Innholdsfortegnelse for September - November 2018 i Photo Review

In July of this year, my daughter finished a term abroad in the Netherlands. We took a family decision to reunite in Utrecht where she’d been studying and then to drive north for a look at Scandinavia. Being summer, it was the height of tourist season, and being the summer of 2018, heat records were being broken all across the northern hemisphere. Parts of Norway and Sweden were in drought and there were fires in the news. While the weird weather was disconcerting, from a photographic perspective it meant that sunny skies were the rule. Days of course are very long at those far northern latitudes, so golden hour became golden hours. The Norwegian landscape is famously spectacular and everywhere you turn there are wonderful photographic opportunities to be found.…

Why visit Located 600km east of Port Macquarie, Lord Howe Island boasts the most southerly – and some of the most spectacular – coral reefs in the world. The island is also relatively small, which makes it easy to see most of the key areas in less than a week. Much of it is high ground covered with relatively untouched forest. In the south are two volcanic mountains, Mount Lidgbird (777 metres) and Mount Gower, which rises to 875 metres and is the highest point on the island. Kentia palms originated on the island and occupy much of the forests. There are also 240 other species of indigenous plants, roughly half of which are found nowhere else in the world. They exist in situations ranging from valleys, to ridges, plains…

Simply submit up to three of your favourite images for your chance to win one of two stylish Fujifilm X-A5 with XC15-45mm lens RRP $899 each. (See more on the X-A5 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 10 Second winner will be selected 3 December 2018. See terms and conditions at www.imagereview.com.au…

By the time her profile appeared in Photo Review late in 2002 Jackie Ranken was an established photographer who'd been taking pictures since she was a teenager and had been teaching landscape photography at the Goulburn TAFE for the better part of six years. As it turned out, 2002 was a watershed in her career. In June she won both the AIPP Professional Photographer of the Year and the AIPP (Australian) Landscape Photographer of the Year. She’s continued to rack up Photographer of the Year awards along with other prestigious accolades, year in and year out. In 2005, Jackie and fellow photographer Mike Langford moved to New Zealand’s South Island where they set up – and still run – the Queenstown Centre for Creative Photography. Both she and Mike, who…

Data on the interchangeable-lens camera (ILC) market from CIPA show a clear trend. Since 2012, the year in which Olympus launched the OM-D E-M5 and Fujifilm the X-Pro1, the number of DSLR cameras being shipped by Japanese manufacturers has declined steadily, as has the value of this sector of the camera market. At the same time, mirrorless camera numbers have been creeping steadily upwards. A check of the 2018 figures from the Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA) for January to April (inclusive) confirms the direction the camera market is taking. The table below shows the greatest increases in both market size (units shipped) and market value are highest for the mirrorless ('non-reflex') sector. During this period, the DSLR market was just level-pegging in units and growing very slightly in…

Anyone who prints their photos can look at situations when the prints coming from their printer didn't look the way they expected. Sometimes, the reason is simple and easy to correct; at other times you need to put in more effort. This feature addresses the most common problems people are likely to encounter and provides some possible solutions. 1. Prints appear too dark. The main reason this occurs is because the brightness level on the computer monitor is too high. It's common with newer monitors, many of which are designed for gaming and have their brightness levels set higher by default. Bright monitors let you see more detail in shadowed areas and this will influence your editing adjustments. Unfortunately, when you print the image that looked good on the monitor…

Many would say that the most common picture-taking mistake of all is failing to get close enough to the subject. Getting in tight to the most important element in your composition rarely makes a photograph worse. Paring away the extraneous and the distracting focuses the viewer’s attention and makes the photographic statement more succinct. Ingrid Makowski’s study of Namibian sand dunes has a striking purity that almost makes an abstract of the landscape. Our first runner-up, Lesley Barmewall finds the beauty in a simple, but luminous composition and second runner-up Matt White’s framing and vertical perspective combine to produce an arresting take on a botanical subject. Blane Coulcher’s head-on shot of a python in the grass is almost a visual pun, while Greg Longden’s portrait of a macaw fairly brims…

It may come as a surprise to learn that Jane Trotter’s abstract photography is created almost totally in-camera – just like most landscape and portrait photography. Jane’s ‘landscape’ is in and around her house in Dunedin, on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island. ‘My husband has joked that when I run out of things at home, I can always go next door,’ she says. Not that she’s likely to go knocking. Her home has served her very well since she took up photography 13 years ago as a visual contrast to her interest in music and work teaching piano. A friend suggested that concentrating on a photographic theme would help her to find direction and become more involved in her new hobby. She was intrigued by shadows, and…

‘... after a few nights out experimenting with the Olympus,I was in love!’ South Australian based photographer and master light painter Denis Smith came to photography – and Adelaide – after a series of seismic life events saw him leave his native New Zealand where he’d had a long career in high end corporate sales. Within two years of buying his first camera, he began creating his signature ‘Ball of Light’ images. At the time, he explains, ‘there were several light painters creating Ball of Light pictures, or orbs to use the technical term, and their images really appealed to me. I quickly started taking these light painting images into the wild, looking for crazy, open and challenging locations to work.’ And when it comes crazy locations, you’d have to…

Troubled Waters By David O’Connor Second winner Image Review 9 DJI Inspire 2 and Zenmuse X5S camera Yallingup, Western Australia Don’s response Drone photography poses an interesting challenge to traditional conceptions of how photographers ought to capture their images. But I think that a photograph like this one from David O'Connor easily qualifies as a beautiful landscape – however it may have come about. I love the way those three fingers of white water are spilling into that horizontal blue line formed by the gap between rocks. This would look terrific as a large print. Brown frog on rusted metal By Lisa Brooker Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone and edited using Instagram. Don’s response Smartphones are wonderful for quick grab snapshots such as this little fellow captured by Lisa Brooker. I…

For this challenge we want you to imagine you’re the stills photographer on the set of a classic film noir production (think the The Third Man, Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep or Chinatown). Your task is to find – or create – a mysterious scene with perhaps a hint of menace. The image doesn’t need to involve your friends pretending to be characters in your imaginary film, it could be as simple as an intriguing prop in a pool of light in a darkened room or maybe the late night glimmer of street lights through a rainy car window. Send a shiver down our spines, make us wonder what the story is behind the scene... Please review the rules and email your entries to photochallenge@photoreview.com.au. Deadline for entries is 28…