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

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The world at your feet
It is very easy to be enchanted by the larger landscape and when I am out by myself I am often taken in and soaked up by the wider view. All too often I concentrate my visualisation process on the open valley, the river cascading downwards or the distant horizon and fail to take much notice of the smaller world.

Just what is the correct exposure?
This is a vexed question that crops up frequently and can be the source of conflicting pieces of advice from all quarters. So, just to keep the fire burning, here is Professional Imagemaker's twopence.

Paul Gallagher interviews Michael Pilkington
'In order to be a successful photographer, you must possess both vision and focus, neither of which have anything to do with your eyes' – Kevin Russo

Wacom Intuos 4
Mike McNamee tries the new super-sensitive pen and tablet and is hugely impressed.

Remote Camera Control
This feature is intended to cover a number of topics which are linked in not too obvious ways. The common thread is remote controlling a camera, which historically has been the province of nature photographers and master spies working for the KGB! Things change, however, and the prompt for this piece was the arrival of a new remote control called Hero and made by Phottix.

John Denton - Tigers at 09:00
One of the things I love most about my chosen profession is that work can come from a most unexpected direction and take you to the most unexpected places.

Tilt and Shift
The move to large format was always something I had considered and I was often tempted after experiencing the huge leap in quality from 35mm to 6x7cm. The truth is that this was a very big leap

Going into the RED
My first encounters with infrared photography were when I was a young lad in college, studying photography. In those days all printing was done in darkrooms and all films were processed by the students, so black and white was the grounding for any would-be professional image maker.

The CB GIMBAL Head reviewed by Jon Ashton
First impressions of the CG Gimbal are that it is a well engineered, quality product with a high-quality finish. All adjustment knobs are easily manipulated and the rubber covering makes them easy to grip. The head is effectively weather sealed and lubricated for life. Considerable thought has gone into the design and the head is adjustable in every conceivable direction; it is indeed an impressive piece of kit

Regal Eagles - by Andy Astbury
It’s a few months since the idea of eagle photography in the depths of a Norwegian winter was first put to me. I try to specialise in photographing ‘different slants’ on UK wildlife and nature so the idea was somewhat contrary to my self-imposed remit.

Light in the Langdales – the making of the cover
The cover image from this issue is one of Paul Gallagher's most sublime pieces of landscape and was greatly admired by the visitors at Focus on Imaging, along with some of the most respected landscape photographers around. It was an obvious choice for the front cover of our monochrome special and so we asked Paul to describe its making in detail.

Infrared the Easy Way
Things have changed dramatically with the arrival of digital imaging. At a simple level, Photoshop can do a half-decent job of mimicking the effect you get with infrared, but the real enthusiasts go for an infrared-modified camera. A normal D-SLR is set up with a narrow pass filter which cuts out the infrared portion of the spectrum and performs a fine balancing act between losing some of the visible reds and having too much.

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