Innehållsförteckning för No. 574 från Photography Week

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THE PRO GARY JONES CAMERA: NIKON Z 9 Gary resides near the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales. He’s been enamoured with animals and photography since he was young, and while he’s travelled all over the world photographing wildlife, perhaps his biggest passion is raptors. When he’s not following wildlife subjects to farflung places – and even scaling mountains – he runs a busy workshop schedule, and regularly presents at camera clubs across the UK. Find out more at: www.gjwp.co.uk THE APPRENTICE REBECCA ELLIOTT CAMERA: NIKON Z 8 Becky works as a legal translator, but she’s also fluent in photography. She caught the bug at just 14, learning the ropes using a selection of camera books her dad bought her. It’s been her main hobby ever since, but it wasn’t…

CHIPMUNK BARB D’ARPINO “Sometimes you have to look at life from a different perspective. An always-entertaining Eastern chipmunk hangs upside down to get every last kernel of corn from the cob. Taken at Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada.” https://bit.ly/44HqL0t DANS LE PASSÉ DE LA CROIX KEVIN CARDET AND MANON “Towards another time, beckoning us to a different era. Taken in a church in France’s Loir-et-Cher region.” https://bit.ly/3Liph66 THE VIEW FROM THE ARC MARIO OTTAVIANI “I took this photo at Mandello del Lario, a lovely town on Lake Como in northern Italy. It’s famous for being the home of the Moto Guzzi motorcycle factory.” https://bit.ly/3Akm016 DESOLATE ABERFFRAW BEACH JEFF GUILE “This was taken on a very breezy day at Aberffraw beach on Anglesey in North Wales. I was taken by the desolation…

It’s hard to go far wrong when you’re capturing close-up images with a macro lens. The super-shallow depths of field, and the otherworldly shapes and textures seen at high magnification, can make almost any subject look good. However, macro lenses can also create a challenge for anyone wanting to capture a close-up subject that’s entirely in focus. This is especially the case when you’re photographing plants like the thistle above. In our ‘before’ image, you can see that the front of the seed is in focus, but the leaves around it are completely blurred. That’s because macro lenses produce depths of field that are too shallow to provide sufficient focus, even at narrow apertures. Unless a subject has very little depth – for example if you’re shooting down onto a…

Fujifilm has unveiled the Fujifilm GFX 100 II, with an impressive spec sheet that rewrites the rulebook for medium-format cameras, headlined by shooting speeds never before seen in medium format. There’s also highly effective phase-detect autofocus, including human and animal trakcing, and 8-stop in-body image stabilisation. The Fujifilm GFX 100 II is built around a brand new high-speed 102MP CMOS sensor, which is paired with a new custom version of the company’s latest X-Processor 5 that’s been used to great acclaim in the latest X-Series cameras like the Fujifilm X-H2S. This new sensor/processor combo allows the GFX 100 II to output a staggeringly fast (for medium format) eight frames per second with continuous autofocus at full resolution. This is combined with a buffer that has twice the capacity of the…

RING-A-DING-DING Gary says… I almost always use Manual mode, but I like to pair it with Auto ISO; I can then use Exposure Compensation to quickly control my exposure. This is made more effective by assigning the function to my 100-400mm’s control ring, so that I can alter Exp Comp with a flick of the wrist. WIDEN THE FIELD Gary says… AF-C is a given, but I like to set my AF-area mode to Wide-S or Wide-L (on Nikon cameras), depending on the subject – I use Wide-L the most. I set AF subject detection to Animal Detection, and I can then move the box around like a single focus point, but if the bird moves out of it, the camera will track it. BLOCKED SHOT Gary says… The ‘Focus…

The Siena Creative Photo Awards is a photography competition with a difference. The Awards, which are part of the Siena Awards, an international festival of visual arts based in the city of Siena in Italy, were conceived as a global platform for artistic photography, and unlike most contests there are no rules on post-production work; on the contrary, it’s positively encouraged, and the results are by turns striking, beautiful and bizarre – and in some cases all three at once. As the contest website explains: “In this competition, everyone is free to use any technique. Only the final effect counts. We break all the rules, and we want you to break them with us by creating new trends in art.” We can certainly get on board with that. Click the…

www.sony.co.uk £1,449/$1,399 (body only) When Sony released its first APS-C crop-sensor mirrorless camera back in 2013, the company hit on something good. Combining the new Sony E-Mount for smaller and lighter mirrorless lenses with a light and compact camera body, Sony’s A6x00 range became successful with travellers, weekend photographers and content creators as the compact hybrid camera to beat. The Sony A6600 has sat at the top of the range since 2019, but over the past few years Sony has made a lot of technical developments that it’s rapidly rolling out to new camera models. Fans of Sony’s A6x00 range have, understandably, been clamouring for Sony to update the lineup, and the company has finally answered those calls with the A6700. However, since the Sony A6600’s release, Sony just can’t…

After months of rumors and speculation, Panasonic has announced the Lumix G9 II, the successor to its flagship G9 Micro Four Thirds (MFT) camera. While that camera was primarily aimed at photographers, the Lumix G9 II is very much aimed at hybrid content creators who care as much about video as they do about stills. Key features The headline feature of the Lumix G9 II is its upgraded autofocus system, which debuted on the Panasonic Lumix S5 II to wide acclaim, and it’s great to see this system appearing in more cameras in Panasonic’s range. The new AF facilitates not only faster and more accurate focus, using a 779-point phase-detection system – the first such system in a Lumix camera – but also enables even more advanced subject recognition and…

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