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Speaking to the Press Gazette, Back, who runs the Poltical Pictures photo agency recounted his atternot to warn the pofticians ~ including chief of staf to Mark Field MP = as they waked towards Number 10. | saw four people come out of Number {9 and recognised one of them as Mark Field, | was shouting at hs aide to put her notes any. They were laughing and that's what drew my attention to them, orca kee eee ntees ‘sutecibe 0250 3331112 smal handgrip butt into the design should be just ‘enough to alow single- handed shooting. The main camera is based arounda 21-millon-pivel Sory sensor that includes pphase-detecton utofoas, with a 265mm equivalent, optically stabilised (/2 lens. Theres projecting camera module (on the other side, protected by Corning Goria Gass Running Android 5 6.0 Marshal, the Eta ao cornes equipped wth a sute of photo- ofiented software. The Kodak Extrais avaiable from the company’s website for $449. Macro photography ; The Queen, The | Tisinomatieandineree | Chairman and | ‘entry-level workshop is for aayee intrested in emngta Ht Safasceing ores shuotclase-up and macro. The { comrsecortines practical Chita andthe UK traced shooting situations with trcugh the family history of photecrapher Kurt Tong at bites the, qk is | tating autor sclng Badin’ presses Galery. Unit iamack inspiring macro irages. 13 January,www.spserg —_j Wov.impressions-gallery com Malick Sidibé Tiss theft saeco n te UC af that Walon tara liek ‘Sidibé. The photographer was, and stl is, ebrated for his black & white images. honing the esa eau te Main apt Bama in he ake of the nuiysindpendencein 1860 Saag unit wu somersethouse.og.tk oom | Charlie Waite critique Siuckin aut and nd ita togsin inspratin? Ten secure is nie entque wth ndseape gua Cat 4 Weite. Charlie will advise and help you to explore your thought processes and j= techniquestehid each na (| oo! sha init a wel sep you you Gust ino your photography. The session costs £79. Thdarary,neiahanland cok ‘The famous Brext ‘scribble’ on: = They took no notice of me at al” The journaists and photcgraphers hac been waiting for the arrival ofthe Polish prime mirister when the gaffe occurred Me wuazmateurphotographerco uk 7 anuary2017 7- By Fred Herzog Photographer Fred Herzog releases a volume that reminds audiences just how pioneering his colour work was. Oliver Atwell takes a look here ao aay fests ~ RSjust, that in seme face thee seem tobe more fst than others. ‘That's especially true of photograhy,a mec that has a story Of pioneers ning fds. Cour photagranhy 3 good example. The ea pioneer of the medium seems to change depending on whom you ask (most peope, perhaps righty wou say Wiliam Eggesion) butts alow some space for another name: Fed Her20g Herzoa's work has much in common. “with William Eggleston, who eschewed big Scenes faur ofthe quotidian Kas threugh focusing onthe everyday nthe US that Eqgleston was able to reveal the deeper truths of the world. Scenes of socesy in the macrocesn rather than Showing us nating shoned us everything Face relations, urban aienation, gender poltics and das Gstinctons. Herzoqs images, taken in Canada, cdo much the same. ‘Content cannot be ‘manufactured. n my opinion; Herzog says. That which can find setter than that which you cen make That which we find, the work and the use ofthe peopie ut there, ts natura, tra’s what ordinary people do, that teres me” Inhis work, we're shown @ world we recognise, anachronistic as som of it may be, yetwe relate toit. Despite siohtsntts in social cuural and technological parameters, the world now looks much the same ast in the "60s and "70s. ‘Theres deface inthe work of Herzog, whose images focused largely on the working dass of Vancouver, Canada Furthermore, his shots were taken using mostly Kodachrome sice fi, meaning hhewas imitedin terms of actualy gtng toexhibt his images in pubic. Addo tis the fact that he was shoctngin colour ‘Jackpot 196: Herzog$s werk focuses on the everyday experiences of ordinary people ‘Content cannotbe manufactured. That which I can find i betterthan that which you can make’ when the photography scene was stil seeing the world in tones of black & white, and youhave @ photograaher who was clearly shooting more for himself than for anyone else. Developing images Herzog stated taking pictues in Germany in 1950 where, as part ofa youth group who every summer went hicngin the Ap, he was given a Kodak Retina I camera, Those images, taken through @ camera that possessed only a primitive peephole viewfinder, were lost some years later as. Herzog traveles to Canada on 2 rust-bucket shp that apparently nearly sank. The boat took cn water and all the images were destroyed by the corrasve salt water However, nce Herzog landed oncry land he continued taking pictures, the best of which were black & white and featured German immigrants pouring off the boat nto Montreal ‘Awhile later, Herzog worked as a medical photographer and also became a setious documentary photographer. He'd spend hours walking around the streets of Vancouver capturing the second-hand stores, signs and people. What was strking to Herzog at this time was that he ‘was beginning to identify a genre that had Derhaps not yet found its defnition: street photography. Untl that point, so few photographers had taken up the idea of simply touring the everyday streets and capturing what they san. Certzinly we can 7 lanary 2017| yw amatuphotcerapher cok subscribe 0330 383 1173‘Elysium Cleaners; 1958: An example of HerzogS fascination with bilboards and sions see examples of what appear to be-street light agahst thick shadow, vintage cars, pphotogrephy in older work ~ Walker Evans bilboerds and the rest ts thanks to the and Henri Cartier-Bresson for examele lush tones of Kodachrome side film that ~ but Herzog’ workwas framed and he was able to achieve this. twas the best fined specifically by this idea film and mest relzble development, Eventually, Herzog began to discover although he had to wat an age for the the ease and converience of colour results as he sent them to Palo Alto, photography, First ofall when you do California, or Rochester, New York. black & wiite, all you have i the basic lees worth the wait, it seems. Herzog resource ~ anegatve. That needs alotot knew that what he was dang was unique. ‘éancing around the darkroom, and tme, He wanted to unpack the everyday and patience and energy, You should ideal shack people with the familar. But thas ‘be aman of leisure, an Engish gentlemen. taken some years fr hs ioneering work ‘And a lot of Englsh gentlemen cid tobe recogrised serious and beautful photography.._But_ —_ ironical, considering his mages were I didn’t have time for that, Tha'sone film through and through, its the world of reason | dd colour sides. d get 36 Cigitl that has fay brought his work to slides back. Beautfu, irish” the world’s attention. Herzog was able to Colour and Herzog werea perfect. scan his mages and present them as he'd ‘marriage. Take atoll trough Herzog’s always wanted them to be seen. 