Innehållsförteckning för No. 383 från Photography Week

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Finding that ‘perfect’ winter scene to capture usually involves a fair amount of planning and travel. When I think about winter photography, I know I’m off to the mountains. Living in Texas, we don’t get much of a winter, so I usually find myself heading to Colorado or up to Canada. The challenge in winter is that most of the landscape scenes you’d work with in any other season are different. The foreground you would normally have is now covered in snow, and those perfectly reflecting lakes can be a solid sheet of ice. For me, I love shapes in the fresh snow and details in the ice, so I tend to look for those elements first, and then work my composition from there, for example discovering methane bubbles trapped…

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Hasselblad has announced what it claims is “the world’s lightest digital medium format autofocus lens on the market today”, the XCD 4/45P. The new optic weighs just 320g and offers a focal length of 45mm, and is designed to work with the Hasselblad X1D II 50C to provide a medium format setup that’s perfect for travel and street photography. The arrival of the XCD 4/45P means there are now 10 lenses in the XCD range. The new lens will also be compatible with the older Hasselblad X1D-50c once an upcoming firmware update is available. The wide-angle view offered by the The XCD 4/45P is equivalent to that of a 36mm lens on a full-frame sensor camera. It has a maximum aperture of f/4, and can be stopped down to a…

Shooting in winter is not for the faint-hearted, and comes with its own set of challenges. Your gear may not perform as well as expected, and getting to that perfect composition may require some trekking in deep snow, while blowing snow and freezing mist may coat your glass elements. So how do you best protect yourself and your gear? One of the first things you’re likely to notice when you’re out shooting is that your batteries drain much quicker in the cold weather. I suggest three different methods to help prolong battery life. The first is utilising Live View as little as possible: Live View already requires a lot from the battery, so using it in the colder temperatures only accelerates the draining process. Secondly, take spare batteries out of…

30 MINS Camera shake might seem like a relatively simple concept, but are you maximising your potential for tack-sharp images every time? Shaky shots occur when your shutter speed isn’t fast enough to compensate for unavoidable camera movement, and is therefore most common when you’re shooting handheld. You may have been advised never to shoot below 1/50 sec or perhaps even 1/125 sec, but there’s no hard and fast rule, as there are too many variables to consider. Anything from the weight of your gear to the way you hold your camera can affect the sharpness of your shots, but perhaps the biggest factor you need to consider is focal length. It’s often suggested that your shutter speed’s denominator (the second number) should match or exceed the value of your…

Currently living in north Texas, Mike is a self-taught photographer and has been shooting professionally for 10 years. Mike is, by his own admission, addicted to photography and adventure. He’s shot everything from landscapes to professional sports, natural disasters, concerts and aerial photography, and runs workshops throughout the year. For more on Mike’s photography, visit mikemezphotography.com The winter season, with its snow, ice and brutal temperatures, is really my thing. I relish every moment of it. Sure, I have to dress in multiple layers, deal with frozen eyelashes and the occasional snowfall down the back, but I am a lover of winter. Shooting in winter conditions can be extremely challenging, but also very rewarding. Sparkling snow drifts, unique ice formations, steaming lakes and so much more make shooting during the…

If you’re prone to motion sickness you may want to steer clear of this dizzying 360-degree video of British Superbikes rider Peter Hickman doing his thing. Motorsports photographer Amanda Leeming attached an Insta360 ONE X action camera to Hickman’s BMW S1000RR to film him for two practice laps of the Snetterton Circuit in Norfolk, England. The camera was fixed to the bike with a GoPro mount, and a cable tie was also used as a safety precaution – sensible, as Superbikes can hit speeds of 200mph. The pint-sized camera measures just 115 x 48 x 28mm and weighs 115g. It’s capable of shooting 5.7K footage at 30fps, and its FlowState technology provides smooth stabilised footage. The videos were edited using Insta360 STUDIO 2019. Click the link to watch the video…

You can create all kinds of fantastical images by using selections and layers in Photoshop, and in this video tutorial we’ll show you how to create this magical image of a fairy with the help of key compositing techniques. To begin with we need to cut out our subject by creating a selection, and to speed up this process we’ll make the initial selection with the useful Select Subject’ command. With the subject isolated we can then bring in a pair of wings – copied from a photo of a bird – and move them behind the body, so it looks like they’re attached to her back. This compositing step is best done with a combination of selection tools and layer masking, and we’ll utilise the powerful Select and Mask…