Indholdsfortegnelse for No. 254 i Photography Week

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LEARN ESSENTIAL EDITING SKILLS FAST! Beautiful sunsets are such a thing of wonder that photographers feel duty-bound to capture them. However, if you want to include foreground detail as well, this presents an obvious exposure problem. The most impressive part of the sky is that part where the sun drops, and shooting into the light means the land will be underexposed. If you expose for the shadows, on the other hand, the sky will be overexposed, and all that colour and detail will be lost. One way around this would be to look for interesting shapes in shadows that make for bold silhouettes against the colourful sky; another would be to combine exposures in a HDR image. But in this video tutorial we’ll show you a third option: lighting the…

THE WEEK’S TOP HEADLINES IN PHOTOGRAPHY WATCH THE VIDEO http://tiny.cc/19npmy Nikon has announced its longawaited replacement to the brilliant full-frame 36.3MP D810. We know it’ll be called the D850, but we don’t know much more at this stage, with Nikon revealing little in the way of specs for the new camera. The company says the D850 “will be a formidable tool for those who will not compromise on exceptional image quality and versatility, including aspiring and professional photographers,” along with “multimedia content creators”. The only thing we can glean from the short teaser video announcing the D850 is that it’ll be able to shoot 8K timelapses (so 4K video), but we reckon the D850 will get a decent jump in resolution, with rumors suggesting it’ll be somewhere between 45MP and…

THE BEST THING WE’VE SEEN THIS WEEK For almost as long as filmmakers have been making movies about space travel they’ve been creating robot helpers to keep human adventurers company – and the latest addition to the crew of the international space station could have come straight out the ‘cute little robot’ branch of central casting. The Int-Ball is a camera drone with distinctly human/puppy/kitten features depending on your point of view – to us it’s very reminiscent of EVE, the flying ‘girl’ robot who captures the heart of the eponymous hero in the movie WALL-E. The Int-Ball was designed and built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It’s controlled by a remote photographer based on Earth, and is able to move around the ISS shooting both still photos…

Full-frame cameras have long been the cameras of choice for photographers looking for optimum image quality and performance, without stretching to pricy mediumformat outfits, and a growing range is now available at more affordable prices. Compared with APS-C or even smaller image sensors, full-frame sensors enable individual pixels to be physically larger, so they can gather more light. This gives the potential for relatively noise-free image quality, even at very high ISO settings. Alternatively, camera makers can pack full-frame sensors with more megapixels, for ultimate retention of fine detail and texture. Full-frame cameras also enable a much tighter depth of field for portraiture and still-life. Here we’ll look at full-frame DSLRs from Canon, Nikon and Pentax, plus two non-DSLR options from Sony. Canon EOS 6D £1,400/$1,700 Now nearly five years…

ESSENTIAL PHOTO SKILLS MADE EASY 10 MINS Getting an even exposure across a very wide-angle landscape shot can be challenging, especially if you’re working in bright sunlight, when contrast is likely to be more pronounced. As you can’t always be sure whether an image is correctly exposed until you see it on a computer, having a selection of differently exposed images enables you to cover all the bases, and to help with this cameras have a feature called Auto Exposure Bracketing, or AEB. Bracketing essentially involves capturing multiple versions of the same image at different exposure settings, to maximise your chances of getting at least one of them spot-on – or at least as spot-on as you can given the lighting conditions. Here’s how it works: you take a photo…

For truly wide-ranging photography, encompassing everything from fast-paced action sports and wildlife and from weddings to low-light portraiture, the Canon 5D Mk IV is currently the camera to beat. It has exceptional autofocus and metering systems, and delivers fabulous image quality even in the trickiest conditions. However, it’s expensive; for a similarly broad skill set at a budget price, the Nikon D750 is astonishingly good value. In the high-res camp, for retaining detail in landscape, architectural and macro photography, Canon again wins out with the 5DS. The new Sony A99 II runs it a close second, and is a better option if you also want a fast continuous drive speed. Meanwhile, the feature-rich Pentax K-1 is terrific value, while the older Nikon D810 is starting to look less inspiring. The…