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That sexual liberation was, ike most things of that period, 2 patriarchal trend that came at the expense of women, who were sil expected o be subservient The 1970s, on the other hand, ves the true patiorm for the tectonic shit in gender politics. was here that some ofthe most explosive iterature was produced and, as we seein tis reat book, some of the most confrontational at. Through their work, a swath of female artists began to demity and subvert ssues of gender ent, the representation Othe female body and the roles society dictated. Seeing all these artists together none volume fee's ike a purchin the teeth a5 wellit should. The force Cf the ides hits you and forces you toconiront those that ae sil revolutionary todzy. The fact, these artists and ideas are as, important today as they ever were. There's sta otof work toc. Fo The Long Night of Mégantic By Michel Huneault Schilt Publishing, £27.50, 154 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-9-05330-876-9 ON 6 JULY 2013, a horrific event. occurrent om Lac: Mégantic, Quebec, Canada. 1A Ta-coragefroght ran transporting crude ot dered sit -was passing by, resulting in huge explosions and fires. More than 45. people died as a result. Photographer Michel Huneault Srv scune 24 hours ator and began documenting the aftermath of the tragedy. He returned again and again during the ‘allowing year, both inside and outside the are ratecarie Known 25 ec zone This haunting book gathers together his images and his counters th the cae who ner ited Dy the disaster. While the subject is heartbrecking, Huneault ‘succeeds by, at times, finding the bittersweet beauty of a coment tha while scared moves on and leans ‘to deal with @ past blackened by collective grief. 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Iim mostly wedded to olfer Wi-Fi Ths feature was added to the Nikon, soto feed my gear monkey felt X-E2, which is more expensive. However, the need to marry my current lens 2 the X-MI turned out tobe the fst Collection to fim. new FE will set you = X-series to nclude Wi-Fi. Thereisno back £1,499, but the other options? Wel, i the F100 was the stripped down version of the F5, What is amazing about using this is ‘that the frmvare in the ‘camera sjust an old version ‘of my D700. Ifaltright at home ard could put all my lenses on and yet itshot fim. I's wondertuly simpie to use, vith autofocus and metering ~ itjust gets everything right, ‘And at $100 itoffers great flexbilty in going back to film Have yougata £150 bergain? I so, let us know. 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Ifthe highights or the shadows are bunched up atthe sie ofthe histogram, you'll know that highlghts have blown or shadows have cipped. To retain highlight deta, check the histogram and if ts bunched up tothe riht, dial ina small amount of underexposure and take another shot. Expose for highlight detail ‘One way of avciding overexposure and blown, hightights is to expose for the highlights. When you do this, mid-tones and shadows wil inevitably be darker but its easier to rescue detail from an underexposed image than itis from one with comoletely blown highghts showing no detail Shoot in raw and use spot metering to meter from ahightght area, then in Adobe Camera Raw oF Lightroom youll be able to recover detail from the Underexposed parts ofthe imace. 2 7 lanary 2017| yw amatuphotcerapher cok subscribe 0330 383 1173Caches solved James Abbott ie ") Janes Abbotts a potessiona atorapher an joualst specialising in partrat and landscape photography. Fam shooting wildlife mages to high-end beauty phtacrapy. you cn tino subject there's a god bm 23202255 hctoopiedit wor jamesaphotoco.k Settinga custom whitebalance When shooting indoors under mixed lighting, setting a custom. ite balance isthe ideal way to ensure a near perfect colour balance. Most cameras offer 2 custom or manual white balance setting that can tn bbe accessed via the Quick menu or the main menu. Simply fol the c (on-screen instructions to set white balance this way, 5 Reducing noizeon Relax with long exposures Auto ISO With long exposures you often | Auto SO is an amazing experience a cegree cf nose, | feature that ensures ISO is partculay in the blue channe!, | always high enough forthe which isthe noisiest of the three | shutter speed to befastencuch | USI] (RGB).To combat this, shootin | 10 avoid any cemera shake, Faw so youcan then apply colour | When using ths setting you can Taking targeted meter readings ‘ose reduction to deal win | oftenset the dataut SO the Exposing for a specticpartof the subject or scene in tront coloured fiecks, and Luminance | camerawil am touse, suchas | of the cameras an essential part of taking control ofthe way toreduce grainin areas suchas | ISO 100, the upper limitsuch | your shots ook. With many cameras, when shooting with sot the sky using ACR or Lightroom. | as 150 3200 and also the ‘metering the camera will meter from the active focus point. So \When you output the image make | minimum stutter speed This | if youre shooting landscape without ND Grads and youwant sure you select 16-Bit TIFFfor | meansif you're shootng wth —_ to expose forthe sky to maintain detail, simply sot the ens to editing in Photoshop, and then | a SOmmilens you could set ‘manval focus and focus manually but set the active pont toone B when you've finshed reduce | minimum shutter speed to cover the sky and set spot metering Youll probably need to use oan io 8-Btor save as. JPEG. | 1/125sec for peace of mind ‘exposure compensation to fine-tune exposure. Whentousethe differentmetering modes cements in the scene, eveluative is reat beceuse it calculates a Selecting the right metering mace for the stuation can bethe balanced exposure. When shooting landscapes with ND gracs, itference between 2 great exposure and one that’s way otf the _centre-weightadis ideal a treads from the central area of te mark. And as you know, getting a correct exposures alnays frame and generaly doesn't read ight from the fltered area, whie preferable. For general shooting, and when there are Fcht anc dark for backt subjects spot metering wil help to avoid underexposure sitecibe 0330 113 wwe amateurphotogragherco uk January 2017 2YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED Focusing and sharpness How many AF points should beactivated? ‘The number of active focus points you need depends on the subject. Its safe to say there are few occasions uibere Auto point selection & 2 good option, and that most professionas shoot with a sngfe focus point actve uihether they shoot portraits, wile, landscapes or motorsport. However, when ft comes to action photography itcan pay 10 activate afew more. Many smeras have an option where ve or nine pots are activated, wit the cant pont being the dominant one. Then while shooting if the subject moves away from the min point onto one ofthe others, the camera wal keen i-sherp andin focus. J Composeandiocusiikeapro Live Views a ponertul tool when it comes to composing and focusing your images. The Virtual Horizon (the name given to ths feature on Nikon DSLRS) is ideal for ensuring your camera is perfectly level. To marvally focus on a specific part of the scene with precsion, you can zoom in to the Live View image so thetit shows at 100% allowing you to focus with confidence. The image wil zoom into the area covered by the active on-screen focus point. 