Learn from your work
Around this time of year I do hardly any photography, with the long summer days I find it too hard to get up for sunrise, and the air is often hazy from warm weather. This year, with the exception of a few scouting trips, I haven't used my camera now in 2 months. But I find that this is a good time to reflect upon my work in the last year. By looking back at older images and comparing it to my new collections I can see a definite progress, which is great to see. When we're in
Working with aspect ratio
Having used a variety of cameras with different sensor sizes I have come to realise how much aspect ratio plays a vital role in both composition and post-processing. Like most people I started out with a digital camera based on a 35mm sensor with a ratio of 2:3. As I dabbled in black and white film I also bought a Bronica SQ-A medium format film camera, which produced a rather pleasing square image (1:1). This thought of aspect ratio stayed in my mind when I upgraded my digit
Going Film in Iceland
Since I became interested in photography over 15 years ago I've always toyed with film photography. There is something very satisfying about the tangible nature of film; from handling rolls of film to developing in the darkroom and creating prints by hand. But it lacked the immediate feedback digital provided, so it always came second to digital. There's no denying the convenience and flexibility digital provides, I couldn't have learnt photography without it. But the impalpa
