Urbanautica: a special interview with Peter Brown

This new issue of Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence is taken from the special interview with Peter Brown. Peter Brown has photographed the open landscape and small towns of the Great Plains for the past twenty-five years.  He is the author of “Seasons of Light”, “On the Plains” and the recently published “West of Last [...]

Pete Bridgwood presents: Creative composition in landscape photography – Part 2

  Join us for a Webinar on April 19 Register now! Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/385986936 In this creative landscape photography masterclass, fine-art landscape photographer and UK based Manfrotto local hero Pete Bridgwood demonstrates some of the compositional methods used to create compelling landscape images. Pete will explore how an [...]

Falling for Kata – The Kata team

Last November we had the opportunity to spend two days in the Israeli desert with renown landscape photographer Adam Barker and a great part of our colleagues in Manfrotto Bags and Kata department. The magic scenery and the amazing skies made this trip exceptional, and besides learning a lot of secrets from our tutor, we [...]

Urbanautica: the special interview with Belgian Photographer Dieter De Lathauwer

The words and images proposed this week by Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence, are taken from the special interview with Belgian Photographer Dieter De Lathauwer.  Graduated as a photographer at the Academy of Arts in Ghent, De Lathauwer consider photography as a method, as a means of spending time and forcing himself to look [...]

Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Wulingyuan

When it comes to fog and mist (see the other article this week), few scenes are more evocative and more archetypical than a Chinese scroll painting, particularly those in the ‘mountain-water’ style known as shanshui. Slim craggy peaks emerge from wreaths of cloud and mist, and rise tier after tier one above the other. The [...]

Urbanautica: a special interview with Andrew Phelps

This new issue of Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence is taken from the special interview with Andrew Phelps. The American photographer born in Mesa, Arizona in 1967, lives and works in Salzburg, Austria, as a freelance artist since 1991. In 2000 he won the National prize for Photography from the Austrian Ministry of Culture. «I [...]

John Dominick: Using a Polarising Filter for Landscape Photography

All landscape photographers should have a circular polarising filter in their kit bag. The filter itself is actually made up of two pieces of glass, one housed in a rotating ring that is used to adjust the amount of polarisation. There are occasions when nothing, including post production techniques, can produce the same effect of [...]

Urbanautica: One, No One, Hundred Thousand – Marco Ristuccia

The words and images proposed this week by Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence, are taken from the special introduction of Marco Ristuccia‘s series “One, No One, Hundred Thousand”. «This project comes from a reflection and a research on the essence of things, thought to be applicable to any living organism, but in this case [...]

Urbanautica: the introduction by Greg Jones on Per Bak Jansen work

This new chapter of Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence is taken from the introduction by Greg Jones on Per Bak Jansen work. Per Bak Jensen was born in 1949. He had his debut in 1978, and was educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1980-86. He worked from 1987-2009 as assistant professor [...]

Urbanautica: special interview with Geoffroy Mathieu

This new issue of Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence is taken from the special interview with Geoffroy Mathieu. The French photographer, graduated from the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie d’Arles in 1999, lives and works in Marseille. «It is not the passage of time as such that interests me, but rather the dynamic of a [...]

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