10 svi the AE-L/AF-Lbutton The traditional metnod of focusing by half depressing the shutter bution is the way most photegraphers focus. But there is another method, Most Cameras alow you to assign different settings to the function buttons (Fn) but wth Nikon DSLRs you can set the AE-LIAF-L button to AF-ON, which focuses while Era te Tera the shutter is releasedin the normal way. Some 2 photographers prefer this method because they say it a quicker way of focusing. You be the judge. = cr “ 7 anwar 2017 | won amateurphosegrapher otk subscribe 0330 333 113iguring out Focus Peaking on CSCs 1 2 Ifyou own a mirrorless camera or a high-end compact, you might just benefit from @ manual focusing aid Known as focus peaking. This feature comes from video cameras, and shons either a white or colored tighlgtt, éepencing on your camera, ‘ver the ard edges of the parts ofthe subject that are in focus. To get the best out of focus peakingit can be worth zoomingin tothe image onthe LCD, crn the EVF it your camera offers vewinder zoom er increased precision mateurphotographer co.uk 7 larwary 20 1B ee contimausfocus tor fast-moving subjects ‘When you're shooting a moving subject, setting the focus mode to continuous vil Grastically improve your chances of a sharp shot, With continuous focus selected, positon the active focus point over the subject ‘and halt depress the shutter button. Now, as you track the subject, keep the focus point ver it and the camera will continuousl focus to keep t sharp as it moves towards or past you, Remember to leave alittle space for your moung object to ‘aver into 1.4 Breit snvanted trontana back focusing ‘Apart rom not having cortrl over the point of focus, the biggest donnside to having Auto focus point selection tured onis thatthe camera may decide to focus n the wrong part ofthe arn. In this mode the camera il focus on whet tanks is the mast prominent elementin the scene, and tis could be inthe forearound or the backarcunc. To avoid the problem. shoot witha single focus point active so you can decide exactly wher to postion the active pont. And don't forget to change the postion of the active point foreach shot to avoid further focusing errors. 1S Maesttresizeot AF poms How many times have you been lining up the active focus point over the subject and wshed it could be small, or indeed larger? The good news fs that changing AF point seis possible, particulary with mirrrless ‘cameras, So if you would lke to take more control over how your camera focuses, try adusting AF point size. 5Flipside Trek Series Gearechfor off-road Find out more at lowepro.com/flipside1G S2vineshap with shallow DOF Fast orimes are fantastic for shootng portraits. Whether yout goingin close for a head and shoulders ‘10p, or full length, the shallow depth-cf-feld they can ‘create looks stunning. The diffculty comes with getting shots sharp where they should be ~ on the eyes. The zone of focus isso natron that f youve a try ‘amount betvieen focusing and releasing the shutter, the Point of focus is lost. One way around this isto set the ‘camera to burst mode, and after focusing take three shots in quick succession. This wil therefore triple your chances of getting a sharp shot. When shooting wide Yu have to shoat more frames anyway, so dont worry about having more images to sit through ~ i’ all part of the process, 17 Bee oni hen a macro lens 1 How to find yourlens 2 Spot and is set tominimum focus ‘sweetspot corre various ‘With macro lensesyou'llotten —_Everylens has what's knonn as ‘sweet types of lens distortion artgetmoretouer | scot“ teaprure aticntpromees he " Dpenepshoougats 1 ta, | Sapestinoge Metsnerte beconuses | SMSO an eth mary BE Butuihen the lensissettoits | with cecthof etd Mostlenses vee sweet | soy pay for certarly stands strong wth minimum focus distance, what's | spotof fi or /11, and workingoutthe exact | Soiés Generaly speakine the moe the Dest way 10 focus? Quite | sweet spet of your lens easy Sarat te ions Woesel acinar simply by moving the camera a You'l experience, The main types to tiny amount withyour eyeto | Step 1 Setup your cameraona tpodio | Jt emenence Me MAN UPS the viewinder, backwards and _| shoot detaled cbject. With SO at 100 __| images appear to bulge out irom the forverds unt the subject appea's | select aperture-prorky and use te central_| Centre, wich is most common with sharp, Ths works forhandhets | focus pant to focus on the subject. Seer cece Praca tir and when shooting wit te isthe cpposte; mages appear to be cameracona beanbag. lf usinga | Step 2 Tekea shot ateach fuilaperture |S ecppeste:tnagss appear toe ttipod you't need afocusing pete stop, and then review end compare the | tat common wth tlephato lenses ‘hatallons for thisbackwards | resus onycurcompute withthe images | “Ppcomncron ne ea hen and foxwnres adjustment eomedin at 100% The overall sharpness. | , ye most woublesome ‘ype is of the mages ull reduce as youmove avy cempnation of Barrel anc piicushion; 1 3 Diffraction - whatitisand from the sweet spot the centre buiges out, while the ends of how tospotit each side of the image appear sucked backin. Fortunately this is uncommon inmodamn tenses, although it does feist Frally, the other thing to lock out ‘oris chromatic aberration. This is when alers falls to focus colours at the same ‘convergence point, and results in coloured bands along subject edges. \With the excention of moustache distortion all of these issues can be fixed in ACR end Lightroom, Difraction is when lcht disperses ait passes throuch the lens aperture, and causes images to be less sharp overall ‘This S more of a problem when the lens stopped down to narrower settings such as £22, which means that despite 22 providing 2 grester depth-of-feld than 1/11, isnot as sharp overall. So {/11 will generally produce en mage thats sharper, although depth-of-feld wan't be 2s extensive. Many lancscape photographers shoot at 1111 oF /16 ~ because dtraction i less problematic than when stopped down fully 0YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED = - 2 Slow sync and Flash and lighting rear curainash flash is used to freeze the subject. Step 1 To shoot siow-sync flesh set the camera to shutter-prionty with shutter speed at 30sec and ISO at 