Reflections on Wildlife Photography

Exit Glacier and Black Bear, Kenai Fjords NP, Alaska. Know what you want! Wildlife photography is a wide enough subject to escape the possibility of being covered in one article. Hundreds of books and articles have already been written, and little can be added without running the risk of being just a repetition. One thing, [...]

Shooting blind, or not shooting at all…

Sometimes, as photographers, we find ourselves in situations where it becomes painfully clear that we are not welcome. It happens especially to travel and reportage photographers who often deal with radically different cultures or sensitive environments. Photographing women in a Muslim country is one good example of a difficult task. You immediately realize your artistic [...]

Edward Mendes: Tips for Making Great Winter Photographs

Well, in case you haven’t noticed yet, it’s cold!  Winter is here in full force and that usually means photographers start to go into a state of creative hibernate for the winter.  Traditionally winter is the time for us to stay indoors and sort through our film or digital files from the warmer months, make [...]

John Dominick: Using a Polarising Filter for Landscape Photography

All landscape photographers should have a circular polarising filter in their kit bag. The filter itself is actually made up of two pieces of glass, one housed in a rotating ring that is used to adjust the amount of polarisation. There are occasions when nothing, including post production techniques, can produce the same effect of [...]

Jose Antunes: Good weather versus bad weather

Non photographers have the assumption that clear days are the best days for photography and that when it rains we must stay at home. It is not absolutely truth. I have been thinking about writing these notes for some time already, but now, when Winter is about to show up to keep us company, they [...]

Nicola Cocco: How did you shoot VII – Fighters

This works starts with an encounter with Alessandro who is a young Muay Thai Kru (“Kru” means instructor). My knowledge about this martial arts was close to zero, so after talking a bit with him I decided to start following some weekly training and some match. The Muai Thai is a combat sport from Thailand [...]

The mating deer season

Following deer during the mating season means you’ve to have time to be there when things happen. From September until the end of November. I’ve devoted some time this year to follow the deer during the mating season. It’s a fantastic moment in nature, but something we easily forget is happening, sometimes quite close to [...]

Nicola Cocco: Wien

On the first scene we’re on a huge sculpture (with sounds too, huh)  in a square. Light is strong and flat and the dark mass of iron can give us something to play with. the first idea that came to my mind is to use it to frame something of the city. On the first [...]

Düpmann Frank: Color Key – Black & White in “Technicolor”

Sometimes the subject of a picture is dominated by just one color, other colors might be distracting. Or the subject is camouflaged by a background of similar color. „Color Key“ is a technique to convert pictures to black & white but leave parts or some details in color. The butterfly in the picture above was [...]

Nicola Cocco: at the sea

Today I took a trip at the beach out of the summer season, when all is unprepared. The beaches are fenced by some green nets worn by the weather. The landscape is quite drab at first sight but we can use lots of things and I’m quite sure we’ll catch something also on this shoot.  [...]

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