Innehållsförteckning för July - August 2017 från Capture

I’m thrilled to be able to bring you two very important pieces of news with the July/August edition of Capture. First, we have finalised and secured an awesome line-up for our second emerging photographers’ masterclass, Foto L!VE – Shoot for success. The event will take place in Sydney on 20 August and feature Lauren Bath, Peter Brew-Bevan, Milton Gan, and Daniel Linnet. With decades of experience between them, these photographers and successful businesspeople will share their wisdom and knowledge covering a variety of topics, from getting the best return from social media to creative ways to survive and thrive in an increasingly crowded marketplace. You won’t want to miss this amazing opportunity to learn from some of the best in the business. This month also sees us open the call…

Producing a great photobook can be expensive, unless it’s published for you, but getting your work and your name out there, which for many photographers is the ultimate aim of a photobook, is achievable now for very many. And the expense of producing a photobook, in that case, becomes a business investment. Achieving the traditional aim of book publishing, to make money by selling your book, has never been easy, and still isn’t. D-I-Y marketing is another investment, and a complex undertaking. Book marketing isn’t easy for professional publishers either. But great books become good sellers every day throughout the world. A great photobook What makes a great photobook? Katrin Koenning’s Astres Noirs (created with Sarker Protick), won the Momento Pro Australian Photobook of the Year Award 2016. It was…

See Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, until 9 October. Run by the Natural History Museum in London, The Wildlife Photographer of the Year, now in its 52nd year, is a global celebration of the world’s very best nature photography. The exhibition, which features the top 100 entries, invites the viewer to take a journey into the secret places of the world around us, and witness the extraordinary talent of photographers who travel to the ends of the earth to capture the fleeting moments that say so much about the majesty of nature – and often, our complicated place in it. Finalists were selected from almost 50,000 entries. www.anmm.gov.au/wildlife Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat – various locations, 19 August – 17 September . The 2017…

Agata Mayes Agata Mayes remembers being mesmerised by the darkroom her father built in the bathroom of their family home when she was a child. For Polish-born Mayes, it sparked an early photographic fascination. But only after graduating in informatics and several years in the aviation industry did the fine art photographer finally decide, in 2011, to seriously focus on the medium. This budding career has already led her to win the “Kayell Best Commercial Work” at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, in 2015. Continuing to self-educate and seeking courses to refine her technical skills, Mayes hopes to use photography to explore the cavernous depths of the human experience and as a conduit for her viewers to reflect on their own experiences. Mayes is also currently studying at…

The seemingly bottomless pit that is social media can leave anyone lost in cyberspace, but for a professional looking to harness the benefits and opportunities available on these platforms, it can seem like a black hole of endless scrolling, posting, and juggling hashtags and geotags all the while not knowing what the return may be. When it comes to social media, Instagram is the platform best tailored for photographers since it is literally a giant photo album, but how does it rate as a business application and marketing tool to help you get more clients? Is using it for business worth the time and effort invested, or does it just equate to countless hours of lost work spent scrolling and double-tapping looking at eye candy? #Discoverable An Instagram account, first…

Cameras Sony’s α9 is the most technologically advanced, innovative digital camera that the company has ever created. It features the world’s first full-frame stacked CMOS sensor, 24.2 megapixel resolution, and blackout-free continuous shooting at up to 20fps for up to 241 RAW/362 JPEG images. The camera’s impressive speed and innovative silent shooting is combined with a focusing system that features an incredible 693 phase detection AF points, making it 25% faster than the α7R II. Covering approximately 93% of the frame, the focusing system ensures that even the fastest moving subjects are reliably captured and tracked across the frame. The new α9 also features a vibration free, fully electronic, completely silent anti-distortion shutter with absolutely no mechanical mirror or shutter noise. Higher capacity batteries, dual SD media card slots, and…