Innholdsfortegnelse for March - May 2015 i Photo Review

Adelaide-based photographer Hilary Hann spent her formative years in a world very different from the sedate and orderly City of Churches. Born in Singapore, her family spent time in North Borneo before moving to East Africa and settling in Kenya where she was raised. Her emotional connection to Kenya and East Africa, its people and its spectacular animal life, profoundly informs who she is as an artist and a person. ‘My work,’ she writes in her blog, ‘is the product of passion, love and deep respect for the land and the people of East Africa. In reality, it is an extension of the spiritual response I have towards African wildlife, its struggle to maintain relevance in a diminishing wilderness and its importance to the lives and history of people the…

Most photographers enjoy the challenge of depicting action in still photos, whether they shoot sports, dance, wildlife or simply family activities. The best shots capture the essence of the movement – speed, flow or position – in the instant recorded in the frame. One popular way to record motion involves ‘freezing’ the action at its peak. The other depicts the flow of the action and can involve long exposures or a series of multiple exposures covering it. In this feature we will look at equipment you could use for different situations and in different vantage points. No matter what your budget, level of experience, or ability to carry weight, there are plenty of camera/lens combinations to choose from. Factors Affecting Action Capture Photographers must deal with five vital criteria when…

Monk by Ben Hamey First winner of Image Review 3 Fuji X100S, 23mm, 1/140s, f/4, ISO 800 I met this monk on a train in Kanchanaburi, he was really proud to show me a picture of himself in the book he is holding up (he is bottom left). Don’s response Ben Hamey's "Monk" is one of those images that was just meant to be rendered in luminous black and white. Without the distraction of colour, the viewer is drawn straight into this timeless and slightly mysterious scene by the Monk's quietly intense expression as he holds up the opened book to the camera. Having read the caption, we know what he's doing and why, but this is one of those cases where not knowing the back story might have allowed…

The Robert Frank Collection http://bit.ly/pr63ne1 The largest collection of American photographer Robert Frank’s work is held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Recently the curators have made it possible to view not only his publications and exhibitions, but his contact sheets for each project. It’s like looking over the shoulder of the master, and all you need is the link above and a web browser to do it. Backing up to the Cloud http://bit.ly/pr63ne2 Photographer David Coleman’s exhaustive - but not exhausting - examination of the advantages of backing your images up to cloud services such as Dropbox or Google Drive is a must-read for anyone thinking of diversifying their back up strategy. His benchmark is 1TB of RAW files. As he puts it, ‘1TB suggests you’re…

Our ‘Seeing Red’ Challengers saw red in places expected and unexpected. And very much in the latter category was Naomi Kevin’s bunch of red balloons bobbing gaily in the wake of a passing bicyclist. As always, it was a very strong field, but for some reason that cheerfully frivolous display caught our fancy and we decided to give the nod - and the prize of a Lowepro Pro Roller Lite 250 AW to Naomi. As the racing callers like to say, you could’ve thrown a blanket over the runners’ up. Leading the charge this time was the ever-reliable Robert Zappia who apparently takes his camera along even when he goes to the movies. Keen-eyed erstwhile beachcomber Norman Shapro found just the right rock, and Susan Shanta deployed her macro lens…

Dr Des Crawley grew up in Sydney’s western suburbs. He started his working life as a primary school teacher in a NSW country town in the late 1950s and retired as Professor and Director for Digital Media at the University of Western Sydney in 2001. He has always been a photographer. There is an unbroken, if circuitous, connection joining that first career role to the last. ‘Fundamentally, I’m a teacher,’ he said. ‘When I started teaching in a primary school in the country I found there were so very few teaching aids that the quickest and easiest way for me to bring the world to these youngsters in the bush was though photography, so I grabbed my father’s Voigtlander camera and started making slides about all sorts of ordinary everyday…

Most photographers are aware that the sensors in their cameras would be ‘colour blind’ if it weren’t for colour filtration. In most cameras, the sensor is overlaid with a Bayer filter that selectively transmits light in the red, green and blue wavelengths to make each photodiode in the sensor record light of a specific wavelength. At the end of the exposure, the camera’s image processor counts how many photons were collected by each photosite to determine the intensity of the particular colour and then examines adjacent photosites to pick up small variations in intensity and wavelength (hue). Integration of this information across a group of photosites determines the colour of each pixel in the image, a process known as Bayer demosaicing. Most camera manufacturers use proprietary demosaicing algorithms that can…

Why do you take a special interest in photographing lightning? I’m not what you’d call a daredevil, but I always get a rush from it. When I was a young kid, I was scared of storms with thunder and lightning. When I got a bit older, I started admiring them and I’d stand outside watching them. I started photographing them about seven years ago [at the age of 25]. You live in Perth, but I believe you go much further afield. My partner, Arek, and I will jump in the car and travel inland or north or south if we see a storm cell developing on the online radar reports. We always carry a laptop with an internet connection so we can see what’s happening. Last October we went on…

Why Visit? The Tongariro Alpine Crossing has been heralded as the best one-day trek available in New Zealand. The walk is located in New Zealand’s oldest national park, which is also classified as a World Heritage Site. The total distance covered on the crossing is 19.4 kilometres, passing through some outstanding volcanic scenery. Dramatic landforms include the volcanic peaks of Ngauruhoe (Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings movies) and Mount Tongariro, plus views to Mount Ruapehu, another active volcano. Where is it? The Tongariro National Park is located in the central North Island of New Zealand. It is the closest national park to Auckland, and is easily accessible from State Highway 1. The nearest towns are Turangi, National Park and Ohakune. The main entrance to the park is…

Long exposure photography is often associated with ‘fine art’ pictorialism because it enables photographers to achieve surreal and unworldly effects, often from quite banal subjects. Most cameras aren’t designed specifically for long exposure photography but you can obtain worthwhile results with appropriate equipment and correct exposure and focusing. In this feature we will look at the subjects you can photograph and the shooting techniques you should use when you use the essential piece of equipment required for long exposures: a tripod. Mounting your camera on a tripod enables you to use much slower shutter speeds than are possible with a hand-held camera – even if supported by stabilisation. The other important parameter is the ability to adjust shutter speeds on your camera and use exposures of at least 30 seconds,…