Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2016 i PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine

THE LION KING The incredibly talented Michael Poliza travels the world taking amazing pictures such as this one. We chat to him about his gorgeous wildlife, travel and aerial images on page 68 Given half the chance, I’ll happily sit and watch any sport, whether rugby, athletics or golf, and whether it’s on TV or in a stadium. But better still, I’d prefer to be sitting pitchside with my Canon DSLR and long lens in hand, ready to capture the live action unfolding. Canon Ambassador and pro sports photographer Eddie Keogh does this every week, and does it all around the globe, photographing the world’s best sports. So he’s the perfect man to explain how to take brilliant sports shots in this month’s big Canon camera skills guide (see page…

CANON PRO NAME: PHILIP STEVENS CAMERA: CANON EO S 5D MK III AVIATION buff Philip has been photographing military planes for the past 45 years. Keen to get airside access, he started writing articles and providing photographs for aviation publications back in the ’80s. As well as selling images through stock libraries, Philip is in the process of writing and shooting for his upcoming book Thunder Through the Valleys, due out in 2018. See www.targeta.co.uk APPRENTICE NAME: STEVE WHITTAKER CAMERA: CANON EO S 5D MK III STEVE, 53, lives in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. He received a Canon EOS 650D as a 50th birthday gift from his sons, and has really been bitten by the bug, since upgrading to a 7D and now a 5D Mk III, as well as…

It’s been a real summer of sport with the Euro football championship and the Rio Olympics, and what better way is there to capture great moments such as these with your Canon DSLR? But following sport and shooting it properly are two very different fish. Which is why we’ve drafted in experienced professional sports photographer and Canon Ambassador Eddie Keogh. With his truly inspirational images and top tips, he’ll show you how to photograph all manner of sports, from athletics, tennis and football, to swimming, rugby and golf. We also appreciate that it’s tricky to get press passes or close access to major sporting events like Eddie does all the time. However, the good news is that the in-depth tips you’ll learn over the next 12 pages can be applied…

Peter Gray explains how metering modes control how your DSLR dictates exposure Metering is how your camera measures the brightness of a scene before you take a shot, and can have a significant effect on the exposure of your images. Your Canon DSLR has four metering modes, each suited to a particular situation: Evaluative is a generalpurpose mode, and meters light across the whole frame with emphasis on the active focus point(s); Partial measures the centre of the frame, and works best when the background is much darker or brighter than the subject; Spot measures a very small area in the centre of the frame, and is perfect for scenes with very high contrast; Centre-weighted average measures the whole frame, but with a bias towards the centre. Notice how the…

THE MISSION Replace a sky with a colourful sunset using Photoshop’s Blend If command Time needed 10 minutes Skill level Easy Kit needed Photoshop CC DOWNLOAD PROJECT FILES TO YOUR COMPUTER FROM: http://downloads.photoplusmag.com/pp117.zip Whether you want to replace a bland sky or make any kind of montage, then learning a few simple Photoshop compositing skills will serve you very well. More often than not, making composites is all about precise selections and layer masks, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that’s what we’ve done here, by cutting out the buildings then dropping in the new sky. This would be a perfectly fine way to do things. But as usual with Photoshop, there are several ways to skin the same cat, and there’s another method that offers greater control and speed.…

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Creating your own food-inspired artwork to hang up in your kitchen doesn’t have to be a chore. You don’t even need a specialist macro lens to get in close to reveal the beautiful textures and detail in your chosen subject. All you need is your kit lens and a flashgun. By using flash to illuminate your subject you can improve the quality of the light to highlight the natural contours, which will accentuate the shape and details, giving your shot more depth by making the whites whiter and blacks blacker. It’s a great way to give food photos an HDR-like effect to make them really pop out. For our example we chose to photograph a few asparagus stalks due to their interesting shape and texture. To take the HDR-effect look…

THE MISSION Apply selective colour effects in Lightroom Time needed 10 minutes Skill level Easy Kit needed Lightroom DOWNLOAD PROJECT FILES TO YOUR COMPUTER FROM: http://downloads.photoplusmag.com/pp117.zip Selective colour photography has been around for a long time. While it’s not to everyone’s taste, there’s no denying that it is a great technique to draw attention to a subject or object in a scene. Your image needs to be suitable for the effect to work well, ideally you need a scene with a bright, vibrant colourful subject that you want to stand out; we’ve chosen a red phone box for our example. Making selective colour effects in Lightroom is a quick and easy task. The key to success is the HSL panel. The eight colour sliders enable you to zero in on…

Tamron has a history of producing popular 90mm macro lenses. No less than three iterations are currently on the market, the oldest costing £290/$500 and lacking VC (Vibration Compensation) or internal focusing. That lens was ostensibly replaced back in 2012, with the introduction of a stabilized, internally focusing optic that also added ring-type ultrasonic autofocus, with a price of £350/$600. This year’s new model adds some notable refinements and a price rise to £580/$650, so what do you get for the extra outlay? The design and styling of the new 90mm lens is very much in keeping with other recent Tamron primes, including the 35mm, 45mm and 85mm f/1.8 lenses. The smart black eggshell finish and silver ring around the rear are the same, as are the large and easy-to-use…

