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You Still Have To Wait For The Light

You Still Have To Wait For The Light

Tuscany near Pienza, ItalyFujifilm GFX100S II, 500mm lens, f6.4 @ 1/150 second, ISO 125 Maybe it's the circles I move in, but there seems to be less emphasis given to the practice of waiting for the light when it comes to landscape photography. When I was boy, walking bare-foot over broken glass just to get to the bedroom door, the landscape photographers I idolised would talk lovingly about the hours, days and even weeks it took for the light to be just right. Milton Wordley talked about a...

New Photo Process Online Course

New Photo Process Online Course

Photo Process a new concept for Better Photography magazine. It's a combination of a portfolio review, an original Peter Eastway print, and a series of video tutorials that shares a wide range of techniques, concepts and processes that I use every time I take a photograph. These processes have evolved over 40 years of photography and while they started in the darkroom, they have been fully adapted to a modern digital workflow. "When teaching photography, I find many students have great ideas,...

Are Mountain Photos All The Same?

Are Mountain Photos All The Same?

Altiplano, Bolivia.Phase One A-series, IQ4 150mp, 180mm Rodenstock lens, f11 @ 1/60 second, ISO 50, 2 minutes exposure averaging. I love photographing mountains, so as a travel photographer, that’s reason enough to fill my photo books with a range of different ranges! But should you take photos of mountains in different locations because, surely, one mountain is much the same as another? How does it really tell the story of your journey? I can already hear the geologists recoiling in alarm...