400. You may need to experiment with shutter speed depencing on the subject's movernent. Step 2 Attach your fashun to the hotshoe and make sureit’s set to TLand mest importantly. set ito rear-curtain syrc. In tis mode the shutter opens and just before t closes the flash fres to capture blur behind the frozen subject Ifyou use front curtain the blur willbe infront of the subject, which looks 006 DD How toavoid heavy shadows insunlight Its often said that you shouldn't shoot portratt on bright sunny days because harsh shadows are created on the face. Whi this true # youre smply using natal cht if youheve @ fash you have the ably to fil the shadows with fight. To overcome the pratiem, shootin aperture priory wt your flashgun set to TTL, and apply lash exposure compensation it necessary. This wil help youto fil shadows in the most naturaHooking way. D4 dvoid amateur. looking flash Shooting ith fash indoors ithe perfect remedy for low levels of ight but take Care bacause hard direct fash can look terrible. Bleached-out detai and hard shadows are the two main issues youll face. Witha flashaun you have the etilty to tt the head upwards, or tumit to the left or right. This means that you can aim. itatthe cating so the boht bounces back doan soft and diffused, or off a wall or reflector. The alterative isto use a flash ifuser such 2s. smal sottbox ora Lastoite by Manfrotto EzyBounce. Dy Tavgmorecontrol with wireless triggers DIG Dit camera flash doesn'thave to be complicated The best nay to take more contol over flash, anc With the cost of wireless flash triggers at an all-lime ln, tS easy to forget achieve create bohti effects is to use off-camera _ that there are other ways of triggering your flashgun when is off-camera, Optical flash, By using wireless triggers you can fire one or more slaves are one option, and while they're old technology they can be a lifesaver when flashqurs remotely, nich means you can position your wireless triggers decide not to work. Another option that offers speed and convenience lights enyahere rather than being imited to te camera isan off-camera cable. These alow you touse your camera in TTL mode, and take hoishoe. Two flashguns are al you need! to achieve ‘acivantage of all other on-carrera functonality, while enjoying the ably to add professional-quaity studio eflects on location or indoors, modifiers to the fashgun, You can either hold the flashgun in your left hand or moun and don't forget that you can also use light modifiers to ona light stand, The downside to ths set-up s that you'e limited by the length of the shape and direc the ght. cable, bt you do get 2 quick and easy way to achieve creative lighting effects Py 7 anwar 2017 | wonwamatourphosegrapher otk subscribe 0330 383 113SUPER STOPPER Most photographers shooting land or seascapes would choose to work at either end of the day when the light is soft. This also generally the time when the addition of a 6 or 10 stop filer wil give the very long exposures necessary to gve the effect of smooth water ‘and cloud motion. But sometimes things don't work out that way. It might be @ question of tide or timing, ‘of weather or circumstance, or even a combination of these factors, but sometimes you ‘need to ba 2ble to shoot in broad daylight. 0 even bright sunlight, and stil achieve those very long exposures. These ara the conditions for which the 15 stop Super Stopper has been designed. I've worked with these fishing huts in France on many an occasion, but thought it woule be fun to vist on a very hot summer's day, principally to put the Super Stopper through its paces. The tempereture was hovering around 87 degrees centigrade, the sky was blue {and the ight ferocious, giving me a shutter speed without fitrtion of 1/500th of a second. With the 10 stop Big Stopper that gave me a shutter speed of just 2 seconds, but with the nev" 15 stop Super Stopper | was able to achieve an exposure time of 1 minute, : Jonathan Chritchley ‘www jonathanchritchiey.com Nihon 0810, Niko 24-70mm @ 350m, Ft at | mint, 00180. 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Aspire Photography Training (www.aspire -photographytraining.co.uk) and the RPS ©) (www.res.ora) run good courses for beginners. The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers wan swpp.co.uk) is also on hand for advice. As for gear, ‘Wedding photography can be very demanding in Jor ight You" require a camera with an ‘exellent noise response at high ISO get the best camera you can afford, and ‘make sure youhave a choice of lenses ~ ideally 2 wideangle prime lens tor {group shots, a versatile 24-70mm 200m for the service and a 50 or 85mm for close-up portraits. A flashgun comesin handy for indoor bounce flash, or be prepared to use high ISOs in gloomy churches. When it comes to advertising, word of mouth tends to work best, but experiment with other options such as social media or bridal magazines. Good luck! ~ Geoff Harris, deputy editor (and wedding photographer) Farhigh quality potas ad 6K UBD video erg the 1 itm SAMSUNG beveapetucmae trainin reiens Sony Alpha 99 II? ‘camera fully in early 2017 onto my PC ‘or processing 10 \itthe Sery A99 I having ~ Andy Westiake, fra tatthey nada green beenrel/aiiadeinthe UK — teehnieal editor tnt On exploring my camera for several weeks non, tam ound thatthe prefous oner puzzed wty there have been IN praise Of raw had the white balance set for ‘no magazine or expert user tests appearing in print or ‘online. Is Sony imposing an embargo, so.as not to cistract interest fromits favoured ine, E Mount? Or can we expect ‘comprehensive tests to appear inthe media? Ifso, wher? exemple of win dhe tt 2 good te Martin Christopher, Buckfast Abbey via email along with a 50mm prime lens. hac a lovely day Sony is not imposing any putting the ca ‘embargo on the Alpha 99 Il, bbut review units have only recently become available in the UK. 