What to look for Canon EOS DSLRs Canon splits its EOS lineup into entry-level, enthusiast and professional ranges, and the fewer digits the more upmarket the camera; so the new 1300D is the most basic, the 750D/760D for intermediates, while the new 80D is for more advanced enthusiasts. Expect greater ease of use (with thumboperated scrollwheels replacing cumbersome cursor keys), more robust build quality (with weather-sealing and tough magnesiumalloy shells), more advanced functionality, and full-frame (rather than smaller APS-C) image sensors with more expensive EOS models. With over 150 lenses available for Canon DSLRs, picking the best for the job can be a minefield. Here’s the lowdown on all currently available EOS-fit glass Choosing lenses Key factors to watch out for The main factors to consider in a lens are…

01 LIVE IN COLOUR BY PARTHA PAL This photograph was taken in a village called Sonapalashi, which is about 20km fromBardhaman, West Bengal, India. In the photograph some of the villagers have applied colour to their whole body, along with other decorations. They then get together in front of a temple, dancing and singing loudly to satisfy the god Shiva prior to Bengali New Year. Lens Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Exposure 1/100 sec, f/4, ISO1250 02 MONA LISA SMILE BY SUSSI ALMINDE I love to photograph people in nature. This picture was taken last autumn in the golden hour at a cemetery in the countryside. I wanted to capture a backlit portrait and used a reflector to bounce some light back into Madison’s face. I love the colours that…

THE MISSION Learn how predicting the angle of the sunrise or sunset can benefit your landscapes Time needed One hour Skill level Intermediate Kit needed Smartphone • PhotoPills app • Tripod It’s often said that photography is all about light. But more specifically, it’s about the direction, angle, quality and strength of light. Scenes can look dramatically different under varied lighting conditions and, as any landscape photographer knows, the most attractive light is at the start and end of the day. Not only does the low angle of the sun create pockets of light and shade that reveal the contours of a landscape, the sun’s rays have to pass through more of the atmosphere, causing light to take on the warm orange and red qualities that result in such vibrant…

MICHAEL POLIZA says he has always done what he enjoys doing. Luckily, he is a man of many talents and the result has been a varied and interesting life made up of three very different parts. As a child, Poliza had a thriving career as an actor, and appeared in over 100 television and theatre productions. When he became an adult, he put his performing career behind him to become a successful IT entrepreneur, rubbing shoulders with contemporaries including Bill Gates. Then, after going on a roundthe-world, 1000-day multi-media environmental awareness expedition by boat – the Starship Millennium Voyage – he began a career as a professional photographer and travel guide. Now 57, Poliza has visited more than 150 countries and produced seven books of his work, featuring Africa and…

Professional photographers reveal their top six tools of the trade they couldn’t shoot without “I’m a travelling filmmaker with no real fixed location, this means that space and weight is a huge issue for me” WHAT DO I DO? I’M AN Australian digital nomad with my own freelance media business. I produce films, work as a photographer and build websites for clients around the world. I’m also a trained actor and take on performing jobs when I can get them, but most of the time I make location films for businesses and some video blogs on YouTube. I occasionally use these skills to make offers to businesses in destinations that I want to visit, then come to mutually beneficial arrangements with them. www.recalmedia.com I shoot cinematic style and location films…

01 Alpine Labs Pulse Comprehensive control for your Canon $99/about £75 https://alpinelaboratories.com THE PULSE is a new wireless camera remote compatible with any recent Canon DSLR. Using Bluetooth connectivity, it enables you to control your Canon camera with an Apple or Android smartphone and shoot not only stills, but also video. Up to three Pulse-equipped Canons can be simultaneously controlled over 30m from one smartphone. But Pulse’s stand-out feature is its advanced yet user-friendly time-lapse mode that includes exposure ramping, helping you capture compelling sunrise and sunset scenes. 02 BenQ PV3200PT A monitor without compromise £1099/$1299 www.benq.com BENQ’S latest 32inch monitor should make photo and video editing a joy. Its Ultra HD 3840x2160 resolution promises superb sharpness, while IPS LCD display technology maintains uniform colour and contrast, even when viewing…

THE CONTENDERS Whether you’re off on safari for the big game, or just venturing out into your garden for a bit of birding, one thing you’ll need is serious telephoto reach. This can often equate to huge lenses with equally enormous prices but, for this Super Test, we’ve herded up the smartest buys on the market while penning the most expensive lenses at the bottom of the following pages. Thanks to the 1.6x crop factor of APS-C format Canon cameras such as the 750D and 80D, a fairly modest and lightweight 70-300mm zoom lens gives a maximum ‘effective’ focal length of 480mm. That’s like using a chunky super-telephoto lens on a fullframe camera like the 5D Mk III, making a regular telephoto zoom an attractive proposition for wildlife photography of…

Video content online I don’t have a dedicated disc player with my iMac. Are the contents of the PhotoPlus Canon Skills disc available online? Steve Johnson, Yorkshire All our videos certainly are available online, Steve, just use the links printed on each Project and Tutorial page, next to VIDEOS ALSO ONLINE for example http://bit.ly/pp_115_5. Apprentice: you’re hired! I was a PhotoPlus Apprentice back in issue 78 with Mark Bauer, who taught me to take great landscape shots in the Lakes. Just thought I’d give you a little update on how far I’ve come. I recently plucked up the courage to show some of my photos at the Keswick Regatta. Not only did I receive many fantastic comments – even professional photographers thought I was a seasoned pro – I took…