Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2017 i Australian Photography

Eagle-eyed readers of AP might notice a few changes in this, the January issue of Australian Photography mag. A new year, a new leaf and all that. This is our first redesign in five or so years and although it’s quite subtle, I think it reflects a more modern look to what is one of the oldest photography publications still out there. Inside are all the features that continue to be as popular as ever but given a new and updated feel. We know it’s the advice from our pros that keep people buying the mag, along with beautiful images from some of the most talented photographers in the world. So as part of the redesign we’ve made an effort to make these the stars of the show. Bigger spreads…

NIKON D5600 ANNOUNCED NIKON is set to release its D5600 mid-range DSLR which features SnapBridge (Wi-Fi + Bluetooth + NFC) as well as an updated touchscreen and a time-lapse feature. Like its D5500 predecessor, it uses a familiar 24MP sensor and EXPEED 4 processor. According to Nikon, the DX-Format D5600 is equipped with a Vari-angle LCD monitor that flips out and rotates, making it possible to shoot from nearly any angle. The touch-screen operation popular on the D5500 has been updated with the addition of a crop function for use during playback zoom, and a frame advance bar that lets users scroll through images in playback mode. The D5600 also incorporates the time-lapse movie function equivalent to that of the more advanced Nikon D7200, enabling users to capture changing scenes…

KELLY RYAN The polarities of parenthood EDITOR’S COMMENT “This image is one I took for a selfie assignment for my photography studies,” says Kelly Ryan. “I wanted to capture the polarities of motherhood I am experiencing at the moment. The light and the dark, a teething baby crying and the stillness and warmth when he snuggles in against me and falls asleep. The difference in emotions between the days where I feel on top of things and the days when I feel like the house is an absolute shambles. The polarities in the human experience is one of my favourite concepts to explore.” This is a really nice composite shot – and you’ve done well to do more than just combine two images and be done with it. I really…

My father's camera collection started my boyhood fascination with film photography. In the early 1980s, I upgraded my first SLR camera, a Mamiya NC1000s to the Canon A-1, which remained my camera of choice for 20 years until I converted to digital photography. My first experience in 1996 with one of the first consumer digital cameras, an Apple QuickTake 100, was disappointing. It wasn’t until I acquired an Olympus C-2500L a few years later that I started to transition from film to digital. For years, I photographed indiscriminately, learning mostly from trial and error. Gradually, I developed a fondness for portraiture and people photography. My interest in nude photography began when I discovered Andre de Dienes’s classic book, “Nudes, My Camera and I”. My interest remained academic until, a few…

All countries have iconic cultural, landscape and historic facets that attract people to explore their country. For Cuba, two icons stand out - cigars and rum. Even with the downturn in smoking, people are fascinated with the mystique of this tradition that dates back thousands of years. It took the Spanish to commercialise the leaf we know as tobacco. And as a result, Cuba has hundreds of fields that are specially tilled and cultivated for a simple yet iconic product - the Cuban Cigar. Our recent visit explored the chain of production, through to rolling and its historic link with Cuban Rum. Who would have imagined that such a product would become so tightly linked to one country? Cigars are seen everywhere in Cuba. I found a lady in a…

The very first photographs were once all shot in black and white. This dates back to 1839, after Mr. Daguerre discovered a method to fix an image captured inside the camera obscura – he called this the Daguerreotype. Black and white photography was the only available medium, at least until 1936, when colour photography was born with the invention of Kodachrome. Overnight, this invention opened up the world of colour photography. Decades later black and white photography remains prevalent among digital photography with almost all consumer-level cameras offering a black and white (monochrome) feature. It’s also easy to transform colour photographs to monochrome in the digital darkroom, your editing software. However, just because it’s simple to achieve black and white images, it’s not as straightforward as going out shooting in…

Travel and photography go hand in hand. From the beautiful beaches on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, to the nomadic people of Mongolia, or perhaps the skyscrapers of New York, travel opens up new experiences, foods and characters. Guess what? All of this relates to new photo opportunities! Travel can be a complex undertaking, especially if you are looking at several weeks or months on the road. Perhaps you have never been overseas? How about the big OZ road trip? I have heard many people say “one day'. The following are some of my thoughts, tips and suggestions to help you optimise your travel and photo interests. Of course, an easy starting point is: “don’t say one day!” ON YOUR OWN OR WITH A GROUP? I started travelling with a…

Kimbe Bay on the north coast of Papua New Guinea’s New Britain is flanked on three sides by rainforest smothered volcanoes. It’s an idyllic setting, with azure waters and a patchwork of coral reefs and seagrass beds lined by thickets of mangroves. In 1996 a type of reserve known as a Locally Managed Marine Area was established by communities beside the bay. Villages sustainably manage their own marine resources and some areas are regulated, which in Kimbe means that fishing is forbidden on some reefs close to shore. To demonstrate the community link to the marine environment, I asked a pair of local divers if I could photograph them catching fish, and spent an afternoon watching as they used hand-crafted spears on the shallow reef. Treading lightly across the sharp…

RAW FILES & COLOUR SPACE? QTowards the end of the Colour-space confusion answer (AP Q&A, May 2016) you mention that "When I shoot in RAW and convert to JPEG I have to convert that file to the sRGB colour space so there is always the potential for things to go wrong." This touches on what seems to be a very important point; RAW files apparently don't lock in colour space. Could you confirm this? John Bean, via email. AAlthough not an acronym, RAW has traditionally been used to denote all the data which is captured by the camera’s sensor. This is in a proprietary file format, varying from one camera manufacturer to another. Even worse is that the precise format will change from one model to another (and even between…

NATURE CATEGORY WINNER. AUDUN RIKARDSEN (NORWAY) During winter in northern Norway, large biomasses of herring have overwintered in fjords during 3-4 dark winter months in recent years. This has attracted hundreds of whales and fishing vessels. The killer whales have learned the sound of the boats when they haul their herring bag nets and get attracted to the boats in hopes of an easy meal of leftover herring. After planning the shot for 18 months, Audun Rikardsen took this shot with a single exposure using a self-made underwater housing. CANON EOS 5D MARK III,11-24MM F/4LENS, 1/200S @ F6.3, ISO 640. OPEN COLOUR CATEGORY WINNER, DANNY YEN SIN WONG (MALAYSIA) In a small village in southern Vietnam near Phan Rang, a woman wearing a typical cone hat is creating a fishing…

DAVE METCALF & MARK RAYNER Bali, Java (Indonesia) Myanmar Montana (USA) Alaska (USA) PETE DOBRE Botswana New Zealand USA Adelaide (SA) WORLD PHOTO ADVENTURES Norfolk Island Lamington NP (QLD) Fraser Island (QLD) Kangaroo Island (SA) Madagascar The Andes (South America) Japan Antarctica Rwanda AURORA EXPEDITIONS South Georgia Greenland Antarctica Scotland Russia European Artic Papua New Guinea Kimberley Coast (WA) Patagonia JENKIN PHOTOGRAPHY South Africa Darwin, Kakadu NP (NT), Perth (WA), Far North Qld, Daintree River and Atherton Tablelands (QLD) LEN METCALF Blue Mountains, South Coast (NSW), Cradle Mountain (Tas) South Island (NZ) DEAN COOPER Tasmania South West WA Great Ocean Road (Vic) King Island (Tas) Wilsons Prom (Vic) New Zealand (South Island) Japan BLUE DOG PHOTOGRAPHY Outback Australia Cambodia Japan Norway Heron & Fraser islands (QLD) Kangaroo island (SA) PINETREES…