Innholdsfortegnelse for 01/03/2022 i Amateur Photographer

The film revival shows no sign of slowing down, which is very gratifying – it’s no longer a binary choice of film or digital, but photographers enjoying the benefits of both media. A good example of somebody who’s getting the best of both worlds is Dan Rubin, a top digital creative and passionate analogue photographer who has put together a great guide to shooting and scanning for film. In addition, darkroom expert Mike Crawford shows how film photographers can still be ‘green’ – the days of dumping gallons of dodgy chemicals down the drain have, thankfully, gone. Other big highlights in this issue include a look at Sally Mann’s award-winning work with the ancient tintype process, as well as John Wade’s round-up of 35mm film SLRs from the ‘golden age’.…

Bearded Reedling by Jayne Bond Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1, 1/2000sec at f/7.1, ISO 600 ‘This was taken at Radipole Lake Nature Reserve at Weymouth, Dorset. I’ve been to Radipole lots of times but never been lucky enough to see a bearded reedling before. The weather conditions were perfect, a warm sunny day with no wind, so on this occasion I was hopeful, but the expression “like trying to find a needle in a haystack” is very apt,’ says Jayne, an amateur photographer based in Poole, Dorset. ‘The reedlings are often low down and hidden by the reed bed but, having checked out various sites around the lake I spotted a male and a female across a small inlet. I watched them from a distance in the hope…

AN IMAGE of five whale sharks feeding on plankton at night, has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2022 title for Rafael Fernandez Caballero from Spain. The UPY competition has been run since 1965 and Fernandez’s photo, ‘Giants of the Night’, triumphed over 4,200 pictures entered by photographers from 71 countries. The winning photo was shot in the Ari Atoll off the Maldives with a Nikon Z 7II and an 8-15mm f/3.5-4.5E ED Fisheye Nikkor AF-S lens – it also won the Wide-Angle category of UPY 2022. Fernandez said, ‘It was a unique moment that no one there had thought could even be possible. Magic happens in the ocean every day, but if we don’t protect the oceans and sharks, these moments will soon be a thing of…

Dan Rubin is a well-known name in the film photography community; as well as being an accomplished film photographer and teacher who works with Ilford, Leica and other big names, he’s well established as a top digital creative who was there right at the beginning with Instagram (he currently has nearly 700,000 followers). AP first met this affable and eloquent Anglo-American photographer on a film photo walk he organised with Ilford at the Photography Show, so we’re keen to share his practical and inspiring tips for film photographers – particularly in the sphere of scanning. Design driven ‘It was my design career that led me into film photography and photography generally, but not in the usual way,’ Dan explains. ‘I’d never used a camera as a creative tool when I…

On August 20, 1619, the English privateer ship White Lion landed in the British colony of Virginia, USA, at the ineptly named Point Comfort. The 20-30 enslaved Angolans would find none. Around 350 Africans were originally kidnapped by Portuguese colonial forces and packed onto the ship San Juan Bautista en route to Vancruz, New Spain. Approaching its destination, the White Lion attacked, accompanied by the Treasurer and snatched some of the human cargo. The arrival of the enslaved marked the beginnings of two and a half bleak centuries of slavery in North America Less than 30 miles south of Point Comfort is the Dismal Swamp, an area comparable to the size of Mauritius. It’s very far from paradise. As slavery escalated in the region, escaped slaves would often seek refuge…

An 18-year-old David Bowie and his group The Manish Boys at the BBC TV centre. At the time, Bowie was still known as Davy Jones. The group performed their new single, ‘I Pity the Fool’ on the splendidly-monikered BBC show ‘Gadzooks! It’s All Happening!.” The show was broadcast on BBC2 on Monday 8 March, 1965. As you can see, Jones/Bowie is sporting lusciously long locks in the shot. Just a year before, Jones had appeared for the first time on television, championing his cause as the spokesperson for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men. He had founded the society after The Manish Boys were asked to cut their hair by the BBC ahead of an appearance booked by their manager. The Getty Images Hulton Archive is…

OPPO has announced a three-year strategic partnership with Hasselblad in order to help to introduce ‘cutting-edge camera technologies’ to its flagship Find series of mobiles. The key aim of the partnership is to focus on developing and delivering innovations in colour science to OPPO’s smartphone camera capabilities, ‘to create an improved mobile photography experience.’ The first outcome of this partnership, known as ‘Hasselblad Camera for Mobile’, is OPPO’s flagship Find X5 Pro model. It features ‘a world-first imaging experience, futuristic design, ultra-fast connectivity, and a flawless camera system’. The Find X5 Pro includes real-time raw processing, up to 20x faster 4K AI performance and a new ColorOS.…

SKYLUM has revealed its Luminar Neo AI-driven photo-editing app, which offers features such as Relight AI, Powerline Removal, Dust Spot Removal and faster image editing workflows. Luminar Neo succeeds the Luminar AI software and is available for £59 via the App Store for macOS and the Microsoft Store for Windows versions. It’s also available as a plug-in for Lightroom Classic and Photoshop and as an extension for Apple Photos. The Relight AI aspect of Luminar Neo is said to build a ‘precise 3D Depth Map of a 2D image’ to help photographers to target isolated edits of lighting and/or colour warmth for specific areas of an image. The Neo iteration of the Luminar software is said to be significantly faster than the previous Luminar AI in terms of image export…

Intersectional Geographies Until 3 April 2022, Free, Martin Parr Foundation, Paintworks, Bristol. See martinparrfoundation. for opening times In 2020, Martin Parr Foundation held an open call for a UK-based curator to present a photographic show in the Foundation’s gallery. Intersectional Geographies, curated by Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, is the result of that open call. Bringing together a selection of artists and photographers, the exhibition is designed to raise awareness of the complex relationships between some of the most pressing concerns of our time. The term ‘intersectionality’ was coined to describe the multiple and overlapping experiences of oppression, human rights and social justice. In this display, well-known and respected photographers such as Rhiannon Adam, Lisa Barnard, Miranda Pennell, David Severn and Janine Wiedel come together to show various stories and perspectives. Worthy of…

