Capturing Landscape In All Its Splendour

There are several advantages to attending a fast photography course. The most basic advantage is that students of the program learn what it takes to compose beautiful pictures. At digital photography class, students learn the basics of digital photography techniques. This includes learning the process of subject selection for the photograph as well as photography [...]

What the Camera Companies Don’t Want You to Hear

by NYI Student Advisor Chris Corradino Warning: the following article is likely to cause a bit of discussion, but Chris is a serious photographer and teacher, and he calls them as he sees them. In addition to the camera company’s need to sell more and more cameras, and the magazines and blogs breathless attention to [...]

New Italian plus Fashion and Design Summer Courses

In summer 2009 the Italian Language School Leonardo da Vinci in Milan offers Italian plus Art, Fashion and Design Summer Courses and new Design Summer Courses in Milan. So, thanks to the collaboration with NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts) and Art Courses in Italy, the school gives its students a new opportunity to choose [...]

Summertime Tune-up for Your Camera

Summertime Tune-up for Your Camera There’s nothing like an annual tune-up to keep things in tip-top condition. For example, experts advise changing the batteries in your smoke detector every fall when daylight savings time ends, anticipating the winter season of shorter days, heating systems and Christmas tree lights and candles. That makes sense. For photographers, [...]

The Effects of Pyro Stain in Platinum Printing

In the beginning there was platinum and the world was void and without form.  And then God said, “Let there be pyro”, and it was good.’  So maybe I am getting a little carried away.  Using pyro is not exactly a religious experience although some promote it with almost religious fervor. I have Colin & [...]

Tri-Color Gum with Cyanotype

Tri-Color Gum with Cyanotype by Sam Wang Gum or gum-bichromate printing is a very flexible process capable of producing very beautiful and permanent prints. Although volume upon volumes have already been written on the process, few contain information that readers can follow to obtain repeatable results. This is partly because we generally do not work [...]

The Fundamentals of Temperaprint

In the beginning there was the egg. Eggs have been used as a binding medium for pigment paint since primitive times. The Temperaprint process utilises a form of light sensitive paint and has some similarities to gum bi-chromate printmaking. The process is applied to any suitable surface in the manner of Egg-Tempera-Painting. The image is [...]

Mapping the way to second-chance photos

by Chris Nicholson Some of your best photos for a given location will come not from your first visit there, but from your second, or third, or twentieth. On your first trip you may see a great waterfall, but discover that the water flow is only a trickle during the summer. On your second trip [...]

In the bag: Ten things traveling photographers should always carry

by Chris Nicholson The most important item a photographer should carry in his or her camera bag, without question, without argument, without fail, is: A camera. But after that (and some lenses, film and batteries), you’ll find that your bag still has some empty pockets to fill. Here are some suggestions for how to use [...]

How to determine sunset & sunrise times and locations

by Chris Nicholson A significant amount of travel, landscape and nature photography involves sunrises and sunsets. And a significant amount of time to photograph these solar events involves scouting locations. Therefore, it’s important for a photographer to know how to determine not only the time of a sunrise or sunset, but also where the sun [...]