Innehållsförteckning för November 2022 från Australian Photography

‘What do you shoot?’ is a question photographers often ask other photographers, but have you ever noticed how most people will answer with just one or two genres? Maybe it’s because we’re encouraged to be specialists rather than generalists in life, or maybe we don’t want to sound like we’re jacks of all trades, but many photographers struggle with capturing a diversity of subject matter. I’m as guilty of this as anyone, with my preferred genres of travel and wildlife being the main lanes I find myself staying in. And this is despite spending much of my working day reading and writing about all different kinds of photography. Yet all the signs suggest if you capture a bit of everything, you’ll be a better photographer in the genres that really…

THE MONO AWARDS 2022 - THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE WINNERS AFTER two weeks of online voting, we’re delighted to announce the winners of the People’s Choice Award in The Mono Awards 2022 presented by SanDisk. Run by Capture and Australian Photography, The Mono Awards celebrates the finest black-and-white photography across Australia and New Zealand over three categories, People, Places and Animals. Each category has its own People’s Choice winner, and each winner takes home a 12-month subscription to Australian Photography and Capture magazine. Taking out the People category with 433 votes was Jaziel Aguiña, his image Warangku, which depicts the photographer’s friend. “In 1963, the government ordered the closure of his former community (Old Mapoon),” says Jaziel. “Those who wanted to stay were forcibly removed by the police, who later set…

YOUR BEST SHOT IS OPEN TO AP SUBSCRIBERS AND APS MEMBERS. TO ENTER AN IMAGE IN THE COMP, CHECK THE COMPETITION THEMES AND INSTRUCTIONS BELOW AND EMAIL YOUR BEST IMAGE TO YOURBESTSHOT@AUSTRALIANPHOTOGRAPHY.COM UPCOMING COMPETITION THEMES FEBRUARY ISSUE SPEED 24 November 2022 APRIL ISSUE INDOORS 31 January 2023 JUNE ISSUE MANIPULATION 31 March 2023 AUGUST ISSUE RAIN 31 May 2023 OCTOBER ISSUE SIZE 31 July 2023 YOUR ENTRY 1. Email your entry to yourbestshot@australianphotography.com with the name of the competition theme in the email subject line, for example: Weather, Abstract, Landscape, etc.2. The image file must be the same as your name, for example Jane Smith.jpg. If you enter multiple images, each new image file name should be appended with a unique number, eg Jane Smith2.jpg3. A maximum of three images…

No matter how careful you are, it’s inevitable that at some stage you’ll end up with dreaded dust spots on your camera sensor. Of course, you could always ignore the issue and just shoot away, knowing you’ll have a bit of post-production cloning to do when you get home, or maybe you have access to another camera body. But what if you don’t have these luxuries? Here are five techniques that’ll help you banish them for good next time you’re in the field. 1 SHOOT WIDE OPEN The thing about sensor spots is that normally they are caused by an object like dust that isn’t sitting on the camera’s light capturing photo sites per se, but on the protective glass that covers them. Because of this, what you normally see…

• Shoot using electric shutter if possible. Every time a mechanical shutter fires it creates friction which can cause small particles to be created. Shooting with the electronic shutter eliminates this contributing factor.• Only use prime lenses or zooms with a minimal bellows effect. The ‘bellows’ effect is what I call the phenomenon of air being sucked in and blown internally every time you change your zoom and is something I especially notice with zooms whose barrels extend out. To see what I’m talking about, try holding the rear end of your zoom (cap off and when not attached to the camera) close to your hand, and zoom in and out: You’ll feel some air move against your hand. When attached to the camera, this air is not blowing against…

From high-speed action to the rawest of emotion, few genres offer the diversity and challenges of sports photography. Here, we share a few tricks to get you off the sidelines and in the thick of it. If you’re developing an interest in sports photography, then you and Al Bello start in the same place. Al who? You may well be wondering. Well, to use a well-known phrase from the last Australian election, “Google it, mate!” I’ll give you a heads up. Al Bello is one of the great sports shooters of modern times, and for a long period was the chief photographer at Getty USA. He is also one of a collection of sports shooters whose images I regularly check to see where sports imaging is headed. I mention this…

1. Rain is your friend for night street photography. Not only does it clear any haze, it pops colours and makes for great reflections off roads and windows2. Always have a small torchlight with you, or even better a headtorch. You will be amazed how useful it can be when you drop your tripod plate3. Try not to look like a photographer as you may attract unwanted attention. Also, be very careful if you’re shooting a military or government building. Better still, avoid anywhere with security (including many shopping centres)4. Black and white night images can be very striking. Try converting some; they can make up for nasty mixed light or badly colour coordinated scenes5. Be aware of nasty white neon lights as they can blow out an image. Always…

