Innholdsfortegnelse for September - November 2017 i Photo Review

The issue of street photographers taking candid photographs of strangers in public places without their consent has long been controversial. In Australia, you can usually take photographs of people in a public place without asking permission, provided they won't be used commercially. (If you plan to sell your shots, a model release form signed by the subjects you are photographing is required.) One of the enjoyments of visiting different places is to see how people live. It's natural for photographers to want to capture 'slice of life' shots as a part of their recorded memories. Unfortunately, it's not that simple; whether you can legitimately take candid shots of people going about their daily lives depends on local laws, which are varied and occasionally ambiguous. In most countries, consent is not…

BumbleBee By Robin Yong Canon 5D Mark lll; 100mm Macro lens The Surma tribe of the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, live in the place where mankind probably began. The children and teens appear innocent and beautiful, with their ornate body paint work and exotic head decorations made of flowers. The place appears peaceful and untouched, but in reality, life here is harsh with the tribespeople at frequent wars with neighbouring tribes over cattle grazing rights. This is my favourite photo, from my Flowers of Ethiopia series where I spent half a month photographing the tribes of the Omo Valley. Don’s response The short telephoto – in this case a 100 mm macro lens – is much loved by portrait photographers. As you can see from Robin Yong's striking image, the depth…

It isn’t often we ask our Photo Challengers to minimise the detail of their chosen subject to the greatest extent possible. But of course that’s just exactly what a silhouette is: a solid, featureless (usually pure black) shape that is nevertheless easily recognisable. The goal here is to capture a silhouette in-camera by choosing a composition in which the background is far brighter than the subject(s).Since your camera’s autoexposure system will try to deliver a ‘properly’ exposed picture in which some subject detail is preserved, you’ll want to use manual mode – if you’re not already doing so as a matter of course. We’re not after underexposed pictures, so a quick check of the histogram should show the dark values piled up to the left of the display while the…

‘Most of the time I feel like I'm kind of invisible’ ‘Most of the time I feel like I'm kind of invisible,’ says Sydney-based street photographer and full-time high school teacher Sam Ferris. ‘It’s a nice feeling. I just sort of float through the crowds... it feels like you're not really there.’ Long before he had any idea that there was even such a thing as street photography or indeed before he picked up a camera with artistic intent, Sam had been absorbing the visual language and syntax of picture making. Growing up in the outer western suburbs of Melbourne, he lived in a home filled with art books. His father Jeffrey Ferris is a painter and as a boy, young Sam was surrounded by art and the making of…

It was just over a year ago that professional photographer Chris Smith bought his first Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II. ‘I had been shooting full frame for so many years and while the cameras kept being updated, not a huge amount would change with them,’ he says. ‘I was after something smaller, that I initially wanted to take travelling – instead of lugging all my full frame gear around. After exploring a few options, the Olympus system stood out for both its technology and build quality. It was smaller, lighter and the fold-out flip screen with live view was really exciting. I also liked the idea of not standing out in a crowd or intimidating people with some massive full frame system.’ After using the E-M5 Mark II for long…

Simply submit up to three of your favourite images for your chance to win one of two superb Fujifilm X-A3 with XF16-50mm lens RRP $949 each. (See more on the X-A3 at www.fujifilm.com.au) Send your images to imagereview@photoreview.com.au • jpeg, minimum 200mm on the longest side, at 300 DPI • your name and image title in the jpeg file name • camera/lens used and image description/comments IMAGE REVIEW 8 Second winner will be selected 1st December 2017. See terms and conditions at www.imagereview.com.au…

‘Just taking pictures doesn’t necessarily float my boat. It’s the subject matter and experiences that do that.’ At his home in the Perth Hills, Hugh Brown has been on the phone, completing preparations for his next major overseas trip. In the past eight months he’s done hostile-environment survival training, meditation courses, self-defence training and complex risk assessments. Basically everything he can do to ensure he comes back home alive. On the day we spoke, he’d been tracking down people who could assist with first aid training in case he or people with him were to suffer any injuries. Corporate mining photography has been Brown’s bread-and-butter work, and even that has physical dangers that can’t be ignored. But it’s his ongoing personal project, The Cruellest Earth, that pushes the limits. For…

Does everyone see red in the same way? How about blue, green or yellow? Your colour perception depends upon how your brain and vision interact to interpret the light reflected from everything you see. We define this interaction as 'colour vision' – and it can be different in different people. Unfortunately, roughly one in 12 men and one in 200 women among populations of European origin suffer from a condition popularly known as 'colour blindness'. Africans, Asians and Hispanics are also affected but at lower rates. Colour blindness results from anomalies in the light-sensitive photoreceptors in the retina, a thin layer of tissue at the back of the eye that detects light. These photoreceptors contain pigment molecules that are chemically changed when they absorb light, triggering electrical signals that pass…

‘Focus stacking is commonly used to achieve wide depth of focus in situations where it would otherwise be unachievable.’ Focus stacking is a technique that combines a series of images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field than any of the individual shots. It is commonly used to achieve wide depth of focus in situations where it would otherwise be unachievable, most commonly in macro photography, where depth of field is generally limited. When shooting for focus stacking, photographers can select a wide lens aperture (which will usually deliver maximum sharpness at the focus point) and record a wide depth of focus without diffraction. This isn't possible when the lens is stopped down. Focus stacking can also be useful for landscape…