Lucy Soutter: Why Art Photography? Category_Printing & Scanning Carbon fibre tubing and magnesium

Carbon fibre tubing and magnesium castings also reduce the weight of this tripod compared to the equivalent aluminium version

Although the design is dust and moisture-resistant

the Retrospective 7 is comfortable to walk with and provides quick access to your gear

Brighter apertures produce a smaller sweet spot of focus with more dramatic blur and darker apertures give you a larger area of focus with less blur

Lucy Soutter: Why Art Photography? Category_Printing & Scanning Carbon fibre tubing and magnesiumContemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see, yet it represents critical positions that only a small minority of well informed viewers can usually access. Why Art Photography? provides a lively, accessible introduction to the ideas behind todays striking photographic images. Exploring key issues such as ambiguity, objectivity, staging, authenticity, the digital and photographys expanded