Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2022 i Australian Photography

Most in the photographic community in Australia will have heard of the death of Tim Page in August. Without a doubt, Tim was one of our greatest ever photographers, and famous for getting so close to the action in Vietnam he seldom used a long lens. You can read our obituary to him on page 14, but if you’re not familiar with his work, you’ll soon see he had an almost telepathic ability to identify the decisive moment, over and over again. As a result, he captured thousands of fantastic images over his lifetime with, at last count, more than 750,000 in his archive in NSW. The other notable news recently was the death of Graham Burstow OAM at the grand age of 96. Respected for both his services to…

WINNERS’ CROWNED IN AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR A CONFRONTING photograph of a humpback whale carcass and circling sharks on the ocean floor in Coral Bay, Western Australia has won the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition for 2022. Nature’s Prey by Ashlee Jansen captures a harsh act of Mother Nature, but an important part of the natural ecosystem. Based in Western Australia, Ms Jansen captured her winning shot in July 2021 after a sub-adult whale died while making the annual migration north along the Ningaloo Reef. “Tour boats had been watching the young whale for days as it slowly moved through the bay, appearing sicker and slower with more shark bites over its body day after day,” Jansen recalled. “Friends had spotted an oil slick…

Here are a few festival highlights you won’t want to miss. HALAIN SCHROEDER (BELGIUM) – MUAY THAI KIDS Poverty forces many residents of Isaan, Thailand’s largest region, to seek work in Bangkok, but children are often left behind under the care of their grandparents. To keep them out of trouble and with the prospect of earning money to support the family, kids are often enrolled in Muay Thai – the country’s national sport. Betting is fierce, and the pressure on the children is palpable. In this series, Belgian photojournalist Alain Schroeder explored this world to illustrate the sacrifices children must make for their families. BRETT LEIGH DICKS (AUSTRALIA) – LUNCH BARS As borders went up and communities locked down, Australia was offered a unique opportunity to turn its gaze inward…

MESSY. CHAOTIC. BLEAK. If you were to ask someone on the street to describe the Australian bush, there’s a good chance those words would come up. (And not without reason.) The bush is well-known for its unyielding nature. Swaths of monotonous scrub reaching out to the horizon. Dry leaf litter crunching underfoot. And gum tree after gum tree after gum tree. However, when you venture a bit deeper and spend some time immersed in the landscape, there’s another side waiting to be appreciated—and documented through photography. A side that’s richly storied. That transforms from brittle to burnt to beyond beauty. That’s teeming with variety, dispelling the myth of monotony that misleads many first impressions of the bush. Because when you look beyond first glance, there’s so much more waiting to…

The Canon 7D Mark II (2014) is still widely regarded as one of the best crop sensor DSLRs ever created. It had serious semi-pro credentials for its day with a 20MP sensor, 10fps, Full HD video, dual card slots, weather resistance and pro-level dials. But the camera also had one special trick - that APS-C 1.6X magnification. This meant a 70-200mm lens became a 112mm-320mm, and a 400mm became a 620mm. What was initially seen as a costsaving measure from Canon became a boon for sports and nature photographers, who flocked to the camera in their droves. Now in 2022, some eight years later, the mirrorless EOS R7 ($2,299, body only) continues the 7D’s lineage while upping the game tremendously with massively improved autofocus, a bigger 32.5MP sensor, IBIS, a…

At first glance this still life seems like just an arbitrary collection of ‘things’. Indeed, when I have entered it in our club competitions, I have received comments like “too busy” or “what’s the purpose here?” I love Still Life photography. I have been photographing this genre for many years now and have given many presentations about it to clubs around Australia, and even one at an event in the Philippines! Still Life’s appeal is the endless variety of subject matter you can use, the total control you have, and the freedom to approach the task without variables such as weather or time to interfere. On one of my regular visits to my daughter, Melanie, who lives in Brisbane, I had some time on my hands mainly because of the…

STEVE AND ANN TOON Ann and Steve Toon are a UK-based, husband and wife team of award-winning, professional photographers with a specialist interest in the wildlife and wild places of southern Africa. See more of their work at toonwildlife.com MITCH GREEN Mitch Green is a Sydneybased travel and landscape photographer. He can be found at mitchgreenphotos.com, or down by the beach at 5am waiting for sunrise. You can also find him on Instagram @mitchgreenphotos TIM LEVY Tim Levy is an award winning Sydney based freelance photographer specialising in events and portraits. See more of his work at levy.photo and theprint.network ANTHONY MCKEE A regular contributor to AP for more than a decade, Melbourne’s Anthony McKee was named AIPP documentary photographer of the year in 2014. See more at anthonymckee.com.au…

MARK COGHILL Untitled EDITOR’S COMMENT It’s not easy to photograph something differently we’ve all seen more times than I’ve had hot meals, but that’s something Mark Coghill has done here with dramatic results. “I recently visited Paris for a couple days with no plans other than to see the city I last visited 40 years ago,” he writes. “Without a photography plan I arrive at the Eiffel Tower when the sun glare was at its worst. But then I realised I had a chance to get a different image of this icon by altering the exposure to darken the background, which I then enhanced in Lightroom.” This is an interesting, graphic image with a clever incorporation of the month’s theme. I like how you’ve crunched the blacks to draw all…

The hairs on the back of your neck are bristling, your pulse is racing, your senses in overdrive. You’ve finally found a great subject. Your breathing quickens with excitement. You move to press the shutter release and… Stop! Your heart’s telling you to shoot, but what about your head? With many years in the field, we’ve learned to put a quick check on ourselves in the seconds before committing to a capture. Pressing pause rather than the shutter release. That slim window often makes all the difference between a decent image and a great one. We like to re-evaluate for a split second, running through a quick mental checklist to help maximise photographic potential and minimise mistakes in the heat of the moment. We do this most times we photograph…

