshop (Lightroom failed by ignoring the central image)...
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...photographers, it becomes something of an obsession. Trying to predict the perfect combination of factors that will give a cloud inversion or a misty woodland or a stunning sunset can be utterly frustrating. In this issues instalment of our lockdown podcast, we talk to Joe and David about their approaches to the dark arts of the weather whisperer. Episode 12...
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This issues podcast's topic is books and specifically, Joe and David's experiences making their first ones. Don't forget, if you like these podcasts, please let us know and suggest a few topics we might discuss in the next one....
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In this issue’s Lightroom guide we took a second look at the adjustment brush and graduated filter brush. The video talks through an example image from Joe and another from Tim Parkin shown below Featured Comments from: Adam Pierzchala: I’ve noticed before when using contrast adjustment in the brush tool, that in order to increase local contrast it is sometimes...
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We finished our reader questions in the last Lockdown Podcase and so in this episode, I thought I'd ask about composition and whether Joe and David thought it was possible to teach, learn and how they go about it. We had a wide-ranging conversation and a few recommendations of book resources at the end. We hope you're enjoying the podcasts...
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In our third instalments of our Capture One for Landscape series, Joe looks at a few of his images from a recent trip to the Isle of Eigg in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. Along the way, he will be demonstrating some of the steps in his typical workflow and also his approach to post-processing images. (Watch Episode One here and...
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...choose the best day to visit. In reality, you'll be lucky if you have more than a few hours to capture a location and you'll have to live with access during 'poor' light (never mind being asked to work during the summer! Bleurgh!). In this screencast, I talked to Joe about his work on a project photographing various gardens designed...
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In our second and third instalments of our Capture One for Landscape series, Joe looks at a few of his images from a recent trip to the Isle of Eigg in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. Along the way, he will be demonstrating some of the steps in his typical workflow and also his approach to post-processing images. (Watch Episode One...
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