Innholdsfortegnelse for May 25, 2013 i Amateur Photographer

IN AP 4 MAY WE ASKED… What subjects do you shoot in black & white? CAMERAS don’t come in sizes the way shoes do, though hands vary just as much as feet. They come built to a scale that refl ects who they are aimed at. You need a big camera to do a serious job. A big camera also declares that the photographer means business, and is equipped for whatever the day throws his way. He clearly knows an aperture from a pass of Unsharp Mask, and he and his camera command respect and look the part. There is no way, when looking at a photograph on a wall, in a book or in a magazine, of telling whether that picture was taken on a small camera or a…

BOOK Penguins Close Encounters By David Tipling, New Holland Publishers, £20, hardback, 160 pages, ISBN 978-1-7800-92478 BABY penguins. Adult penguins. Penguin families. Swimming penguins. Walking penguins. Penguins come in all modes imaginable in this book from David Tipling. Taken on trips to the Antarctic, his photography offers views of the interactions of several species of penguin, creating some charming imagery. Tipling’s captions are informative and lively, and he goes into detail about how he put the images together. Behind-the-scenes shots show how close the photographers were able to get to the animals. In one caption Tipling notes: ‘It is impossible not to smile in the company of penguins’. Based on this evidence, it’s hard to dispute. WEBSITE www.bwvision.com TOUTING itself as a source for all things relating to b&w fi…

RECENTLY, the celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz said that she believed the iPhone was the modern equivalent of the Box Brownie camera. There’s no doubting that the iPhone – indeed any equivalent smartphone – is an incredible piece of technology, enabling us to take superb quality photographs, process them with downloadable apps, and share them in an instant. Yet to my mind it’s the digital compact camera that is the ‘Box Brownie’ of our age. During a recent clearout I came across a Nikon TWZoom85 compact from the early 1990s belonging to my wife. By the standards of today it could hardly be called ‘compact’ and it was certainly not pocket-sized. Back then, if we wanted something truly pocketable the only models available were the XA range from Olympus, Minox’s GT…

Amateur Photographer OF THE YEAR COMPETITION Bruce Jones, of Florida, USA is the winner of our Animal Kingdom round of APOY 2013. For his efforts Bruce will receive a Panasonic Lumix DMC-G5 plus a Lumix G Vario 100-300mm f/4-5.6 Mega OIS lens worth a total of £1,451.98. The GH3 is a compact system camera with a 16.05-million-pixel, four thirds, Live MOS sensor. It has a weather-resistant magnesium-alloy body, an extended sensitivity range of ISO 125-25,600 and a 1.744-million-dot EVF. The Lumix G Vario 100-300mm f/4-5.6 Mega OIS incorporates Panasonic’s Mega OIS (Optical Image Stabilizer), which aids shooting in low-light conditions without a tripod by suppressing the blur caused by camera shake. Our second-placed entrant is Asier Aristregui, of Pamplona in Spain, who will receive a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ62 worth £373.99.…

Twice a month we test of six of the best accessories on the market. Here we take a look at studio flash kits Elinchrom D-Lite RX One Umbrella Kit £375 www.elinchrom.com The D-Lite RX One Kit is Elinchrom’s entry-level studio set. It includes two Elinchrom D-Lite RX One Heads, two light stands, one 85cm white umbrella, one 85cm translucent umbrella, two carry cases, two 16cm refl ectors and a Skyport transmitter. Alternatively, a softbox kit is available for around £425. With a power of only 100W/s, the D-Lites have the lowest output of any lights on test, although they still deliver around twice the equivalent power of most hotshoe fl ashguns. The kit is lightweight, compact and build quality is high. Combined with the supplied carrying case, the D-Lites are…

Street price Around ￡570 (body only) Sensor 18-million-effective-pixel CMOS sensor Output size 5184 x 3456 pixels Focal length mag 1.6x Lens mount Canon EF-S (compatible with EF) File format Raw, JPEG, raw + JPEG simultaneously Compression 2-stage JPEG Colour space Adobe RGB, sRGB Shutter type Electronically controlled focal-plane shutter Shutter speeds 30-1/4000sec in 1∕3EV steps plus bulb Max flash sync 1/200sec ISO ISO 100-6400, expandable to ISO 25,600 Exposure modes Scene intelligent auto, creative auto, auto, program, aperture priority, shutter priority, manual, 10 scene modes Metering system 63-zone evaluative metering (linked to all AF points), centreweighted, partial (9%) and spot (4%) Exposure comp ±5EV in 1∕3EV or 1/2EV steps White balance Auto, 6 presets, plus custom setting White balance bracket Yes, over 3 images Drive mode 4fps for 28 large/fine…

