The Magazine · Issue N°04
A quarterly on light, place and the patience of night photography. Longer than the journal, slower than the feed — made to be read with a coffee.
Lead feature · Essay
The blue hour isn't really an hour. It's a narrow window when the sun is far enough below the horizon to lose its glare but not so far that the sky goes black. Here's how I plan a whole shoot around it — and why the waiting is the work.
In this issue
Placeholder articles for now — your live magazine pulls in John's real essays and photo stories.
Craft
Why a single shopfront sign can carry a whole frame — and how to expose for it without losing the mood.
Field notes
A long-exposure diary from Port Phillip — tripods in the sand, the tide coming in, and the frame that made the cover.
Portrait
On making portraits with nothing but the light a room already has, and why it flatters the truth.
Craft
Rain is a photographer's best light modifier. A short case for shooting in the weather everyone else avoids.
The city
A night spent following the 96 from end to end, and what the city gives up once the crowds thin out.
Landscape
Leaving the city for a morning of mist and mountain ash — a quieter kind of dark, and a different palette.
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