Indholdsfortegnelse for No. 240 i Photography Week

ESSENTIAL PHOTO SKILLS MADE EASY 2 HRS Throwing powder paint repeatedly over a person makes for vivid, dynamic and fun portraits; powder paint looks incredible when backlit with flash, and if both the timing of your shot and the angle of the throw are right, you can capture the moment the coloured paint explodes across your subject. It’s a messy process, though, and your clothes, camera equipment, the floor and anything nearby is likely to end up with a fine dusting of paint, so you’ll need all the protective covers, dust sheets and tarpaulins you can lay your hands on. You’ll also need a suitable, dark place to shoot the portrait. We used an underground car park. A similarly spacious garage or workshop might be an option, or failing that,…

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THE WEEK’S TOP HEADLINES IN PHOTOGRAPHY There have been rumors kicking around for the past few months that Sony would bring out a new flagship full-frame camera that sits above the Alpha 7 range, and now it’s taken the wraps off the Alpha A9. Sony is calling this the most technologically advanced, innovative digital camera it’s ever created, and with an impressive spec it’s hard to argue with that claim. The new Alpha 9 promises blackoutfree continuous shooting at up to 20fps while undertaking 60 AF/AE tracking calculations per second. This is made possible thanks to a newly designed 24.2MP full-frame stacked Exmor RS CMOS sensor. The unique design of the Alpha A9’s sensor enables a broad ISO range of 100–51,200, expandable to 50–204,800, while there’s also support for uncompressed…

THE BEST THING WE’VE SEEN THIS WEEK Many photographers have captured the passing of the seasons in timelapse videos, but Coloradobased filmmaker Will Strathmann came up with a novel – and rather more complicated – way of documenting how a landscape is transformed over the course of a year. Strathmann visited a farm at Springton Reservoir, near Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, several times over the course of two years and used a drone to create this 47-second video that transitions through the seasons, piloting his aircraft along the same flight path as closely as possible each time. He started the project in the spring of 2015, and made his final visit in January of this year. Perhaps most impressively, Strathmann recreated the flight path of the drone each time by eye,…

Panasonic is bolstering its travel zoom compact camera range with the new Lumix TZ90 (it’s called the ZS70 in the US). Replacing the Lumix TZ80/ZS60, the TZ90/ZS70 features the same versatile 30x optical zoom, equivalent to 24-720mm, but key differences include a new sensor and a tilting screen. Panasonic has managed to cram even more pixels onto the sensor, boosting the resolution from 18.1MP to 20.3MP. It’ll be interesting to see how the new camera performs in terms of image quality, as the increase from 12MP on the TZ70/ZS50 to 18MP on the TZ80/ZS60 actually had a negative effect on low light performance. There’s 4K video capture, while the TZ90/ZS70 also has Panasonic’s 4K Photo function, enabling you to capture shots at 30fps and then extract stills at 8MP equivalent…

Isn’t it funny how, even as camera technology gives us ever-better image quality, many people still crave the imperfections of analogue film and the visual character that these bring to their photos? Thankfully, you can now get all of the retro flair of film while still retaining the convenience of digital photography, while there’s also no shortage of Lightroom plug-ins loaded with filter effects designed to faithfully emulate many of the colour and monochrome film stocks of yesteryear. Most plug-ins go further, though, incorporating effects to mimic light leaks, cross-processing, infra-red looks and more. The starting point with each plug-in will usually be selecting one of many preset effects, but all the apps here also enable you to fine-tune a preset to create a bespoke look – expect to find…