The Photography Show Talk: Saturday 19th March 2-2.45pm
The talk is entitled ‘Travelling Light’ and has two elements: –
Firstly, I’ve watched the growing popularity of mirrorless cameras with interest for I traded in my DSLRs quite a few years ago for an Olympus OMD based system. I was an early adopter – the reduction in size and weight brought considerable benefits.
The Photgraphy Show Talk: Saturday 12 – 12.45pm, Sunday 11 – 11.45am
There is a resurgence in the ‘dark arts’. This renaissance in the use of the ‘Alternative Processes’ is fuelled by advances in digital printing technology.
I’m going to be giving a series of talks at the Photography Show on the 19th and 20th March 2016 outlining how alternative processes such as cyanotype, kallitype, argyrotype and especially Platinum printing are having their renaissance. Using a hybrid system of making contact negatives digitally and printing in the wet darkroom I’ll show how this amalgam of the new and the old can produce beautiful organic prints which will further your printing repertoire. Continue reading
The Photography Show Talk: Saturday 3-3.45pm
Hidden from sight at the bottom of the world lies a huge continent, still largely undiscovered. Its coastal fringes are home to the occasional scientific base, and millions of penguins; but its vast interior expanses are empty, of people and most recognisable life forms. It is costly to visit, and those that do will only see a microscopic fragment of what is there. Indeed, the majority who visit Antarctica will not even reach the Antarctic Circle! Yet a journey here can be life-changing, such is the impact of the scenery and wildlife that may be encountered. I have been fortunate enough to have visited three times, and during the last trip our route took us via South Georgia as well. The best way to imagine South Georgia is to think of a chunk of the steepest and most precipitous Andean peaks partly-drowned in the middle of the Southern Ocean.
The Photography Show Talk: Tuesday 3-3.45pm
Over the last twenty years or so I’ve concentrated on photographing details in the landscape rather than the big vista.
Shooting what Minor White called “intimate landscapes” increases the chances for making an image in two different ways; it provides both an increase in useable light and an increase in available subjects. The intimate approach helps to move the image beyond the illustrative into the abstract, leaving room for the viewer and helping to make your photos more emotive and more personal than the straightforwardly illustrative vista. Continue reading
Hensel has put together a chart comparing the various results when using softboxes to achieve a softer light.
Each image will show the lighting set up, the Hensel softbox used and the result
Hensel Light Shaping Comparison for Soft Light – please click on the image below to view the comparisons. Continue reading
Bergger have introduced Warm Tone and Cold Tone paper developers to compliment their superb range of fibre based papers. Continue reading
All LEE Filters Neutral Density grads are made by hand, using technology that ensures the line of transition between the coated and clear areas of the filter is extremely precise. As a result, LEE Filters have been able to expand their range of ND grads available to photographers using the Seven5, 100mm and SW150 filter systems.
Available for the Sev5n (Medium Grad only), 100 and SW150 Series .
In densities 0.3/0.45/0.6/0.75/0.9 AND 1.2 Continue reading
With its 15 stops of light-reducing power, the Super Stopper sits at the top of the Stopper family, joining the Big and Little Stoppers in the long-exposure photography revolution. Continue reading
Silvestri have redesigned their 6 x Compact Loupe.
The new design is is supplied with the classic skirt and also an angle skirt to assist viewing to the corners, the new 6x tilting loupe has a bright 26mm field of view.
Linhof Introduce Dovetail Plates Suitable for all UniQ/C standard DT fitting accessories.
The Dovetail UniQ/C has become the adopted universal standard in Camera to Tripod connection. Continue reading
