Innholdsfortegnelse for June - August 2021 i Photo Review

It's a safe bet that if you're reading the editorial page in a photography magazine, you are, at the very least, mildly interested in the subject of picture taking. In fact, truth be told, you're likely more than mildly interested. Chances are you've been making photographs for some time now, and even though you may not think of yourself as a real, proper photographer, you do know that it's something you love to do. Also more than likely it's something you want to get better at. And therein lies the rub. Back in the days of analogue photography, 'getting better' often meant learning to master the technology itself. If you were serious about your photography, you not only had to understand the relationship between shutter speed and aperture, you needed…

Last year’s AussieBirdCount – an annual event, which is held each October – was particularly well subscribed, probably because many keen photographers were prevented from travelling to distant places for vacations. Interest in bird photography has blossomed. Scientifically, this was welcomed by Australia’s leading ecologists and other scientists who have been calling for data and photographs documenting how birds are responding to climatic and environmental disturbances. This article has been prepared to help Photo Review readers participate in these important conservation initiatives. Bird photography is a genre that will challenge your shooting skills but also provide stimulus and satisfaction – and occasionally excitement. Before you get started, we recommend downloading the Ethical Birding Guidelines from the BirdLife Australia website (www.bit.ly/bird-guidelines). It’s free and in PDF format and provides useful guidelines…

Colour perception – and the interpretation of colour – is highly subjective. It’s affected by physiological factors like your age, whether you have some degree of colour ‘blindness’ and even how tired you are. Environmental factors that can also play a role include light levels, the presence of other colours in the area and the colour of the illuminating light. Many of these factors were considered almost a century ago in Paris, when a branch of the International Standards Organisation (which also oversees the ISO standards for measuring sensitivity) set up the Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE) to standardise colour measurement. In 1931, the CIE released a colour matching system that specifies each colour on the basis of its wavelength. The CIE 1931 system specifies which combinations of light will…

Most problems can be fixed with a small number of familiar editing tools. Always enlarge the image you‘re working on to at least 200% to make it easy to work on small blemishes. Make use of the following tools: 1. The Cropping tool can cut off areas that aren’t worth spending time on if their removal won’t affect the main content of the picture. It can also be used to improve shot composition by removing areas of uninteresting sky or foreground. 2. The Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush are used to overpaint blemishes with similar tones and textures. The Healing Brush requires you to select a ‘source point’ in the image similar to the area you want to fix. The Spot Healing Brush, which is normally ‘context aware’, creates…

Quantifying colour is difficult. You can’t be sure the hues and tones you see are exactly the same as those seen by anyone else and if you’re that uncertain, how can you be sure the pictures you take will communicate the colours you saw in the subject in a way that represents what you saw? Because photographers communicate with images, accurate colour reproduction is important to convey the key ‘messages’ of pictures. Yet many people are confused by the different settings in the devices they use and few implement systems that can track and manage colour reproduction from capture through to output in order to ensure their images are reproduced as faithfully as possible. What’s needed is a standard way to track colour reproduction from capture to output – and…

Lartigue Online www.bit.ly/pr88ne1 Born into immense wealth, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) might have lived out his entire life largely unknown outside the exclusive social circles he inhabited. However, in 1966 a collection of photographs he’d taken just before WWI were published in Boyhood photographs of JH Lartigue and he strode into the pantheon of photography. His memorial foundation maintains a selection of his albums, which are accessible at the click of your mouse. Highly recommended. Wild World Seen www.bit.ly/pr88ne2 London’s Natural History Museum’s annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year award started life back in 1965 as a magazine competition. They received 361 entries. This year they’re expecting 45,000 entries in what has become one of the world’s most important wildlife photography competitions. Even if you’re not a wildlife photographer, spending…