Innholdsfortegnelse for March - May 2017 i Photo Review

Although he’d been taking pictures since his late teens, it wasn’t until his early twenties while working in Bangladesh that he really started to get serious about his photography. It was 2012 and Jonathon was a young environmental scientist studying how rural Bangladesh was dealing with climate change. ‘I was pretty much documenting everything I did each day through photography. I’d use it to remember people's faces, to record different households that I'd interviewed and to keep track of different locations that had been most affected by climate change already. It was the first time I’d really felt like my photography had a purpose.’ At the time he was using a DSLR, but when his project in Bangladesh finished and he began travelling more frequently, he found the big camera…

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‘All I knew was that I wanted to take photographs.’ ‘It was hit by a drunk driver. I had every limb in plaster – broken knees, ankles, arms, ribs, and nose.’ It was 1987 and Russell Shakespeare was 24 years old. He’d wanted to be a photographer in his teens, but after finishing school he’d reluctantly taken his father’s advice to learn a trade instead. In due course he became a qualified carpenter and for some years he earned a living swinging a hammer. But he never lost his enthusiasm for taking pictures and just six months before the calamitous accident, he’d enrolled at the Queensland College of Art to pursue his dream. The smash left him flat on his back for three months and he was still recuperating…

It's common for today's cameras to support ISO sensitivities of 25,600 or even higher. Yet, while many photographers see this as advantageous, few understand the real relationship between sensitivity and image quality. And it's more complex than you might think. ISO sensitivity is one of the key parameters that comprise exposure, the other two being the lens aperture and the shutter speed setting. Correct exposure requires balancing all three to deliver the best picture quality. It often boils down to deciding what’s the lowest ISO setting you can use, given the aperture and shutter speed settings you've selected (or been forced to accept) before you encounter other problems like potential for image noise and the dynamic range recorded, along with management of camera shake and aesthetic issues associated with depth…

‘...it’s important to recognise the existence of two very different forms of photography and make a clear distinction between them.’ The division in Australia between what could be described as the realist and the interpretive schools in landscape photography has developed to the point where each group now has its own photographic competition! For some landscape photographers, the aim is to get the shot at the instant the shutter is pressed, to render the composition ‘as is’. Iconic Australian landscape photographer Ken Duncan has established the Real Australia Landscape Awards ‘for people who want to express their creativity through photo realism.’ ‘I believe it’s important to recognise the existence of two very different forms of photography and make a clear distinction between them. I separate these two diverse…

‘Photographers want to capture what they see, but more importantly these days, also what they feel.’ To say that Steve Parish has been a phenomenon in Australian photography is no exaggeration. In fact it’s an understatement. At its peak in the mid- and late-1990s, Steve Parish Publishing was wholesaling up to $15 million worth of greeting cards, postcards, books, calendars, wrapping paper and novelty items each year to 3600 retail outlets, including 1700 post offices. All of that mountain of product bore Parish’s trademark signature and was based on his photos of Australian flora, fauna, and natural landscapes. Hundreds of thousands of them. In 2008 he was awarded the Order of Australia medal for his life’s work in publishing. I’ve interviewed Parish before – 22 years ago, when his already…

Most photographers know the best way to preserve digital images is to print them. The best place to start is to acquire a printer, and that's where the first complication appears. You must choose which type of inks the printer uses: dye or pigment. Each has different characteristics that can influence the appearance of the print, the surfaces it can be printed on and its long-term durability. So which type of printer is best for you? Dye vs Pigment Dye inks are liquid, which means they can be forced through very fine nozzles and should excel at reproducing fine details. They are cheaper to manufacture and formulators have plenty of colours to choose from. They can produce inks with a wider colour gamut and greater colour intensity than pigment inks.…

Welcome Rain By Hayden Cannon Canon 7D Mark ll; 100-400mm f/4.5-5 IS L series with 1.4x tele-converter; 1/125s; ISO 100 This was a great moment. I had been house sitting in a place called Winnejup, Southwest Western Australia. It had been raining non-stop for a week. I woke up to a little bit of sunshine so got the camera, quad bike and dog and went to shift the cows. Of course it started to rain when I saw this Welcome Swallow sitting on the fence. How could I resist? I really wanted to capture the rain in the image and wanted it to create movement where I was happy with the effect. I am unsure on the composition – I was rather wet but happy with the resulting photo nevertheless.…