This fi lm is most closely associated with motion pictures, where it’s been used since the start of the 20th century. However, the ‘70mm’ fi lm used in a camera is actually only 65mm wide – the name came about because the camera footage (in motion-picture making) would be transferred to 70mmwide fi lm for distribution; the additional 5mm was used for the sound channels. As a result, ‘70mm’ became the catch-all term used to describe both the capture and presentation stages. The 70mm format is obviously not the only one to migrate from moving to still images, but unlike 35mm, 70mm was most often seen as an additional option, rather than the sole format used by a camera (the exception being the Combat Graphlex, a 70mm-format rangefi nder camera…

LIKE all Sony DSLR-style cameras we have seen since the launch of the Alpha 33 and 55 in 2010, the Alpha 58 is based around the company’s translucent mirror technology, in which the moving mirror and pentaprism found in a typical DSLR are removed and replaced with a fi xed, semitransparent mirror. With roughly two-thirds of the light that comes through the lens travelling on through the translucent mirror to the sensor, the other third is bounced up to the AF sensor. The benefi t of this is that autofocus can remain in action even when a shot is fi red – on a traditional DSLR, the mirror is raised and AF is interrupted very briefl y when the shutter is triggered – while the burst frame rate can also…

News Analysis Comment PhotoDiary 25/5/13 “Adobe is killing off their software range in retail form” Photoshop storm? Page 7 ‘Orphan works’ backlash • Campaigners to meet peer over new law COPYRIGHT FEARS SPARK GOVERNMENT TALKS PHOTOGRAPHERS will next month meet the Government amid fears that a new law represents a serious threat to copyright and potential ‘exploitation’ of images posted on the internet. The news comes as – at the time of writing – around 25,000 people sign a petition against the controversial Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, which received Royal Assent last month. The proposed law was vigorously opposed by many photographers, including David Bailey, before Parliament gave it the green light on 25 April. Campaigners have called for talks with the Government in a bid to shape legislation…

● THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN PICTURES edited by Ian Penberthy, £7.99 Though the ‘war to end all wars’ didn’t end global confl ict, it certainly ensured that things would never be the same. This collection of historical press photography documents the war from a predominantly British perspective, at home and on the front. Showing people struggling with the new realities of warfare, it’s a diverting read. ● SHORT CUTS: ARTISTS IN CHINA by Thomas Fuesser, £48 Thomas Fuesser gets his readers up to speed with the world of Chinese contemporary art in this pricey but voluminous book. He captures 17 artists’ various processes so evocatively that you quickly get a sense of their medium, workday and personality. ● BRYAN PETERSON’S EXPOSURE SOLUTIONS by Bryan Peterson, £14.99 A conversational writing…

BRINGING YOU ESSENTIal EXPERT aDVICE EVERY WEEK THE IDEA for my series Siberian Supermodels had its genesis, as most photographic projects do, in one simple question: who are the most photographed women in the world? As my work largely focuses on women living and working within patriarchal societies, it was a question that I couldn’t help but ask and feel compelled to explore. The first answer, and in many ways the most obvious, was models. These women (who are in reality often young girls) are on one hand instantly recognisable and occupy the covers of countless premier fashion publications and adorn the looming billboards that we see in every major city. But conversely these same women also find themselves stranded in an inescapable mode of anonymity. Even though we see…

A CHANCE to see your work exhibited at the National Theatre. Inclusion in a prestigious book. A grand prize of £10,000. With all that up for grabs, it’s easy to see why Take a View’s Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, sponsored by National Rail, is preparing to screen the entries of thousands of hopefuls for the seventh time. Founder Charlie Waite has been at the heart of the competition since its debut in 2006. An avid landscape photographer of many years’ experience, Waite says he never tires of watching the effect the winning images have on viewers. ‘Your View’ Winner 2012 David Baker ‘The New Forest’ THE ‘YOUR View’ category is the loosest in the competition – the website assures that ‘pretty much anything goes, as long as it…