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Vote oninewvn.amateurhetooraphercc.uk What's trending on the AP website aa Photographer fn troduce ner XA mikrores came 1 Fujifilm announces the X-AlO 2 Brooklyn Beckham to release debut 600k of photography 3 David Hamilton found dead 4 Tory aide told to cover notes by photographer 5 Winner of Arcaid Architectural Photography awardthey were in JPEG format. The lesson tobe learned heres that you should always reset your camera setungs after each shoot In this instance, | am on the side of raw, not JPEG Graham Rogers, Cornwall hands of the val gang, Of course, the pervasiveness of {un possession here makes this worse, but let's not et Into that issue in a UK photo magazine! They probably do suppress indvidualty, but Uunforms can literally save @ teenagers ie in the USA. Steve Jacobs MD, USA Of course shooting raw allows more scope to deal with this kind of situation when the camera point. One of the central inadvertently configured arguments against school incorrectly. Shooting JPEG uniforms is that it stifles simply requires more consideration for making sure your settings are right before you start ~ Andy Westlake, technical editor Creativity and individual expression. On the other hand, many would argue that when children dress the same they're placed on alevel playing field. Issues viform outlook that involve the raising and You opened yourselfupto education of children can be anon-phocographic divisive (witness the comment by mentioning the recently reported banning disadvantages of school of To Killa Mockingbird and uniforms in the Taylor Wessing Huckleberry Finn in some US story (News, AP 3 Decernber), as there are dette advantages to the unforms. I'maretred peeciatrician in schools}, 2s I'm sure you know fromexperience. At the very least, an image like the one featured in Taylor the USA where studies have Wessing can inspire debate stiownbetie earring and on an issue that many of us behaviour n schools wth would take for granted. uniforms. Furthermore, gven = Oliver Atwell, senior the gang violence that bears features writer inthe pre-teenace yeersin the USA, Its a matter of safety. A chic of this age dressed in the wrong colour in ‘much of this country is subject to beating or worse at the like to doa lot of street photography but! strugale a lottocet rice backarounds = there's usualy a lot going on In next week's issue 0; Glorious plofeostha tinct s oseb onc og Contact nator Phtegapbr Tine (OIL ithe? | Pheu ea Fenborconh, Hampse GUC Nphee 350286 $ Emalomtepageabrtnitc con treet: epne 25850 Enalaypetetstnenccon £ subscriptions £ quresand ers nal esd remaster con ‘tera tlophen 02013 ovreae “30102 #Mnesges an he unm scan. Dee es sae] C8S oe behind my subject. How much of aproblemis this anyway, though, as surely street photographs suppesed to be realstic and natural If there are bins or mess in the backaround. does itmatter? Steve Foster This isa very good question. 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At the end of the Special hanks oThemdertors afte AP website day though a scene needs to. ite iberisan lest hee ates hefner look real,notstaged, and = sivertising better abit of clutter inthe | fratoatst ulti te background of an otherwise s!2!Katet gczaet a great street shotthanno asf tas 3 Shot atall Don't obsess | ous tt esi aboutbaciground so much | Poticiondnawe —Snetse that youmisstheimage | arkaig ~ Geoff Harris, deputy: Seeing oectve haydoly editor ESISiGhttngbetuie nuieMcton | Publishing team Gieuenindtier Yosh | oengenOricor Ose Puubtesbiedar Soot tee [Gitpiapetetsor Bryne Wan Pradeep Hee | Bowed prt ht Fc Loe J] Teepe Timelnc. @ Cs 7 lanary 2017| ynwamaeurphotccraphercatk subscribe 0330 383 1172Amateur Filmmaker of the Year competition Your chance to enter the Uk’s best competition for budding amateur filmmakers ROUND Three of our Amateur Filmmaker of the Yeer (AFOY) competition for 2017 now open. 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I swam a tle forward to get in cl oon as Iw pilling into the nple shot and smtp over so quickly. But itreally was a ‘magical situation and a signal ofa good and lucky year to 3g. Isotecnic isan Italian company nduees housing and strobes for underwater photography: It has b around for since 1980 in fa Twas using a Tokina at 7mm to obtain a full camera using a DX port with me, just a ‘Not only was this dive the first of the year itwas also the 40th anniversary of my first dive’ little one at 4.5in, Its called a Mini Dome and is used to shoot maero images that requir you ean see in this, ‘equipment uring my time as a photographer. My main kit tendsto consist of DS00E, a Nikon hou 0 strebesa Obes, ngs for this shot, o lighting in the i ‘0 Tnon Z aptialy wired but set to the came 180.100. which were fbr ‘manual mod ‘maximum pow ithe aun behind it, which all feeling ofthe Wenot. surprise that Fturned to underwater photography. 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Pm very proud to say that Ymamember of the Italian Underwater Photography Society, and I also aet as the webmaster, editor and moderator of ir website (ww w.iups i. pet anda maine Mba en ng Ss Sxyears old and gprs in 978 rcogarul.com. since te startictures from America Alex Noriega may be relatively new to competitior but he's already established himself as an award )l6 US Landscape Photographer of the Year he offers some thoughts on his work Alex's US Landscape Photoorapher of the Year image of Mount Rainer ia Washington ‘mine that t USLI 1 shows the illuminating Mount Ra high above Tipsoo Lak Ore of his Washington state. Em get me wrong -Tmnota wwiningimages with Mount Ra ‘materialistie per from the 2016 is going tor Epson International, the winnings on Pano beerts = ‘money fried on eeddomn to go on adv phot another lev i clouds. I didn't want a strreflection shot Jacking a mid 0 I hiked high above the ll ised a longer focal length (35mm). There was one precise spot I found ‘and where the lake would whole scene was cradled symmetrically by the rows of trees, while showing of the foliage in the foreground. The fogand light are what made t shot, giving the image a clear rarchy and sense of depth. 1 light on the highly \gelaciers on the ‘would be superior. Even if something amazing happened at itwould merely be a silhouette of the mountain agai the backlit sk; What makes a successful Tandseape image tends to vary from photographer to photographer. On a very basic level, I want to instil some sort of emotion in the viewer, sbecribe 0230 333 1113 ww zeateurph Often that reaction is T want to be wonder about the s Jandsca Jong it took to form, Landseapes can show us how small we are, or inspire sto get outand explore our world, rather than sitting in front of Uday. If we're Iking about 2 tighter abstract-type Image, maybe the goal is to confuse the viewer, and keep them guessing at what exactly they're looking at, while still being visually p and interesting. Grand Canyon, Wrizona Finding yourstyle Looking back at everything I've Jearned so far, Fthink perhaps the ‘most valuable lesson Tve learned is to find my own voice. The work I re least about (and have purged n my portfolios as I continually arahercouk 7 anuaty 2017 here I was, attempting to eather artists. ‘That's good way tolearn, but eventually youve got to hav ownstyle, and your own purpose and drive to make the images othe: than ‘someone else shot that and it’s pretty, o I should do it too’ ‘When Ive attempted to emulate ers, or had tunnel vibeen using alot of recently is the Nikon {146 70-200mm VR on a Nikon D600 camera. | seem to Desig that a lot more than my wider lenses. I ind it more dificult to come up with something that doesnt f formulaic with the widearcles. I've been excluding skies. altogether in alot of my recent photography. ‘Accessories wise, 'm a photographer who tends to travel light | dont really use ters or accessories. | usually just ra, lens anda Realy