Innholdsfortegnelse for September - November 2020 i Photo Review

I CC profiles are pieces of software code containing information that characterises each colour input or output device in an imaging workflow according to standards set up by the International Colour Consortium (ICC). They are used to define the way an output device (printer or screen for example) should represent colour for the specific combination of parameters controlling the input data it receives. Each profile defines the most saturated colours as well as the range of tones the device is able to produce in a standard colour space. A profile for a printer will specify a precise combination of printer, ink, paper and output settings. For a screen it will define the brightness, contrast and colour values for reproduction in the light of the screen’s resolution, contrast and gamut capabilities.…

Mt Ngungun By Paul Carpenter Canon 5D Mark lll; EF 24-105mm lens @45mm; f/11; ISO 100; Multiple exposure blend at 1/5s, 1/15s, 1/50s, 1/160s & 1/500s I arrived at the summit of Mt Ngungun to find the peak already crowded with sightseers, so as the sunset developed I quickly ventured down the northern slope to find some different framing for Mt Beerwah and Mt Coonowrin. A number of exposures were required to capture the wide dynamic range of the scene. Don’s response Finding your own version of a much-photographed scene can be a real challenge. Photographer Paul Carpenter not only succeeded on that front, he also managed to tame a very tricky exposure problem in an impressively graceful fashion. The lighting in his multi-image composite has the sort of natural…

‘You start climbing at night, well before sunrise,’ says Natalia Mroz. It can take four hours to reach some of the churches she’s photographed in the mountains of Ethiopia for her Pilgrimage project. ‘Parts of the path are vertical and truly frightening, but as you climb higher, the sunrise illuminates the flat plain below and you can see for miles. Then suddenly the priest who has accompanied you puts a huge old key into what looks like a hole in the rock… and you have your “Indiana Jones” moment. Illuminated by candlelight, you see a whole basilica carved out inside, with columns and frescoes.’ Orthodox Christianity was introduced to Northern Ethiopia sometime in the 3rd century AD and its adherents soon began hand-carving places of worship into the stark, mountainous…

‘The 360 in 360 project was an idea I developed more than four years ago with an aim to showcase Australia in a way that has rarely been seen before,’ says award-winning Olympus photographer Scott Portelli. The concept is as simple as it is ambitious, he explains. ‘By combining aerial, landscape and underwater images and video, stories that reflect the wildlife, nature, people and places that make up Australia, we intend to show the hidden gems that only local knowledge and immersing yourself in a place can provide.’ ‘2020 was not the year to take on an epic one-year journey around Australia,’ Scott says with admirable understatement. ‘The plan was to spend the first few months in NSW and Victoria, but the tragic circumstances of Australia’s bushfires meant that we…

Rendering intents are the different methods by which colour management systems convert some or all colours in a picture to the colour space of a given output device. You’ll generally find them in the print dialog box (shown here). Of the four rendering intents available, only two are used for photographic printing: Perceptual and Relative Colorimetric. (Saturation is used for printing graphics where maximum colour saturation is required, while Absolute is used for offset press proofing.) Perceptual rendering aims to preserve the visual relationship between colours. The printer driver will take the out-of-gamut colours (which can’t be reproduced by the printer’s ink set) and move them to the closest in-gamut colours. At the same time it may also tweak some of the in-gamut colours slightly. It is most suitable for…

‘It’s like unwrapping Christmas presents in that you never know what you’re going to get. Or if you’re going to get anything at all.’ How has the coronavirus pandemic affected your photography and business? I have two sources of income as a professional landscape photographer. One is teaching the workshops I’ve been doing since 2005. They were suspended, of course, but I’m back doing them now [in June]. The second is my gallery at Mornington [on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula], which opened 18 months ago. When COVID-19 happened, it closed for six weeks, and reopening it with the ‘four square metres per person’ rule wasn’t a problem because it covers 60-odd square metres, with not many people in it at any one time. Due to the state borders being closed and…

Most of us like to receive feedback when we show our pictures to friends and family members. Often that feedback can provide useful tips about which of your photos works, what makes it engaging or how you could have made it better. But feedback isn’t always that helpful. When somebody says “It’s nice” or makes an unintelligible response, you’re left feeling shortchanged. What did they actually like? Why was their response indifferent? You can learn a lot from other people’s reactions – as long as you can define the reasons for them. But you also need an open mind and the ability to identify useful comments rather than taking potentially negative remarks as hostile criticism. Sometimes we can be just too touchy when our own precious pictures are involved. Critiquing…