Richard Sibley Technical editor WITH increasing numbers of potential DSLR owners now opting for compact system cameras, many manufacturers are now rationalising their DSLR range rather than expanding it. With Canon’s EOS M being one of the newest compact system cameras on the market, it is perhaps surprising that the company has now unveiled the EOS 100D, said to be the lightest DSLR available with an APS-C sensor. Surely this compact DSLR will cannibalise sales of the EOS M? Having spent some time with the EOS 100D, things start to make sense. Photographers will often say they want the image quality and handling of a DSLR, but not the size and weight. At fi rst glance, a CSC is the obvious answer, but the two types of camera are not…

RAW UPDATE Q I have a query about Lightroom 4 and raw fi les from the Fujifi lm X-Pro1. I am fi nding that the fi les, when viewed in Lightroom 4, are soft, and small details have a ‘watercolour’ look about them. I have checked a few forums on the internet and also Adobe’s website, but cannot fi nd any information as to whether this problem has been fi xed. Do you have any more information on this, as I am currently having to convert my fi les to DNG using Lightroom 3 (without any problems)? Laurie Thurlow A Towards the end of February, Adobe released updates for Camera Raw (7.4) and Lightroom (4.4), which is the answer you’re looking for. AP’s Richard Sibley performed a quick comparison between…

GOLD MONO SILK MEDIA FEATURES ● A dedicated media for black & white printing ● Acid-free and lignin-free fibre base paper ● 270gsm paper weight for a true photo feel ● Silk surface with a 42% gloss finish ● Excellent transition between shadows and highlights ● Available in sheets and rolls ● Compatible with both pigment- and dyebased printers THE BLACK & white print is often regarded by ‘artistic’ photographers as the ultimate in creative expression. A black & white photograph presents the viewer with pure image tonality, line, form, shape and texture totally free from colour distraction and infl uence. With a high-quality photo inkjet printer you can produce prints that will rival anything created with traditional wet chemistry. Ilford has been producing black & white fi lm and…

RRP £449 (with 18-55mm lens) Sensor 20.1-million-pixel Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor Output size 5456 x 3632 Focal length mag 1.5x Lens mount Sony Alpha mount File format Raw, JPEG, raw + JPEG simultaneously Compression Fine or Standard (JPEG) Colour space sRGB, Adobe RGB Shutter type Electronically controlled focal-plane shutter Shutter speeds 30-1/4000sec in 1/3EV steps, plus bulb Max flash sync 1/160sec ISO 100-16,000 Exposure modes Program, aperture priority, shutter priority, manual, iAuto, iAuto+, flash off, scene selection, sweep panorama, picture effect, Tele-zoom Continuous Priority AE, Continuous Advanced Priority AE, scene Metering system 1,200-zone evaluative metering, centreweighted and fixed centre spot Exposure comp ±3EV in 1/3 steps White balance Auto, 9 presets, Kelvin, plus custom setting White balance bracket Yes, 3 images over 2 steps Drive mode 5fps for 6…

WHILE Olympus’s OM-D E-M5 currently tops the company’s range of compact system cameras, for almost two years the fl agship model in its more highly developed Pen series has been the E-P3. In that time the Pen line-up has benefi tted from a number of improvements derived from the E-P3 – notably its 16.1-million-pixel sensor – but now fi nally gains a new model, which serves as the E-P3’s direct replacement. While previous EP models have all maintained a reasonably consistent design, the E-P5 signals a slight change in direction. Marking the 50th anniversary of the Olympus Pen F, the company has adopted elements of that camera’s front plate for the E-P5, while revising the rest of the camera’s design to put greater emphasis on manual control. KEY FEATURES Internally…

