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The Fuji X-Pro 1 – How did it perform in the Arctic?

I recently had the chance to take the Fuji X-Pro 1 with me on a workshop I was co-leading up above the arctic circle in the far north of Norway. I thought this would be an ideal opportunity to see how...

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Creative Photography Webinars with Onlandscape

I made three hour long videos for OnLandscape magazine in 2013 and they are now available via YouTube. I have collected them together here for you to watch (and enjoy?) Part I – a discussion of my...

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“The 16:10 from Carnarfon”

An illness in the family meant a long planned personal trip for Liz, Stan and I to France, exploring the Normandy and Brittany coast had to be shelved at the last minute. Instead we headed to North...

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Should I Back Up to the Cloud?

Can I start by just apologising for this being such a long post, but I wanted it to cover the subject in depth and, hopefully, answer everyones questions. (and I have added some cloud type pictures,...

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What Are ‘Rendering Intents’ and How Should I Use Them?

I don’t know about you, but I love to print my favourite images. It seems such a shame that so many images today lie unseen on hard drives, when really an image is not fully realised until it is...

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Should I sell my DSLR and buy a Fuji?

I am being asked this question by clients so often now (twice in the last 24 hours, for example), I think it is time to put the answer in a blog, to save me writing endless emails if nothing else So...

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What is DACS? and Why you should claim

There is a way for published photographers (and artists, poets and writers) to receive additional income from their work and I thought it might be useful to put a blog post together about it. In the...

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Visualisation, Pre-visualisation, Preparation and Pedantics

This post is the result of an interesting and stimulating Twitter debate this week and I felt it needed exploring in more than 140 characters. The question was raised “do you (or should you)...

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Hard Proofing Techniques – A Practical Example

  Today I had a client order for one of Chris Friels prints (the image above) to prepare and thought it would make a good subject for a blog post on hard proofing techniques. Chris’s images can be very...

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Adding Copyright Details to Files on Import to Lightroom

In January every year I update the metadata preset in Lightroom which embeds my copyright information into every file I import into my Lightroom catalogue, This year I thought I would record a brief...

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Printing With Fotospeed’s Panoramic Papers & Creating Custom Paper Templates...

  Fotospeed are the only fine art paper company I am aware of who provide us with custom made panoramic papers. I shoot a lot of panoramas in my work, both combining exposures in software (now a...

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How to Travel Light With Your Fuji Camera Gear

  Airlines seem to be making it increasingly difficult for us to travel with our camera gear these days, especially on budget flights. Most of us want to keep our precious cameras and lenses with us in...

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New Dropbox Style Cloud Service I Am Trying – Sync

I have been looking for a more flexible and better priced service than Dropbox for a while. I think I have found it. It is called Sync. They give you 5GB of free cloud storage, which I am currently...

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Trying a different approach to rucksacks

Ask any photographer and they will tell you, you can never have enough camera bags. Or it might be that we can never find the perfect camera bag. I’m inclined to think that there is no single one bag...

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Sleeklens Landscape Plugin Review

I was contacted recently by sleeklens.com who asked me to put one of their plugin packs for Adobe Photoshop through its paces. They make plugins for all types of photography, particularly portraiture...

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Working with Fotospeeds New Square Fine Art Papers

Many of us love making images in the square format. We either ‘see’ our photographs that way and compose for them in the field, often aided by the clever way many digital cameras these days allow us to...

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Being Interviewed on the Togcast

Some time back I was surprised and humbled to be asked to an interviewee on the excellent ‘Togcast’ podcast which is run by two very capable and nice gentlemen, Sam Gregory and my fellow Light and Land...

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Cloud Backup Provider Crashplan Deserts Domestic Customers

If you have your Cloud backup with Crashplan you will have been informed that, while they will honour your subscription to the end of the current period, they won’t be renewing it. They also will have...

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Review of Fotospeed Cotton Etching 305 Signature Paper

Some things in life only come along once. The genius of Bob Dylan. Newcastle United winning something (still waiting). My mother in law being lost for words. (also still waiting). A phone call from...

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First thoughts on the Canon EOS R and Multiple Exposure Photography

I had the chance this week to briefly test the brand new Canon EOS R mirrorless camera with the 24-105mm lens (and the EF adaptor along with my EF 70-300mm IS L lens). This was courtesy of my good...

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