2023 COURSES Photography Studies College (PSC) located in South Melbourne, is Australia’s only tertiary institution specialising in photography, a highly respected and multi-award winner recognised as one of the leading photographic educational institutions in the world. For fifty years we have played a pivotal role in driving excellence and innovation in photography education, consistently producing graduates who are job ready and providing students with an environment to realise their creative potential and career dreams. As a leader in photography, video, and content production we offer every student an outstanding student experience within an expert and supportive community of practice. Our purpose-built campus provides world class facilities with specialised photographic and content creation equipment. Our courses include Master, Bachelor, Diploma and Certificate qualifications, short courses and workshops. CREATIVE CERTIFICATE COURSES Our…

LOW HORIZONS 13-year-old Oscar Merchant took this photo “after school one Thursday afternoon at Salamanca looking towards Mures, and the fishing boats on the waterfront, with the amazing sunset”. Hi Oscar and thanks for submitting this photo to Image Doctor. You have captured this image at almost the perfect moment, when the exposure for the fading sky is balanced with the exposure for the artificial lights about the harbour; professional photographers regularly aim to capture this moment when photographing architectural images. The one thing that I would have done if photographing this image though, would have been to put the horizon line through the centre of the image; the clouds and city lights are interesting, but the upper third of the picture is very boring. By putting the horizon on…

JEFF FREESTONE Jeff is a landscape and nature photographer based in the Victorian High Country, where he has lived with his family since 2017. He spends his time trying to understand the intricacies, and capture the beauty, of this special part of Australia. See more at freestonephotography.com. DOUG GIMESY Doug is a professional conservation and wildlife photojournalist who focuses on Australian issues. His clients include National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, bioGraphic and others. See more at gimesy.com. ROBERT KEELEY Rob has been shooting various sports for over 30 years. He started with yachting, and has covered major soccer events, rugby, Australian Rules football, cricket, and several other sports. He is a former editor of AP. See more at robertkeeley.com.au. STEVE THOMAS Steve Thomas has been racing, shooting and writing about bikes…

I’m in Kakadu. It’s 2022 and I’m thinking to myself how lucky I am to be out on Yellow Waters again. Every turn offers a new bird, plenty of crocodiles, and hopefully, a rare photo. After a couple of trips over two days, my group were ready for anything. The best settings were in use for action photography, and my well-trained trigger finger was ready. We spotted a mangrove heron, and the hunt was on. Our local guide Manoeuvred the boat perfectly, and just as we thought no shot was on due to the bird’s perched position on a busy branch, it plunged into the water. Cameras firing, no one was sure what they had captured. The whole experience was over in a couple of seconds, with the bird walking…

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It’s important to know two things when thinking about spots on an image. Firstly, not all small spots on an image are caused by dust, and secondly not all spots are caused by something on the sensor. Spots on the sensor can come from other material like grease and water droplets, as well as lint, plastic, and metal shavings - the latter two usually coming from small parts being shaved off when you put on/take off your lens caps and/or change lens. Spots on an image but not from something on the sensor can also come from dust/objects on the back of your lens, and if big enough, in your lens or on your front element.…

Al Bello – Getty Special Sport Correspondent, Renowned US shooter of everything from Olympics to swimming and boxing. albello.com Michael Willson – Chief Photographer AFL Photos, Australian Rules football shooter. michaelwillson.com Sharleen Righini – Rugby League, rising star in this sport’s photography. photosbysharleenrighini.com Richard Heathcote – UK sports photographer, winner of multiple awards across many sports; works in areas including boxing, soccer and golf. richardheathcote.com Chris Burkard – top US shooter; sport is just one of his genres. Has shot adventure, surfing, kayaking, and cycling. chrisburkard.com…

I’ve been lucky enough to have reviewed almost every new Fujifilm camera in the last five years, and each time I open a Fujifilm box it’s kind of a feeling of coming home. Importantly; I don’t put that down to just how many of these cameras I’ve had in my hands but more so how they make you feel. At a time when cameras can do almost everything including making you a double-shot soy latte, it’s easy to pick up a modern camera and simply feel lost within the sub-menus and sub-menus of acronyms and auto-focus modes. It was for this reason that I was a little uneasy when I read the specs on the X-H2S. words like “5th generation X-Trans CMOS 5 HS sensor and X-Processor 5”, “phase-detection pixels”…

Being a creative photographer isn’t easy, but being the model for a creative photographer even less so. In 2021, one of the set subjects for my camera club competition was “Replication” where we had to photographically replicate a famous artwork. Never one to do things the easy way, I decided to replicate one of my favourite paintings from the Pre-Raphaelite period, “Ophelia” by John Everett Millais. I talked my daughter Michelle into being my model and my friend Sandra made Ophelia’s dress. That was the easy part. I had to come up with a way to immerse my model in water without physically throwing her into a lake - Bunnings to the rescue! I purchased a large but shallow paddling pool, set it up on my verandah, and lined it…

