An Interview with Black & White Photographer Marius Rustad
Close to Home - Eight Birds
It's a common frustration - even a complaint - from photographers that the place they live in is not visually interesting, at least not interesting enough to build up a comprehensive body of work. It's a frustration I share myself, and for me the solution has always been to travel to more interesting and photogenic places.
Some photographers though are lucky enough to live somewhere with a wealth of potential subject matter close by. Marius Rustad is one of them. He lives in Norway, and his project Close to Home resulted in a series of beautiful black and white prints taken close to where he lives.
The Magic of Black & White: Part III – Nine Photos
Today the third eBook in my Magic of Black & White series goes on sale on Craft and Vision. It's called The Magic of Black & White: Part III - Nine Photos and picks up where the second eBook (The Magic of Black & White: Part II - Craft) left off.
In this eBook I take you through nine black and white images with the intention of explaining the more advanced Photoshop* techniques behind them. I discuss toning, split toning, exposure blending, soft focus and the creation of diptyches and triptyches. But it's not just about Photoshop technique. Photoshop is an essential part of the digital black and white photographer's toolbox – but to be anything more than a technical exercise it needs to be aligned with creative vision.
An Interview with Fine Art Photographer Brigitte Carnochan
Summer Moon
What is fine art photography? The term covers a broad subject range – it seems that photographers working in just about any genre of photography can produce photos good enough to exhibit and sell to the fine art photography market.
Photography magazines sometimes take a different tack, and publish articles showing you to create black and white images, usually still lifes overlaid with textures, that you can put on your wall. But is this fine art, or merely an imitation of it?
Chasing Reflections
Chasing Reflections by Eli Reinholdstein is the latest release from Craft & Vision and the newest eBook in the Print and the Process series. Reflections are something I've never photographed much and reading this eBook has opened my mind up to a new approach to photography.
New Craft & Vision website
I'm pleased to announce that the Craft & Vision website has been updated this week. It's a major redesign - the website is easier to navigate around and more exciting to use. There are several new features to play with, and the one I like best is that you can leave reviews on the eBooks that you've read. This is good for me because I like to read people's opinions on the eBooks that I've written (and the other eBooks too). It's also good for the readers because if you leave a review by the end of August, your name goes into a draw to win a free 16GB Wi-Fi iPad. It doesn't get better than that - if I was allowed I would have entered already!
Photos with a Compact Camera – Roatan, Honduras
I decided that it was time to go digital back in 2006. To start, I bought a cheap Olympus digital compact camera. I was so pleased with the results that I never used film again.
When I look back at the photos that I took with that camera it occurs to me that the photos are actually very good. Not so much in a technical sense - there's no way that the quality of an image from the small sensor of a compact camera can match the quality of photos taken with digital SLRs. But aesthetically, yes.
Safari: A Monograph
Back in January this year, David duChemin went on Safari in Kenya. While he was there he took some photos. Safari: A Monograph is the result, the latest eBook from Craft and Vision and the second in The Print & The Process series.
Craft & Vision News
Vision in Motion eBook
Several bits of Craft & Vision news to update you with. First, the release of 'Vision in Motion', the latest eBook. Written by Trevor Meier, it's an introduction to the world of movie making for photographers. You'll find it useful if you have a digital SLR with a movie mode and you're wondering just how to get started. This book fills you in on some of the stuff you need to know. Not all of it, movie making is a complex subject, but enough to educate you about what you're getting into.
The Art of Black & White Film Photography
In my eBook 'The Magic of Black & White: Part II - Craft' I wrote about the advantages of digital photography for black and white photographers. It's true, black and white photographers have never had it so good. Yet in spite of all the advantages and speed of digital photography, there's a significant movement of black and white photographers who choose to work with black and white film.
Venice: A Monograph
David duChemin has just released another eBook on Craft and Vision. 'Venice: A Monograph' is different from the the eBooks that you've seen so far. The first in the Print and the Process series, it's a combination monograph and narrative. There's a series of photos that David took on a recent four day trip to Venice, plus some thoughts from the author about the concept behind the photos.
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I'm a writer specialising in writing about photography. By day I'm the Technical Writer for EOS magazine, a quarterly publication specialising in writing about Canon EOS cameras.
I also write articles for PhotoTuts+ and photography eBooks for Craft & Vision.
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