Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2016 i PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine

ALWAYS BE ON THE LOOKOUT Brilliant photo ops of buildings are all around, as long as you have the skills to capture them with your Canon. Learn how on page 28 Beautiful buildings and amazing architecture, both old and new, are all around us, but it’s easy to overlook these structures sometimes when you’re out with your Canon taking pictures. So this issue I’ve made it my mission to encourage you to shoot more buildings, whether in your local town or city or when on your holidays. Turn to page 28 for some essential Canon camera skills for capturing everything from castles and cityscapes to buildings and beach houses. We test Canon’s new sharp-shooting EOS 80D inside. In our in-depth review, we reveal why this high-speed and high-specced camera just…

THE MISSION Capture the shape of a landscape silhouetted against the evening sky Time needed Half an hour Skill level Easy Kit needed ND filter (optional) Plunging the landscape that lies before you into deep shadow may seem counter-intuitive at first. But shooting in silhouette can be a brilliant, creative style of photography. The main purpose of shooting a silhouette is to expose for the sky when you want to capture a stunning sunset. In such situations, the dynamic range of your camera’s sensor simply isn’t capable of capturing both the detail in the dark landscape and colours of the far brighter sky, so you’re faced with a choice of exposing for one or the other. A bright white, bleached-out sky is rarely the favoured option. But that’s not to…

THE MISSION Shoot a macro image at multiple focus settings then combine them for pin-sharp results Time needed Half a day Skill level Advanced Kit needed Macro lens • Tripod • Shutter release cable • Still subject • Photoshop CC/CS (or specialist photo stacking software) Focus stacking is a handy technique used to extend the depth of field in your images. This technique is commonly used in extreme close-up photography as depth of field is so limited. Depth of field is determined by three factors: focal length, distance to subject and aperture. Macro lenses tend to have long telephoto focal lengths – like the Sigma 105mm lens we’re using – and you have to get in close to your subject to achieve full-size magnification, both of which leave you with…

THE MISSION Learn how to correct a colour cast, chose a picture style and control saturation Time needed 10 minutes Skill level Easy Kit needed Lightroom Lightroom offers plenty of excellent tools for colour control, but the key to manipulating colour starts long before you open up the program. It begins when choosing between Raw and JPEG in your Canon’s quality settings. The big advantage CR2 Raw files have over JPEGs is the amount of colour information they contain. Effectively, shooting Raw means you can set a white balance, choose a colour space or change the picture style settings after the fact, without any loss of image quality. JPEGs, on the other hand, have all this information ‘burnt in’ as soon as the shot is taken, and all the other…

01 SITTING UNCOMFORTABLY Posing Erika in an awkward position helps to depict her unease Lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 Exposure 1/60 sec, f/1.8, ISO200 02 COLD INSIDE A silhouette portrays Erika’s mysterious side and her fear of exposure Lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 Exposure 1/2000 sec, f/1.8, ISO200 03 SHY With her back to the camera, this sums up Erika’s shy personality Lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 Exposure 1/60 sec, f/1.8, ISO200 PROJECT INFO NAME: Benedetta Cari LOCATION: Rome, Italy MISSION: To portray the model’s personality as well as my own KIT: Canon EOS 550D, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 https://www.facebook.com/Benedetta-Cari-Photography-494888607352230/?pnref=lhc When I first contacted Erika, I didn’t know exactly what kind of pictures I wanted to take. She was one of the first models I’d worked with and, at the…

PETER TRAVERS PhotoPlus editor Peter’s been a passionate photographer for well over 20 years. He’s worked on PhotoPlus since the very first issue, back in 2007, and has been the magazine’s editor for the past four years. EXPOSURE Get your image brightness and shutter speeds sorted Simple Canon DSLR setup Whenever I shoot any sort of buildings, cities or structures I will start off shooting in Av (Aperture value) mode using a mid-range aperture around f/11 (see right page). If lighting conditions or high-contrast scenes are fooling my camera, I’ll switch to Manual mode to boss the exposure. This is mainly to ensure a correct exposure for the building; I won’t worry too much if this leaves the sky or surroundings really light or dark – although the opposite will…

