Indholdsfortegnelse for No. 590 i Photography Week

Welcome to the world’s No.1 weekly digital photography magazine. If you’re already a reader, thanks for your continued support and involvement; if you’re new to Photography Week, you’ve come to the right place! In addition to expert advice, brilliant tips and step-by-step tutorials, every issue features interactive galleries of brilliant photos, how-to videos on essential shooting and editing techniques, and in-depth reviews of the latest camera kit. But that’s not the whole story. Photography Week is more than a magazine – it’s a community of like-minded people who are passionate about photography. To get involved, just follow any of the links below and share your shots and comments. JOIN THE PHOTOGRAPHY WEEK COMMUNITY AND START SHARING! FACEBOOK http://bit.ly/39py9lg TWITTER http://bit.ly/2vGadLP FLICKR http://bit.ly/2VIgsJO We’re more than just a magazine – read…

Woodlands and forests are wonderful locations to explore in search of landscape images. They are highly atmospheric places, due largely to the micro-climates you’ll commonly find when surrounded by respiring trees. Mist, carpets of flowers and vibrant colour, especially in the autumn months, mean there’s always some reason to take out your camera. With lots of detail comes the risk of overly ‘busy’ images, however. One of the staples of a landscape image is a clear subject, which can be difficult to define amongst the tangle of branches, shrubs and colourful mosses and lichens, all of which compete for attention. A mistake you’ll often see in forest photography is a focal length that’s too wide, and which includes excess detail around the edges of the frame. The regimented trees will…

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Wide-angle lenses are usually associated with landscapes, and most often used in conjunction with narrow apertures for a greater depth of field, but lenses like the Nikon Z 24mm f/1.8 S beg the question: why would you need such a wide aperture on a wide lens? And while prime lenses traditionally offer superior quality compared to a zoom, a 24-70mm f/4 standard zoom is already as sharp as most people could wish for. One answer is that portraits generally have a shallow depth of field, so that you can concentrate the viewer’s attention on the subject. So a fast and wide prime is perfect for environmental portraiture, where you want to show the subject in the context of their surroundings, but still blur the background with a shallow depth of…

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Venus Optics has announced its first AF lens, the Laowa FF II 10mm f/2.8 C&D Dreamer, a full-frame ultra-wide prime lens. It will be available for Nikon Z and Sony E mounts at launch, with availability for other mounts to be confirmed. Laowa is renowned for creating excellent glass, and this lens looks to be no exception, with the optical design comprising 15 elements in nine groups, including extra-low dispersion glass and ultra-high refraction glass to combat excess aberration and distortion. This contributes to a weight of approximately 420g depending on the mount option. The design of the lens is sleek and modern, much like other Laowa lenses, with a stylish-looking focusing ring. However, judging by the images Laowa has shared, it appears to lack a focus distance scale/gauge to…

Sometimes it just isn’t possible to create a clean frame in a particular location. If there’s lots of high-frequency or densely packed detail, we must look for other ways of arranging it into some kind of order. If the texture is rather homogenous, create some separation by ordering colour in the frame. Position yourself so that you can capture layers of colour, indicating depth in the scene and giving your viewer a path to follow through the mass of competing shapes and patterns.…

If you live in the UK you have the good fortune to live fairly close to the ocean wherever you are. Furthermore, all of that rain we complain about has the effect of keeping our lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, becks and brooks filled for the majority of the year, so when it comes to shooting landscapes with water, we’re spoiled for choice. Once you’re accustomed to working bodies of water into your landscapes, shots without them can seem oddly dull. This is due to the reflective properties of water, which bounce much of the light from the sky back into the scene, filling in shadows and applying washes of reflected colour. Reflections add a symmetry that can produce a feeling of balance in otherwise sparse frames. Even the smallest of…

