Innholdsfortegnelse for June - August 2018 i Photo Review

Instagram was barely a year old when Lauren Bath first discovered it. While she’d used a camera to take the usual family and friends snapshots, when it came to creative expression it was her work as a chef, rather than photography that scratched the itch. But that changed when she stumbled across Instagram. ‘Instagram was about photography,’ she said, ‘and I started to experiment with that medium.’ It turned out that others liked her experiments. Within 18 months she’d built a following of 200,000. Along the way she began to acquire a few clients who were impressed by her travel work. Not one to do things by halves, she decided to take off the chef’s hat and adopt a title that previously didn’t exist. ‘Basically “professional instagrammer” is a title…

As you can see, the ‘Tale of Two Frames’ challenge stimulated our respondents’ imaginations. As is so often the case, choosing the ‘best’ submission was not easy. But choose we must, and choose we did, as we bestowed the first place honours upon young Nicholas Fantini, a Year 12 student from Greenwood College in Mindaire, WA, for his combination of a drone image of a lagoon in the mountains of Chile and a lakeside view from from Bolivia. Norman Shapro’s two-panel portrait of a humble garlic plant is both technically immaculate and more importantly, quite beautiful. Royce Holliday paired his haunting image of a bird taking off with a pleasantly geometric bird’s eye perspective, while the endlessly creative Susan Shanta told a simple story in two frames. Also picking up…

‘You're not thinking about what ISO am I on and that sort of thing. You’re just doing.’ ‘I’m not one given to the grand narrative about how I picked up a camera the moment I finished suckling at my mother’s breast,’ said South African born and raised Clayton Hairs. ‘I don’t come from an artistic family. While I probably had inclinations to the artistic side, I had quite a domineering father and I was always aware of his, “how are you going to make a living mate” attitude to career choices. So I did undergraduate things that I really didn’t care much for – and which, quite frankly, took me far too long to actually complete. ‘When I finished my undergraduate studies, I decided to buy an old 1976 Land…

Hasselblad's announcement of a medium format camera that could capture 400-megapixel images got us thinking: are the 'megapixel wars' of a decade ago really over? And how many photographers would actually need such high resolution? (Very few, we suspect.) Recently, most camera manufacturers have promoted features other than resolution when advertising cameras, although most consumers still check the megapixel count of cameras before they buy. So why do we obsess about megapixel counts and ignore other, often more important, features? And with more pictures being taken with smartphones and shared via social media, how much do megapixels matter? Megapixels resonate because numbers are easy to understand and quantitative measures are difficult to dispute. High megapixel counts imply superiority because we're conditioned to believe that more of something is always better.…

Landscape photography consistently rates among the three most popular genres in Photo Review's regular reader surveys. Entries in our image reviews, competitions and online galleries confirm its popularity, so we decided it was time to provide an overview of equipment our readers should consider if they are looking to extend their capabilities and/or address a specific sub-set of the genre. Just as there's no definitive subject for the genre, no single camera or lens can be claimed as the 'best' device for taking landscape photos. But some types of equipment will suit particular shooting situations better than others and the ways in which the resulting shots are used will influence the resolution required. Camera choices Serious photographers can choose from four main types of cameras: 1. Medium format interchangeable-lens models…

Lee Point NT at dusk By Richard Bruxner Panasonic GM5; 12-32 f/3.5-5.6 lens The sun had been gone for some time and I was wandering back to my car with my back to this. Sometimes it pays to turn around. Don’s response Maybe a neuroscience expert could explain just why this picture of sand banks and the irregular shapes of the trapped water is so appealing to the human brain, but appealing it is. Along with the interesting details of the sand ripples and the golden reflections, I think part of the appeal for me is the way those attractive details are united by their subtle top left to bottom right diagonal orientation. The larger forms in the foreground gradually blending together in distance also creates a sense of depth…

‘We have amazing cameras now, but it still takes skill to capture those very fast moments when everything is perfect.’ We all know what wedding photos look like. But yours don’t look like that. Can you explain why? Right from the start, I didn’t know what I liked, but I knew what I didn’t like. The photography you do and the style you end up doing is a representation of who you are inside. I’m a very genuine sort of person and I love capturing real, raw emotion in a moment. You know what [pioneering French street photographer] Henri Cartier-Bresson called ‘the decisive moment’? In the wedding context, I prefer to call them peak moments, and they’re very important to me because most people can’t catch them. We have amazing…

Simply submit up to three of your favourite images for your chance to win one of two stylish Fujifilm X-A5 with XC15-45mm lens RRP $899 each. (See more on the X-A5 at www.fujifilm.com.au) Send your images to imagereview@photoreview.com.au • jpeg, minimum 200mm on the longest side, at 300 DPI • your name and image title in the jpeg file name • camera/lens used and image description/comments IMAGE REVIEW 10 First winner will be selected 3 September 2018. See terms and conditions at www.imagereview.com.au…

Wide open Shooting at maximum aperture imposes a special discipline on the photographer. If you’re shooting at, say, f/2.8, the depth of field is quite shallow and you need to pay close attention to the way you manage the in-focus zone. We’ll be looking for images that not only use shallow depth of field for emphasis, but which create a dynamic relationship between the in- and out-of-focus parts of the picture. So set that favourite lens of yours on its maximum aperture and show us what you can do. Please review the rules and email your entries to photochallenge@photoreview.com.au. Deadline for entries is 28 August 2018, winner will be selected 14 September 2018 and the winning pictures will be published in our Dec-Feb 2018-2019 edition. Prize for this challenge is…