Review: Formula 1 legend Rainer Schlegelmilch at Proud Gallery Camden

Waiting for the flag: Graham Hill, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, 1962 If you’re a fan of motorsports there is very little to compare with the atmosphere of a racetrack on a Grand Prix day.  The build-up of smaller races through the day sets the tone and you hear the high-revved engines haring round long before you get to the track to see them.  By the time the main even takes place, everyone in the stadium is on an adrenalin high, imagining themselves in the driving seat. ... Read More

Photography Book Now Competition 2010 – Winners Announced

Spread from Grand Prize winner Judith Stenneken's "Last Call" Whenever I walk around a place which has an important historical past I always find myself trying to imagine it as it once was.  Walking through tranquil fields where centuries ago a fierce battle had taken place, or around a long besieged castle that has fallen into disrepair, it’s hard to relate these places we can now visit so freely to the people and events that once occupied them. Read More  Read More

Astronomy Photographer of The Year Exhibition opens today at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

Photon Worshippers by Steven Christenson When most photographers think of a telephoto lens they might be imagining something with Canon, Sigma or Nikon written somewhere on it.  They’ll be using it to shoot some wildlife perhaps; a twilight landscape or a model in the studio.  There is another world of photographers out there though whose chosen glass is far more likely to read Takahashi or Celestron.  They’ll be the ones packing their gear away as you get up at... Read More

Eadweard Muybridge exhibition opens at the Tate Britain

Animated sequence of photographs of a horse in motion by Eadward Muybridge Best known for his series of sequential photographs proving that a horse’s legs leave the ground while running, British born photographer Eadward Muybridge accomplished the feat by deploying a bank of trip-wire triggered cameras to capture a number of images in close succession.  Aside from the obvious application as an early predecessor of motion photography, the technique is very similar to the... Read More

The top 5 ultimate high end digital cameras

So you’re looking for a new digital camera and you want to be able to print big with super fine quality. How does 18 megapixels sound? Not enough eh… well do 24 million pixels float your boat? If the answer is still no then you may be one of the few photographers who demand an image superiority which just isn’t obtainable in consumer and even most professional digital cameras. Luckily there is a small selection of digital cameras where image quality isn’t... Read More

Top tips for studio photography – Shooting tethered

Over the next few days I’ll be posting some short articles on studio tricks and gear that pro photographers often use to make their life easier and to get the shots they need. First up is shooting tethered. The Tether Table Aero - mount your laptop next to your camera for easy tethered shooting Read More  Read More

Shadow Catchers: Camera-less photography

Untitled, Adam Fuss. 2009. A subject I’ve been interested in recently is the early pioneers of photography and the processes they evolved to capture an image on film. It was as far back as 1727 that a professor of medicine, Johann Heinrich Shulze, discovered that silver nitrate would temporarily retain the negative silhouette of a paper stencil when exposed to the sun.  In his footsteps followed Thomas Wedgewood in the early 19th Century, experimenting unsuccessfully with... Read More

The Beat Hotel – Chapman exhibition opens 29th July in London

Brion Gysin and his Dream-Machine at the Beat Hotel. Photo: Harold Chapman. Credit:Topham Picturepoint The Proud Gallery Chelsea is next week hosting an exhibition of photographs by Harold Chapman, shot during his residency from 1957-1963 at the famous ‘Beat Hotel’: 9 Rue Gît-le-Coeur, Paris.  The hotel itself was a run-down, 13th class establishment on the leftbank of the Seine that served as a residence during this time for the most prominent members of the Beat... Read More

If I had $1000 spare…

Photo: Dennis Hopper. Taschen. I’d buy this book.  Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967 John Lennon once said, “I’m an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I’ll bring you something out of it”.  He touched upon a subject that goes against the grain of how the media, and public at large, like to portray well known artists.  Unless granted very special status, as a ‘multi-talent’, you must stick to one discipline and be prepared for scorn... Read More

Raymond Cauchetier Exhibition London

Raymond Cauchetier is relatively unknown amongst the photographic community, yet his work chronicled some of the most exciting actors in the French new wave cinematic movement. The exhibition at the Hyman Gallery – London will be the first public display of his work and offers behind the scenes glimpses from films such as Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Jacques Demy’s Lola and Francois Truffaut’s Jules et Jim. More information after the break. La Nouvelle... Read More