Innholdsfortegnelse for 7/23/24 i Amateur Photographer

7 days A week in photography The 44th Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA), named after the Leica 35mm film pioneer, has announced its shortlist for the main and newcomer categories. British photographer Emily Garthwaite is among the 12 nominees for her work, Tears of the Tigris. This followed her 1900km journey through Turkey to Iraq along the banks of the river Tigris, where she examined political loyalties, ethnic ties, national borders and changing geography. The river is on the brink of an environmental disaster which will affect roughly 30 million people who live in the river’s catchment area, threatening the region’s rich cultural heritage. The winners of the LOBA 2024 main and newcomer awards will be announced on 10 October, and the award ceremony will be combined with a celebration…

My first encounter with Jeremy Clarkson was in 2001, when I was commissioned to photograph him for the magazine Arena. At that time, he was in his early 40s and had presented motoring show Top Gear for more than ten years, as well as other programmes including his own talk show from 1998-2000. Even so, he wasn’t as famous as he is today and in my experience his personality was quite different. He was living in Bayswater, London, and I felt relaxed as I was buzzed up to his nondescript modern flat. He hadn’t evolved into the intimidating presence he would later become, and was more like Big Bird from Sesame Street, stressing about the type of images we should take. Back then, I used to show my more nervous…

● £64-£89 ● kentfaith.co.uk The K&F Concept Nano-X Series Variable ND4-64&CPL MRC is one of a select few filters that provide separate control of both polarisation and neutral density. Polarising filters are extremely useful to photographers, as they can enhance or suppress reflections, saturate colours, or deepen blue skies. Meanwhile, variable neutral density (VND) filters enable the use of long shutter speeds for motion blur effects. They’re also invaluable for video, as they can balance the exposure to achieve a desired shutter speed and aperture. Combining both filters into one unit is potentially very handy. VND filters work by rotating two polarisers relative to each other, so this filter has two independently rotating sections. Firstly, twisting the front section relative to the rear via a pair of orange grips controls…

Photography can be hugely beneficial for anyone facing a range of challenges, be they physical or mental. A great example is Alfie Bowen, a UK-based photographer diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. He’s just published a fascinating collection of his images of wild horses, so we were keen to find out more. ‘My discovery of, and obsession with, photography came as a result of my life-long obsession with animals,’ Alfie explains. ‘My first word was “mallard” after the duck species, and having exhausted all the books, magazines and TV programmes about animals I was looking for a new way to satisfy my obsession. I stumbled across my mother’s tiny compact camera, and began trying to photograph flowers and bugs in the garden – that was where it all began. Photographing animals…

There is just a week or so left to enter the OPPO imagine IF Photography Awards, organised by the Chinese smartphone maker. The top prize is $24,000 (£18,895), with four Silver Awards, ten Bronze Awards, and Youth Special Awards also on offer, alongside honourable mentions. The judges include Steve McCurry of ‘Afghan Girl’ fame. Shown here is one of last year’s Silver Award winners, shot on an OPPO Find X6 Pro by Do Anh Vu from Vietnam. Entries close on 28 July, and images must have been taken on a smartphone. To enter, see www.oppo.com/en/imagine-if/…

Testbench IN THE FIELD The year is 2024, and that means it’s the 20th anniversary of something very important. No, I’m not talking about the launch of Facebook, or even the landing of NASA’s Opportunity and Spirit rovers on the face of Mars. In fact, it’s 20 years since the birth of the Epson R-D1, the world’s first digital rangefinder – and quite possibly the most amazing digital camera you’ve never heard of. Even if you do know all about the Epson R-D1, the chances are you’ve never seen one in the flesh. Based on the Voigtländer Bessa-R series of 35mm film rangefinders, and specifically the ‘R-2’, it’s a camera that doesn’t look, feel, or shoot like it’s from this century. And of course, that is a huge part…

