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What it’s like to be a penguin
Possession Island is a rock in the Southern Indian ocean, about the size of the Scottish Isle of Rùm. It harbours a small French research station (a couple dozen people year round), and half a million seabirds. We have been monitoring King penguin populations there for the past decades: fascinating birds, King penguins. They may look clumsy on shore, but each of these little characters has been scouring through the wildest seas in the world, year in and year out, weatherin...
Laura Cogan grants us an exclusive glimpse into her creative process and the techniques that brought forth this beautiful masterpiece.
Image Title
Isolated Church
Technical Info
Film Used
ILFORD DELTA 100
Format
Medium
Camera
Hasselblad 500cm
Lens
Hasselblad 180mm
Exposure time
f4 at 1/500
Other equipment
Manfrotto 190CXPRO4 tripod and Sekonic flashmate L-308S lightmeter
Location
Snæfellsnes, West Iceland - the church is called Breiðabólsstaðarkirkja
Firstly, tell us the story behi...
Something that I love
For the longest time I was aware that I had difficulties reading, writing, and understanding certain things, but it was only when I was diagnosed with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia that is became clear why this was. I have enjoyed the art of photography for so many years and after a triple bypass surgery in 2019, I made the decision to return to college and learn at a professional level something that I love.
500 ELM Hasselblad camera
I enrolled in the photography division, at OCC (Orange...
Find out how film made Sebastian Fehse a better photographer and how he creates these masterpieces in 'How I Got This Picture' blog.
TECHNICAL INFO
FILM USED
ILFORD HP5 Plus 400
FORMAT
35mm
CAMERA
Nikon F3/T
LENS
Nikkor Zoom 70 – 200mm f4
EXPOSURE TIME
1/500 at f8
OTHER EQUIPMENT
None
LOCATION
Alpe di Siusi, Italy
FIRSTLY, TELL US THE STORY BEHIND THIS IMAGE. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO SHOOT IT?
I have been to this place and especially the Dolomites already 2 times. So, I knew what ...
The Love Affair
I didn’t even really like racing when we planned our trip to the Monaco Grand Prix. Not racing, not Formula 1, not any of it. But I did have a very long ongoing love affair with the south of France and any opportunity to spend time along the Mediterranean was a go for me.
Something Was Unlocked
As my husband Mark and I were planning this trip to celebrate a milestone birthday, something happened to me in the lead-up; something was unlocked. It’s Mark who has the life-long love of ...
A 10 Day Journey
After getting home from Scotland in April of 2023, I was left with a good problem – I had way too many images that I loved. A month before, I had taken my Fuji TX1 panoramic camera, and a bag full of ILFORD Delta 400 and 3200, and walked from Milngavie to Loch Ness, a roughly 156 mile route using the West Highland Way and the Great Glen Way. Nights were spent in tents, days were long and energizing, and photographic scenes seemed to be in no short supply at every bend in the trail. Disti...
Oh, crap! What have I done?
Let’s see. I committed to do a solo photography show, with twenty-seven images. All twenty-seven are 4x5 black and white negatives, so they need to be darkroom printed. And those will be 20x24 prints. Yeah, and I need to have them matted and framed. The icing on the cake? I have just under three months to do this.
Yep, this is going to be an interesting project. But let’s back up to the beginning.
The Event
It was April 2023, three years after the pand...
We caught up with the incredible Jane Meling to unveil the secrets behind her breathtaking panoramic landscape masterpiece! Join us as we unravel the secrets in our exclusive 'How I Got this Picture' series.
Image Title
River Of Light
TECHNICAL INFO
Film Used
ILFORD FP4 Plus
Format
120/617
Camera
Linhof Technorama 617s III
Lens
Schneider 250mm Tele-Xenar
Exposure time
1 second
Other equipment
Gitzo Explorer Tripod, Lee 100 red filter
Location
Ober Goms, Geschinen, Valais, Switzerland
F...
Is a Photograph a Photograph if it Was Not Made with a Camera, Lens, or Negative?
The ethereal color palette and expressionistic qualities of the work I have been making with ILFORD's photographic paper seemingly resemble the representations of light and color as seen in many landscape paintings (think J.M.W. Turner, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole); however, the work in my on-going project, I Thought You Left / I Wish You Were Here, are lumen prints—a form of camera-less photography where objects or a neg...
It was the perfect film to learn with
I’ve always loved shooting portraits, and the first medium format film I used was ILFORD HP5+, shooting portraits in high school with the Rolleiflex TLR that I still use today. It was the perfect film to learn with — forgiving and rewarding. When I started directing music videos in my 20s, I brought that Rollei to set to take press photos between set ups. Around the same time, I was working as Ava DuVernay’s director’s assistant on the Netflix series When They ...