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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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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David’s latest Craft & Vision eBook A Deeper Frame looks at creating a sense of visual depth in your images. Artists have wrestled with the problems of depth, perspective and creating the illusion of a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional canvas for centuries.  Photographers grapple with the same issues – except that most of the time we’re happily unaware of it. Our cameras record whatever we point them at and we have a tendancy to take it all for granted. Read the rest of this entry »

Think of any photographer whose work you admire and the chances are that you are drawn to it because of the way they express their creative vision. There’s something about their images that draws you in and gives you a glimpse of something that’s deeper and wider than simply the sum of the compositional elements.

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What do you do if you find yourself in a place with spectacular scenery, yet the weather is awful? One of the first things we learn as photographers is about light – and that you need good light to take great photos, especially landscapes.

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