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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...

The Old Waiting In Ambush Trick

The Old Waiting In Ambush Trick

Resident iman, Yadz, IranFujifilm X-T3, XF8-16mmF2.8 R LM WR, f4.5 @ 1/1900 second, ISO 160 So, you’ve accepted you’re a chicken when it comes to taking people photos. You’re good at some things, but walking up to people and asking to take their photo is not one of them – what’s the solution? As travel photographers, including a local personality within the frame helps set the scene and tell the story. People are important compositional elements for a travel portfolio, so somehow we need to...