Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2018 i Australian Photography

If we’re to believe many in the media and retail industry, the apocalypse has now officially descended. Amazon.com.au is here and trading, and for the consumer it’s a blue ribbon day. But for your local camera store things probably aren’t looking quite so rosy. Some might argue that the Australian opening of the biggest retailer on earth is just business. We’ve being paying too much for too long for just about everything and in the same way the big chain stores like Harvey Norman and JB HiFi swept through the Australian retail environment in the 90s and effectively spelled the end of the small time retailer, it’s now just karma playing out. A big fish has swum into the pool to swallow all those minnows who haven’t learned to bite…

Having run a successful photo lab for 20 years, in 2010 Dutch-born Frank Hoekstra and his wife Marie Cosgrave brought to Australia this new and exciting medium for printing and displaying images. Offering custom sizes, a range of surfaces and their own designed aluminium framing, metal prints have become the choice of photographers, artists and many other creatives. With the increasing change to digital technology and declining sales in film processing and printing, most local photo labs closed their doors. Faced with this predictable fate the couple knew they must look to re-create themselves. Via the internet Marie found a small business in the USA that had taken what they had learned in the trophy & awards industry and started to print images on metal. After a brief visit to…

UPCOMING COMPETITION THEMES MARCH ISSUE GREEN Deadline: December 15, 2017 APRIL ISSUE EYES Deadline: January 31, 2018 MAY ISSUE ARCHITECTURE February 28, 2018 JUNE ISSUE THE BEACH March 31, 2018 JULY ISSUE BIRDS April 30, 2018 EMAIL DETAILS • Send your entry to yourbestshot@australianphotography.com • Include the name of the competition theme you are entering in the email subject line, for example ‘Rain’ or ‘Abstract’. • Please include the following details with your entry: your name, image title (if there is one) and 100-200 words about how you created your image. Please also include technical details including camera, lens, focal length, shutter speed, aperture, filter (if used), tripod (if used) and details of any software manipulation. • Entries may be submitted up to midnight on the evening of the specified…

What is conceptual art and what has it got to do with photography? It’s a question that more than one Australian Photographic Society (APS) member has asked as the Society’s Conceptual Art Portfolio Awards return for the second year. I was one of the bronze applicants last year and initially, like many of my fellow applicants, I found it hard to understand what was involved in preparing a conceptual portfolio of photographic work. Briefly, shooting a conceptual art photography project can be broken down into four steps: • Step 1: The concept: You have an idea that you would like to explore and you write your intentions down with some accompanying ideas, drawings and photos. Make some notes before you forget. • Step 2: Think how you could go about…

JOSSELIN CORNOU Born in Ambert, France, Josselin bought his first camera in 2012 before moving to Australia. In 2017, Josselin was awarded the French National Award by the World Photo Organisation. Josselin’s photographic work is now focused around discovery and sustainability. Find him on instagram @ untitledshot. JUSTIN GILLIGAN Justin Gilligan combines his scientific background and artistic flare to create images that draw attention to the beauty of the natural world. His images have won awards in the BBC Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year. See more of his work at justingilligan.com. DYLAN GIANNAKOPOULOS Motivated by the many beauties of the world, Melbourne based commercial, travel, and landscape photographer Dylan Giannakopoulos has set out to capture all that inspires…

A MAJOR exhibition, Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast, has launched on the Gold Coast. The exhibition celebrates some of the most iconic images from the past century of fashion as the publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair and Glamour opens up its photography archive to the public. Spanning across the past 100 years, the exhibition includes images by Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton and Mario Testino. Produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (based in the United States and Europe) the exhibition also looks at early work by luminaries such as Horst P. Horst, Erwin Blumenfeld, David Bailey, Guy Bourdin, Corinne Day, Deborah Turbeville and Sølve Sundsbø. The collection of images, selected by photography curator Nathalie Herschdorfer, show the sharp contrast in the…

