Innehållsförteckning för No. 557 från Photography Week

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APERTURE CONTROL Paul explained that he usually shoots in either aperture priority or manual mode, and he set Rebecca’ Canon EOS R6 to perture priority, also called Av on the mode dial. This is a semi-automatic mode that allows you to adjust the aperture to let in more or less light; the aperture also dictates the depth of field in images. In this mode you can also adjust the ISO to control how sensitive the sensor is to light. The camera then works out the correct shutter speed for a balanced exposure. AUTOFOCUS SETUP Canon’s latest subject detection technology is astonishingly good, and the animal subject detection on Paul’s EOS R5 and Rebecca’s R6 works amazingly well. Paul enabled animal subject detection and also Servo/continuous autofocus, which will continually autofocus…

REBECCA’S COMMENT My favourite shot is this male grouse that we spotted just as it started to rain. I carefully got out of the car, trying my best to stay low, and waited for it to be perfectly in profile. I love how the rain drops have created fantastic beads of water, showing that great shots can still be taken in poor weather conditions. I put everything I’d learned into practise, focusing on the eye, waiting for the right moment and firing a fast burst of frames. Thank you Paul for giving me a taste of what it’s like to be a pro wildlife photographer – I loved every minute, and can’t wait to get home and photograph the local wildlife! PAUL’S VERDICT It’s a great time of year to…

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ESSENTIAL PHOTO SKILLS MADE EASY 2 HOURS A water balloon can be a wonderful prop for action portraiture. Inspired by the portraits of photographer Tim Tadder, the exploding balloons look almost like wigs or hats of water when frozen mid-blast. Aside from all the watery fun, this project is also an exercise in lighting. In order to freeze the fast action of the water, we need to go beyond what our shutter speed is capable of, and instead make use of flash duration. Put simply, this is the length of time the burst of flash lasts, and with the right lights at the right setting we can make it as fast as 1/10,000 sec or more. As long as there’s no other light influencing our exposure, the flash duration effectively…

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THE WEEK’S TOP HEADLINES IN PHOTOGRAPHY New tilt-shift lenses are something of a rarity in the mirrorless era, with few new first-party options, but Chinese lens specialist TTArtisan has launched its first tilt-shift lens, which also offers 2x macro capabilities, and will be available for Canon RF, Nikon Z, Sony E and Fujifilm X mirrorless camera mounts. The TTartisan Tilt&Shift 100mm F/2.8 2X Ultra Macro is a telephoto macro lens with a maximum 2:1 magnification, making it ideal for photographing insects and other miniature subjects. The lens is available to order now, for an impressively low price of just £317 /$389. The lens joins the tilt-only TTArtisan Tilt 50mm F1.4, but additionally offers shift and macro-focusing capabilities, giving it greater appeal to wildlife and product photographers. It offers up to…

1 GOLDEN HOUR Get up early and make sure you’re on location before sunrise so that you’re ready to catch wildlife bathed in amazing golden lighting immediately after sunrise. 2 CAMOUFLAGE Paul has fitted most of his lenses with a Lens Coat which offers protection from knocks and scratches. They come in different camouflage options, to help your big lenes blend into the environment better. 3 TELECONVERTERS If you need extra telephoto reach, you can use a teleconverter to magnify your focal length by 1.4x or 2x, with a slight reduction in your apertures. Check that an extender is compatible with the lens you plan to use it with before purchasing one. 4 AF CASES On many cameras you can go into the AF menu and fine-tune the Servo/continuous AF…

GuruShots is billed as the world’s leading photo game. It’s an online photography platform conceived to give global exposure to people who love taking photographs. GuruShots members start out as Newbies and compete with other photographers to win challenges, increase their ranking on the site and eventually progress to coveted ‘Guru’ status. Challenges are voted on by Gurus and the wider GuruShots community, and there’s a fresh competition brief – such as this Mostly Black challenge – every day. Challenge winners receive prizes from GuruShots’ sponsors, including Lowepro, Kodak and Lensbaby.…

LEARN ESSENTIAL EDITING SKILLS FAST! WATCH THE VIDEO http://bit.ly/2l3ol7pp DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES https://bit.ly/2Nu7hdK ON A PC OR MAC There are different selection tools for different tasks in Photoshop. If you want to make a rough selection, you might use the Lasso Tool, while if you want to select a portion of an image, like a sky, the Quick Selection Tool or Magic Wand Tool are good choices. And then there’s the Pen Tool… While it might be one of the trickier Photoshop tools to master, the Pen Tool rewards those who persevere with a control over selections like no other. The Pen Tool isn’t designed for intricate selections with lots of fuzzy detail; instead it excels at isolating hard-edged, curvy objects, like the car we’re cutting out here. You…

PRO PAUL FOWLIE CAMERA: CANON EOS R5 Paul has been a pro wildlife and landscape photographer since 2010. He’s based in Yorkshire, and runs photography workshops in the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, Scotland and Scandinavia, and is also the author of A Year with Nature: A Photographic Guide to Wildlife. We met up with to go on ‘safari’ in the Yorkshire Dales, and see what wildlife we could find amongst the heather and rolling hills. To book one of Paul’s hides or workshops, and see his inspiring images, visit: https://bit.ly/3NNxKA4 APPRENTICE REBECCA PITT CAMERA: CANON EOS R6 Rebecca, 18, is in her first year at Leeds Art University studying photography. She has a passion for wildlife, and often visits local wildlife parks and zoos to get in some practice.…

1 FULL-FRAME MIRRORLESS CAMERA Paul shoots on a Canon EOS R5, while Rebecca shoots on an EOS 1100D; however we were able to get hold of an EOS R6 for her to test out on the day. Both the EOS R5 and R6 use the Canon’s full-frame mirrorless RF mount, and they also have blistering maximum burst rates of up to 40fps, and boast Canon’s incredible animal eye detection autofocus. The big distinction between the two camera bodies is the sensor resolution, with the EOS R5 being 45MP while the EOS R6 is 21MP. 2 LONG ZOOM LENS Paul uses a variety of zoom lenses for his wildlife work, and which lens he uses will depend on what he’s shooting. For larger animals he might choose a 70-200mm f/2.8L, which…

THE BEST THING WE’VE SEEN THIS WEEK The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has announced the winning images in its latest annual photo competition. All the entries were taken by BVA members, either at work or when they were off-duty, and celebrate the bond that vets have with animals of all kinds. Entries were submitted in three categories: Vets at Work, All Creatures Great and Small, and Happy Pets. The winning and finalist images range from light-hearted snaps of pets to dramatic wildlife photos, and heart-tugging images of vulnerable animals under the care of vets, such as A Gentle Touch (above, bottom-left), which shows a ring-tailed lemur grasping a vet’s finger while recovering from an anaesthetic. Click the link to see all the winning images, and read the captivating stories behind…

EXPERT OPINION ON THE LATEST KIT www.venuslens.net £569/$499 Quite compact for a 90mm macro lens, this Laowa is nearly one and a half inches shorter than the brand’s previous 100mm mirrorless lens, but only a fifth of an inch shorter than the DSLR version. As with its predecessor, it has a fixed physical length, so there’s no externally telescoping inner barrel. 2.0x macro magnification is available at the shortest focus distance of 20.5cm, or eight inches; as always, that’s measured from the focal plane of the camera rather than from the front of the lens. The fact that the lens focuses internally means it avoids cutting down the working distance between the front of the lens and the subject when you’re shooting close-ups. In practice, while the front element remains…