Innehållsförteckning för No. 558 från Photography Week

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Want to capture gorgeous landscape photos oozing depth and atmosphere? While great landscapes can be captured at any time of the day, many photographers favour the golden hours – just before and sunrise and just after sunset – when the light is warm and magical, and the skies can be vibrant. Light found early and late in the day is both directional and soft – qualities that are hard to find together in any location with natural light at other times of the day. The sun’s low elevation casts long, inky shadows and creates contrast that shapes and defines the landscape, while skies tend to be at their most interesting and dramatic too. This creates a cinematic style that is more popular than ever, thanks to social media trends. Shooting…

Many photographers who shoot in raw format set their camera to auto white balance and never change it, preferring to refine the colour temperature during the editing process. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with this approach. However, you should be aware that auto white balance, by its nature, is designed to deliver neutral colours whatever the colour temperature of the ambient light, and therefore shooting with the auto white balance setting on is likely to remove some of the natural warmth of golden-hour shots and desaturate naturally colourful skies, becaue the camera has misinterpreted the conditions as being a colour cast. “AUTO WHITE BALANCE IS DESIGNED TO DELIVER NEUTRAL COLOURS WHATEVER THE AMBIENT LIGHT” While it’s simple enough to restore natural warmth and colour during editing and processing in programs…

Bright, colourful dawn and dusk skies make the best backdrops for capturing a subject in silhouette. Silhouettes are the most extreme form of backlighting, with the subject recorded as a solid dark shape, devoid of colour or detail. Strong, instantly recognisable objects work best in silhouette – for example, buildings, a skeletal tree, landmarks, and windmills. To capture a pure silhouette, sandwich your subject between the sun (or bright sky) and your camera. By correctly exposing for the bright sky, you will dramatically underexpose the subject. Avoid using graduated filers, and use your camera’s live histogram to guide your choice of exposure – expect to see a spike to the left of the histogram to indicate that parts of the scene are dark and underexposed. Choose your shooting angle carefully,…

https://ricoh-imaging.eu £849/$847 (body only) Canon and Nikon may dominate the DSLR market, but we mustn’t forget that there is a third contender: Pentax. The company has been making DSLRs for the same time as the other two and, after an early dalliance with mirrorless, has fully committed to the digital SLR design, aiming chiefly for a small but passionate band of enthusiasts who appreciate the brand’s traditional values, heritage, and rugged design. The Pentax KF is the latest of Pentax’s many, and sometimes almost indistinguishable, APS-C format DSLRs, all of which seem to share the same 24MP CMOS sensor, but have varying combinations of body design, burst speeds and other features. Pentax also makes a full-frame DSLR, the hefty but rather good Pentax K-1 Mark II, and it also makes the…

Fujifilm has announced the X-S20, the successor to the X-S10, its user-friendly all-purpose mirrorless camera. The X-S10 won over fans with its strong specs and compact design, which includes an articulating screen for vlogging, and the X-S20 improves on the original with longer battery life and 6K video. The headline feature of the X-S20 is its new and improved battery, the NP-W235, which is used in more premium Fujifilm cameras such as the X-T5 and X-H2. Fujifilm claims this is good for around 800 shots, which is more than double the X-S10’s 325 shots. Despite the increased battery, the X-S20 still weighs a diminutive 491g, and its overall size and design are the same as the previous model, maintaining the large comfortable handgrip, 2.36 million-dot electronic viewfinder, and the 1.84…

One of the biggest challenges photographers face when shooting during the golden hours is high levels of contrast. With the sun close to the horizon, the skies are bright and intense, and although modern cameras have impressive dynamic range, they can struggle to capture scenes where the sky is bright but the land is dark. One way to balance the light is to use a graduated neutral-density filter. By positioning the dark part of the filter over the sky, you can balance the light and capture natural-looking results. Grads are best used in combination with a holder, which allows you to move the filter up and down as required. Grads come in different strengths – and hard, medium and soft transitions – to suit different scenes. They’re the only in-camera…

SETTING SUN As the sun rises or settles in the sky, the colour balance and shadow structure change. Each location can have an optimal time for the best balance of these Some of the best colour and drama can appear in the sky long after the sun has dipped below the horizon, so don’t pack your kit up too hastily after the light has faded – there’s nothing worse than walking back to your car, only to suddenly see the sky erupt with colour. Wait on location to see if an afterglow appears. Don’t fixate on where the sun is rising or setting – colour can radiate anywhere. Look behind you – there may be an even better shot, with pastel colours and soft light in that direction.…

