Britain’s first professional photographer – the first man to seize on the commercial implications of the daguerreotype – was a Frenchman – Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867). It was Claudet who solved the problem of making portraits by reducing the…
Nature and wildlife photography is one of the many genres of photography and one of the most exciting as well. Not only do you get up and close with some of the rarest animal species on the planet, but you…
Some of the earliest British photographers were traditional academic painters. In England, Henry Colin, a successful Miniaturist, bought Fox Talbot’s first licence to take Calotypes professionally. In Scotland, no such licence was needed, and in 1843, the landscape painter David…
11 Best Landscape Photographers Of All Time Landscape photography. All you need is a camera, a landscape (maybe a tripod), and you’re on your way! An immensely popular sub genre of photography, it’s often where photographers start. Rightly so, it’s…
This post is about the first pictures ever taken, from the first ever picture, to the first digital image right up to the modern day taking the first ever picture of a black hole. In the modern era, it is…
Famous quotes from photographers Quotes about photography applied in the context of a well written piece of research can add weight to a discussion. I have chosen to reference the well known and the obscure in the hope that you…
NASA has released a new archive of images in a handy new platform that you can use for free in your personal projects. Everything from pictures of the Earth and the Moon to wonders such as the Carina Nebula above…
In my eyes, Richard Avedon was a genius. A portrait photographer with a lust for life who could capture something unseen in a person, for someone who was supposedly in love with all things dramatic and energetic, Avedon was able…
Edward Weston is a master of still life photography, his manipulation of light to highlight shape, texture and form helped bring photography out of the shadow of painting and stand on it’s own as a credible art form. Working for…