Ri the main tripod support system and ota mere accessory. aso use a shutter release/remote, but inga two- or five-second timer isjustas effective reset) Ce) poten Crd Poco Pee ree aE rear Tianaryeasy and lazy to goand grab start, Really, you just need to show an image you've seen before, up somewhere once you decide on a but it’s much more difficult to find place, and start looki something original, Sure, blend ‘When Tim research your influences and take bits and the frst thing [look for is solitude. pieces from the artists you love, but Tim done shooting the same thin, make your own product out of it. others and jockeying tripod legs, Whenever Ive failed to be original, unless it’s my friends or clients after [realise my mistake, it gives along with me. I do my best work ‘me the inspiration to go back and is when I'm alone and [ ean really try again to find my own unique explore and concentrate without interpretation of a place getting in anyone’ way, or vice Dont be afraid to experiment. A SI versa. Next, Im looking fo lot of people new to photography, as possibilities for composition — just with many forms of technology or interesting attributes of the raid to try things: landseape to work with (see the might not be ‘correct’. Dont worry Mount Rainier image). Ifyou look at about being proper from the start. . place like an overlook ai the Grand Just try a lot of different things as Canyon, sure, that’s an amazing they come to you. You'll have plenty view. But there arent tons of of time to learn the rules, tot possibilities, as you aren't able to extent that they even actually exist change your perspective much, and the scene is so dependent on Looking for locations ‘conditions. [like places that have Research is a pretty key factor when, something to work with in any type you're thinking of going out to shoot flight; both small and large scenes. landscape photographs. Google In terms of light, Im not that biga Images isa nice resource for tourist fanof spring and summer. Fm much snapshots of an area, allowing you more drawn to antumn and winter toseethe possiblities for fine art Another of Alex __ scenes. Snow can beso amazing, as images. 've recently tried to avoid imagesfromthe is autumn foliage, and especially if seeing other photographers’ images 2016 Epson you get the two combined, For light, Pee EtES of anarea before visiting, so that 1 Intemational Paro our wont find man lazing sunsets PEARSE dont gettunnelvision about what | AMEE MoLnE Or sunrises in my portfolio. love BUTANE ot tocopyorabout what works at | MMMM C3lfoma aiden, dappled storm light with a BEDI the location. For what I've been dark sky as abackdrop. Fog working on lat hiking books have been a good gives many scenes depth. Google Earth and always a favourite, too, as a = | a . . . © 4 i amateurphotograpber co.uk 7 January 2017 2GET TO KNOW YOUR CAMERA Custom menu secrets Continuing our series unlocking the secrets of the custom menu, Matt Golowezynski looks at getting your exposures spot on, speeding up autofocus, and boosting battery life on a Nikon DSLR Matt Nattise London-besedjournlst and photogrepher.Aformertechricel editor or hat Digital Cara, he has contributed to rarge cf imagains vet he past en yeas an grad from the Univesity of Westminster with a BSein Phatorapy and ictal Imag, You can seemoe of fis workat wwrw.mattgolowceynski.com Nikon NIKON'S current crop of DSLRS features an exhaustive renge of custom options, which only seems to grow with each new release. Some items that appear in the Custom Menu are rather cryptically titled, which can make them easy to. Gloss over, but once you appreciate whet you cen adjust, you may ind your camera Is far beter suted to your needs, The following pages don't allow forthe ful range of current Custorn Menu options to be ‘explored ~ there are simply too many (and some are too niche to vrrant much of our attention), Using the 0750 DSLR as my guid, ve selected arguably the most useful options togve you a taste of what's possible. a AUTOFOCUS 5 a Autofous Pen eect ca) pared Ber cal Cet Perey Pitan) . of ° ro ae ri} OFF AES] Em ad ee ere ng Perret ere) eed Deter Pr al. AF-C priority selection Normal, wen your camer is sa to autofocus, it wont capture an image unt fous as ben eid In some situations you may prefer tet the camera tak the stot ere thas confirmed fous, ag tay stil be eughlyin acs and perfect usable. This option ts you erie th dfat sting so that theimages re cptured a son asthe stutter release ation spressed dawn ly a7.Number of focus points Ifyou in the Focusing aay to» Slow to navigate you canreduce the ruber of selectable focusing pits (na Wikow DSLR with 5 points, you wl typically have the option to reduce tis 01 points. Tis il helo you te mave rom one sid ofthe array tothe otha at speed, ots potently quite etl yu requenty find youself having to mara ajst the focusing poi and find the deat setup surplus to your reeds a6. Focus point wrap-around your camera has a igh number of fcusing pon, it ante fustrating to move fom one endo the aay to the other You can spaed this up ty pressing OK to return te pit tothe centr, bt selecting fcus pak. wrap -arcund allows you toretun the pont backto the cppnsit end ofthe aray once you reach on ee. So, pressirg the button tome right tthe edge ofthe anc sie wil move te pra ack to the Ueitsand site, while pressing the up button when at pefthe aay will move tho ont te the bottom the ary and each case vice versa : oe PaDetoT) Bs De eel e ve ey ru OFF] net ig aretrcnt sy Pieter Focus point wrap a] Number of focus points Re Lec 7 awaey 2017 a BA ronan arass ba TY Rpg ceapeeeet nd Oren ecu CL) Cee ae ete ON 7 a9. Built-in AF-assist illuminator Wil the AF-asistilluninator can beusatul for speeding up autofecs in ow ih, the beam tents Can be frowned upon when stoting weeings. covporate evens liv performances Yu can disable the amp wen yu tnd yousetin hese situations, but be aware that the camera may fin focus more slonly or not at al. wamateuphotographercauk, subse 0320333 1113mae [adress : Beene Cera | are tne) Poe men] epee 3 pete Po ci ed SM co sme J b5. Centre-weighted area you tend torelyoncente-neighted metering gertas for pntatue or fone photorapty, you may trate between subjects tat laying proportions ofthe rome. This in tur affects hew rch of them your carr il use for metering, so ou may wish ovary the diameter of th cen weighted are so that beter suits yoursujet- 2 Lage ara when capturing pots, or example TIMERS/AE LOCK Soe uc srchy inet ata err Rend a een) aa = Lp eT) Cet ere man) a c2.Standby timer ‘Ths cpio Lets you reduce the amount ot ine that the camera cartes tometer thescere while not being operated in any wa, which inti els to conserve bate it Itean be 2 good ideato change the diameter of the contre- wwoighted area wien you are shoctng Portralts c3.Self-timer This option allows you adjust the delay between ‘pressing the shutter-release