Founder Chris Coe tells the story behind the prestigious Travel Photographer of the Year Competion and gives his tips for success.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Copyright © Chris Coe

Chris Coe is a professional photographer, teacher, writer and lecturer. He teaches photography with Nick Meers for their company Photo Iconic and is also the founder of the Travel Photographer of the Year Competition (closing date 9^th September 2008 – so hurry up if you’re planning to submit an entry). I asked him some questions:

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What is Split Toning?

Split toning is a technique that originated in the black and white darkroom. A traditional printer split tones by using two toners one after the other, one to tone the print’s shadows and the other to tone the highlights.

Photoshop CS does away with the messy chemicals and lets you tone prints with just a few clicks of the mouse. In this tutorial I’m going to show you an easy way to split tone using Gradient Map.

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This is the first of a new series where I’ll be taking a quick look at the work of a fine art or travel photographer whose work’s caught my eye.

Detroit born Joseph Szymanski moved to San Francisco to study photography and never moved away. After graduating he became disillusioned with working as a freelance photographer in the digital age, picked up his old Leica film cameras and some Kodak Tri-X 400 and returned to the darkroom to create more artistic photographs.

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Cat Vinton won the 2007 Travel Photographer of the Year Competition with her amazing photos of the nomadic tribes the Sami and the Mongols in Norway and Mongolia. Her interest in foreign cultures started when she spent the first two years of her photography career in Laos, before moving to London. I asked her about Laos and her photographic projects ‘Nomadic Souls’ and ‘Red Shoes’.

Norway

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