Innehållsförteckning för No. 556 från Photography Week

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The Develop module is where you’ll spend most of your time enhancing your images and making them the best they can be. With options available for almost any style of photography, you’ll always be able to tweak your images subtly or delve deep into the colour, contrast, spot healing, filtered gradients and many other powerful tools so that your images look exactly how you want them to. The Develop module is split into sections, with panels on either side of the Content Window, in which the photo you are currently working on is displayed. 1 NAVIGATOR WINDOW The Navigator allows you to preview your images while browsing through the Filmstrip, as well as to quickly zoom in while editing. 2 CONTENT WINDOW This is the main area where you view…

Now that you’re happy with your edits, you’ll want to save your finished photos to your computer or hard drive. You can select and save a single image, or batch-export multiple images, or even all the images in your library. You can choose the format in which you want to save your image or images, and even apply your own watermarks if you wish. You may be a family portrait photographer and wish to send low-res files for proofing to a client, or create high-res print files once the job is complete. This can easily be done via the Export window. 1 EXPORTING YOUR PHOTOS To start, right-click your photo and select ‘Export’. You will then be presented with the Export settings window, where you can select the destination, and…

IT’S COOL, THAT THE BEST THING WE’VE SEEN THIS WEEK We’ve become accustomed to the James Webb space telescope capturing record-breaking and frankly jaw-dropping images of our universe, and it’s just notched another milestone by capturing the first image of an asteroid belt outside our Solar System. Astronomers studying the dust and asteroid belts around a young and relatively close star, Fomalhaut, found more than they expected, identifying three nested belts extending out to 14.3 billion miles, which is 150 times the distance of the Earth from the Sun. “The scale of the outermost belt is roughly twice the scale of our Solar System’s Kuiper Belt of small bodies and cold dust beyond Neptune,” the European Space Agency (ESA) explains. “The inner belts – which had never been seen before…

EXPERT OPINION ON THE LATEST KIT www.captureone.com£299/$179 Capture One Pro is a high-end image organising and editing tool that works on the same principle as Adobe’s Lightroom Classic, offering seamless non-destructive editing of raw files, TIFFs and JPEGs, and the ability to create multiple ‘virtual’ copies of images (‘Variants’) to experiment with different looks. Capture One Pro’s particular strengths are tethered camera operation and professional photographic workflows, but the regular addition of extra organising and editing features over successive editions has made it a direct rival to Adobe Lightroom. Unlike Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, Capture One is available both on subscription and with a perpetual license, though Capture One is shifting towards subscriptions, and will no longer be offering mid-version updates for perpetual licenses. Its processing and editing tools alone…

THE WEEK’S TOP HEADLINES IN PHOTOGRAPHY Nikon has unveiled its new Z8 mirrorless camera, and, as expected, it’s a ‘baby Z9’ in terms of both its specs and its price, which is considerably lower than that of Nikon’s current flagship. Nikon itself used those words in describing the Z8, saying, “In a nutshell, it is the baby Z9,” while it also calling it, “the true successor to the Nikon D850”. Essentially, the Z8 is a Z9 in a regular body (as in, it doesn’t have an integrated vertical grip or high-capacity battery). So naturally it packs all the same specs: a 45MP stacked sensor, 8K 60p and 4K 120p video, up to 120fps burst shooting, an exclusively electronic shutter, and intelligent AF built on deep learning. The latter represents one…

Once you’ve imported your photos, it’s time to start bringing out the best in them. With two or three simple tweaks using the sliders in the right-hand panels, they’ll immediately look better. Raw files will often look a little flat straight out of the camera, but that’s exactly how the raw format is designed; they’re larger files that allow you to draw the most out of them in post-processing. Within the Basic panel, you’ll find around 15 sliders that can often be sufficient to get your images looking great. Of course, many photographers like to go deeper, but if you’re starting out, the Basic panel offers most of what you need. Drag sliders to the right to increase their value (usually up to +100) and to the left to decrease…