button and the image Tals enalesyou to spect how rrany mages are captured, ad thi them. You ay for example, corse 2 ong drain when capturing croup shots that include yourself. being apt = Beer peer sei ete ry eee By Cp cero nT) eee aT Pete nn a I between s Boer Berd C7 seh = %0 3 err EET 1 ah eep = Cer ae Ty Cer ttt nT) ett ae c4, Monitor off delay Your camera is programmed to deactivate the rear LCD panel after a specitic length of tim ni the camera 5m being operate. You may conse to engten his feta if youre lying on the inte screen to ake exposure calculations, fx example; or yeu may want ta shorten this to conserve battery life.GET TO KNOW YOUR CAMERA d SHOOTING/DISPLAY : 4 Sootng/ ply 2 es ere Ce re | al I cd CF ed out oe =a | popes aT ED in er te 17 eee tea Fd ery Caper ers aT) Continuous lonsceed a Pond ier ete eam ere TT) eee Cl sieahhie hinted OF Mod OFF Oe di. Beep d2.Continuous low-speed _d6.Filenumber sequence Ante tol designed to helpyou operate yourcamere_| Is ntlwaysnecessaryta use the festestbustete This onion alousyou to sesify whe happens othe discret, te beep option ets you chnge thet of | when captuing action, prialy fx subjects moving fle-numberng sequence when you use anew mertry ihecamera'scontimatan beep ove wo ves, and | atonlyamoderte pace suchas ve performers or car, rmat one, r create anew fle. The On setrg thevolume over thee, tcan alsa be disable. You may | wide, You may ing alti écesis il your card with picks up aumberng from th Lest captued image and ish to agjstthis during a wecing ov genealy when | images too siilar to eachother. You can use this creates folder once you exceed 9,999 mages. you hotographig in pices of warship. a such situations, | option te aust the Continuous Low frarerateto the crete a new flde each time you begin a new session youray also want to call upon the cameras Quiet | speed afyoar choc, which wil leave te CL high you may prefer to se the Of option iersure thatthe shutter option for the same reas, ‘option fr when the fastest frame at isrequied. first frame's aways numbered OC01 pg or 0001.NEF. : £ Contos £ contls Pa Asignfn button Papeete reer rea peanecel ‘4Asin AEUAFL baton crear en ere Pernt Dr rear Eero ad re =| ee f2. Assign Fn button £8. Reverse indicators Most enthusiast-level and pro-level DSLRs allow for —_ If you would prefer the exposure scate visible in the individual tutions to have their functions changed. and viewfinder ard on the camera's LCD screens to shaw theprinar uncon button onthe rontof aNkon posite values enh ft and regatv nes 0 the bodyis daly pact fora carmen sod setting, ight, youan swith them using tis FULL LIST OF CUSTOM MENU ITEMS a, AUTOFOCUS Selt-tmer 25, Modaig fash al, AFCpinty selection Marit of ely 26, Auto bracketing set al AF-S pity selection Remote on dration ML-3]_— ef” Bracketing oder 2. Focus tracking with ockon ‘SHOOTINGY/DISPLAY f. coNTROLS 24. Focus pint spi Beep fi, Okbtten 26. Focus pitiluminaton Continuous low-speed #2. AssignFnbton 26, Focus peintwrap-arund Maxconinucusrelezse £2. _Assign preven button af umes of focus points Eaprsue delay ode fk. AssignAE-UAFLbuttoe 2. Store pons by entation Flash warning f8. Costanise command cals 28. BuitsnAFassistilumintor 46. Filerumber sequence fh. Release button to use al , METERING/EXPOSURE Viewing rid display fT Slot erpyrelese lock i, 10 sensitivity stepvalue Fesy 60 fH, Reverse incicatrs 2. EV steps foresposure enti Infomation display {9 Assignmove record button 2. Easy exposure compensatien 0. LCD ituination fi. Assign MB-O16 «baton bk. Matrixmeotring MB-Dib battery type fT1._Assignremote (NR) Fe 08. Cen weihted are Battery order button i Fine-tune optimal BRACKETINGYFLASH 9. MOVIE exposure Flash ye speed gh. Assign button ,TIMERS/AE LOCK Flash hater speet Qt. Assign previ bution 1, Shuttrrlease button AE-L Flash ent erbuitinflash 93. AssighAE-U/AF-Lbutton 3 EL, Stancby timer Exposure comp forflash gl, Assign shutterbuton 5 36 7 lanary 2017| yrnwamatuphotcerapher cok subscribe 0330 383 1172a 4 Shootng/dbplay Paco ry ae | Peer a a kd Co eld CIP eee ocd ting makes use ofan cthernse redundant conmand cial when sig pogran, apestc-prioty rd allows you to quickly ving value time ané enabling yoa to concentrate on your sujet. also inintains the exposure iferation onthe to plate Uta you dis, hich nxmaly isappeas when (SDs adjusted using the dedicated conto € Bracketing/fash ae ot eer Suge mLe) bee ne Oe iT) crt eee ee reader et eaccrry v0 wa) e7. Bracketing order When using bracketing, you may findit helpful to are the rages caplured ard saved inthe order of thet ajstent, rather tha inthe defat onder which is the stancar shot llned by anderepesed and then sien, The bracketing appli t flash ard hite-talance bracketngin the sae wy. Part two - Custom Controls Inthe next part ofthis series, in AP 28 January, we will be returning to Nikon to ook at more handy featuras across the menu system incluing little-known options such as changing the purpose of a menu tab to display recent settings, and using the comment option to add extra information fo your images, For subjects mavingPet he completed rim # FREEPOST Timo Ino. [no fori sores neadb. 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Its rice to see the ‘omof te breaking the rong block af the fiver atthe bottom of the freme Taken on a iPhon slighty in Taken onvening ~Class Photoshop guru Martin Evening sorts out your photo-editing and post-processing problems: Howto hide distracting colours THE edits | applied to this mage by Ancrew Brovm were sting on top of the fence and tomake itblendin more Submityourimages allsubile, This was because there wasnt really much that with the background. must also cornment on te Sigma 5 could be done tobetter the orginal ran defautsettrgs. 30mm. fens that was used to capture ts image Itwas,honever 2 good image to cemonstate the use of The detal nas beauty sharp onthe two chieren and the HSL panel controls to knock back the green basin there was alovely fal-off in focus io the backeround 1Globaltoneadjustments 2HSLcolouradjustments 3 Adda Radial Filter The frst step was to go tothe Basic panel and adust | | wentte the Lens Cortections panel and applieda = | adjustment {he tone settings to sel the Exposure and Contrast, | proiled Les caecton to make avignetecrectio. | {antd the cil ening agains the ut wal 10 With this particu image | ry needed to apy afew | ten wettothe HSL panel and adjusted the Mue, | tard et moe. | was able 0 this by adting gant tone agjustments to improve upon the erga, | Saturation ané Luminance sters shat the een | Rail ite acjuetment, where lightened this as the rave needed lite wor basin in th background appeared more muted. atta singe Exposure and Shadows liters a“ 7 lanaey 2017| yn amaurphotcerapher cok subscribe 0330 383 1172Adding colour contrast HRISTIAN Wikinson's photograph of noe Curd Rees enya ee aL Cae posure tells us this must Renee rina