Innholdsfortegnelse for 17-Feb-2018 i Amateur Photographer

Lomography’s silver jubilee sees launch of rare film models To celebrate 25 years of Lomography, the brand has announced the launch of three limited-edition models of the LC-A+, LC-A 120 and LC-Wide film cameras. The special editions of the models feature a brown leather coating, with an embossed message on the back. Prices will start from £289 for the LC-A+. Photography Show 2018 announces Outdoor stage Organisers of The Photography Show have announced a new stage with a theme of ‘The Great Outdoors’. The stage will feature live demos and talks covering different approaches to outdoor photography. Ambassadors from Olympus, Sony, Panasonic, Fujifilm, Master Photographers Association and more will be featured in the line-up. Reuters banned from Olympic opening ceremony After accidentally leaking photos from the Winter Olympics opening ceremony,…

An exhibition of nine contemporary British photographers will open at London's gallery@oxo on 11 April. The winner of the Black+White Photographer of the Year 2018 contest, Rachael Talibart, will be one of the photographers included in the line-up, which also includes Doug Chinnery, Valda Bailey and Cheryl Hamer. One of the aims of the exhibition is to showcase the diversity and breadth of contemporary photography, while also demonstrating the wide range of techniques and ideas employed by current photographers. Exhibition organiser Beata Moore said, ‘I wanted to show that contemporary photography means something different to each of us. You will see everything from big views, intimate landscapes, cityscapes, vibrant splashes of colour, dramatic black & white images and photos that look like a painting. Whatever your taste, you will come…

Talk about being in the right place at the right time – imagine being a 19-year-old rock fan with a camera and getting paid by NME to shoot gigs. Oh, and it’s also London in 1968 – an incredibly fruitful and influential year in popular music, spawning music albums such as the White Album, Beggars Banquet and Electric Ladyland. It sounds like a scene from a movie, but this is the real-life story of Alec Byrne, who went from being a teenage mod with a job in a press darkroom to shooting some of the greatest names in rock and roll. Alec has recently released a book, London Rock: The Unseen Archive, which chronicles his glory days from 1967-1977, along with an exhibition at London’s Proud Gallery, and we couldn’t…

At the age of 16 Jeffrey Milstein spent three hours every Sunday sweeping out a hangar at Santa Monica Airport in LA. In exchange for his labour he was offered flying lessons in a Cessna 150 – an hour in the air for every three he worked on the ground. By then Milstein was a self-confessed ‘plane nut’, building model airplanes in his spare time, devouring books on aviation, and looking skywards whenever he heard a jet engine. ‘I think it was because I had a crappy childhood and the planes in the sky made me think I could get away,’ he confides. ‘I also had a romantic idea of becoming a barnstormer [a name given to stunt pilots in the 1920s], but that was another era.’ He received his…

The legendary Ansel Adams once said: ‘There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept' While there is a lot of truth to this statement, many of you will have had times when you've nailed a great moment, only to notice on review that your focus was off. Despite knowing you aimed for your subject's eye and the camera beeped to signal correct focus had been achieved, the only thing sharp is the tip of your subject's nose. While it can be frustrating, it's not always down to user error. Sometimes, there is a discrepancy between the AF system and the camera's sensor. This is because the AF system of a DSLR is typically housed at the base of the body, while the imaging sensor sits at…

Nikon D600, 16-35mm, 2 secs at f/4, ISO 100 This minimalist monochromatic scene was uploaded to our Twitter page using the hashtag #appicoftheweek. It was taken by photographer Ryan Kuhl. He tells us: ‘The Mere at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk is over 3,000 years old and one of my favourite haunts. This is partly because it is Ed Sheeran's inspiration for the song Castle on the Hill , and because I live close by I can check the weather conditions from my bed and make that early/late decision on whether to venture out. With the recent flooding and natural backdrop of early morning fog, the conditions were perfect to capture this simple composition.' Win!  Each week we choose our favourite picture on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Twitter or the reader gallery…

