Innholdsfortegnelse for June - August 2022 i Photo Review

Hibiscus By Ros Osborne 3rd winner Image Review 13 Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III with a 60mm macro lens, hand-held (naughty, naughty!) To create this image, I built my own light box from materials I already had around the house, and spent $6 buying some cheap items to make my own pair of clamps. Glucose was used for the 'water' drops, an LED torch provided the lighting, and the tendril came from an apple cucumber plant in the garden. I experimented with a variety of flowers and found larger flowers with contrasting colours such as the hibiscus worked best. It was then a case of persistence to ensure the water drops stayed on the tendril, the flower was fully reflected in the droplets, and the torch was in the right…

‘I'm a creative,’ said Ralph Kerle. ‘And most creatives at some point in time will lose purpose, direction and lose their way. You ask yourself “what am I doing this for?”. I had a first career in theatre and my second career was an events company I owned where I used theatrical methodologies. Along the way, I directed television commercials and worked a lot in the commercial area of multimedia and the moving image. But that sort of dried up [by the early 2000s], and so, I was trying to seek a new direction.’ ‘I got very depressed and I sought help. My GP said “we’ve found just the right drug for you, a brand new pill, guaranteed to cure everything”. So I took it – and went from mild…

The announcement by Canon in July 2020 of the first full-frame mirrorless camera capable of recording 8K video created an initial flurry of excitement in the imaging industry. Although professional movie cameras introduced 8K recording in 2013 and some smartphones supported 8K recording in 2019, the R5 was the first model with a predominantly stills-capture design. Equipped with a new 45-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor, the R5 was able to record uncropped 8K (7680 x 4320 pixels) video at up to 29.97 fps. Canon’s claims of up to 30 minutes of recording time were soon tested when the first potential issue associated with high-resolution video recording reared its ugly head: users began reporting the camera kept stopping due to overheating. That, in itself, is not surprising: electronics give off heat when…

More often than not, when you’re shooting landscapes a bland, cloud-free sky will be the weak point in the composition. You can change the camera angle to make the foreground occupy most of the frame or use a polariser to bring out subtle nuances. Sometimes these strategies work – although when they don’t you’re left with a shot that ‘could have been better’. Recent software developments can provide ways to improve these shots – although some are more successful than others. In this feature we’ll consider the validity of sky replacement and look at some of the software choices available. We’ll also offer advice on a couple of tried-and-tested DIY methods. The pros and cons of sky replacement There’s an on-going debate about whether sky replacement is a valid creative…

Having looked at the many portfolios and projects on your website (www.edwinarichards.com),I think your photography has a distinctive creative style, but there’s also great variety in the types of work you’ve done. What have you been doing most recently? In early March we had the public opening of an exhibition in the brand new Singleton Arts and Cultural Centre, near my home town of Newcastle. It was part of the [$4 million] centre’s inaugural show, displaying my photos along with the beautiful paintings of Debbie Becker. The exhibition was called We Are Singleton: Portrait of a Town – a commission to celebrate the rich diversity of people who call Singleton home. The centre has been built on a flood plain, and the rain that devastated a lot of other areas…

When used in imaging, bit depth quantifies the number of discrete colours (hues and tones) that can be reproduced in a digital image. The term ‘bit’ refers to the way computers handle data in ones and zeros, while ‘depth’ implies a range. In computer language, a single bit can only represent 1 or 0; in a pixel it would be either pure black or pure white. Continuing in computer language, each time another bit is added, the number of possible combinations doubles; so for two bits you get 00, 01, 10, and 11, with three bits it’s 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, and 111 – or eight possible combinations. In general, the number of possible choices is 2 raised to the power of the number of bits. In…