Innehållsförteckning för No. 474 från Photography Week

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MANUAL MODE Drew shoots in Manual mode, which allows him to dial in the shutter speed, aperture and ISO values he wants, overriding his camera’s built-in metering, which would alter his settings if filters were added or the lighting changed. He set up Andy’s camera to also shoot in Manual mode, and advised Andy to regularly check the exposure of images on his rear screen, and make adjustments to settings as and when needed. LONG EXPOSURES In Manual mode, Drew locked the aperture at a narrow value of f/16, which would let in a relatively small amount of light, and set the ISO to 100, meaning that the camera sensor was at its lowest sensitivity level. For our first Hot Shot (see next page) this gave an exposure time of…

Aremarkable image of fish mating has won Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021. The image, by French underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta and titled Creation, captures the rare sight of camouflage groupers leaving a mating frenzy off islands in French Polynesia. The grouper season is a fleeting event, lasting just an hour, and only taking place under a full moon in July and with a waning tide. Ballesta and his team spent thousands of hours planning the underwater shoot over five years. “The image works on so many levels: it is surprising, energetic and intriguing, and has an otherworldly beauty,” said jury chair Rosamund Kidman Cox. Images from this year’s contest will feature in an exhibition that opens on October 15 at London’s Natural History Museum before touring the UK and…

www.canon.co.uk £5,879/$5,999 After being rolled out to pros at this summer’s Olympics in Tokyo, the EOS R3 is now available to professionals at large – and Canon’s latest mirrorless camera is shaping up to become the most capable all-round tool there is for working photographers. While the R3 isn’t technically a replacement for, or even an equivalent to, the EOS-1D X Mark III (as this is ‘only’ a 3-series camera rather than a flagship 1-series), it nonetheless leapfrogs the 1D X III in terms of technology in virtually every department – and stakes a bold claim to be the best professional camera, thanks to its 6K raw video, blistering (and blackout-free) 30fps shooting, and a peerless AF system that enables you to move focus points by moving your eyeball. There’s…

Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z DX 18-140mm f/3.5-6.3 VR – and it could be the only lens that many Nikon Z50 and Z fc owners need, covering a wide range of focal lengths from wide-angle to mid-range telephoto. Previously, owners of these cameras were limited to the Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR kit lens and the Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR telephoto. The new lens helps prop up Nikon’s rather thin-looking DX mirrorless lens range. The focal range is the same as the Nikon’s AF-S DX Nikkor 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR DSLR lens, but this lens is significantly shorter and lighter, and has a slightly narrower f/6.3 maximum aperture at full zoom. Nikon is billing the Nikkor Z DX 18-140mm f/3.5-6.3 VR as the ‘perfect travelling companion, thanks…

1 GET UP EARLY, SHOOT LATE Shoot in the golden hour after sunrise or before sunset when the sun is closer to the horizon, and when you can play with elongated shadows and the wonderfully warm colour palette. 2 AVOID HARSH MIDDAY SUN When the sun is directly above you in the middle of the day it can cause very harsh shadows. As mentioned above, aim to get out early so that you can shoot in the golden hour instead, and use the middle of the day to break for lunch and recoup your energy for shooting later on in the evening. 3 BRING SNACKS If you’re going to be out all day shooting, make sure that you bring plenty of drinks and snacks to power you through long shoots,…

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1 HOUR Shutter speed controls how long a camera’s shutter is open for, and therefore the length of time for which the sensor is exposed to light. However, just as with aperture and ISO, there’s more to shutter speed than basic exposure control. The faster the shutter speed, the more likely it is that movement will be frozen, and the slower the shutter speed the more likely you’ll capture motion blur. Both effects can be used to enhance your images, and in this Crash Course we’re going to look at how slower shutter speeds can be used to add a sense of motion to your landscape photos. It might initially seem like movement is a rather redundant element when shooting landscapes, but when you consider running water, moving clouds and…

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HOT SHOT #1 ANDY SAYS St Cwyfan’s Church, also known as the ‘the church in the sea’, is situated on an island that looks best at high tide, when it’s surrounded by water. We approached from Aberffraw onto a beach that would give us the perfect viewpoint to shoot from afar, zooming in with a long telephoto lens. Drew used his 70-200mm lens, while I zoomed in to 105mm on my 24-105mm, which was still long enough to make sure the church was a decent size in the frame. I then positioned the horizon about a third of the way up the frame and used some of Drew’s neutral density filters to achieve a long exposure of 20 seconds – long enough to add strong motion blur to the waves…

1 TELEPHOTO LENS A telephoto lens might seem like an odd choice for landscapes, but the narrower field of view can be beneficial, allowing you to zoom in to find a ‘scene within a scene’. You can also zoom in precisely on the details you want to be in the frame. Drew’s telephoto lens of choice is the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens, which he often uses to compress the perspective and cut out distractions that might pull the eye away from his focal point. 2 CARBON FIBRE TRIPOD Drew uses a Benro TMA48CXL Mach3 Mg Carbon Fiber Tripod for his landscape and seascape work, as it can be extended to over two meters at maximum extension and is capable of handling up to 20kg of equipment…

STRIKE ONE CHRIS DAVIS “I shot this in Colorado on day one of a 10-day storm chase, setting up at a safe distance and firing off multiple shots per minute in the hopes of capturing a lightning strike.” https://bit.ly/3Am6231 THE NEARNESS OF YOU LUIS SOTO “This was taken in the Moon Valley near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. This is the largest and best-known largest dune in the valley, where photographers take advantage of the beautiful colors, while the dramatic shadows at sunset are very effective in black and white.” https://bit.ly/2YFpsmG MYTHICAL CREATURES ALEXANDER FENZL “This was taken close to my home in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. The forest always offers surprises, like this old tree, which to my mind resembles a mythical creature.” https://bit.ly/3lnVBrv ONE TREE…

Photoshop’s Brush Tool is full of hidden delights, and in this video tutorial we’ll explore one of our favourite features to create an eye-catching effect. Symmetry Painting lets you paint in several places at once. There are several types of Symmetrical Painting options to experiment with, but the most enjoyable is Mandala. Often seen in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism, mandalas are geometric patterns organised around a single central point (‘mandala’ is Sanskrit for ‘circle’). The Mandala setting in Photoshop lets you create these sorts of designs in seconds. You can also choose the number of segments for your mandala design, which essentially determines how many places you can paint in at once. It’s simple to set up, and it’s easy to lose yourself once you begin painting circular mandala patterns.…