Innehållsförteckning för No. 407 från Photography Week

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While individual portraits of your loved ones can make for beautiful photographic studies, group shots of your family all together are likely to be the ones that get framed and prominently displayed. It’s for this reason that it pays to perfect your group portrait skills – as well as appealing to your own family, such images tend to sell well to clients. There are a specific set of challenges you face when shooting family groups, from impatient infants, and needing to capture each group member at their best, to technical aspects such as focusing, lighting, and colour balance. It’s important to develop your communication skills, so that you can effectively instruct each member of your group, but you may also need to adapt your camera work to account for multiple…

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1 HOURS Great photographers can make the most of any camera and lens, but they can’t work miracles. Some genres or techniques require certain items of kit, and there’s really nothing you can do to get around it. Macro is one of those genres – if you can’t focus close enough to your subject, it’s impossible to capture a decent close-up image. However, if you’ve never tried macro before, shelling out on a specialist macro lens before you’ve even left the starting blocks might feel like a gamble. If only there was a way to shoot macro with any old lens… Actually, there is. By reversing your lens, so that the front element is closest to the camera’s sensor, you’re able to focus much closer to your subject. And reversing…

Laowa has announced the 9mm f/5.6 FF RL, a rectilinear wide-angle lens that offers the widest angle of view yet seen for full-frame cameras. For comparison, most ultra-wide full-frame lenses are zooms, with a few starting at 12mm, some at 14mm and most at 16mm. The lens has a 135-degree angle of view to offer what Laowa describes as “one of a kind” perspective. This is made possible by the very short flange distances of mirrorless cameras – it won’t fit DSLRs – and the lens will be availalbe in Leica M, Sony FE, Nikon Z and L-mount versions. Something has to give in a design as extreme as this, and in this case it’s the maximum aperture, which is a modest f/5.6. The lens is also manual focus only,…

Conducting children on a photoshoot is one of the most challenging aspects of a portrait photographer’s working day. Not only do images of kids require a specific set of creative skills, but your subjects are often excitable, with a limited attention span, and are very rarely stationary for long. This gives you a narrow window in which to capture your images as planned. Developing your skills at working with children is a useful strategy, however, as infant portraiture is one of the most popular genres of high street photography, and can be lucrative. So what better way to bolster your confidence in this challenging area than by working with your own family at home? For any shoot that involves children, speed and efficiency are the key to successful images. The…

SILVIADAS RANI GEORGE “A portrait of a fisherman, taken in a small coastal town in southern India.” https://bit.ly/3bWy4pF MALE EASTERN BLUEBIRD (SIALIA SIALIS) DOUG GRIFFITH “These beautiful members of the thrush family are found throughout rural Ontario, and are among the first birds to return here each spring.” http://tiny.cc/fe88gz DARE TO BE DIFFERENT LEO KRAMP “This was taken in one of the tulip fields around Hillegom in the Netherlands; the lone yellow tulip likely came from a remaining bulb from last year.” https://bit.ly/2LUp6yQ CASTLE OF NOUDAR SÉRGIO CONCEIÇÃO “This is the Castle of Noudar in Barrancos, in the Alentejo region of Portugal. You can see the Milky Way and the dark nebula, and the brightest body to the left is Saturn, with Jupiter the most prominent body on the right;…

If you’ve ever looked through Photoshop’s Filter Gallery you’ll know there are several filters that can be used to create a painterly look; however, they’re mostly rather blunt instruments that apply an effect to the entire image, so in this video tutorial we’ll take a more hands-on approach to creating digital art, by using the Mixer Brush Tool to give a photo the look of Impressionist painting. You could pick an outdoor scene like ours, or try a different genre, like portraiture or still-life. The great thing about the Mixer Brush is that it creates painterly strokes based on the details and colours within the image, so you can tailor the effect to the image, rather than applying a generic filter. This involve a little more work – you have…

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For creative people, being unable to leave the home and explore the outdoors can either be a blessing or exceptionally difficult. While this unprecedented period gives us an unusual opportunity to concentrate on perfecting certain artistic skills, if you’re a photographer who usually loves capturing landscapes or environmental portraits in exotic locations it can be highly frustrating to be limited to the confines of the house and garden. This is because many of us see little potential for awe-inspiring images in these settings, and they present challenges in terms of balanced lighting and engaging backdrops, simply because they’re so familiar to viewers most kitchens and gardens look pretty similar. However, by employing a professional approach we can take this opportunity to capture wonderfully engaging family portraits. The key here is…

Just as with children, pets make some of the most photogenic subjects, but are also among the most technically challenging. Dogs, cats and other small animals are extremely agile and fast-moving, which results in difficulties if you’re looking to set up a stationary lighting arrangement. This can be even more challenging at home, where we might have limited space to work in. Another issues is that, with restricted space, it’s difficult to put enough distance between the lens, the subject, and the background to sufficiently control background detail through depth of field. It’s therefore essential to master ways of positioning the animal to create the ideal composition, giving the subject space in the frame while pushing the surroundings out of focus. The aim with pet portraits, or any family portraits…

Getty Images has an illustrious history in sports photography, and now it’s moved into the world of esports by becoming the official photographer for the Gran Turismo league on Sony PlayStation. So how do you take photos of a virtual motor racing event? Well, it’s the latest evolution of virtual photography – a rapidly growing genre that enables photographers to use the same in-game cameras that display the action in video games. By making the same choices as they would in ‘real’ photography – focal length, aperture, location, lighting, position and composition photographers can take shots in-game using the same technical acumen as they would employ at the side of a race track. Getty’s Ken Mainardis said: “This partnership with [Gran Turismo developer] Polyphony Digital signifies the next phase of…

The classic 35mm focal length is popular with all sorts of photographers, covering everything from news and reportage, weddings and environmental portraiture, to landscape and architectural photography. It gives a natural perspective with a more generous viewing angle than a ‘standard’ 50mm lens, which can feel restrictive by comparison, which is why 35mm is generally the preferred focal length for street photographers who need to react quickly to scenes unfolding before their eyes, often shooting from the hip. There’s a lot to be said for f/1.8 or f/2 35mm prime lenses. They’re comparatively compact and lightweight, and are often quite inexpensive to buy. However, serious photographers will generally demand a f/1.4 35mm. These tend to be more robust, with top-flight build quality, catering to the most demanding enthusiast and professional…