Innehållsförteckning för No. 358 från Photography Week

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The reason most photographers don’t like summer is because the quality of light is generally less photogenic than during other seasons. The sun rises quickly and gets high in the sky, meaning harsh shadows and little textural relief, and there’s also more atmospheric haze, which can result in the landscape appearing flat and washed out. The length of the days makes things tricky, too. In the north of the UK for example, the summer sunrise is around 4.30am (earlier in the extreme north of Scotland) and sunset after 10.00pm, so let’s face it – getting on location in time to set up for sunrise is a real effort, and staying out for sunset will get in the way of family life. While it’s definitely worth making the effort to capture…

There are some filter effects that are difficult or even impossible to replicate in post-production: for example, removing glare from non-metallic surfaces with a polarising filter or extending exposure length with a neutral density filter. By removing glare, a polariser restores natural colour saturation and improves contrast; the resulting images have more ‘punch’. The effect is especially pronounced on foliage and blue skies, making it an essential filter for summer landscape photography. They’re simple to use: polarisers have a rotating front element, and as you turn this you’ll see reflections and glare come and go, and blue skies darken and lighten. Simply rotate the filter while looking through the viewfinder until you like what you see – note, though, that the effect can be very seductive, and it’s easy to…

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1 Hour You can create magical-looking portraits by dangling fairy lights in front of or around your subject and trailing them up towards the end of your lens to produce dreamy bokeh – circles of out-of-focus highlights taking on the shape of the lens aperture. In this project we’re going to combine the out-of-focus fairy lights with glowing city lights in the background to accentuate the dreamlike effect. To capture the city lights in the background we’ll have to wait until after sunset and shoot in the ‘blue hour.’ This is before it gets truly dark, when the landscape is bathed in a cooler, bluer light. The combination of the blue light of the sky, the background street lights and the orange glow of the fairy lights will complement each…

Aurora Aperture is crowdfunding the development of a new range of Adapter Mount Format filters for mirrorless cameras. The filters affix inside the lens mount adapters that serve as a bridge between DSLR lenses and mirrorless cameras. The AMF filter sits entirely inside a mount adapter, and they’re particularly useful for ultra-wide lenses, which tend to have bulky front elements and therefore either require special filter adapters or just aren’t compatible with filters at all. These filters are also much smaller than front-mounted versions, helping slim down the kit bag, and according to the makers they’ll be entirely free from vignetting – a problem that can plague some filters, especially cheaper ones. Currently supported are the following mount adapters: Canon EF-EOS R, Nikon FTZ mount adapter, Sigma’s MC-11 mount adapter…

It’s King George II who’s I widely attributed with having characterised the British summer as “three fine days and a thunderstorm”, and nearly 300 years after he uttered the words there remains an element of truth in them. Although in the UK we tend to romanticise the summer as being full of long, warm days spent on the beach or in the countryside, the reality is that the weather is often quite changeable: neither weeks of blazing sunshine nor unending rain, but often a few mini-heatwaves followed by thunderstorms. This unpredictability is actually great news for photographers, as it can provide excellent opportunities if you get your timing right. Cloudy days can help to diffuse the harsh sun and create interesting lighting effects even in the middle of the day.…

Probably even more so than colour files, infrared images need to be processed to achieve their full potential. When they’re first opened in the raw converter they’re quite a long way from the finished article, usually lacking in contrast and being almost sepia in appearance. Here we’ll look at how you can edit an image to achieve the look of black and white infrared film. 1 IMPORT THE FILE Import the file into Lightroom and open it into the Develop module. The histogram has space either side of the tones, indicating that the image is somewhat lacking in contrast, and the image has a noticeable sepia cast – normal for infrared files. 2 BASIC BLACK AND WHITE CONVERSION In the Treatment bar, click on Black & White, to render the…

