Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2020 - February 2021 i Photo Review

Why visit South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula has plenty to attract photographers and videographers. It’s a great place for landscape photography and a birder’s delight. With unspoiled beaches, National parks and protected areas, the region also contains some fascinating landforms plus a rich Indigenous history. Foodies will be delighted to discover Eyre Peninsula's east coast is a major seafood hub that provides more than 65% of the nation's seafood. Expect to find restaurants offering green-lipped abalone, scallops, prawns, oysters and tuna for visitors to enjoy. Those interested in settler history should look out for the Mt Laura Homestead Museum in the centre of Whyalla, which provides glimpses of what life was like in the early years of the 20th century. The Whyalla Maritime Museum is also worth visiting to see the…

Pointing your camera directly at the sun can burn out pixels in its sensor, inflicting permanent damage. If you’re using a mirrorless camera, the screen in the EVF will also be damaged, again because pixels are destroyed. Damage to the EVF screen won’t show up in your photos, although damage to the camera’s sensor will – and it may be larger and more visible than dust spots. Dust spots can be removed but sensor damage cannot be repaired; the only solution is an expensive replacement.…

Our eyes have always been drawn towards things that look different. We find them intriguing and want to investigate. This is probably why we’re attracted by effects filters in our smartphones and cameras – as well as popular image editing applications. One of the subtlest and most popular effects for landscape photographers is the ‘Orton Effect’, which was originally developed to imitate watercolour paintings. By producing soft halos around high contrast areas, it adds a dreamy glow to the scene. Used appropriately with subtle adjustments, the Orton Effect will make some images more engaging. Applied with a heavy hand, the result is as kitsch as a poorly executed HDR merge. Practice will teach you how far to push the adjustments, regardless of which software you use. It’s important to be…

I first came across your photography when your shot of a black cockatoo with a gumnut in its claw was shared on Facebook. I found it especially beautiful and compelling. Thank you. That’s why I love taking shots of birds. Mainly because their personality comes through the photo. This is one of my most well-known and popular photos, and one of my own favourites too. I felt a connection that day like the cockatoo was posing for me. This photo is actually hanging in the Australian Embassy in the United States to remind them of back home. ‘Australian birds are especially intelligent, not only for hunting, but also communicating.’ Do you consider yourself a professional bird photographer? By profession, I’m an architect with my own business in Perth. I always…

“Motorsport and photography are my two great passions. I was very lucky to be able to live and breathe both as a profession.” Manuel Goria arrived in Australia in 2004 with a degree in Veterinary Medicine and a long standing love of fast cars and photography. Following his passion for motor sport, he began taking pictures at local car races and within a couple of years his skills had earned him a position shooting at the Melbourne F1 Grand Prix. By the time he celebrated a decade living in Australia he’d become a team photographer in Formula E for Dragon Racing, Renault, Venturi NIO and Techeetah. In 2016 he took out the Western Australian Sport photographer of the year. ‘How lucky was I?’ Manuel says. ‘Motorsport and photography are my…

‘I became a chronically truant juvenile delinquent at a very early age,’ says Greg Semu. Fortunately, an understanding art teacher noticed how excited this sometime-student became when he was given a camera. ‘They gave us black and white film and taught us how to process the negative and develop the print, all with the alchemy of chemicals, wet baths and the magic universe of darkrooms. So I would just come to school and grab a camera and a roll of film, have lunch with the boys and then leave school and just roam the streets or ride the trains and busses from west side and central districts to downtown inner city and South Auckland. Unlike most of my comrades of ethnically diverse backgrounds who stayed within their suburbanised ‘safety’ limits,…

Screens are essential components in digital cameras. The technology has been in use since the earliest days of digital photography, although these days the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen has largely replaced the liquid crystal display (LCD) in camera electronic viewfinders (EVFs). Both display screens and digital camera image sensors have one thing in common: they are arrays containing millions of photodiodes arranged in a grid. These photodiodes produce the picture elements (pixels) that make up the image you see on the screen or, in the case of the sensor output, the data that is recorded as an image file. When everything is working properly, the average photographer gives little thought to those pixel arrays. But what happens when something goes amiss with one or more photodiodes? In this feature…

When you’re shooting in low light levels, you will often find the exposure process is not intuitive. Autofocusing can also be difficult and sometimes the lens fails to lock onto the subject and you end up with a blurred image – unless you have taken precautions to prevent this. While fast lenses (with large maximum apertures) will allow more light into the camera than slower ones, they come with a few disadvantages. In order to capture more light, the glass elements used in fast lenses are usually large, which means fast lenses are always bigger and heavier than lenses that are just one f-stop slower. They are also significantly more expensive. Choosing lenses for low light work will always involve trade-offs between lens speed, cost and the amount of space…

Darkness Beyond By Leon Chistiakoff Sony RX10; 24-200mm Carl Zeiss lens; ISO 200; f/7.1; 1/100s @ 44.52mm Taken while on a European river cruise during Autumn. The light and colours were amazing. You could not but help clicking the shutter button numerous times. To me this photo has a sense of mystery about it – what lies beyond those trees? Don’s response Leon Chistiakoff's Darkness Beyond has the sort of quiet intensity that is the mark of a strong landscape image. The contrast between the warmth, texture and volume of the autumnal yellow foliage and the cool, reserved silence of the pine forest is at the heart of the visual story. It is a picture that rewards close attention too. There is something slightly mysterious about the darkness between the…