Indholdsfortegnelse for No. 448 i Photography Week

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JEAN PHILIPPE ‘JP’ BAUDEY CAMERA: CANON EOS 5DS R With more than three decades in the food industry and 20 years as a head chef at some of the UK’s top restaurants, JP knows a thing or two about food. He retired from professional chefing for health reasons, and jokes that it was the best thing that could have happened, because that was when he turned his passion for fine dining into a new vocation as a food photographer. JANE CHAMPION CAMERA: CANON EOS 6D MK II Jane has worked as a catering manager at various restaurants and pubs for over 25 years, so it’s fair to say that, like JP, she has a passion for food. She’s interested in photographing food, and has been using a Canon EOS 6D…

Both Photoshop’s Camera Raw plugin and Lightroom have long offered separate HDR and Panorama features, but there’s also a relatively recent option that combines the two commands into one – the Merge to HDR Panorama command. Before this tool was added you had to merge your HDRs first, and then stitch them together to create a panorama, but this command performs both tasks at once. It produces a detail-rich raw panorama with a greatly expanded dynamic range, making it easier to tease detail out of the tonal extremes – and in this video tutorial, we’ll explain how it’s done. There are many situations in which making a HDR panorama might be a useful technique. More often than not, the point of a panorama is to capture a sweeping landscape, achieved…

Canon has announced the development of the EOS R3 – a camera aimed at professional sports and news photographers that boasts 30fps continuous shooting, a brand-new stacked backside illuminated (BSI) image sensor, “next generation Dual Pixel CMOS AF” and Eye Control Function autofocus. The R3 will sit between the flagship EOS-1D X Mark III DSLR and Canon’s current top-of-the-line mirrorless camera, the EOS R5. And its specs suggest it will take aim at the new Sony A1 – at least in the all-important speed stakes. Its headline feature, which matches the A1, is the 30fps burst shooting with full AF/AE tracking and minimal rolling shutter. This is made possible by the new stacked image sensor (the first ever in an EOS camera) that delivers blisteringly fast readout speeds while minimising…

KEY SETTINGS Jane replicated JP’s camera settings and used a similar macro lens for her photos. Making use of the daylight coming through the window, Jane selected Aperture Priority (Av) mode and dialed in an aperture of f/5.6 and an ISO of 500. JP suggested aiming for a shutter speed twice that of the focal length of the lens to avoid camera-shake – for example, 1/200 sec when using a 100mm lens. This is because high-res sensors pick up camera-shake more easily. BACK BUTTON FOCUSING JP uses back-button focusing, a technique where the focus function is decoupled from the front shutter button and is assigned to the AF-ON button at the rear of the camera. This makes it easier to autofocus and then fine-tune the focus with the manual focus…

JANE’S COMMENT For the last image we decided to have some fun and create a drink-splash shot. The idea was to throw an orange segment into our Martini glass, and freeze the red liquid with flash as it splashed up. This was quite involved, as we only had one chance to catch the splash with each drop, and if we mistimed our shot we’d have to reset the scene. We had about 10 attempts, and this was our best. One trick JP showed me was putting some double-sided tape under the glass, so that it was less likely to topple over when the fruit slice was thrown in; he also uses catering-quality glasses, which are tougher. JP’S VERDICT Jane was a magnificent Apprentice, and it was a joy to share…

Bird Photographer of the Year has revealed a selection of the photos that have been shortlisted for its 6th annual awards, showcasing another incredible selection of colourful and captivating avian imagery. This year’s competition attracted more than 22,000 entries from 73 countries, and the shortlisted finalists will now compete for prizes across categories including Birds in the Environment, Black and White, Birds in Flight and Bird Behaviour, and for the title of Grand Prize Winner, with the winners announced in September. BPOTY also supports a number of bird conservation projects and charities through its own charity, Birds on the Brink. Click the link to see more shortlisted images, and images from previous contests, at the BPOTY website, where you can also order photo books and prints, and learn more about…

www.fujifilm.co.uk £899/$999 The XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS WR is a new version of a lens that’s been in the Fujifilm lineup for a while. It keeps the optical configuration of the original XF 10-24mm, but adds an aperture ring, weather sealing and improved optical stabilisation. The lens has an effective focal length of 15-36mm, a standard ultra-wide zoom range; it goes wide enough to squeeze in tall buildings, expansive interiors and narrow streets, but it also goes long enough for regular semi-wide-angle photography. It’s not the widest lens there is, but you won’t have to change lenses too often. The aperture ring is really pleasing to use. It’s fairly light, but has definite click-stops both at full settings and at 1/3-stop increments. There is an automatic setting past the…

JP SAYS We started with this dish: chargrilled green Padrón peppers on hummus with pomegranate, chickpeas and sliced radish sprinkled on top. I used a 50mm focal length to keep the image ‘wide’, so you can see the bowl, napkin, and cutlery, which help to set the scene. The large window in my kitchen provided a single light source, and as it was an overcast day the light was diffused. With one leg up on my kitchen worktop and the other on a stool, I could get high above the dish to shoot down, focusing on the peppers to make sure they were sharp. I then opened my aperture to f/5.6 and set the ISO to 200, which gave me a fast shutter speed of 1/640 sec – more than…

SHOOT TETHERED JP tethers his Canon EOS 5DS R to a laptop so that he can check images are pin-sharp, and to make it easier to show clients compositions. GOOD GLASS Invest in some topquality optics if you want your images to be razor-sharp and captured in all their mouth-watering fine detail. FLASH When shooting in the studio JP tends to use a single flash head to mimic sunlight. His flash of choice is the Neewer 600w TTL. DIFFUSED LIGHT To replicate gentle diffused sunlight on an overcast day JP uses a large softbox to spread out the flash for even lighting. FINISHING TOUCHES JP keeps a bottle of glycerine handy, which can be slathered onto meat with an egg wash brush to give it a fresh, appetising sheen. FOCUSING…

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1 HOUR Reflections are often a photographer’s best friend. They crop up in many genres of photography, whether it’s a building reflected in a puddle, neon lights reflected in a shop window, or a product reflected on a sheet of acetate – and we can even use them in portraiture. In this project we’re capturing a series of indoor portraits using household mirrors. All you need is a willing model, or alternatively you could shoot a selfportrait. We’ve shot images in which the reflection is the main component of the photo, and portraits to which the reflection adds additional interest (see our main image, above). While there’s no correct way to shoot portrait reflections, it’s worth remembering that mirrors don’t behave like a two-dimensional image, so depth of field still…

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