Your gear does matter, up to a point. I’m not one to stress that you need to calculate the hyperfocal distance for optimal sharpness. Or that you need a medium-format Fujifilm GFX 100S. But I do have a couple of gear and technical tips to help you produce the best images possible. • Lenses: Bring two lenses. Ideally, a wide-angle and a telephoto. While a 24-70mm could probably cover about 90% of the frames you’d end up capturing, having the reach of 200mm (or even 400mm) will help you isolate key elements. And given the wider range of potential scene snippets at 200mm, you’re also more likely to create a truly unique image to call your own. • Aperture: Unless you want to isolate flowers or leaves, generally, you’re after…

Ever since they were first released in 2009, the Panasonic GH series of cameras have had a cult following amongst imaging professionals who regularly shot both stills and video. With the release of the GH6 though, one has to ask if this camera is now better suited to videographers than photographers? THE DESIGN Without doubt, the Panasonic GH6 is one of the biggest and boldest Micro Four-Thirds cameras on the market. Weighing 823-grams, the GH6 is 100-grams heavier than the GH5, and a few full-frame cameras too. Thanks to a new cooling fan behind the sensor, the body and grip also have more depth, which should appeal to many photographers. The magnesium-alloy body is also weather-proof and freezeproof, and able to work in conditions from -10ºC through to +40ºC. The…

Born in 1927, Burstow started photography at the age of seventeen – introduced to it by his younger brother, Sydney, who had joined the Toowoomba Grammar School’s camera club. This marked the start of a lifelong passion for photography, along with a commitment to its promotion through the photographic society movement. In 2004 Burstow was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for Services to Photography in addition to an impressive list of camera club achievements - SAPS, PSQF, FPSA, HAFB, FRPS, PSQA, APSA, FAPS, Hon FAPS, AAPS, EFIAP, and ARPS. Burstow was also one of the last remaining founding members of APS and was its President from 1982 to 1984. His photographs are held in many institutions around Australia, including QAGOMA, State Library of Queensland, the National Library in Canberra…

It’s been said that if every scientist who had visited Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea over the past 50 years had brought with them a bucket of water, then the sea would be full once again. But it isn’t. Most of the sea is now dry, with the rest of the water continuing its slow retreat each year. What remains is a few rusty ships and a reminder of what humans can do to an environment if left unchecked. Once the world’s largest inland sea spread across the Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan borders, today, the Aral is just a puddle compared to what it once was. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union launched a large scale project to divert the main sources of the Aral’s inflowing water, the Syr Darya river in the…

YOUR BEST SHOT IS OPEN TO AP SUBSCRIBERS AND APS MEMBERS. TO ENTER AN IMAGE IN THE COMP, CHECK THE COMPETITION THEMES AND INSTRUCTIONS BELOW AND EMAIL YOUR BEST IMAGE TO YOURBESTSHOT@AUSTRALIANPHOTOGRAPHY.COM UPCOMING COMPETITION THEMES DECEMBER ISSUE FOG 30 September 2022 FEBRUARY ISSUE SPEED 24 November 2022 APRIL ISSUE INDOORS 31 January 2023 JUNE ISSUE MANIPULATION 31 March 2023 AUGUST ISSUE RAIN 31 May 2023 YOUR ENTRY 1. Email your entry to yourbestshot@australianphotography.com with the name of the competition theme in the email subject line, for example: Weather, Abstract, Landscape, etc. 2. The image file must be the same as your name, for example Jane Smith.jpg. If you enter multiple images, each new image file name should be appended with a unique number, eg Jane Smith2.jpg 3. A maximum of…

For so many Australians, 2022 marks the return of international travel – and just in time, too, for a quick trip to the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2022 that’s roaring back on track at the Marina Bay Street Circuit this month after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gathered here is a selection of the finest pics from F1’s best snappers to understand how groundbreaking the event has been. And, as you’ll see – if you haven’t been, it might just be time to put it on your bucket list. The 2022 Singapore Grand Prix runs from Fri, 30 Sept 2022 until Sun, 2 Oct. Find out more at singaporegp.sg…

Through a combination of design, performance and a certain coolfactor, Apple’s MacBook Pro series of laptops have become ubiquitous in the creative community. But they also have their limitations, the most obvious being their lack of upgradeability and a pretty high cost of entry. This has opened the doors to upstarts like Chinese-company MSI, which has spent the last few years refining its products pitched at creatives, culminating in its latest laptop, the MSI Creator Z17. For this review, MSI sent me the Creator Z17 base model which features a Core i7-12700H processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti, 32GB of DDR5-4800 RAM and a 2TB SSD. It retails for a not insignificant $5,499, while the maxed out model upgrades to a Core i9-12900H processor, 64GB of RAM, and the same 2TB…

THE STARS ABOVE Rod made this image at Whiskey Bay in the Wilson’s Promontory using his Pentax KP on a tripod and one single 30 second exposure. Post processing was done using the Pentax Digital Camera Utility 5 from a RAW image. As Rod comments - “The light from a new moon can be seen in the upper right hand corner of the image, with the after glow of a sunset in the bottom right hand corner”. Astrophotography is challenging because we are asking our cameras to do something that we ourselves are not that good at - seeing in the dark. We can see the camera’s struggle in the “noise” of the picture (the graininess) and also the hint of star trails. Some people buy ‘fast’ f1.4 and f1.8…