Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2023 - February 2024 i Photo Review

Why visit? There’s a lot to see (and photograph) in South Australia’s Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park, whether you’re interested in history, geology, animal and plant life or just great scenery. Better still, you can find things to see, do and photograph all year round. The park is a Mecca for surfers, who come to catch the ocean swells at Pondalowie Bay and Chinaman’s Hat surf breaks. It’s also home to Kangaroos, the once locally extinct Tammar Wallaby, Emus, Malleefowl, Pygmy Possums, Hooded Plovers and a growing population of Brush-tailed Bettong, Southern Brown Bandicoot, Red-tailed Phascogale and Western Quoll, which are being introduced through the innovative Marna Banggara project. There are plans to increase the population of native Barn Owls, an important predator of mouse populations, which have multiplied with the…

Balance the inherent characteristics of your images against the device or media on which they will be viewed. When editing photos, how many photographers factor in the parameters of the platform on which their images will be viewed? Not many, we suspect. Yet whether you view your photos on a screen or print them can make a real difference to the impression they have on viewers because of their radically differing dynamic ranges. Dynamic range defined The term ‘dynamic range’ refers to the ratio between the maximum and minimum brightness levels supported in a device. The problem most of us have is that we tend to ignore the significant differences in dynamic ranges between the monitor screens on which we edit our images and the paper on which they are…

By the time he left high school at 17, Matt Palmer had been building websites for eight years and he’d been getting paid for his work. ‘I was working with people online, so they didn't really know how old I was’, he said. While others his age were contemplating University, he was already thinking about escaping the tenuous life of a freelancer, always chasing the next commission, for something with regular hours and a steady income. After a brief stint as a junior designer with a community project specialist design house, he landed a position with the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation. ‘I was hired as a designer, but I knew that I had some photographic ability. I was taking portraits of sick and injured children and other activities around the…

If you’re planning a trip in the near future and looking for a storage drive to let you make secure backups of all your files as you go, it’s difficult to ignore the latest crop of ultra-compact solid state drives (SSDs). Offering a genuine alternative to traditional magnetic disk drives, these SSDs are a lot smaller and offer faster transfer speeds with better longevity and stability. They’re also generally more robust since they have no internal moving parts that could become dislodged when the drive is dropped, or which are at risk of wearing out with long-term use. SSDs can generally survive drops, bumps and other potential impacts without risk of damage or losing your files. And they're great when you need a quick way to share files between computers.…

Interesting By Phil Berry Leica Q2 Mono; Summilux f/1.7 28mm ASPH lens; f/3.5; 1/50s; ISO 500 Taken at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Concrete walls can be very interesting, even hypnotic for some people. The lady seems to be staring at the blank concrete wall; but she was actually reading the information plaque relating to the repetitious miniature city sculpture on the floor behind her. What caught my interest was the vast textured concrete wall, the repetitious foreground, the lone visitor seemingly staring at the wall, all balanced against the deeply shadowed and contrast infused painting. Don’s response When I saw this for the first time, I didn't know the story behind Phil Berry’s enigmatic image. I liked its mysterious quality nevertheless, and even with the explanation, the photograph…

As an artist with three decades of work behind you, you are known to combine technical expertise in all areas of photography with a highly conceptual approach that examines how we use photography to depict the world around us. Where are you up to with that? I am currently working with historic printing processes such as cyanotypes and salt prints. Over the years, I have become fascinated by the early history of photography, and in 2019 I began to experiment in earnest with some of the processes used at the time. Salt printing really struck me because it was the first positive-negative process, and therefore the start of ‘photography proper’. Henry Fox Talbot presented it in 1839, and like him, I’ve been coating papers with sodium chloride and silver nitrate,…

Pixel density is a calculation that relates the number of pixels on a device to its physical dimensions, usually in inches. The device in question can range from a large-screened computer monitor or television screen to the smaller screens in your camera or smartphone. Only one number is required, since pixels are generally square, which means the horizontal and vertical density are the same. While it becomes increasingly important as the resolution of screens has increased, pixel density are not the same as resolution. Where pixel density describes the amount of detail on a physical surface or device, resolution describes how many pixels the device records or displays regardless of its scale. Pixel density for capture devices that use transmitted light is normally expressed in pixels per inch (ppi). Most…