Innehållsförteckning för No. 354 från Photography Week

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1 HOUR In this project we’ll show you how to balance camera settings, ambient light and flash to isolate a subject. The most important factors when isolating a subject from its background are lighting and focus, and in this case we’re going to be using two methods to control these variables: changing the aperture and changing the shutter speed. We’re using a flashgun on a light stand with a shoot-through umbrella to diffuse the light, placed camera-left of our still-life subject. For the first method we’ll only change the aperture value of our lens (the f-stop) to darken the background and then light our subject with flash to make the fruit stand out from the scene. For the second method we’ll change the shutter speed to darken the background, and…

Leica’s M-series rangefinders have been behind some of the 20th century’s most iconic images, but they’ve never exactly been affordable; the new M-E (Typ 240), however, comes with a price tag more in line with that of a full-frame DSLR. The M-E (Typ 240) updates the original M-E (Typ 220) model, which was announced in 2012 and which was designed to be an affordable alternative to then-current M-series models such as the M9. It’s priced at £3,500 in the UK and $3,995 in the US, which places it roughly at the same level as the recently announced limited-edition Leica CL Urban Jungle model. These are, however, body-only prices; adding an M-series lens will require an additional outlay, which may be as low as £1,300 or right up to a five-figure…

There are different selection tools for different tasks in Photoshop. If you want to make a rough selection, you might use the Lasso Tool; if you want to select a portion of an image, like a sky, it’s usually best to use the Quick Selection Tool or the Magic Wand Tool. And then there’s the Pen Tool… While it might be one of the trickier Photoshop tools to master, the Pen Tool rewards those who persevere with a control over selections like no other tool. The Pen Tool isn’t designed for intricate selections with lots of fuzzy detail; instead it excels at isolating hard-edged, curvy objects, like the car we’re cutting out here. You use it by plotting a series of anchor points around your subject; each anchor point has…

Photographing wildlife is extremely exciting and satisfying, but also highly demanding. As professional wildlife photographers, we often travel to the world’s most remote places, in search of rare species in extreme conditions. In the never-ending search for unique behaviour and interactions in the wild, we experience bone-freezing and blood-boiling temperatures. We risk damaging our expensive gear, and sometimes we even risk our own lives – all for that single once-in-a-lifetime shot. Is it worth it? If you ask me, the answer is absolutely! I will keep doing whatever it takes to get as close as possible to these amazing animals. But how do we get desirable results? First of all, meticulous planning. Good planning and preparation is essential for great wildlife photographs. We must try to predict the sometimes unpredictable…

National Geographic has announced the winners of its 2019 Travel Photo Contest. Weimin Chu won the Grand Prize for his beautiful twilight image of Upernavik, a fishing village in western Greenland, which he shot during a three-month project documenting life on the world’s largest island The competition comprises three categories: Nature, Cities and People, and attracted thousands of entries from photographers around the world. You can see Chu’s image, and some of our other favourites, above – click the link to see more winning and commended images at the competition website. In addition to winning $7,500, Chu has the honour of seeing his photo featured at the National Geographic Travel Instagram page (http://tiny.cc/afav8y), where you’ll find more inspiring travel, nature and landscape images from around the world. SEE MORE IMAGES…