When was the club founded? The club was formed in 1987 in the village of Kempsey, directly south of Worcester. Its membership, originally drawn from the immediate area, has grown to include people from Worcestershire and its adjoining counties. What does your club offer new members? We encourage, support and give guidance to new members, and are fortunate to have a good number of very experienced photographers who are willing to share their time, knowledge and expertise. Describe a typical club meeting The club’s programme now operates in a hybrid fashion, consisting of both Zoom-based events (particularly for talks, software-related technical sessions and DPI competitions) and physical meetings (particularly for print competitions, photographic and social meet-ups, and equipment-related technical sessions). It runs from September to August, with fewer meetings during…

Accelerated Canon’s Accelerated Capture technology employs a second processor to speed up the cameras. Eye control Both cameras can determine the subject you’re looking at in the viewfinder, and then focus on it. Storage The EOS R1 employs two CFexpress Type B cards, while the R5 Mark II has one CFexpress Type B and one UHS-II SD slot. Power The R1 uses the same LP-E19 battery as the R3 and EOS-1D X Mark III. The R5 Mark II gets an uprated LP-E6P battery. Canon has revealed a pair of high-end full-frame cameras for professional and serious enthusiast photographers. Firstly, the EOS R1 is designed primarily for sports and action and is the firm’s first mirrorless model to sport the flagship ‘1-series’ designation. It shoots 24MP stills at up to 40…

Sony has announced the ZV-E10 II camera designed for video, vlogging and content creation. Key features include a new 26MP APS-C CMOS sensor with a faster readout speed than its predecessor, the ZV-E10; support for LUT colour grading; full touchscreen control; and an upgraded NP-FZ100 battery for longer battery life. When shooting videos and stills, users can also choose from ten Creative Look options, including two ‘Vivid’ options, black & white, and sepia; these can be further tweaked into six custom styles if required. The Cinematic Vlog setting, meanwhile, automatically adjusts the aspect ratio, frame rate, and autofocus transition speeds, with extra ‘Looks’ available to enhance skin tones or emphasise specific colours. The ZV-E10 II is relatively lightweight too, at 292g including battery and SD card. In addition, Sony has…

In 2017, award-winning filmmaker Lee Shulman founded what has become one of the largest collections of amateur photography in the world. The Anonymous Project features nearly a million Kodachrome slides, mostly American family photos taken in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. The subjects are unknown, but the situations immediately familiar. Having exhibited them at Arles and produced several books (one of them with Martin Parr) his latest venture is a collaboration with the acclaimed Senegalese self-portraitist Omar Victor Diop, and it is a work of genius. In Being There, Omar is cleverly inserted into a selection of family situations as if he were part of the family. The presence of an African man into domestic situations in white, middle-class, segregated America creates a series of absurd and often amusing scenes,…

LENS TEST Testbench The Tamron 50-300mm F/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD is a telephoto zoom designed for use on full-frame mirrorless cameras. It’s available in Sony E mount only and costs £819. It can also be used on APS-C cameras, giving a 75-450mm equivalent range. This type of 300mm telezoom has been distinctly overlooked by manufacturers recently, in favour of 100-400mm optics. It’s not clear why, as such lenses are considerably smaller, lighter, and more affordable. This makes them a tempting choice if you’re on a tighter budget, or don’t fancy lugging around a lens that weighs well over a kilogram. While this 50-300mm clearly follows on from Tamron’s older 70-300mm F/4.5-6.3 Di III RXD, it’s a new lens in its own right. It gains built-in optical stabilisation, a…

DSLR Lenses Interchangeable lenses come in a huge array of types for shooting different kinds of subjects IN GENERAL, the easiest way to expand the kinds of pictures you can take is by buying different types of lenses. For example, telephoto lenses let you zoom in on distant subjects, while macro lenses enable close-ups of small objects. Large-aperture lenses allow you to isolate subjects against blurred backgrounds, or shoot in low light without having to raise the ISO too high. Meanwhile, all-in-one superzooms cover a wide range of subjects, but usually with rather lower optical quality. Lens mounts Each manufacturer has its own lens mount and most aren’t compatible with one another. For example, a Canon DSLR can’t use Nikon lenses, although you can use independent brands if you get…