Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2020 i PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine

As we slowly and safely venture outside while restrictions ease, it makes summer an even more joyful time to get out and capture the beautiful scenery with our Canon cameras. In our big skills guide we bring you 15 great tips for capturing stunning summer landscapes, from page 28. We’re also excited to get back out with Canon pro Matty Graham and our Apprentice to photograph the picturesque Peak District, the expert tuition starts on page 8. Christmas has come early this issue with news of the 12 new products of Canon! They’ve announced two new EOS mirrorless cameras in the 45Mp EOS R5 and fast shooting 20Mp EOS R6. Both full-frame cameras are blessed with the all-new Dual Pixel CMOS AF II with deep learning AF and new Animal…

APPRENTICE NAME: PAUL TILBURY CAMERA: CANON EOS 90D LIVING IN North Derbyshire, Paul is surrounded by beautiful English landscapes. He’s written to us asking for help photographing his local landscapes and hopes that we can move him away from the Auto mode on his Canon EOS 90D. We’ve paired him up with Canon professional Matty to show him the ropes, albeit from a safe 2m distance – social distancing rules were still being enforced at the time of shooting. CANON PRO NAME: MATTY GRAHAM CAMERA: CANON EOS 5D MK IV MATTY’S BEEN using Canon for nearly two decades, starting with his EOS 3000 SLR. Like many freelancers he has a vast portfolio, taking on work for commercial clients, shooting architecture and family portraits – he’s even worked with the Norwegian…

1 DO YOUR HOMEWORK Make use of popular apps as well as traditional maps to make your pre-shoot preparation count FORWARD PLANNING is key for landscape photography, as you’re reliant on the weather and light direction being just right. By researching locations thoroughly at home, you’re more likely to be rewarded with favourable conditions when you arrive with your camera. The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) and The Photographer’s Transit (TPT) are two apps that are ideal planning companions. TPE displays how the light will fall on the land at any time of day in any location, so use it to work out the time and direction of sunrise and sunset. TPT also provides a great way to check if your planned focal length will capture your scene effectively. Also Google maps…

Learn how to take your Canon photography up a notch by extending your shutter speeds to blur moving elements in scenic shots for an artistic result. Fast shutter speeds are great, if you want to capture fast subjects like wildlife or sport. Using a quick shutter speed at 1/400 sec has frozen the fast-flowing water of the weir in our scene (see right), whereas slowing the shutter speed down to ¼ sec has made the flowing water start to blur. It’s this blur that illustrates a sense of movement in the water – helping to bring still shots to life. The slower the shutter speed, the more the gushing water turns milky smooth. But what if you can’t slow the shutter speed down enough? Even when using the lowest ISO…

What do you do with your best pictures? For many of us the answer is to upload them to social media, but we shouldn’t forget about printing, as there’s no better feeling than seeing your photos hanging up proudly on the wall at home. But to do your shots justice you’ll want to frame your images to make them look more professional. And this month we’ve giving away 10 border templates that you can download for free to do precisely that (see download link, left). There’s a mixture of portrait and landscape oriented frames and some with clean edges, others with artistic textured edges like ours (see right). All of the frames are Photoshop PSD files that you can pop your images in, and add your own title and your…

01 TUSCAN SUMMER A slow shutter speed has caught the slight movement of wildflowers in the breeze on a July day near Caliano, Tuscany. Lens Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM Exposure 1/20 sec, f/29, ISO250 RY TO imagine what it must feel like to prepare a retrospective exhibition of your work, and the sheer difficulty of deciding on just 52 photos from more than 40 years of negatives, transparencies and digital files. Now, think about the time and expense of printing these images to exhibition standard, the cost of framing and the tedium of hanging, then pricing the works, publicising the event and organizing the guest list for the opening. As the clock ticks down to launch, the excitement and tension is palpable. Then the unexpected happens… You can’t…

”I’ve setup a custom shooting mode on my EOS 7D Mark II, is there any way to change the stored settings?”Edwin Baker, Machynlleth BRIAN SAYS… Indeed there is a really simple way, within the custom shooting setup menus. Start by looking for the Auto update settings option and enable it. When you register a Custom shooting mode the camera copies all the active customization settings to your Custom shooting mode. If for some reason you need to change a specific setting, turn the mode dial to the required Custom shooting mode, and enable Auto update. Now make any necessary changes to update the stored settings. I usually leave Auto update enabled on my cameras to make Custom shooting modes behave like any other mode. With C1 configured as a copy…

1. Go to this web page www.ninabailey.co.uk/editions/flower and click on the orange Download Now button. 2. Click the Free Checkout button, enter your email contact details and click the orange Free Checkout button on the right. 3. In the new web page that appears click the Download button to download your free 128-page eBook PDF packed full of tips. 4. You will also be emailed with the Download link for future reference. If you have any problems please email hello@eos-magazine.com ACCESS YOUR FREE EBOOK Get the 196-page Teach Yourself Outdoor Photography eBook for mobile devices and computers 1. Go to our web page via this link bit.ly/pp168ebook 2. Enter your name and email address in the quick form, choose the marketing and newsletter options you’d prefer, click Submit. 3. On…

01 THE CANADIAN AURORA BOREALIS BY JACQUIE MATECHUK What’s better than one aurora in a single image? Two of course! And that’s exactly what Jacquie has delivered in her fabulous reflection shot from the Canadian Rockies. We love the stunning shades of green shimmering throughout the shot in both the sky and water, as well as the central composition with the two downward slopes of the mountains on either side of the image guiding the eye towards the middle peak. The craggy foreground also helps frame the bottom of the shot nicely and guide the eye in too. Brilliant job! Lens Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L III USM Exposure 15 secs, f/3.5, ISO1000 02 EVENING IN THE BLUEBELLS BY NINA MACE We love the way the low evening sun appears to…

