Sample Articles from Professional Imagemaker and photo news for Nature and Wildlife Photographers

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One these pages you will find sample articles from Professional Imagemaker - Nature, Landscape, Wildlife

Read articles from Professional Imagemaker written by photographers who enjoy sharing their wealth of knowledge will fellow image makers alike. The  magazine is available to members of the Societies or on subscription

Nik HDR Pro
Two Days in the Dales
OUTdoor Gear Testing
CorelDraw Graphics Suite X5
Blowing Hot & Cold
Paul Gallagher Landscape photographer
Painter 12
BIG Panoramas made easy – the GigaPan way
Every now and again a bit of kit comes into our hands and we say. “Wow, this is a bit special!”.
Athentech Perfectly Clear
All images provided by cameras are available as RGB data (in one form or another, some of which look nothing like RGB!) so ultimately anybody manipulating an image has the same field of play
Paul Gallagher Landscape Photographer The Ashes Series
The idea for this feature came from the regular magazine swap that we do with Better Digital Camera and Better Photography Both magazines involve Australian, Peter Eastway, who edits one and publishes the other.

Paul Gallagher - Gaining the Edge
Having tried stopping modern digital lenses down before, it is simply not the same as changing the plane of focus that a lens with tilt affords. Planning to venture out to one of my favourite short stretches of coastline in Scotland with my D700, I needed to remedy this concern and so, with the kind support of Nikon, I had to hand their 24mm PC-E
Ashton's Gambia
The Gambia is just a small country – approximately 11,000 km2 and has a population of between 1.5 and 2.0 million people. It is situated on the west coast of Africa and is surrounded by the much larger country, Senegal.

Numb Fingers and Thumbs
As the romantic colours of autumn are receding and the leaves that provided this annual display of splendour are most gone, we once again head into the winter. Until last year the winters in the UK were not much to talk about – to be honest they could be described as non-descript and positively boring.

Extreme Marko
Themes for articles sometimes build from unlikely sources. While casting about for some sure-fire, weather proof projects for a teaching course, we had occasion to rebuild and recommission a dark field illuminator. More on the technique later, but for starters it guaranteed an ability to make macro nature shots regardless of the weather outside (which turned out particularly useful as it was pouring down and not an insect in sight!
Get Inspired by Flowers
Flowers are a popular subject for many photographers captivated by the sight of a wild flower meadow, a stunning garden or maybe a single rose from the florist.
Booq Bags
Booq make laptop bags with camera capability, rather than the other way round and there is no doubt that the need exists within the professional photography market, as many people now haul their laptop about, along with a modest amount of camera gear.
The Score and the Performance
Even now after spending over six years producing my prints digitally I am often bewildered by the way in which people complicate the matter. Photoshop as a tool is wonderful and it is often best to bear in mind that hardly anybody (if anybody) know how to use all the controls within it and more importantly why!
Sigma APO 50–500mm F4.5–6.3 DG OS HSM Versatility Extended?
Hands on review of the Sigma APO 50 Camera
Chords of Grey - The Making of The Book
Devotees of Paul Gallagher will be delighted to learn that his new book Chords of Grey is now available.
Outdoor Field Testing
Taking up any excuse to get out into the wilds your editor willingly accepted an invitation from Paul Gallagher to meet up in the English Lakes for a day out.
Very Sharp Practice
Sharpening remains contentious. We wrote on the topic in June last year and issues are still rumbling around. On a personal level only pre-sharpening of RAW files has been employed, followed by letting the Epson/Photoshop drivers and interface perform scaling of the image.
Birds In The Garden
Hide or blind photography can be a most relaxing and rewarding form of natural history photography. It offers some choices, and presents you with the possibility of having some control over circumstances, a rare occurrence in the world of natural history photography. The hide offers an opportunity to enter the 'circle of fear' that all wild animals have
Maltese Invade Cornwall
Eight major awards between four photographers is not a bad haul, more so when one considers that the Overseas categories were done away with this time round.
How To Buy A Lens  - Mike McNamee & Jon Ashton
In the previous article, Jon Ashton touched on the choice of lens for natural history and garden birds in particular. We decided not to waste the analysis we had conducted when trying to put some order in the price of lenses and this, in turn, morphed into this feature.
Personal Work – Get Fresh With Your Camera! - Featuring Richard Martin
We have chosen images from the portfolio Richard provided to, hopefully, blend nicely on the page. Many of the pictures are taken on visits to other parts of the country and he turns to the internet for research, using Google Earth and looks for likely locations.
Colour Me Happy - Paul Gallagher
Although I have dedicated the vast majority of my photographic career to perfecting the monochrome image of the landscape, I do still love colour work and admire the achievements of friends such as Joe Cornish and Charlie Waite. The fact is we all should try both colour and black and white and see for ourselves which one lends itself to our personal striving for expression through photography.

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