Indholdsfortegnelse for No. 452 i Photography Week

GO-TO SETTINGS Chris says… I suggested that Aurora set Aperture Priority mode and, instead of shooting wide open, she closed the aperture a little to ensure enough depth of field should she slightly miss focus. Upping the ISO to 400 or so ensures a fast shutter speed to avoid the risk of motion blur. SHOOTING SUN-STARS Chris says… With the sun so low on the horizon, it’s the ideal opportunity to include it in your landscape shots. For this, I suggested Aurora close down her aperture to f/16, as bright points of light take on the shape of the closed-down aperture blades, which makes for the most beautiful sun-stars! CONTINUOUS HIGH & AF HIGH & AF Chris says… Always be ready to shoot in bursts to capture the unpredictable nature…

URBAN CHRONICLES JEAN-FRANÇOIS CLOUET “I took this photo in Les Olympiades, an area of residential tower blocks located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.” bit.ly/3nfIgRm COMMON GRACKLE SHANNON O’SHEA “I took this photo of a common grackle at the Wildwood Lake nature reserve on the outskirts of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.” bit.ly/3nVYfED WHITE ORCHID ANNA UTKINA “I shot this high-key close-up of a white orchid with my Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and EF 100mm f/2.8L IS Macro USM.” https://bit.ly/3vdJEYD WANDERING LLOYD LANE “I shot this image on a misty morning while wandering around a woodland near Midhust in West Sussex, UK.” http://bit.ly/2NhWpjJ FACEBOOK http://bit.ly/39py9lg FLICKR http://bit.ly/2VIgsJO PHOTOGRAPHY WEEK WANTS YOUR PHOTOS! Taken a portrait you’re particularly proud of? Shot a sensational sunset you’d like to show off? Then join the Photography…

Of all the tonal adjustment tools available to you in Photoshop, Curves is without doubt the most powerful – it can do the jobs of most of the other tone-tweaking tools, plus some things they can’t do: it can lighten or darken tones, alter colours, boost contrast, correct colour casts and more – Curves might just be the ultimate image-editing tool. Unfortunately for some, there’s another curve that gets in the way: the steep learning curve. Curves can be difficult to grasp for the uninitiated, and you might even be tempted to disregard the tool and return to the simpler sliders and settings on offer elsewhere. But anyone who spends a little time experimenting with Curves will be rewarded with a responsive, highly versatile tool that offers a degree of…

Chinese lens manufacturer TTArtisan has announced the 90mm f/1.25 lens for M-mount cameras, providing Leica full-frame camera owners with an ideal manual portrait lens at a very affordable price. The lens is designed for use on digital M-series cameras such as the Leica M10 and Leica M-E rangefinder mirrorless bodies, but is also compatible with older Leica M film cameras. This new piece of glass promises dreamy bokeh with its fast maximum f/1.25 aperture. The TTArtisan 90mm f/1.25 is quite a weighty lens at 1.01kg, although to help compensate for this it incorporates a tripod mount in the lens body for steadier shot composition. The lens is constructed of 11 elements in seven groups, uses a 10-blade aperture diaphragm, and has a minimum focusing distance of 1m. It measures 97mm…

1 NIKON 180-400MM F/4E TC1.4 FL ED VR Chris says… The versatility of my Nikon 180-400mm f/4E TC1.4 is invaluable on wildlife shoots; with the flick of a lever I can engage the built-in 1.4x teleconverter, giving me an instant 250-560mm f/5.6 lens. Historically I used many large primes, but I was often losing a shot, or not getting the composition I wanted due to a single focal length. 2 MY BAG! Chris says… On a trip like this there are so many shooting scenarios and subjects that I take a full range of lenses, from 14mm all the way through to 550mm. I pack everything I can; you can guarantee that if you leave a lens at home it will be the one you wish that you had with…

The World Sports Photography Awards have announced the shortlisted images for this year’s contest, showcasing images from some of the world’s leading sports photographers that capture the excitement, joy and disappointment of sport, as well as more intimate behind-the-scenes moments. The awards are open to professional and semi-professional sport photographers, and specialist sports photographic agencies. Each photographer was able to submit up to 20 images across 20 sporting categories, and the shortlisted images will be judged within general categories including Joy, Celebration, View, Determination, Speed and Precision, with gold, silver and bronze awards for each category, and one photographer crowned overall winner. The winners will be announced on June 2. Click the link to see all the shortlisted images at the competition website. SEE MORE IMAGES https://bit.ly/3e3WSix…

With so much working from home going on these days, printers have become indispensable tools for many of us. But printers aren’t just for workaday jobs like creating documents and spreadsheets; they can also turn your digital images into physical photos. Indeed, some of us feel that a digital photo only becomes ‘real’ when it’s printed onto a sheet of paper, rather than existing purely in the digital realm. For this group test, we’ve started small, but not too small. We’re kicking off with four A4/8.5-inch models that are eminently suitable for creating mono and colour documents, while also working well as photo printers for outputting bordered or borderless glossy prints in popular sizes including 4 x 6-inch, 5 x 7-inch, A4 and 8.5 x 11-inch. We’ll then work our…

NAME: CHRIS MCLENNAN CAMERAS: NIKON D850 & NIKON Z 7II New Zealander Chris is a professional travel photographer with 33 years’ experience whose work has seen him shooting for commercial clients in 60 countries and counting. He’s a Nikon New Zealand Ambassador, as well as a global ambassador for industry-leading brands Lowepro and Lexar. Chris heads photo expeditions to many exciting locations around the world, including Alaska, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti, the Solomon Islands, Mongolia, and Africa. NAME: AURORA LAMPSON CAMERAS: NIKON D850 & NIKON D810 Aurora is from California, and works as a marketing and social media content producer for several global companies, including Lowepro. She has been studying photography for 10 years, starting with portrait and product photography, and as she’s started to travel more she’s developed a…

For top-quality photo output, the Canon imagePrograf Pro-300 is an outright winner, making excellent use of pigmentbased inks to deliver spectacular quality on matte and fine-art media, for both colour and mono photos. That said, the Canon Pixma Pro-200 dye-based printer wins out for an ultra-smooth finish on glossy paper. Going larger to an A2/17-inch printer, the pigment-based Epson SureColor P900 is excellent for both colour and mono prints, but is less convincing than the Canon Pro-300 on glossy paper. Even so, the upsized print capability is particularly impressive considering that the Epson is about the same size and weight as the two Canon A3+ printers. Going slightly smaller than A3+, the A3/11-inch Epson Expression Photo XP-970 is a versatile all-rounder that delivers good print quality from its conventional range…

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