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The human eye has the ability to see an extraordinary amount of colour and detail, but the world that we see everyday is only part of the wavelength spectrum. Just outside of the visible light range is ultraviolet at one end and infrared at the other side. We can’t see infrared light, but I can show you how to take a picture with it. You’ll need a DSLR or mirrorless camera and an infrared filter that screws into the front filter thread of your lens. This will ensure that only infrared light is coming through the lens and hitting your camera’s sensor, with all other lightwaves blocked out. Cheap models can be picked up online for around £20, just make sure you get one that fits the filter thread of…

We’re used to seeing Adobe roll out regular updates to Photoshop and Lightroom, and this summer they’ve come through with the goods again. Those with an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription can take advantage of a range of excellent new features. The real showstopper here is Select Subject. First introduced in 2018, the command uses artificial intelligence to isolate your subject with an automatic selection. It’s always been an impressive tool, but the latest updates take it to a whole new level of excellence, because now it can cut out hair. The results are often excellent, even on windswept hair like the above. With a single click, we can now make a complex cut-out and isolate a person from their background. This will save time for those who already know how…

As the world eases out of lockdown, Canon has gone big and announced two new EOS mirrorless cameras, four new and unique RF lenses, two RF Extenders and four new accessories this month. We’ve been waiting for the Canon EOS R5 mirrorless fullframe camera for months now, and glad to see it’s finally releasing at the end of July, all with some incredible specs including a 45Mp sensor and UltraHD 8K movie capabilities. But it’s the new EOS R6 mirrorless that we knew less about – it appears to have merged the 6D Mk II and 7D Mk II to create a fast full-framer. Both full-frame R5 and R6 cameras are blessed with the all-new Dual Pixel CMOS AF II with deep learning AF and new Animal AF capability, new…

The view from Vang Vieng over the Mekong River to the Karst mountains beyond was spectacular. There was just one problem; we could barely see it. Thick, heavy, smog lay over northern Laos and this time I wasn’t rueing Mother Nature’s contrariness – it was all the work of man. The practise of slash and burn agriculture, established over generations to stimulate new growth, had left the countryside looking post-apocalyptic and dumped huge amounts of ash into the heavy atmosphere. It seemed an act of short-sighted eco-vandalism, and bad news for us as any shoots of distant views would be impossible. As days of photographic frustration passed it gradually dawned on me that my whole approach to the trip had to change. I needed to concentrate on what was possible,…

At the time of writing social distancing is still in place, but don’t worry, I’m going to show you how to get some amazing portraits from a safe distance using a telephoto lens. The idea is take lots of pictures of your model with a long focal length lens, like a 70-200mm. Then you lock off the focus and shoot a burst of images from the model’s head, as well as their surroundings, and then stitch them altogether in Photoshop to create a much larger panoramic file. Not only will the result give you a much higher resolution image, it’ll also give you a much shallower depth of field, creating a beautiful separation between the model and background – mimicking the look of a medium format image. It’s also just…

Have you ever returned from shooting a stunning sunset to find that your photos look slightly underwhelming? Those reds, yellows and oranges in the sky that seemed so bold at the time can occasionally come out rather dull. But with a few simple tweaks we can boost the sky, enhance the tones and produce an image that looks exactly how you remember on the day it was captured. Affinity Photo has lots of colour boosting tools and this tutorial we use a trick in the Channel Mixer adjustment. As the name suggests, this tool let’s us mix our red, green and blue channels. Each pixel in our image is initially made up of a specific value for red, green and blue, on a scale from 0-255. By adjusting the channel…

Raw: What is it good for? There’s more to Canon’s Raw image format than meets the eye Before you take a photo, you need to decide which format you want it to be recorded in: JPEG or Raw. The EOS-1D X Mk III also introduces a third option to the Canon range – HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format). This gives the same file size as a JPEG, but with a wider dynamic range (for more detail in shadows and highlights) and a greater colour depth. Raw files, JPEGs and HEIFs all start out in the same way – as the raw data captured by the camera sensor. To create the JPEG or HEIF, the camera processes this raw data using the camera settings you’ve dialled in, and then compresses the…

THE CONTENDERS Canon first’s mirrorless digital system cameras came back in 2012 with the launch of the EOS M (Electro-Optical System Mobility), which was effectively a mirrorless version of the EOS 650D DSLR camera. Without a reflex mirror assembly or viewfinder, the EOS M was indeed much smaller, slimmer and lighter, while still qualifying as a ‘system’ camera, thanks to having interchangeable lenses. Although it helps with downsizing, most of us struggle to shoot naturally without a viewfinder, especially under bright sunlight. Sure enough, the current EOS M50 and M5 mirrorless cameras have a built-in electronic viewfinder, and one is available as an optional extra for the M6. A bonus of electronic viewfinders is that they give a live preview of the effect of exposure and white balance settings but,…

Letter of the Month I retired shortly before lockdown, and during my daily exercise I’ve been going for walks with the camera, taking shots of the English countryside. I’ve been able to capture spring developing into summer, I shot the excitement of young cows being released into the meadows, and the brown fields turn to green and gold with crops. I have been using Canon SLRs since 1979. I have an EOS 6D Mk II (and a trusty 550D), but I still wondered about having a mirrorless system camera, so I bought the ‘pocket rocket’ described by PhotoPlus – the Canon EOS M5 with the tiny 15-45mm lens. The whole package is very easy to carry around. What a revelation! The digital viewfinder view is not a patch on a…