As photographers we are storytellers, with our images telling the tale of a moment back in time when the shutter was released, allowing light to enter the lens, reflect off the mirror and superimpose a scene to create a digital file. Through the resulting image, our ultimate aim is to evoke an emotion in the audience and convey the stories of spectacular sunsets, adventure and discovery, our family, friends, favourite past times and hobbies. By viewing our photographs we hope to transport the audience back to that moment, and even awaken an emotional connection: What the subject in the photograph is feeling, what the scene sounded or even smelled like, and any other messages we aimed to convey through composition and lighting. Having decided to embrace photography’s storytelling ability a…

The Sony a9 has been heavily marketed towards sports and wildlife photographers, but after using this camera, I believe it is particularly well suited for event and wedding photographers too. Whilst the a9’s form factor is in keeping with the compact and portable aesthetic which mirrorless users have come to expect, the newly designed body features a number of welcomed ergonomic and functional changes in comparison to its a7 series predecessors. This is the first EMount camera to feature two SD card slots, ethernet and PC sync port, AF joystick, larger NP-FZ100 battery, as well as dedicated drive and focus mode dials. The C3 and movie button have been repositioned and there is now a dedicated AEL and AF-ON button. A number of the camera’s dials and buttons have been…

THIS MONTH WINTER CROP CAREFULLY John Wallace said that living in the Barossa Valley certainly has its advantages “as I found when heading to take a bright yellow landscape shot. On arriving I noticed a couple of horses in the opposite side of the field and took a couple of shots when one of them was curious enough to see what I was up to. The original shot has been cropped to letterbox to remove some distracting trees and concentrate more on the yellow plants, I offset the horse when taking to improve the composition.” I like the off-centre composition with the horse and the out-of-focus flowers in the background, but the brown things protruding out of the flowers on the left are little spoilers for the lovely effect of…

As a foreigner living in Australia, I am always fascinated by showing the different faces of this beautiful country. This often means going against the elements to capture scenes that haven’t been seen before. Far away from the sunny beaches, I travelled to the Snowy mountains in August last year. While it is amazingly popular for downhill skiing, I was really surprised by the emptiness as, along with a friend, we were the only people backcountry skiing at that time. It was so beautiful, reminding me of Antarctica. The night of this photo, it actually felt like Antarctica was right there with us. Early in the afternoon, I sensed that the conditions might worsen, so we decided to head to Seaman’s hut for photography and safety. Later that evening, a…

OCEAN HIGHLY COMMENDED PETTER BATTYE Ocean wonder EDITOR’S COMMENTS Peter Battye’s image was taken at the Open Ocean habitat within the S.E.A. Aquarium in Singapore. “This is the worlds largest aquarium and I was entranced by the joy and wonder shown by the school children viewing the marine life through the glass,” he says. It’s the school uniforms that help make this shot so effective. Repetition works so well in photography, and here it allows us to focus a little less on the kids, and more so on their different reactions to the fish in the tank. The glow of the tank reflecting on their faces helps with that wonderful sense of discovery too. Well done. TECHNICAL DETAILS Canon EOS 6D, Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD lens. 1/50s @…

Photography is an expressive and eloquent form of art that not only requires high technical skill, but also a cultivated and unique aesthetic vision. I began studying photography in 1986 and then came to Sydney in 1989 from Nanning City, Guangxi in China. In 2003, I completed my Master’s degree in Multimedia Design (Honours) at the University of Sydney and currently I am an Australian Photography Society Member, and the Executive President and General Secretary of the Australian Digital Photographic Association. I am also a senior graphic artist at Ainsworth Game Technology Ltd. I have quite an interest in capturing the theme of motion such as birds flying, people dancing, surfers riding waves and bulls at rodeo shows. I believe that there is immense power in framing a moving object…

WIN! Thanks to Fujifilm, John Wallace has won a brilliant Instaxshare smartphone printer SP-2 valued at $299. The Instaxshare SP-2 printer lets you create instax prints from your precious memories in your smartphone. The printer also lets you print images from your Instagram and Facebook accounts, and select your best shots from your smartphone by transferring the shots from the app to SP-2 via a Wi-Fi connection. With a high-speed printing time of 10 seconds of print data transfer to print output and a new laser exposure system, the SP-2 is faster than ever. At the same time, printing noise is lower which makes your printing experience much more enjoyable. Finally the SP-2 offers superb image quality and high resolution with print pixels of 800x600 dots at 320dpi, showing detailed…