PhotoPlus 2019 was the smallest it has been in the decade or more I’ve been attending regularly. Sony didn’t attend, preferring to host their own

“Were I to die this moment, ‘Want of Frigates’ would be found stamped on my heart” Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson With apologies to Britain’s greatest

Welcome all to the Luminous Landscape 2019 My father started this site from our family’s home office where his latest camera gear, printers, and technology

  Ilford started marketing this paper in Canada in early 2018. Their Canadian distributor, having seen my reviews of several other washi-type papers, suggested I

The Summit, November 2 to 5 followed by The Vision Field Workshop November 6 to 8 Introduction Each year for the past 16 years we

By Michael Reichmann – Originally Published March 11, 2011  What Are We Talking About? Photographers as a group are pretty hung-up on sharpness. I’m no

Understanding Resolution Digital Vs. Analog The traditional analog world was easy to understand. Negatives and prints were continuous tone and one simply made an enlargement

 A Close Look At 6 Moab Papers Publishers Note: Mark has done an extensive review of selected Moab and Red River papers.  This review will

The Epson SC-P5000 Printer “Executive” Summary What the Printer Is: It’s a replacement for the Epson SP4900, incorporating the new Ultrachrome HDX ink set and

Several posts in the LULA Forum and further thinking about the importance of the grayscale to overall image quality sparked my interest in developing an

Introduction Each year for the past 15 years l have offered an event called the Fine Art Photography Summit. This event used to be organized

Specialty Papers + Some Over the years I’ve been reviewing batches of fairly conventional papers, be they matte or gloss/luster and observing the growing diversity

Printer Cart For The Epson P800 and Canon Pro 1000 Printers The new year brought a few resolutions for me. I happen to be one

I’m all about making prints. I’m also all about doing so without a lot of hassle and fuss. ImagePrint by ColorByte Software has been part

At a recent media event,  I was sitting with fellow content providers discussing the state of the industry.  We all agreed that this had been

FREE ARTICLE Over the past 25 years the photographic industry as a whole and Adobe in particular have invested a fortune of time, resources and

Overview This article reviews eight papers of interest, in the context of our theme “Back to the Print”. The papers for this review were selected

Self-Publishing: Joys and Headaches Reva Nelson is the copy editor for The Luminous Landscape website. This is her experience with Amazon’s CreateSpace self-publishing platform for

Gear of The Year Michael Reichmann's Choices 2015 was not a banner year in terms of photographic equipment. In the area of pro and enthusiast

Complimentary Article A while back in one of my Rants, I mentioned that Luminous-Landscape was going to be focusing on Getting Back To The Print.

As I began my second day at the PhotoPlus show I asked myself what the hot product and news at the show was?  Every PhotoPlus

Another year is now behind us, and a number of interesting cameras have crossed our desks. Some have come and gone in just a week

Celebrating Our 15th Year Kilt Rock - Mealt Falls, November 2014 - Isle Of Skye, Scotland Fuji X-T1, 55-200mm at 74mm, f/8, 7.4 sec ISO

Publishers Note .  . . We are deeply saddened by the loss of our friend Uwe Steinmueller.  He was a pioneer in an educational photographer