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by Tom Mackie
Here, in a great variety of unexpected and original compositions, Tom Mackie shows why decades behind the unrelenting groundglass of a 5 x 4 view camera have made him one of the world's best landscape photographers. Whether the landscape is urban at night or a tropical beach at noon, Mackie nearly always has something in his work which makes each image different from the last, rather than following a predictable formula. He also keeps detailed notes and can provide clear and well expressed insights into the process of taking each shot.
He has moved on from 5 x 4 to rollfilm and panoramics, and embraced the usual box of grads and filters (normally the Lee system) which are used in corrective rather than manipulative ways, to ensure the carefully spot-metered exposure is dead right on film. The views are generally of calendar quality and have a repose which is ideal for that market. Framing and camera position are always as near perfect as you can imagine for the shot. This book does not even go near digital; it is entirely about film. However, there are many good lessons for the digital photographer contained in it. Technically as sound as you expect from an American trained Fellow of the BIPP. Highly recommended.
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by Guy Edwardes
If you want to see your work in Practical Photography magazine, this is your best initiation into the world of the iconic landscape target. Guy Edwardes presents stereotype after stereotype, and even has a chapter headed 'Shoot Lighthouses' in his 100 better ways! Here we see all the PP perennials... read more
by John Ingledew
This is an ambitious title, and indeed, it is a remarkable bit of work. Ingledew is a Senior Lecturer at one of London's trendier art colleges, and crams into this chunky paperback all the countless snippets of history, artcrit, technical fact, biography and image-cuttings you would expect to find... read more
by Tom Ang
I suffer from a serious case of Tom Angst. If Mr Ang is so prolific, takes such good photos, travels so widely and can still find time to hold down several jobs and write such complex and structured volumes on something outside his specialisation, what chance have the rest of us? Even Tom's family... read more
by Christopher Bliss
Well, you can't complain about the price for this 8 x 6 120-page full colour nothing but photo book. Not even a caption clutters the pages, and the photography is sunny, simple and exactly what a visitor might want to see to research locations to shoot better examples. There is a quick location... read more
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