Fujifilm has announced its latest compact system camera. The X-A5 is its smallest and lightest X-series CSC to date. Aimed primarily at beginners, the X-A5 shares similar retro styling to cameras in the X-series lineup. Other features include a 180° tilting rear LCD screen, built-in Bluetooth connectivity and an expanded battery life which sees each charge capable of lasting around 450 shots. The X-A5 weighs just 496g when combined with the new Fujinon XC 15-45mm f/3.5-5.6 OIS PZ (see top right), making it the lightest camera and zoom lens combination in the X series. A 24.2MP APS-C-sized sensor joins a phase-detection autofocus system. A newly designed image-processing engine has a processing speed that is 1.5 times quicker than that in previous X-A generations. The X-A5 is the first X-A camera…

When I photographed Sir Terry Wogan at his home, I had no idea that he was ill, let alone that my pictures would be the last portraits made of the veteran TV and radio broadcaster. It was the second time I had done a shoot with him and both my experiences were very different. The first shoot took place in Spring Studios, London, in January 2006. I was commissioned by his publisher, Orion Books, to shoot the cover image of his autobiography, Mustn’t Grumble. I had previously photographed a number of broadcasters of a similar generation, such as Michael Parkinson and David Frost, and found them professional but also quite brusque and intimidating. On that first shoot, Terry was similarly ‘old-school’ and just wanted to get the pictures done. He…

Heading off on a photography tour is great fun, but trusting the entire trip to the performance of one camera means putting all your eggs in one basket. This was the problem I faced as I planned a trip to Senja, Norway's second largest island, which is well inside the Arctic Circle. Any camera needed to tick a variety of boxes. First, it had to offer decent resolution, big enough to make prints larger than A3. Second, the camera had to be robust – the Arctic Circle can be an unforgiving place, so this certainly wasn't the location to take smaller mirrorless cameras that burn through batteries in seconds and are allergic to wet, cold weather. Finally, and this was the big one, the camera had to perform well at…

In 2011 a print of Rhine II (the re-mastered version seen here) by the German photographer and professor Andreas Gursky fetched a whopping £2.7 million at an auction. This three-metre wide picture shows a stretch of the river Rhine outside Düsseldorf, but rather than a romantic view of the landscape it's more akin to a contemporary abstract painting comprising several horizontal bands of colour. Gursky is well known for his creative vision as well as for the level of digital manipulation he carries out on his pictures. The new ‘digitally tweaked' version of the Rhine II photograph will be on display alongside 60 more of Gursky's pictures at the Hayward Gallery in London until 22 April 2018. It's the first major retrospective of his work in a UK institution –…

With 19,000 individual entries, the 11th International Garden Photographer of the Year competition closed on a high, and the results are now in. IGPOTY celebrates all things botanical, from plant portraits to grand floral vistas. It’s open to photographers of all ages and welcomes work from amateurs and professionals alike. This year, the overall title has been awarded to Marcio Cabral from Brazil for his picture ‘Cerrado Sunrise’ (see right). ‘Marcio has captured a spectacular vision of plant life in the cerrado, displaying the flowers of Paepalanthus chiquitensis, stretching out on countless filaments towards the first light of the rising sun,’ says Tyrone McGlinchey, Managing Director of IGPOTY. ‘As ecosystems such as the Brazilian cerrado are under threat, this image urges us all to document, understand and protect our vulnerable…

ALTHOUGH the aurora borealis can be seen in some parts of northern England and Scotland, high-latitude locations such as Senja maximise your chances of capturing stunning images during the winter months of October to March. The lights are, of course, never guaranteed, so apps like Aurora Watch can send notifications to your phone when high solar activity is expected. Capturing the lights requires a long shutter speed, so a tripod is a must. On clear nights, your camera's AF system should be able to focus accurately on stars, but if you plan to include foreground interest in your frame, take an LED torch and light the foreground to help establish focus before switching to manual focus. Your settings will depend on the strength of the aurora and any ambient light,…

How does it work? Q Over Christmas I had a lot of fun playing with the Live Composite mode on my Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II. I am still not sure how this magic works! Being able to make long exposures to show light motion without over-exposing the whole frame is remarkable. I'd really like to understand how this works. Yul Carter A For the benefit of readers not familiar with the Olympus Live Composite mode, this produces time-exposure images where only changes above a threshold brightness are recorded after the initially exposed frame. It’s very similar to Photoshop’s Lighten Blend mode, a more traditional technique, particularly popular for star trail photography. With this you take a series of exposures and import them as layers. The Lighten Blend function creates…