I have a lot of cameras, and acquire way more than I need – it’s worse for me as I am also a product designer, so I am fascinated by a camera’s form factor and design. But my favourites are as follows: Leicaflex SL This is my favourite 35mm SLR. A lot of people don’t know about this range, which was superseded by the Leica R series. The lenses are great, particularly the 50mm f/2 Summicron, and although they are a bit bigger than M-series glass, they render in the same way – for a lot less money. You don’t need to use a Leica, however. You can get very reliable Canon and Nikon AF film SLRs from the 1990s with quality lenses at a very reasonable price. I also…

Think of pizza I was brought up on the Exposure Triangle analogy to illustrate the factors involved in photographic exposure. Recently, when trying to assist people with understanding this exposure issue, I’ve realised that, while this analogy tells you there are three factors, it tells you nothing about the relationship and interactions between them, and this is a crucial deficiency. To my mind a better analogy is the Exposure Pizza that is divided into three slices. There are still three factors but crucially their relationship is now obvious. If you make one slice smaller, the other one or two must be made bigger to compensate. Unfortunately, it does not, any more than the Triangle, tell you about the other crucial, more subtle, exposure issue. Two of the factors are about…

IN A world where so much of photography is built around emphasising colour saturation in images, it is refreshing to find a product which makes its mark by simplifying what you are recording and gives you less information rather than more. Trying Ilford Ortho Plus for the first time has been an enjoyable exercise, and one that has put experimentation very much back on my agenda. Fully exploring the possibilities offered by this film may well end up being an expensive exercise for me, but it is already providing interesting results which I have sought in vain to produce by other means.…

Fuel for the Soul by Roshni Shastri Canon EOS M100 at 70mm, 1/400sec at f/5, ISO 100 Postgraduate medical student Roshni says, ‘This photo was taken on a hike between Carnedd Dafydd and Carnedd Llewelyn looking out at Carnedd Y Filiast. My hiking activities have drastically reduced since starting my course! However, I try to explore new places when I can. This was a solo hike, and I recommend it for the incredible views I had. It wasn’t a particularly difficult hike either, with minimal scrambling!’ See Instagram @_namastayinbed…

DOZENS of iconic images from NASA’s Apollo space programme are going under the hammer at the Bruun Rasmussen auction house in Copenhagen on 9 March 2022. A total of 74 NASA photographs, from the Apollo 8 to 17 missions, will be up for auction at 2pm on 9 March. The images come from a private collection and have a pre-sale estimated value of DKK 1.5 million (approx. £168,000). All the astronauts participating in NASA’s lunar missions were equipped with specially adapted Hasselblad cameras. The images include William Anders’ (Apollo 8) famous Earthrise shot. To discover more go to www.bruun-rasmussen.dk.…

5 March 1947 AS FUEL costs and supply shortages wreak havoc on businesses and household budgets in 2022, take comfort from the fact we’ve been here before. Here’s the Editor’s leader from 75 years ago this week. ‘The slowly-gathering fuel crisis, accelerated by the unpleasantly seasonable weather, was upon us too suddenly to allow us to warn readers of the suspension of two successive issues of Amateur Photographer,’ wrote ALM Sowerby, ‘but we hope the publicity accorded in the daily papers to the position of weekly journals as a whole gave all necessary information. Our issue dated February 12th was distributed as usual and this issue is the first since then. So far as we can trace, the only other occasion on which Amateur Photographer has missed an issue since…

Bayeux ● www.bayeux.co.uk This is one of the most experienced pro labs in London, with a great team which seems to have been there forever! Kirklees Photographic ● www.kirkleesphotographic.com A newer lab, but it does amazing work. Costs are competitive as it is outside London so I send them a lot of personal work. They only do high-res scanning (ideal, for the reasons outlined in the main feature), and offer useful specific upgrades like 16-bit b&w scanning. This is another good way to work, as you get so much more tonal information. Outside of the UK I also recommend: Carmencita in Spain www.carmencitafilmlab.com and Thackers in the US, a new outfit in my home town of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It’s run by a keen young team: www.thackersfilmlab.com…

● From £11 ● www.samsung.com/uk/memory-storage I REMEMBER once paying £60 for a second-hand 1GB hard drive for my PC. It was roughly the size of a book, and could hardly store anything by today’s standards. Now you can get 128GB of storage in a microSD card that’s smaller than a pea at a fraction of the price. Talk about progress! Using the provided adapter, you can use these in any camera that supports SD cards. You’ll also find they’re perfect for smartphones, tablets, security cameras, dashcams, audio recorders, and even the Nintendo Switch. Here we’re looking at Samsung’s PRO Plus microSD cards, available in 128, 256 and 512GB sizes for £22, £46 and £94 respectively. The EVO Plus range is available in 64, 128, 256, and 512GB capacities for £11,…

One of the most influential photography books on my own photographic career is Looking For Love, photographs by Tom Wood of Chelsea Reach nightclub, New Brighton, Merseyside. The book was first published in 1989 by Cornerhouse Publications. I must have seen it shortly after. It taught me that you didn’t have to get on an airplane to the frontline of a foreign war to take photographs, you could just get on a bus and pop down the pub. The cover photograph is an awkward and uncomfortable image of a man grappling with a woman, his lips planted on her ear as she turns away. Inside, the mainly colour photographs romp through the nightclub, the darkness ravaged by Wood’s raw flash exposing the sweaty guests he met along the way. There…