THE MISSION Cast interesting shadows over your portraits with gobo lighting techniques Time needed One hour Skill level Intermediate Kit needed Light source, such as Speedlite, studio head or bare bulb • Wireless trigger A‘gobo’ is a term that originated in the film industry, where lighting plays a huge part in creating a mood to match the unfolding drama. It’s used to describe anything that ‘goes between’ the light source and the subject or background that creates a pattern of shadows. As such, gobos come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. There are natural gobos – think of the sun shining through leaves, creating a pattern of shadows underneath. Then there are the kind of gobos that we create ourselves to change the mood of our scene. A classic…

THE MISSION Get a twinkling starburst effect using a star filter Time needed 15 minutes Skill level Easy Kit needed Star filter accessory A star filter adds an interesting effect to a composition that includes a light source or bright reflected highlights. Where we’d usually struggle to combat such bright lights in our photography, these filters produce an attractive starburst effect, creating a dazzling focal point. Star filters are etched with a fine pattern of lines that catch the light. The bigger and brighter the light source the better, which is why the sun or street lamps are a favourite starburst subject. Most filters can be rotated, allowing for creative compositions to get the desired effect. Working with bright lights, exposure and focus are key. In sunlight, you can get…

THE MISSION Remove signs of age and damage from old prints Time needed 20 minutes Skill level Intermediate Kit needed Photoshop Elements With digital cameras we have the luxury of capturing hundreds – if not thousands – of memories of family and friends that can last a lifetime. Thanks to high-capacity hard drives and cloud storage, we can safely archive these images and print from them at any time we wish. What’s more, digital files don’t suffer from being handled, unlike prints, which can be subject to wear and tear over time. Even the best-kept prints will deteriorate eventually, as they can lose tone and detail due to silvering and discolouration caused by air pollutants and light. And as a generation that has witnessed the switch from film to digital,…

01 GECKO SILHOUETTE This gecko was photographed while resting on an arrow-root (Marantaceae) leaf in São Tomé e Príncipe on the West African coast Lens Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L USM Macro Exposure 1/250 sec, f/11, ISO400 David Maitland’s photography reveals weird and wonderful details of the natural world that are usually too small for us to see with the naked eye. Armed with plenty of photographic expertize and the scientific knowledge gained during his academic career, his photographs are a perfect combination of science and art. Colourful, intriguing and often quirky, his work ranges from detailed macro shots of reptiles, amphibians and insects to microscopic studies of organisms up to 1000x life size. However, as well as being visually striking, the tiny details they highlight also tell us something about…

01 Synology DiskStation DS416j Access your entire photo library anywhere From £240/$290 www.synology.com Ne twork attached storage is like having your own private server that’s accessible from computers or smartphones in your home, and also on the go over the web. Use it to backup, share and view images remotely, or as a media server to stream photos and videos to your TV. You’ll need to add between one and four hard drives, but once installed, the DiskStation’s powerful dual-core processor and intuitive operating system make light work of managing your media. 02 Ansmann Powerline Vario Versatile and compact battery charging £30/$40 www.ansmann.de/en Universal battery chargers are extremely handy if your gear uses several different types of battery, yet you want to travel light. The Powerline Vario will charge anything…

When you’re after a lens to steal the scene in landscape photography, you need to go large. Standard zooms can take in the big picture, at least to some extent, especially if you’re using a 24-70mm or 24-105mm lens on a full-frame body. But it can still feel a bit of a blinkered approach, with imposing areas of a rolling landscape failing to make it into the frame. Things are worse with an 18-55mm lens on an APS-C format body, which only gives you an ‘effective’ 28.8mm focal length at the wide-angle end. You need something bigger, at least in terms of viewing angle. Wide-angle zooms are somewhat notorious for being big, heavy lenses. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The thing that really ramps up the physical…

