Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2016 i Australian Photography

Thanks to our good friends at EIZO, Meg Nurse has won a gorgeous EIZO ColorEdge CS230 Photo Editing Monitor valued at $1375. While your camera can capture trillions of colours, most computer monitors are only able to show a fraction of that colour range – around 16 million colours. The ColorEdge CS230 has a library of over 278 trillion colours and can display more than one billion of those simultaneously resulting in smoother colour and tonal gradations, truer images and much more detail. For around the price of a high-quality lens, the 23in ColorEdge CS230 Photo Editing Monitor lets you see subtle details and a richness of colour that would otherwise be hidden from view. There’s also automatic colour adjustment with a built-in self-correction sensor and ColorNavigator software. That’s why…

When I visit macro photographer extraordinaire Michael Duncan at Sydney University, he's hanging out in a room full of bees. They're everywhere, landing on the lights and buzzing around the room. He doesn't seem the least bit bothered. It's easy to understand why. Michael's focus has been taken up with an entirely different subject in recent years—a species unique to Australia that's really got people buzzing—and his photographs are a big part of all the noise. Alongside his ‘Project Maratus’ colleagues and fellow experts Michael Doe and Adam Fletcher, he has spent the last 12 months studying the remarkable habits of peacock spiders. Although records show they were discovered in the late 1800's, it wasn't until 2005 when one was witnessed jumping out onto a bush track that they began…

It was 1963 when Olympus launched the original PEN-F. The compact SLR featured interchangeable lenses and manual controls, but its most innovative feature was its half-frame (18 x 24mm) format that allowed photographers to capture 72 photographs on a roll of 36-exposure 35mm film. The only quirk was that in a normal shooting position, the format was aligned to portrait mode, but this did not stop the PEN-F from being one of the most elegant, portable and desirable camera systems of the 1960s. Fifty years on and the PEN-F is back, this time with a 20.3-megapixel Live MOS sensor and a five-axis stabilisation system that ensures sharp photographs at slow shutter speeds about four stops below the norm, and smooth video when hand-holding the camera. Olympus have also enabled this…

Homelessness in India has been a problem for centuries. With few alternatives, many people turn to a life of begging on the streets. During my two-month visit to India I had no intention of documenting or photographing the homeless, however I found it everywhere and often it was impossible to avoid. I remember feeling somewhat ashamed and uncomfortable taking this photograph from the backseat of a taxi in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. I was inclined to document the situation with my camera and try to convey a sense of desperation behind the fleeting moment. As a travel photographer I’m constantly fascinated by the daily life of other people and how people interact with each another. It was this interest that steered me to shoot this image of a young Indian girl begging…

AP SUBSCRIBER CLUB WINNER PHOTOGRAPHER Meg Nurse TITLE My friend EDITOR’S COMMENT A personal moment in the life of the subject; the love and trust between her and her dog; the lifelong collection of memorabilia filling the room and finally the empty chair devoid of visitors – Meg Nurse says there’s a lot about this scene she wanted to feature. “The image was taken using natural light with soft flash bounced off the ceiling,” she says. “I set up my tripod at the same level as the subject so as not to be looking down on her. I left everything in the room as it was to portray the scene just as I found it, and added a slight vignette to the corners to draw attention to the important part…

In January this year, I had the opportunity to travel to Tasmania for one week with three other talented photographers. Our original plan was to hike the Western Arthurs as far as Lake Oberon, one of the many wilderness locations immortalised by the late Peter Dombrovskis. In order to prepare for a seven-day wilderness trip with no support but ourselves, we started planning the trip months out from our departure date. Foremost in our minds was the variable weather of the Tasmanian wilderness. We were accordingly planning for the worst, but little did we know that we would not even be able to access the trailhead. At the time of our visit, devastating bushfires were raging through the pristine wilderness and threatened many World Heritage areas. Our trip became one…

Canon demos monster 120-megapixel camera Canon has demonstrated an eye-watering 120-megapixel concept camera at Shanghai’s Canon Expo 2016. The 120-megapixel beast was announced in September 2015, but the event in Shanghai was the as-yet unnamed camera’s first public unveiling. Build wise, the new camera appears nearly identical to the existing EOS 5DS and 5DS R. For the expo, the camera was housed on a glass table pointed downward at a box filled with different objects - a book with descending sized text and a matchbook sized book with even tinier text. The image from the camera could then be viewed on a giant wall display and on a computer – zooming in revealing the huge level of detail that a 120-megapixel sensor provides. EXIF details show that each RAW .CR2…

As photographers we’re always searching for that perfect camera, but is there really such a thing? In the past decade I’ve been shooting with Canon DSLRs. They have served me well in that time, especially with landscape photography and commercial work. However, technology has advanced and small cameras are now becoming popular among professional photographers. I’ve always been a firm believer that it’s not the camera that matters; it’s the end result that counts. It’s still my view on photography, yet everyday I’m trying to push the limits of my gear to get the best possible results – I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I want to share some of the benefits of using smaller cameras, and mirrorless cameras in particular, and how they can change…

I’m surprised how many times I’m asked how I get those lovely images shot into the sun, and in particular the starburst effect with my photos. I hear all sorts of formulas, but to be honest, the easiest way is to simply point your camera and shoot. Of course, this is an oversimplified comment, so lets look into more depth at what effects you can get, and why and how you can maximise this very creative use in your own photography. Our modern camera meters, regardless of the brand, are incredibly good at averaging out the difference from highlights to shadows. What was once a hit or miss system and invariably required multiple different exposures to guarantee a result, can now create a great result with one shot. A few…