Clive talks with Canon about the importance of colour management and how he achieves beautiful prints.

Read Canon’s article ‘Colour management in photography: from input to output’ here

Our own Clive Booth and Studio Peripetie are selected for the latest AdobeUK Creative Cloud Photography social media campaign.

Clive has just photographed an old friend of ours, John Cleare.

In the mountaineering world he is a legend among legends and here is why :

John Cleare is a professional photographer, a mountaineer and a wilderness traveller, a writer, an author, a filmmaker and a lecturer. He has been described as “the outstanding British mountain photographer of the post-war era…”(Walt Unsworth/Penguin Encyclopaedia of Mountaineering).

Notable projects included Matterhorn Centenary, The Old Man of Hoy, Spiders Web, Last Blue Mountain, Surrender to Everest and working on the film The Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood (He even got to appear in it).

He has been climbing mountains since his early teens and his book, “Rock Climbers in Action in Snowdonia”, published in 1965, is a cult book among climbers.

He led the 1978 British Himalchuli attempt, the highly successful American ski ascent of Muztagh Ata in 1982 and the British Kedar Ski Expedition of 1994.

I can think of no better way to describe the man than to say, at 79 years of age his current favourite mountain activity is the little known, but crazy and exhilarating sport of Ski Mountaineering. (See the link below).

But then Clive’s portrait beautifully and powerfully illustrates that.

After his return from the epic International Everest Expedition of 1971 he started a picture library with his already large collection of mountain images.

So if you need any photography relating to mountains and/or mountaineering, he is your man.

For John
http://www.mountaincamera.com

Ski Mountaineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDEaAOcDKnA
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9mY6boNgc

This year Don McCullin gave an insightful and in-depth account of some of his most seen conflict photography.

Watch it here

Rich Hardcastle’s unofficial music video for Raleigh Ritchie’s ‘The Greatest’ sure is popular; this week made it into Shazam’s top 5 music videos of the week.

http://www.shazam.com/news/the-5-best-pop-videos-of-the-week

Here is a recap

Rich Hardcastle has been hard at work shooting the well publicised Royal British Legion VE Day Kissing Campaign.

Visit the links below to learn more about the campaign

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11578424/VE-Day-hugs-and-kisses-recreated-to-celebrate-peace.html 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ve-day-70th-anniversary-royal-5651622

http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/574518/Susanna-Reid-wartime-kiss-dad-Royal-British-Legion-VE-Day-campaign

Don McCullin talks with N-Photo’s Geoff Harris in a personal and revealing interview about his difficult early years and the development of his technique.

Follow this link to buy a copy of Issue 44 April 2015 – http://goo.gl/ruh9kO

Well done to Clive Booth for being included in the 2015 Creativepool Annual.

Here is some great behind the scenes footage of Clive Booth aboard a 7m rigid inflatable speedboat, as the RNLI Severn class lifeboat, the largest in the fleet, thunders past spraying them with a torrent of sea water…..what one has to do to get a shot!

As part of the Canon ambassador programme Clive Booth has been given a pre production Canon 5Ds with which to shoot his ‘Ileachs’ project. At the time of this news item, it is the only one of it’s type in Europe. 

This project involves Clive making several trips to the Inner Hebridean Island of Islay and photographing the people, flora, fauna and landscapes. ‘I’ve been visiting Islay for over twenty years now and many of the people have become close friends. This project is very personal to me and I’m thrilled that both Canon LFP and Canon Capture share my enthusiasm for the subject matter’

He will make a minimum of four trips to Islay and the result will become a very limited edition book, printed on the Canon 12 colour fine art printer.