Photography Week has teamed up with GuruShots, ‘the world’s greatest photography game’, to print the winning images from a series of photo challenges. These are the winners, and a selection of commended images, from the Beauty of Earth challenge… IVAN HEIDRICK CAPELO, PORTUGAL Top Photographer http://tiny.cc/44kz9y DAG NYSTUEN, NORWAY Top Photo http://tiny.cc/k6kz9y YURIY SHEVCHENKO, UKRAINE Guru’s Top Pick http://tiny.cc/57kz9y ALEXIS KAPSOMENOS, GREECE Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/k9kz9y ANNEM DAVIAU, CANADA Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/qalz9y DEWAN KARIM, CANADA Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/iblz9y CEES CORNELISSEN, SPAIN Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/2blz9y ERIK ERSSON, SWEDEN Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/pdlz9y ERIC DUPUIS, CANADA Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/lelz9y IRCSI ECSEDI, HUNGARY Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/jflz9y MAREK MAREK, SLOVAK REPUBLIC Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/aglz9y MARIA FRIEDRICH, SWEDEN Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/xglz9y OLIVIER GROSJEAN, NETHERLANDS Honourable mention http://tiny.cc/zhlz9y Honourable mentions VALERIA SCHMIDT, AUSTRIA http://tiny.cc/ajlz9y LOTTA SÄVENMARK WINQVIST, SWEDEN…

In this video tutorial we’re going to introduce you to some of the powerful 3D tools in Photoshop – and if you think that techniques such as 3D extrusion sound terribly complicated and intimidating, don’t worry, it’s all really quite simple, and we’ll demystify the subject for you. We’ll start by extruding some text into a 3D shape. We’ll then manipulate the shape in all kinds of ways to customise the 3D effect before adding lighting, colours and textures to give our shapes the quality of real-world materials. DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES http://tiny.cc/j6w09y ON A PC OR MAC WATCH THE VIDEO bit.ly/2vr5ARz WANT MORE PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS? CHECK OUT PRACTICAL PHOTOSHOP For more Photoshop tutorials, tips and advice subscribe to Practical Photoshop, the world’s premier Photoshop magazine. Each month you’ll find…

With summer upon us, most normal people are getting excited and looking forward to long, warm evenings in the sun, sitting in the garden with a glass of wine, eating ice cream and spending weekends at the beach with the family. Landscape photographers, however, are different. They seem to have reached a consensus of opinion that the summer months are a waste of time, when there are few opportunities to get your camera out and create decent photographs in the harsh summer sunlight. As a result, instead of relaxing and enjoying the summer months like the rest of the population, they can get a little grumpy as they go into a kind of reverse hibernation, hiding away for the summer and not resurfacing until the autumn, which brings with it…

Wild flowers From late spring until mid-summer, woodlands, fields and meadows come alive with wild flowers. Bluebells flower in woods during May, as does thrift on coastal cliff tops. In June and July, fields of red poppies stretch into the distance, and in recent years, pale pink opium poppies have also been grown for pharmaceutical use; the difficulty with wild poppies is that there’s no way to know where they’ll flower, as seeds can lie dormant for many years – the only way to find them is to get out and about and spend time looking for them. In mid to late August, heather blooms, covering hillsides with carpets of purple. To shoot wild flowers, you can get in close with a wide-angle lens to exaggerate perspective, or use the…

www.panasonic.co.uk £1,079/$1,198 (with 12-60mm f/3.5-5.6 lens) The Panasonic G90 (branded T the G95 in the US) aims to be the perfect camera for stills shooting and vlogging alike. It’s not really a specialist in either area, but has powerful features for all kinds of photography and film making. The G90/G95 supersedes the Panasonic G80/G85 as a DSLR-style mirrorless camera for photographers looking to step up from a basic DSLR or mirrorless camera to something more advanced, and clearly wants to challenge the best 4K cameras for a share of the consumer video market. New features include Panasonic’s latest 20-megapixel sensor, which is an upgrade from the 16-megapixel sensor in the G80 and Panasonic’s cheaper mirrorless cameras, but still not quite up to the level of the 24-megapixel sensors in rival…