Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2017 - February 2018 i Photo Review

Having a monitor you can trust not only makes printing your images easier and more enjoyable; it will also save you time and money. When the monitor you use can display the full range of hues and tones your camera has captured and keep them in the correct balance, you reduce the number of test prints required before committing to an enlargement, and at the same time decrease the time you take to produce a great-looking print. Here at Photo Review we are firm believers in the adage that an image isn't a photograph until it's printed. We also believe there's nothing quite as satisfying as producing an A2 print that faithfully captures the picture you shot. That satisfaction can be compromised if you can't trust your monitor to: 1.…

Eye To Eye By David Scott Canon EOS 5DS; EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II USM @ 190mm; 1/2000s; ISO 100 Love the rodeo at Warwick. Great opportunity for action shots, this one in particular with his feet stuck in the stirrups, horse and man eye balling each other. He walked away unscathed. Don’s response Isn't photography a wonderful thing? It allows us to see a minutely detailed and beautiful moment that only existed for 1/2000 of a second. This is one of those pictures in which the serendipitous composition comes into being because the photographer had the skill to set the stage for its appearance. I think the vignetting is mildly obtrusive, but when you have a gem like this, enthusiastic application of the burning tool is understandable. Reflections and…

Our ‘Tale of Two Frames’ challenge asks you to create two images which are related in some way to each other. The extra twist is that one picture should have a horizontal aspect ratio and the other should be a vertical composition. You may also specify which image should be on the right and which on the left. We like to be surprised, so when we say the pictures must in some way be ‘related’, the connection needn’t be instantly obvious (eg, a tree trunk and a leaf). In fact, the more subtle the connection between the two pictures, the better. Please review the rules and email your entries to photochallenge@photoreview.com.au. Deadline for entries is February 28, 2018 and the winning pictures will be published in our Mar-May 2018 edition.…

‘In winter in particular, the Grampians are a very dramatic landscape,’ said landscape photographer Marty Schoo. ‘You get a lot of cloud and there are dramatic shifts in weather. In the west beyond the mountain are only plains. Because of that, often the best light happens when the sun's setting and for five minutes the light pokes through under all the cloud and lights everything up. You’ll get columns of showers falling on the landscape but not raining where you are and you're able to capture that drama of weather. I do like my seasons.Weather's your friend as a landscape photographer.’ When he was just four, Marty’s family immigrated to Australia from the Netherlands. They settled in Bendigo where he would grow up in a household in which taking photographs…

Several manufacturers of imaging-related products provide online resources that can be helpful for evaluating monitors, particularly those that will be used for printing photographs. Eizo in Belgium has a very comprehensive test that will show up defective pixels, uniformity, colour gamma and separations, sharpness, viewing angle and response time. You can select any parameter individually or use the default setting, which will run through all the tests. The test is available at https://www.eizo.be/monitor-test/. On-screen testing can be useful but to be really sure your monitor is displaying the hues and tones you need for printing, you should compare a printed photograph with the image displayed on the screen. If your image editor supports soft proofing it will simulate the image hues and tones to show how the image will look…

As camera pixel counts and frame rates increase and video streams require increasing storage capacity and data transfer rates, photographers must seriously assess how and where they will store their images and movie clips. Choosing the right storage is essential when you're on the move, when reliability, capacity, speed and device footprints will be key considerations. With the latest high-end cameras, photographers find memory cards fill up faster than before and their computer's hard drive can hold only so many files. In this round-up we will look at portable storage solutions you can use both at home and while travelling. Our main focus will be on backup options, which allow you to store photos and movie clips in multiple locations (see box). Memory cards Your camera will determine the type…

Responding to our ‘When the lights come on’ challenge, Ingrid Makowski captured her winning picture in outback WA. ‘Camping under the stars in the Australian outback is a magical experience,’ she wrote, and her image, complete with the streak of a shooting star, made us want to pack up the gear for our own photo adventure. First runner-up, Susan Shanta found inspiration at dusk along the Seaford Pier in Victoria – and from somewhere up high in Melbourne. John Tarlinton spotted two graceful street lamps in Leura, while Karen Rich discovered a glowing ocean pool at Austinmer beach. WINNER…

Looking at your photos on the internet, it’s like Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: ‘Water, water everywhere/ Nor any drop to drink’. There’s seawater just about everywhere. Why is that? I grew up in South Australia and studied marine biology at Flinders University until I was in my mid-20s. I was 85 per cent through my studies when I realised that my love of the ocean wasn’t so much scientific as interpretive and artistic. I was destined to spend too much time in the laboratory and not enough time in the ocean. So I started pursuing photography as more than a hobby and switched to doing a two-year course at the Centre for Creative Photography in Adelaide. Which took me four years because I did it…

As a passionate rider himself, Marcus Enno knows all about the fine line between being close or too-close to the action. ‘A rider touched my foot in the Vuelta but I was pushed up against a wall with nowhere to go,’ he said of a rare instance where he came close to crossing that fine line. ‘Mostly I give the riders as much space as I can,’ he added. Apart from the Vuelta incident – and the time a team car ran over his foot -- Marcus says his work rarely involves anything more traumatic than a few scratches on his legs from tramping through the scrub in search of dramatic angles. An Olympus shooter since he started taking pictures at 14, the Sydney-based photographer had been working as a…

The terms 'dodging' and 'burning' take us back to the chemical darkroom days when special tools were used to lighten or darken discrete areas of a photo by increasing or limiting the exposure while exposing a print. These tools are simulated in image editors by brushes. In an image editor like Photoshop (which is used for the illustrations in this feature), the Dodge tool is used to lighten an area, while the Burn tool is for darkening. Photoshop's tools cover three tonal areas: Shadows, Midtones and Highlights. The beauty of these tools is that they only affect the range of tones selected. So if you select the Shadows range with the Dodge tool, even though you can 'paint' the brush over areas containing highlights, midtones and shadows, only the shadows…

Everyone has lost computer files at one time or another, whether through computer crashes, memory card and disk failures or the theft of a laptop or storage drive. Any of these events will cost you precious records so it's important to back up files regularly to ensure you have copies that can be accessed if disasters occur. Professional photographers recommend a '3-2-1' rule: make three copies, store two on different types of media and one in a different location. For travellers, this could mean keeping images on memory cards and backing up to portable HDD (hard disk drive) or SSD (solid state drive) as well as to the cloud. Stay-at-home photographers could write images to their computer’s internal drives, to external HDD/SSD, and to the cloud. Choose technologies that meet…