It’s cool to be square

Andrew S Gibson has been busy of late. As well as running a great website, organising workshops and travelling he still finds time to produce great eBooks packed full of tips. Hot on the heels of his most recent Craft & Vision book “Beyond Thirds”, he’s followed up with a new book, available on his [...]

Read the rest of this post »

Breaking the Rules – Beyond Thirds

There’s no such thing as “correct” composition, just bad composition, good composition, and inspired composition. When you first start getting a little more serious about photography it’s highly likely that you’ll start to encounter the core set of rules: rule of thirds expose to the right balancing elements plus many more! Whilst these can be [...]

Read the rest of this post »

Andes – New Print & Process eBook

One of my favourite authors over at Craft & Vision is Andrew S Gibson. He’s produced some great books on black and white photography which I’ve previously recommended. So I’m more than happy to mention his latest work “Andes” which this time falls into the Craft & Vision Print & Process category. The Print & [...]

Read the rest of this post »

A Deeper Frame – Adding Depth to Your Photos

After initially setting up Craft & Vision and publishing his own collection of eBooks David duChemin has since taken a break and allowed other authors to step forward and talk about their processes to develop technique and improve your personal style. However after a well documented and serious fall on one of his more recent [...]

Read the rest of this post »

The Power of Black & White

Those of you that regularly read my blog (although I apologise – there’s not been much regular about it of late!) will know that I like black and white photography. Its where I started back when I used to shoot film and even now in today’s digital colour environment I still think some of my [...]

Read the rest of this post »