Pointing your camera at a rising or setting sun dramatically increases lens flare, which occurs when a strong light source hits the lens and the light is scattered. It normally appears as colourful circles or rings, or a diffused hazy effect that reduces contrast. Flare is almost unavoidable when including the sun within the frame, but the issue is compounded by lens flaws, such as dirty or scratched optics or filters. Although flare can be attractive and enhance the atmosphere in some images, it’s normally best avoided. If you’re not using a filter system, attach a lens hood, or shield the lens using a piece of card or your hand, or try using your body to shade the camera. Always keep lenses and filters spotlessly clean. If you notice flare…

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30 MINS Focal length is something you might be familiar with, but be honest: do you actually know what it is and how it’s measured? Focal length is used to determine a lens’s angle of view, which is what you see when you look through your camera’s viewfinder. It’s measured from the point where rays of light converge within a lens (the point of convergence) to the camera’s sensor (or film), and is calculated while the focus is set to infinity. Lenses with fixed focal lengths are known as prime lenses, and lenses with variable focal lengths are zoom lenses. Understanding the angle of view is crucial when identifying which lens to use, and it’s something that seasoned photographers do on instinct. The smaller the focal length, the wider the…

Sony has announced the Z-V1 II, which it’s billing as the ultimate successor to the Sony ZV-1, which it launched back in 2020, and which is the oldest in its ever-increasing ZV range of cameras designed for vloggers. The ZV-1 II offers a wider zoom range than its predecessor, with an 18-50mm f/1.8-4 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T zoom, rather than the original’s 24-70mm f/1.8-2.8. Sony says the wider lens is a more natural choice for vlogging, making the camera easier to use in selfie mode and allowing you to get more of the background in your shot. The camera improves on the simple Bokeh Switch capabilities introduced with the Mark 1 model too, providing a multi-face recognition mode for video shooting that automatically adjusts the aperture (and bokeh) to ensure that…

Diffraction is not always bad news for your photos. The golden hours, when the sun is close to the horizon, are the perfect times of day to capture a sunburst. Sun stars are the result of intense light refracting through the lens’s aperture blades, and add visual interest, drama and an added focal point to your landscape shots. Different lenses produce different effects. For example, a lens constructed with an even number of aperture blades will produce that amount of points, while a lens boosting an odd number of blades will produce double that amount of ‘rays’. While landscape photographers would normally avoid selecting their lens’s narrowest aperture because of diffraction, to create the best sunburst you’ll need to set an aperture in the region of f/22. Contrast is important,…

FIGHT’S ON: EASTERN CHIPMUNKS DOUG GRIFFITH “As cute as they are, there’s a lot of fight in these little rodents, and these two, who I photographed near my home in Ashton, Ontario, are working off a bit of springtime aggression! The fighting went on for a good five minutes.” http://bit.ly/3K8fA95 SHE’S GOT LEGS JOHN BAKER “This is part of an Art Deco-style seating area on the seafront in Plymouth in south-west England. I liked the sweep of the concrete and shadows – and the star of the show is a pair of legs, the only human interaction.” http://bit.ly/3NRscmq LUCCA COMICS 2022 SALVATORE VITALE “I took this photo during the annual Lucca Comics & Games festival, which is dedicated to comics, animation, games, video games, and fantasy and science fiction imaginary,…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://bit.ly/2wrrr0b DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES https://bit.ly/3sfcrJI ON A PC OR MAC Most of Photoshop’s sharpening commands offer just a few simple controls – usually a strength or amount setting and a radius. By contrast, Photoshop’s Smart Sharpen command gives you a host of different options, and it’s ideal for anyone who wants to apply controlled, methodical sharpening to their photos. In this video tutorial we’ll explore the key settings and controls you need to understand in order to get the most out of this advanced tool. Smart Sharpen is one of the two most effective sharpening tools in Photoshop; the other is Unsharp Mask, but of the two, Smart Sharpen offers a greater range of features. As well as these two sharpening filters, there’s also the excellent…

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