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ESSENTIAL PHOTO SKILLS MADE EASY 1 HOUR Landscape photography is often associated with sprawling vistas and beautiful panoramic imagery, but here we’re breaking the rules by ditching the wide-angle lens and using a long zoom. The 50mm focal length is generally accepted as being similar to what the human eye can see. Lenses with a focal length shorter than this are considered to be wide-angle – and they’re preferred for landscapes as they can fit more of a scene onto the camera’s sensor. Lenses with a focal length longer than 50mm are considered to be telephoto, but they can work brilliantly for landscapes too. Longer lenses enable you to compress a scene so that you don’t end up with barrel distortion – a common issue with wide-angle optics). Long lenses…

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Adobe Lightroom Classic is a powerful but accessible piece of software that makes it simple to organise and edit your photos. You can save your edited and enhanced images, and you can also easily revert to your original shots if needed. Over the next few pages we’ll highlight many of Lightroom’s most impressive tools and features, and show you how you can use them to transform ordinary images into something special. To start with we’ll explore some key settings and options in the Lightroom interface, before looking at both basic and advanced editing and, finally, the process of saving and exporting your images. Lightroom’s editing software is non-destructive, so you can always go back and make changes later. Whatever you like to photograph, there are all kinds of ways in…

Many of us get a little queasy when we’re left with no choice but to ramp up the ISO when shooting. We know that there’s a price to pay – and that price is often increased digital noise. Sometimes this can add character to an image, but often it just looks unsightly. With the aperture wide open at f/2 the above image was captured at ISO6400, which introduces noise, but it’s possible to fix much of that noise in post-production without sacrificing too much detail. Staying in the Detail panel, we’ll look at using the Luminance, Detail, Contrast and Color sliders to reduce noise. 1 SOFTEN LUMINANCE NOISE Luminance noise is created by underexposed or overexposed pixels, and appears as grainy black-and-white spots. Adjust the Luminance slider – usually to…

One of the most powerful time-saving tricks in Lightroom is the ability to copy and paste settings from one edited image to another image – or many images. If you’ve moved through the workflow of making basic exposure adjustments, enhancing the colours, sharpening and reducing noise, and selecting a picture profile or even converting to black and white, you can now take your final finished image and apply the same treatment to the other similar images within your library. This is especially useful if you need to edit a substantial batch of images quickly and efficiently. 1 COPYING YOUR SETTINGS Right-click on the thumbnail of your image (below the main window) and select Develop Settings. From there, navigate to Copy Settings, which will present you with a dialog containing a…

DID SOMEONE ORDER SUGAR…? RICHARD HARVEY“Just having some fun with my macro lens! This is a merge of three focus-stacked frames.” http://bit.ly/3DiGCWx LAKE CONJOLA SUNRISE JOHN PANNEMAN“I shot this with my smartphone early one morning on Lake Conjola Beach in Shoalhaven, New South Wales.” http://bit.ly/2pXLDn2 BLUE AQUA PAUL HOPKINS“This was shot on the historic Barbican in Plymouth, south-west England, overlooking the Mayflower Steps, from where the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower to set sail for the New World.” https://bit.ly/3reue4I AMERICAN ALLIGATOR SHANNON O’SHEA“A wild American alligator, photographed at Jarvis Creek Park on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina.” https://bit.ly/3nVYfED FACEBOOK http://bit.ly/39py9lg FLICKR http://bit.ly/2VIgsJO PHOTOGRAPHY WEEK WANTS YOUR PHOTOS! Taken a portrait you’re particularly proud of? Shot a sensational sunset you’d like to show off? Then join the Photography Week Facebook community…

LEARN ESSENTIAL EDITING SKILLS FAST! WATCH THE VIDEO https://bit.ly/43PWqha DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES https://bit.ly/pho_146 ON A PC OR MAC There are lots of fun things to do at the beach, but flinging around a disco light in the dark is probably among the more unusual activities. However, while it might get you a few funny looks, it can lead to some truly vibrant photos. In this video tutorial, we’ll show you how to create stunning long-exposure light paintings with a combination of shooting and Photoshop skills. The process begins with an after-dark shoot, during which we swing a torch or other suitable light source around to create swirling patterns. The beach setting isn’t essential – it can be done in your back garden, a darkened room or any dim setting.…