The Key is Aesthetic Skill. How many times do you walk away from a scene saying ‘I couldn’t see a good picture? The tourist location is generic by definition – everyone standing in the same spot will get the same photograph; but this does not mean it cannot become a great artistic photograph. The key [Read More]
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Pikto: Tour of an online printing lab
Pikto is an online photo lab with largely unparalleled levels of expertise, technical know-how, and experience. This state of the art facility has recently expanded its headquarters and capacity and has become accessible to the online consumer, world-wide. This is excellent news for those who do not live close by in Toronto Canada! The Luminous [Read More]
An Interdependent World with Andrew Budziak
This documentary looks at a poison program that is happening right in our backyard. At its core, this is a story about our relationship with wolves – a relationship based on love, hate and fear. Background: Andrew Budziak is a Toronto-based filmmaker and photographer. He specializes in telling stories about our changing world. Whether producing [Read More]
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The life of a South African Wildlife Photographer – Tim Driman
The mere thought of what this new mirrorless body had the potential to achieve for an action / wildlife photographer, became like a drug to me, and I had to know more….. As a wildlife photographer I need, and use … [Read More...]
Creating Artistic Landscape Photographs Part 1: Flare is Beautiful
Seek not perfection for you can never reach it. -Salvador Dali Flare is Beautiful 1 - Introduction: constructing images I construct images. This is what I do. I don’t just capture raw photographs, process them a … [Read More...]
Dancing With Light: The Photographic Art Of Sam Choisy
When I finally get to work, the process is a dance: the beats of the strobe-light act like a metronome; the constant back and forth movement in front and behind the camera to check, the need to stay in motion in order to … [Read More...]
Figures in a Landscape: The Art of Kazuyoshi Nomachi
Arakus, Libya Japanese photographer Kazuyoshi Nomachi shares with his contemporaries Sebastião Salgado and and Steve McCurry an ability to turn photojournalism - the art of capturing the immediate - into something … [Read More...]
William Neill: Interview For a Retrospective
Autumn Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California 2015Sony-7RM2, Canon 70-200mm F2.8,1/8 second at f/16, ISO 400 “I refer to nature’s beauty as my ballast in the storms of life.” JR: I’m very interested in t … [Read More...]
Neuroscience For Action Photography
A grizzly sprinting at 35 miles an hour from hundred feet away will sink its teeth into your expedition cargo pants in less than two seconds, giving you just enough time to engage the autofocus, select burst mode, and … [Read More...]
Midnight Rainbow #4: Soft Dawn By Michael Broomfield
Soft Dawn Soft Dawn I trudge down the beach, soft sand. It’s dark when I start, and maybe I use a headlamp and flashlight. Details I don’t remember. It’s early fall, so the temperature is just about perfect, litt … [Read More...]
Charles Martin Follow-up : Perique
The feature video profile on Lousiana photographer Charles Martin by Nick Taylor was a big hit on The Luminous Landscape this last month. As a result, we thought we'd post a small piece Nick shot looking at Charles' book … [Read More...]
What is Personal style?
1 - Introduction In photography our personal style is the visual expression of our personal taste and personality. Your personal style defines what your photographs and your prints look like. Our style is … [Read More...]
Between Heaven and Here with Osheen Harruthoonyan
Photography has long opened its doors to abstraction, impressionism, and any number of imported refinements from other mediums. It has, in turn, enhanced and stimulated other mediums, such as painting and even music. The … [Read More...]
Review: Leica Q2
https://luminous-landscape.wistia.com/medias/kfv14oaodo?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=0 For a more in-depth product look, we interviewed Product Specialist for Leica … [Read More...]
Beauty on the Bayou with Charles Martin
Note from the publisher: This is the first video in a new series which The Luminous Landscape will be producing that will profile renowned landscape photographers in the environments they live in or for which they are … [Read More...]
My friend Michael
This is the text of a speech I gave at Michael’s memorial in May 2016 I was Michael’s friend and business partner for many years. We laughed together in many places, saw many things and met many, many wonderful pe … [Read More...]
Panoramic Viewpoint
Following my previous article which was a hands-on review of a Seitz Roundshot VR Drive motorized panoramic head, this essay is more conceptual, and totally hardware independent. I will address panoramic format, … [Read More...]