BREAKING THE RULES DOM HAUGHTON “I decided to ignore the ‘rules’ and shot straight into the bright sun, capturing the rays in all their glory. I’m not bothered about burnt-out highlights in shots like this, because that’s what we really see when we look towards the sun.” https://bit.ly/3AtIfBe SOUTH BANK DAVID FEUERHELM “The Shard at night, photographed from the north bank of the Thames near London Bridge. This is a composite of six images.” https://bit.ly/3flC9Hi RIVER JEAN-YVES BESSELIEVRE “I shot this woodland river scene with my Sony A7 Mark II and FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 lens.” https://bit.ly/3N9H0NS FROM THE NEW TO THE OLD KEITH TODD “A still life of keys dating from the past to the present.” https://bit.ly/3RAkCyH FACEBOOK http://bit.ly/39py9lg FLICKR http://bit.ly/2VIgsJO PHOTOGRAPHY WEEK WANTS YOUR PHOTOS! Taken a portrait you’re…

The Texture slider is one of the best tools in Camera Raw and Lightroom for controlling detail in your images. On the face of it, the Texture slider is very simple: you drag it one way to bring out detail, and drag the other way to tone detail down. But in combination with other Camera Raw or Lightroom tools like the Adjustment Brush and Range Masking, the Texture command becomes seriously powerful. While its name may imply that this tool is best for enhancing textures, it can be just as effective when doing the opposite – a negative value can create a wonderful softening effect that’s useful for de-emphasising overly busy parts of your frame, or for speedy skin softening in portraits. In this video tutorial we’ll show you how…

We photographers often joke that Ansel Adams ruined landscape photography for the rest of us. Long before the first digital camera was created, Adams produced masterful scenic images that would set the benchmark for landscape composition for the next half-century. That’s a tough act to follow. However, the beauty of photography as a creative medium is that we can draw inspiration from our idols, including Adams in many cases, but still come up with original and interesting ideas to try ourselves. One of the biggest draws of landscape as a genre is the sheer diversity of colours, textures, shapes and light conditions on offer. Every location is different – the topography varies, the arrangement of vegetation has a bearing on foreground interest, and the elevation dictates how water flows around…

Many photographers look for and appreciate painterly lighting in their images. However, in many respects, this is where the similarities between photography and other types of art end. There are some key differences between the compositional approaches for a photograph and a painting. For example, a photographer is accustomed to starting with lots of detail in the world around them, which they must cut back and order into a clean frame. A painter, meanwhile, starts with a blank canvas on which they must build up the detail. Therefore, while busy landscapes are certainly a challenge to get right, it’s often the less populated scenes that cause the most confusion. This confusion is often introduced by the shape and direction of the landscape. Scenics are usually quite long, with the majority…

IMAGE SPECS Exposure settings: 1/125sec, f/16, ISO 100 Metering mode: Evaluative metering Focal length: 24mm Landscape composition is about more than simply choosing a spot from which to shoot a scene. The glory of landscape as a genre of photography is that, as the light changes throughout the day and across the four seasons of the year, the terrain alters in appearance. The direction, intensity and brightness of light impact how texture, shape and colour look in an image and, as such, we must adjust our camera techniques to match. Contrast is, by definition, the difference in luminance or colour of one object or area of a photo from another. Absolute black and absolute white might represent the greatest contrast of exposure, but these are rarely seen together in the…

The US Army has shared its ‘Year in Photos’ gallery for 2023, featuring 78 fascinating images that capture every aspect of military life, from the action-packed to the inimate. The selection of images, taken by US Army photographers, reflects the incredible variety of service life and experience, and includes dramatic shots of soldiers in training and on active service overseas, colourful images of parades and sports events, and moments of both sadness and celebration shared with colleagues and family members. The range of locations featured reflect the US military’s presence worldwide as well as at home, ranging from Australia to Alaska, and from Finland and the Baltic states to the White House. Click the link to see the full gallery of images, along with photos from previous years, and read…

www.nikon.co.uk £2,699/$2,497 The Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena has a tough act to follow. We were impressed by the Z 85mm f/1.2 S, but the Plena takes everything to a whole new level. Naturally, it doesn’t have such a fast aperture rating (which would be impractical), but the longer focal length still enables a tight depth of field. We love the way the lens is perfectly suited to tight head-and-shoulders portraiture, but also to still-life photography, and any situation where you want to compress perspective with a medium telephoto focal length while isolating the main subject by blurring its surroundings. Key features The performance of the Plena is top drawer, thanks to an impeccable design that puts its glass at the top of the features list. The optical path…