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Panoramas
Panoramas are an integral part of the architectural photographer's armoury. In general shots, which encompass a very wide field of view, especially if letterbox format, are termed panoramic.

Landscape Photographer -Labour of Love
Following his introduction in the last issue, Paul Gallagher now gives us a candid rundown on the trials and tribulations of converting into large format camera work and the attendant processing. It acts as a wonderful foil to the frantic pace of the RAW workflow discussion in the earlier part of the magazine – it makes one quite nostalgic really!

Paul Gallagher dodge & burn
As the title suggests, the phrase dodging and burning originated in the darkroom. To lighten an area of the image you would “dodge” or prevent light from hitting the photographic paper on the easel or “burn” where you would mask selected areas of the paper from the light of the enlarger and deliberately allow other areas to receive light. I no longer have a darkroom, and use a scanner and Photoshop, but even in my introductory paragraph referring to darkroom methods, you see familiar Photoshop words such as “mask” and “selected” appearing.

Where, how, when and why …
To stand an outside chance of coming home with an image that I would consider worthy of hanging in a gallery, or printing in a publication, I cannot rely on good luck or chance.

RULE OF THIRDS by Mark Laurie FSWPP
The rule of thirds has always been a powerful composition guide in art. In the old enlarger days it was pretty easy to get, mark out a template of the golden rule to size and adjust the enlarger projection until it all fell in place. Then expose. Photoshop provides a digital way to easily recreate this.

Introducing Terry Tucker Landscapes
My father rekindled his interest in photography when I was 12 years old. This introduction became a semi obsession so that I worked during summer holidays and saved to buy my first SLR. I learnt on manual 35mm cameras, doing my own black and white processing.

Macro Photography–A close-up look
The talk at the Convention will provide advice and some in depth technical information on the equipment and techniques needed to explore the wonderful world of miniature, using the eye of a Macro Photographer.

Tony Pick Coastal Images
When SWPP member, Tony Pick is not behind a camera or in front of a computer he can, more often than not, be found in the local lifeboat station. A volunteer member since 2001 he is currently one of the navigators for the all-weather boat. He allows the RNLI to use some of his shots for postcards and promotional purposes.

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine - Paul McMullin extends his chip
These two pages illustrate a trick that has been around for some years. Doubling the size of a camera chip is very costly. The manufacturing process is such that doubling the chip area is likely to cause much more than a doubling of the manufacturing failure rate – figures of tenfold have been talked about. In addition, a camera with a double size of chip would need to be physically much larger and the lens designs would have to incorporate a larger field coverage. The trick that has evolved is to use a shift lens and make images at either end of the shift range

Capturing Dragons
Do you want quality saleable images of some of nature's most spectacular and wonderful creations, the macro-miracles of evolution that have been around, in one form or another, since the time of the dinosaurs? - If so read on!

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