APPRENTICE Na me: Kevin Fryer Camera: Canon EO S 750D Kevin, a former police officer living in Cardiff, has been a steam buff since his youth. He decided he needed a new hobby upon retiring from the force 15 years ago, so took up photography, and has most recently upgraded to a Canon EOS 750D. He asked for our help photographing locomotives, so he could combine his hobbies. CANON PRO NAME: DON BISHOP CAMERA: CANON EOS 5D MK III STEAM enthusiast Don started photographing trains on film back in the early ’90s. He gave up his day job in 2006 to become a full-time landscape and heritage railway photographer, and runs a gallery near Taunton, Somerset. He’s written and photographed six books on steam railways, and runs regular steam train…

Bagan, Myanmar. 5am local time. 29 November 2012 Ihad seen the pictures before, but the reality is incredible. What I need is a viewpoint that shows the profusion of temples around Bagan. The plain they are all built on is, by definition, flat as a pancake, and distant views of the temples are further obscured by the trees growing all around. An elevated viewpoint is a necessity, and the most obvious ones are the upper terraces of the temples themselves. Herein lies the Big Problem. In previous years, when the flow of visitors to Bagan was a mere trickle, access to the ancient and often crumbling temples was unrestricted. All have dark, narrow internal passages and steps to their higher levels. Now, though, as visitors are flocking here, restoration work…

THE MISSION Use lens flare creatively in a portrait by shooting into the sun Time needed One hour Skill level Intermediate Kit needed Standard zoom lens Lens flare is something we normally try hard to avoid in our images. Indeed, lens makers go to great pains to develop coatings that reduce the effects of flare, and lens hoods are designed to prevent flare-inducing stray light from striking the front element. But in this tutorial we’re going to use lens flare to our advantage for a creative portrait. Lens flare is caused by light bouncing around in the lens barrel as it is reflected off the various glass elements inside the lens. It is most commonly seen on bright days when the sun is in the shot, where it manifests itself…

THE MISSION Cover a portrait with words using the Displace filter Time needed 15 minutes Skill level Easy Kit needed Photoshop CC They say a picture paints a thousand words, but to be precise, here the word count is more like two thousand. From a distance the image looks like any other black-and-white portrait, but a closer look reveals a chaotic jumble of sentences that appear to rise and fall, matching the contours of the face. In this tutorial we’ll show you how it’s done. It might look complex, but the effect is actually surprisingly quick and easy to pull off. What’s more, besides the striking visuals, it also lets you run with a theme depending on your choice of words – we pasted in a therapythemed passage, but you…

01 CHRIS CATALYST OF THE EUREKA MACHINES This shot was well worth the wait – try and anticipate the action Lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Exposure 1/320 sec, f/4, ISO2000 02 MASATO DAVID HAYAKAWA OF COLDRAIN Commanding the stage – the frontman is usually a natural showman Lens Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM Exposure 1/200 sec, f/2.8, ISO250 03 ROGER LIMA OF LESS THAN JAKE Get to know the band and they may play to the camera for you Lens Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM Exposure 1/160 sec, f/2.8, ISO4000 JOIN IN THE FUN! One of the great things about photography is being able to share your view of the world. This issue we join the press pit to see how live music gigs are photographed and hear the…

Professional photographers reveal their top six tools of the trade they couldn’t shoot without “I have a handy app called Sound Sleeper to settle restless babies” I have specialized in newborn photography more or less from day one, but shoot a wide range of portraits. Photographing newborns is so different from any other type of portraiture. It requires a lot of experience, and plenty of time settling and soothing the baby, allowing time for feeds, winding and comforting. I can spend anywhere between 30 minutes and three hours settling a newborn and it’s important that I do this so the baby is comfortable with me and gets used to being away from mum. It certainly requires a lot of patience! It is vital to have the right kit to hand…

C anon has designed the EOS 80D to appeal to its core following of dedicated enthusiast photographers; people who want to shoot a range of subjects in a variety of conditions and have access to an extensive feature set with plenty of control options, but who don’t need a full-on professional-level camera. As such, the 80D has a new 24-million-pixel sensor inside along with a Digic 6 processing engine. This combination brings a native sensitivity range of ISO100-16,000 (that’s 1/3-stop higher than the 70D) and a maximum expansion value of ISO25,600 (the same as the 70D). And while the maximum continuous shooting rate is the same as the 70D’s at 7fps, the burst depth has been increased to 110 JPEGs or 25 Raw files when a UHS-1 SD card is…