Back in March, Sydney was caught in the relentless deluge of an East Coast low weather system caused by La Niña. My husband Tim and I were making our way south on an emergency trip to Jervis Bay to help our kids whose house was flooding. Halfway down the coast they rang to say they had been evacuated and we couldn’t be of any immediate help. So, we stopped over in Kiama for the night as the surf forecast the next day was for a seven metre swell right on high tide - a photographer’s dream forecast! The next morning the skies were grey but dry, and we headed to one of our favourite locations, Bombo Quarry. The compositional options at the quarry are endless - from just about any…

TEXTURE JULIANNE REID Smooth as silk EDITOR’S COMMENT Julianne Reid captured this image in Clifton Gardens, and writes “Water can be rough and abrasive, but this is when it is smooth as silk.” Water is a wonderful subject to explore with a theme like texture, as it is constantly changing. This image draws to mind the work of Sydney photographer Ralph Kerle, but also stands on its own as a lovely, cool, abstract image that deserves to be explored up close. Lovely work Julianne. TECHNICAL DETAILS Nikon D610, 70mm. 1/50s @ f5.6, ISO 200. MATT RUSSELL Untitled EDITOR’S COMMENT Matt Russell didn’t tell us much about the who/what/where of this image, but sometimes when the results are so strong, you can get away with it! What we loved about his…

Landscape photography doesn’t just have to be about grand, epic vistas. Here’s how to capture the little things and bring a different element to your landscape portfolio. Landscape photography is commonly recognised as depicting scenes of ‘grand’ landscapes and wide sweeping vistas. In a way, it is the wow factor these images possess that catapulted this genre of photography into the mainstream with the advent of social media. However, over the past few years I’ve noticed a gradual shift occurring in the landscape photography community towards a different style of nature photography that is providing many with a greater sense of fulfilment and joy in their craft. Small or ‘intimate’ scenes of the landscape are gaining more attention on social media as an increasing number of landscape photographers begin to…

The old saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" certainly applies to camera sensor spots. Although not aways preventable, if you're careful and adopt the following practices that I’ve picked up, as well as some from my go to camera technician, Wayne (from Melbourne’s Imaging By Design), you’re less likely to get dust spots and need fewer sensor cleans. • Switch your camera off before every lens change. In theory at least, this reduces the amount of static charge on your sensor and so should reduce the amount of dust it attracts• Clean around the mount before lens changes. If you have a soft brush or puffer, wipe off or blow around the lens mount before taking off the old lens• Make sure your camera is…

Many digital SLR and mirrorless cameras now have a function to clean the camera’s sensor using vibrations to shake particles off. If your camera has this function, make sure it is activated, so every time you turn the camera off (or on), the sensor gets cleaned. This doesn’t always work, and whilst this may get rid of dust ‘on’ the sensor (which is great), it doesn’t mean the dust is out of the camera body. Over time it can accumulate, increasing the risk of it falling back on the sensor in the future.…

Night-time photography has always been a major part of my work as a travel photographer, and a genre in which I’ve captured plenty of my own personal favourite images over the years too. In southeast Asia where I live, there’s a buzz on the streets around sunset, as people go about their regular evening street-food hunt. But as much as this is a great time to shoot, it’s not really what I would consider night photography, but more of a prelude to things to come. There’s often a lull for a couple of hours while people go home and do whatever they do before coming out again later in the evening – just in time for true night-time shooting, In between these times you have the magical ‘blue hour’, a…

A few years back I was considering purchasing a drone as I’d occasionally get requests from clients for aerial images to accompany my more traditional err.. ‘land based’ photography. The drone offerings on the market at the time were OK – but to get really decent images you’d need to purchase the expensive higher end machines that were rapidly being superseded by the next generation. To solve the problem, I’d end up hiring a drone pilot (who would also do all the CASA form filling), or I’d stick my camera on the end of a fully extended monopod with a long cable release to get a bit more height. However, the new DJI Mini 3 Pro has completely changed my opinion on all this. The previous model was only 12MP.…

Holiday time for many of us is here, and with it comes opportunities to do just about anything, whether that’s catching up with friends and family or working through a photographic bucket list in the world’s most exotic locations. But with our holidays always seems to come a dilemma. What should we bring? Should we travel lightweight and rely on our smartphones as our sole camera, or is it still worthwhile carrying a camera bag laden with lenses, filters, cleaning kits and countless other accessories? I think the answer to these questions depends on the images you want to bring home. Just as you can plan an itinerary and finances to maximise your experience at the destination, it pays to think about travel photography before you start travelling. For me,…

WIN! Congratulations to Oscar Merchant who has won a Sandisk 2TB Extreme Portable SSD valued at $369. The Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD is an ideal storage solution that you can take with you on the go, whether you’re transferring files at school, or storing photos you take on a holiday. It has a 1050 Mbps read and 1000 Mbps write time, with 2 metres of drop protection and IP55 water and dust-resistance for durability when you’re out and about. More info: sandisk.com.au HOW TO SUBMIT AN IMAGE • Email entries to: imagedoctor@australianphotography.com with “Image Doctor” in the subject line.• Include your name, image title and up to 150 words about how you created it.• Only one image per person per month.• Images must be saved in JPEG format. Maximum file…