Craft & Vision have just released their newest eBook, Making the Print: Printing Techniques for the Digital Photographer. Written by photographer Martin Bailey it’s a complete guide to printing your digital images at home on an inkjet printer.

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I’ve just finished watching The Tudors on DVD with my girlfriend – all four seasons, working our way through the episodes by playing one each night. The series is brilliant on many levels, but the thing that stays with me most is the portrayal of King Henry VIII and his close friend, Charles Brandon as they changed over the decades covered by the show.

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There’s no such thing as “correct” composition, just bad composition, good composition, and inspired composition.

At the beginning of the year I decided to analyse some of my favourite images to see if I could understand more about their composition. I’ve always been an instinctive photographer – I’ve never thought much about why I compose photos a certain way. I tend to know when the composition looks good in the viewfinder, and that approach has always worked for me. But what if I could identify some of the principles of composition in my strongest images? Could I then apply them consciously and improve my photography? I think so, and along the way I realised that I was discovering things that would be useful to other photographers too. The result is Beyond Thirds: A Photographer’s Guide to Creative Composition, released today by Craft & Vision.

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Craft & Vision have just released Making Light II, the latest ebook written by Piet Van den Eynde and the follow-up to Making Light.

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The Inspired Eye 3, by David duChemin, is the latest release at Craft & Vision. Like the previous two ebooks in the Inspired Eye series, it explores the topic of creativity for photographers.

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