Indholdsfortegnelse for No. 473 i Photography Week

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FRONT LIGHT It’s often said that the first signs of summer transitioning into autumn are in the quality of the light. As the daylight starts to draw in, you notice both a change in the air temperature and also the intensity of the reds and yellows in late afternoon sunlight. Some of this will be an illusion, caused by the sun reaching a lower position in the sky earlier, but there is an effect on temperature and air density. There are also the colours of the surfaces from which light is reflecting in the environment to consider. The greens of spring have almost all faded throughout the hot summer months, and browns, reds and yellows start to appear. This changes the tint of reflected sunlight, and contributes to that illusive…

You only have to glance at a stock photography website to see that broad vistas of autumnal forests are not the only popular views of the season. In fact, while roads winding their way into a patchwork of colour is a go-to option for many stock shooters, arguably a greater proportion of work concentrates on images which suggest autumn via studies of smaller scenes: leaves in a stream or on a footpath, fallen horse chestnuts, and arrangements of acorns and emerging winter berries all find their way into the top results of even the broadest of searches. This is because these conceptual aspects more effectively capture the feeling of being out on an autumn walk, or preparing for a harvest festival. In short, these elements appeals to more of the…

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2 HOURS Colour gels are a wonderful way to enhance your lighting and add impact to portraits – by placing a gel in front of a flash or LED you can tint the light to any shade you like. Whether you want a bold colourful backdrop or an atmospheric colour tint over your subject, gels are very handy. What’s more, they’re inexpensive and they can be used over budget flashguns, so a simple lighting setup, with just a couple of gelled flashes, won’t cost a lot. And you really don’t need a studio to create beautiful colour gel portraits – any large space will do. In this Crash Course we’ll look at a range of techniques for creative gel photography, creating everything from bold vibrant looks to moody low-key effects.…

Affordable lens brand TTArtisan has announced that it will release its first full-frame AF optic for Sony E, Nikon Z, and Canon R bodies. The lens will also be available for Canon EF-M and Fujifilm X mount. TTArtisan has made quite a name for itself as a company that produces good-quality budget lenses, and recently announced a super-affordable macro lens for Fujifilm X, Sony E and Micro Four Thirds. The new lens will be its first autofocus optic for full-frame users, which is great news for Canon EOS R6 or Nikon Z7 II users looking for more affordable lens options. Not only does TTArtisan make photography more affordable, it often releases lenses that are slightly different from what’s available eslewhere, with the 32mm f/2.8 AF being a case in point.…

With experience, it becomes clear that colour in an autumn scene affects the location at multiple levels. As you walk up to a location you’re immediately struck by the breadth of the colour range, and the scope of the change that has taken place, in a relatively short time. Even if you’ve never visited that spot before, you can see from the trees present how the seasonal change will have metamorphosed the environment. Then, once you look more closely, you can see how on a small scale colour can be seen to interact at a local level. Even an array of fallen leaves on a path, all of different shades of red, yellow and orange, can create a beautiful vignette of the greater scene. From this realisation it’s possible to…

While it’s often possible to capture a near print-ready image in-camera, with any image it’s advisable to make fine adjustments in software to obtain the best results, and this is arguably more important for autumnal photography than for any other genre. The spectrum of bold colours can rarely be captured in full, in a single image, without some degree of post-processing. This need not be extreme – it may simply be a case of adjusting the white balance or hue of a specific colour, to render it more like it would be observed in the real world. In other cases, precise tone mapping or manual extension of the dynamic range, through shadow and highlight adjustment or exposure blending, can increase the impact of landscape scenes. As already discussed, cameras don’t…

GuruShots is billed as the world’s leading photo game. It’s an online photography platform conceived to give global exposure to people who love taking photographs. GuruShots members start out as Newbies and compete with other photographers to win challenges, increase their ranking on the site and eventually progress to coveted ‘Guru’ status. Challenges are voted on by Gurus and the wider GuruShots community, and there’s a fresh competition brief – such as this All About Animals challenge – every day. Challenge winners receive prizes from GuruShots’ sponsors, including Lowepro, Kodak and Lensbaby. https://bit.ly/3ioEW5b https://bit.ly/3ioEW5b https://bit.ly/3ioEW5b https://bit.ly/3ioEW5b…

Neural Filters are part of a new wave of image-editing tools for Photoshop CC that make use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. These tools analyze the content of images, and are able to recognise people, animals and other objects. Such tools now allow for automated processes that we could only dream of a few years back. Photoshop CC now includes several Neural Filters you can try (some are in beta, so are not fully completed yet), and one of the most interesting Neural Filters for photographers is Depth Blur. This allows you to alter the depth of field in your photos and create both background and foreground blur, with realistic fall-off in-between. Previously, this would be done by carefully isolating the subject, then applying blur manually to the background.…

Autumn (or fall to our friends across the Atlantic) has to be the favourite season for many photographers. The combination of stunning colour and detail, and the sheer extent of the transformation of the landscape, inspires wonder like no other time of year. Ues, snow-covered hills are truly beautiful to behold, and summer light can create drmatic shadows, but autumn is the season where we get to explore familiar locations in a whole new way. Although the radical colour changes are the aspect which most of us eagerly anticipate from September onwards, there is of course far more to the autumn season. The weather is starting to turn in most parts of the northern hemisphere, and is becoming decidedly more unsettled. This might not be particularly attractive to walkers and…

For beginners, autumn is the season where it becomes truly apparent that accuracy is not always best. When starting out in photography, it can be confusing and at times frustrating when you find that applying the correct white balance produces scenes that lack drama and depth. After all, the whole point of digital colour control is the speed and ease with which strong colour biases can be removed, to produce a naturalistic image, so why do autumn scenes appear drab and uninspiring? With experience, we learn that neutralising colour casts is an important aspect of white balance control, but it can also remove the shifts in colour we set out to capture in the first place. Auto WB systems rarely do a great job of capturing fiery leaf colour or…

The winners of the 2021 Drone Photo Awards have been announced, offering stunning glimpses of the world as seen from above by photographers around the globe. Prizes were awarded in nine categories, with Terje Kolaas taking the overall Photo of the Year award for his stunning image Pink-Footed Geese Meeting the Winter, showing a flock of geese roosting in central Norway en route to their breeding grounds in the Svalbard region of the Arctic. Images from the contest will feature in the Above Us Only Sky exhibition at this year’s Siena Awards Festival, which takes place in Siena, Italy from October 23 to December 5. Click the link to see all the winning and commended images, and read the stories behind them, at the Drone Photo Awards website, where you’ll…

Most macro prime lenses have a maximum magnification ratio of 1.0x or 1:1. This means that, at their shortest focus distance, they can reproduce objects at full life-size on the camera’s image sensor. This means an object measuring just 36 x 24mm would completely fill the image sensor of a full-frame camera, while an object would need to be around 22 x 15mm or 17 x 13mm if you’re shooting with an APS-C body or a Micro Four Thirds body respectively. Bear in mind how much larger an image is when you view it on-screen or in print, compared with the size of the camera’s sensor, and the scope for enlargement is incredible. Tiny garden bugs can look like giant creatures, and you can see levels of detail that are…