LETTER OF THE WEEK Wins a 20-roll pack of 36-exposure Fujifi lm Superia ISO 200 35mm fi lm or a Fujifi lm 8GB media card* THE DIGITAL PRICE IS DEFINITELY RIGHT I recently decided to make a value-for-money comparison between my Olympus OM-D E-M5 and my old and rather nostalgic 1980 Olympus OMn 35mm fi lm camera, taking in infl ation, of course. Well, straight out of the bag, the digital OM-D is capable of shooting at 9fps; with my fi lm OMn, I would have had to buy the extremely expensive add-on motor drive, which, by today’s standards, was rather slow. It goes on and on. Red, green, yellow fi lters? Buy them separate, screw them on, but with the OM-D they are built in, no messing. Shoot a…

WHEN you think about action photography, most people think about freezing movement to capture the essence of a sport in a single frame. But what about multiple exposures? Modern digital cameras make it easier than ever to shoot a sequence of photos at a blisteringly fast rate. And thatÕs where Ray Demski and his stunning sequential photos come in. Born in a small town in the mountains of western Canada, Demski spent much of his childhood sailing around the world. At the age of 15 he moved with his family onto a 45-foot sailboat to begin a seven-year voyage. It was during this time that Demski discovered his passion for photography. Forty countries, and a lot of learning later, he started a new adventure Ð a journey into photography. ‘My…

Amateur photographer’s… iCONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH I PHOTOGRAPHER I CAMERA ON 31 DECEMBER 1962, the Swiss photojournalist René Burri was sitting down to a New Year’s Eve dinner with his family when the phone rang. The caller was from the Magnum agency. Burri was told that he had to pack his bags immediately for an assignment in Cuba. Two days later he arrived in the capital, Havana. Cuba had been a focus of world attention since the revolutionary communist Fidel Castro became the country’s Prime Minister in 1959. He took control with popular support after ousting the American-backed military dictator Fulgencio Batista. The growing tension between Cuba and the USA intensified in October 1962 when Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missile sites were placed on the island. This 13-day stand-off, known…

TO CREATE the smallest DSLR currently in production, Canon had to go back to the drawing board. Rather than use existing parts from other cameras in the EOS range, parts such as the shutter mechanism were completely re-engineered to make them smaller. To reduce the size of the main circuit board, the components that populate it are more densely packed than would be the case with a conventional DSLR. The secondary mirror is also smaller, and even the sensor itself hasn’t been overlooked, it being slightly slimmer than the previous generations of Canon’s 18-millionpixel, APS-C-sized sensor. The LP-E12 battery used in the EOS 100D is also smaller than in a typical DSLR, though it is still rated at between 350 and 380 shots. In practice, the number will be less…

Help with movie MicKarchie asks A couple of years ago I was visiting Ypres and took a movie on my camera of the daily last post ceremony at the Menin Gate. Unfortunately, I took it in portrait mode rather than landscape, which means I can only watch it by turning my computer on its side. Is there a program that I can use to turn it the right way? LargeFormat replies Adobe Premier Elements allows you to rotate a clip: 1. Select the clip in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline. 2. Click the Applied Effects button. 3. Expand the Motion effect in the Applied Effects panel, and do one of the following: • Drag the underlined value to the right of Rotation. • Click Rotate Left…

THE SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGING – in association with Nikon – is one of the largest and most vibrant photographic education communities in the world. David Barrett Enrolled on Diploma in Digital Photography Age 26 Occupation Student nurse at the University of Cumbria in Lancaster Equipment Nikon D5100 with Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5, Nikon 50mm f/1.8G and Sigma 120-400mm f/4.5-5.6 lenses SPI SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGING Q When did you become interested in photography? A I’ve always enjoyed taking pictures, but this had only really consisted of holiday snaps or pictures of university nights out and nothing more serious. I got my fi rst taste for photography while in Thailand in 2007, when I took some sunset pictures on a beach and I am still really proud of them – so…

‘Socrates famously said, “the unconsidered life is not worth living”’ WITHIN the week or ten days before I wrote this column, one idiot told me that ‘we all’ live our lives on Facebook nowadays, and another idiot told me that ‘we all’ rely on smart phones. The reason I call them idiots should not be hard to fathom. I have neither a Facebook account nor a smart phone. I am far from alone in either dereliction. Their ‘we’ consists principally of shallow, stupid, often fi nancially overprivileged people such as themselves. I am no part of that ‘we’; nor do I wish to be. Do not get me wrong. I have nothing against either Facebook or smart phones for them as wants either. Nor do I believe that their users…