In the second of his 2 part series, David Lintern looks at photographing people in the outdoors. Last time we concentrated on settings, position and lighting to make the composition work. This time is about the more ephemeral end of the photographic equation – trying to illustrate how it feels, tell a story and so on. Let’s look at another style of shot, but one that’s also very familiar. I find I catch alot of this when people are taking a break and looking around. I have hundreds of examples, and I can’t stop taking them. Let’s get the important…

In the first half of a 2 part series, David Lintern looks at photographing people in the outdoors. So, shooting people – instantly more complicated than what we’ve looked at up until now, with all their confounded moving around and cluttering up the scenery! Yes, I know it’s annoying, but I’m not talking about that kind of annoying, or that kind of shooting – a camera, ladies and gentleman, use a camera! I’m going to concentrate on settings, position and lighting in what follows – there’ll be more to come later on some other aspects. The second caveat is that…

I’m pretty wary of straight ahead technical articles for Walkhighlands, but after chatting to friends on and off the hill, it’s apparent that lots of folk have incredibly powerful, modern cameras but don’t always know their way around the controls. The tech-talk is a bit dry on its own and covered elsewhere on the web, but decisions on which dial to reach for and when are definitely worth a look in an outdoors context. First though, set your camera to M for manual. Let’s look at the holy trinity: Shutter Speed, Aperture and ISO – the 3 cardinal points of…

As his exhibition opens in Pitlochry this month, David Lintern spoke to photographic journalist Jamie Grant about his love of the longest glen in Scotland. Tell us about where you live. Compared to other places you have lived and worked, what’s different about the Glen that inspires you? I’ve been incredibly lucky to have lived in Glen Lyon for the last 12 years. There is a magic to daily life in such a stunning and remote spot that nowhere else can match but the practical frustrations of trying to make a living from the end of a long, single track road…

This month David Lintern interviews Colin Prior, one of Scotland’s finest landscape photographers, in an exclusive interview for Walkhighlands ahead of his upcoming retrospective publication, Scotland’s Finest Landscapes. Let’s start with the project that you’ve been spending a lot of time on of late – The Karakoram, in Pakistan.  How did that come about, and what have you been doing this year towards it? My interest in the Karakoram Mountains was originally sparked by a book entitled In the Throne Room of the Mountains Gods, which I discovered in our local library. I could see from the log at the…

I thought it’d be worth trying to take a look at framing subjects in landscape photography. Last time I threw a load of numbers at you, but I’m deliberately abstaining from that here. Hopefully it goes without saying that this is a massive subject area and impossible to discuss objectively, but I’ll say it anyway. Subjectivity is kind of the point in my view, and something to be celebrated, especially since it can’t be avoided – we might see the same landscape, but we see it slightly differently. First, what’s ‘composition’? Apparently, wiki thinks ‘it’s the placement or arrangement of…

I’m very lucky to have a wide and varied brief here at Walkhighlands, but I try to thread my ramblings together with reasonable photos. I hope to develop the photographic thread a little more over the coming months, and I thought I’d start with one of my great personal pleasures of camping out – taking photos at night. Taking photos at night is a real performance, in more ways than one. Setting up and operating the camera is more difficult in low light. Tripping over and breaking said machine or indeed the operator is not conducive to good results. Because…