ane Peat eu een) Ree eae oa 1Basic paneladjustments Tostart wth, mont tothe Basie rl, where Ughtened the Exposure reduced the Highights and Ughened ite Shadows | then ine-tuved te Whites and Blocks sar. Idd ths to remove the canst present inthe JPEG crigial aio increased the Virance slightly Martin Evening ano Atte Peston ‘sutecibe 0250 3331112 TR eect and uae er ute eect Be aoc educe ti MrESa ent city and introduced some suttie colour cont land and the nights Inte ste. Lett the Tone Cun panel ane aed extra contrast tothe Shadows ad Highlihts. then selected the Graduate iter tol and added after efecto the sky. ntich added a cool Temperature ajstentccmtined with 2 ightering Exposure and Shadowsadustmen HSL panel adjustments ‘THE HSL panel in Camera Raw and Lichtoom Cen be used to apply colour hve, saturation or lightness aqjustments. The easest way to use ths panel stock to select the Target ‘Adjustment Tool from the tools panel in Catnera Ran, or the too iconin the Lightroom HSL panel and clck and drag up or down cn, theimage in the example shown here, wth the Lightness panel active, Iselected the Target 9.12 svel kevin ay ears ois fehon arbre wuazmateurphotographerco uk 7 anuary2017 Finally | went te the Lns Crcections panel and applied a profed lens corection. Back in the Basic 1 agjsted the White Balance sliders to agust the cba colcur balance. Hare, mace te image cooler and more eren in colour. The ial result showsmote deal inthe sky area Acustrent Tol chen the een packgrunsand conarunes sweting ps evi 10 ewe erent yin 06 HRERS HARI KAKA Read the fll tests of these cameras at www amateurphotographer.o.uk/eviews Verdict WITH the EOS M5, Canon has finaly mack the kind of itrorless ‘model that is users have been | asking for. With ts bult-in electronic viewfinder and plentiful set of controls, it should appeal strongly to enthusiast, while its Dual Pie! autofocus works remarkably wall even with old ‘construction would be forgivable if the camera's cost was doserto| EF-maunt SLR lenses. This means _ the simiar¥y specfied Fujfim itcerteinly has @ lot of potential for X-T10 or Olympus ON-D E-M10 persuading Canon's cyed-in-ihe- woo DSLR users to try out mirroress technclogy forthe frst time, especialy withthe EF lens adapter included in the box The camera handles well t00, with all those buttons and dials Mark Il, the facts that cameras, like the Panasonic G8O and Sony ‘Alpha 6300 simply give you much more for your money, Indeed, the huge problem for the EOS MS 's is price, and this makes it dificult to rate. suspect ‘making t easy to change settings, Canon would argue that you're athough those with larger hends paying for a sophisticated sensor might fnd ta bit cramped. One and processor, and to be honest aspect where it als short, | think were going to have to get however, is focus area selection; it inexcusable for a body costing __much more expensive in the over £1,000 not to have a immediate future. But richt now, dedicated control for this function. $1,049 body-oriy is smply too Homever, image qualtyisvery muuch to pay inthis competiive good indeed, and the camera sector. However, the price were ves you all the information you to drop closer need nove ts automated to $600inthe war TT systerrs when needed fuwure, thenthe PR times. The relatively rosy shutter contender. and lack ofa sient electronic Butwhie theres 2 greet cea! to EOS MS would option makes itiess discreet than EAU 70 neve come to expect rom recent HAUNT aio used to all new cameras locking lke about the EOS M5, insome be a much ways it does fee! rather behind the more serious microrless models, anc the inabity MUSE 9110 to show alive-view feed during RUT 8/10 continuous shootng’s aso afew ANEEXCACN 9/10 yearsoutof date. Andwhiletre — DMNENNT@RIENG 8/10 relatively small viewinder,tit-only 8/10 screen and non-weathersecled —-MESWIGINENe9) 8/10 2SIGMA Sublime optical performance at every aperture. Introducing the new ultimate lens for portrait photography. Oar 85mm F1.4 DG HSM Peial type lens hood and pad case includes, ‘Ausable fo: Sigme, Canon and Nikon AF cameres, Mado in Japan ‘SIGMA WRFILTERS 3 YEAR UK WARRANTY 5) Vieter Repent Protector, Polaiser omnes ‘nd Ui Voto er Sold eepartely ‘Sra imaging WO Lt, 13 Uitte Wundls, Watw/a Garden Cy, Montoresn. Website: ww sigma-imaging uk.com | TwEter @SigmelmagegUK | one: 0170732996 | ema: slesesigma-imagng-s.comLENS TEST eo rea Roce eee Sigma 12-24mm f/4 DG HSM Art Michael Topham puts Sigma’s latest wideangle —_«.hnfact the third ens Sigma has produced Covering this focal length, and itfolows on zoom to the test and finds outifit lives up to the from the Sigma 12-24mm fi4.5-5.6 EX DG that wes announced in 2003, andthe Soma promise of producing zero distortion 12-24mm f4.5-5 6 0G IIHSM released eight year later. This third-generation ens has the astyear we sawasurgectnan attr. Intypcalfashon, Sima’ latest promise of being Sigma best utra-wideangla Wideangle lenses htthe market. _utva-wideange 200m undercuts its to dat, wth an entirely new optcal design that One that made a lestingimpression, counterpart by quite a marain in terms of price. incorporates 16 elements in 11 groups, with its phenomenalimage cuelity, Tove you some idea, a saving of ver £1,000 The lens leverages Sigma's expertise in the vas the Canon EF 11-24mm Y4LUSM. During can be made {you were to choose thislens processing and marulacture of aspherical ‘theofficial announcement of the new Sigma ahead of the Canon EF 11-24mm{iL USM, lenses and incorporates three asphenical 12-24mm f4 DG HSM At at Photokina butitremains £720 more expensive than the elements produced with precison glass 2016, Mr Kazuto Yamaki, Sigma's CEO, Tamron 15-30mm 12.8 SP DiVC USD (£9291, moulding, The mostimoressve aspherical ‘@pplauded Canton and its engineess for cekernentis found atthe front, and with a Creating one of the finest widearge lenses Features ddameter of 8Ornm isthe largest suct ‘ever made, before goingon to explan howit Those familiar with the history of Sigma lenses element inthis dass of lens. It also features has challenged other lens manufacturers to wil tellyou that this srt the company's frst elements made from’F’low-dispersion produce en optc that's 2s good as ths, fnot attempt at creating an ultra-wideange zoom it (FLD) ols, wich, combined with the ‘ubecbe 0230 333 1113 yrwiamstourphotographerco.uk 7 lanuay 2017 ssThe vignetting the lens Pere pre etd een minimise dstorton, Cromalic aberration, coma and flare. To prevent fare anc ghosting pen users shoot : ved Multi-Layer Coatings and has ‘equipped it wth a permanent petal-shaped The lens features 2 nine-biade rounded diaphragm to ensure it provides an att rendition to out-of-focus backgrounds with pleasing drculr bokeh in the highlights. The ‘examum aperture of #4 holds right through ymrange and the lens can be cose aciust the ian ich to manual fst val focusing This alows temember ari jm of a subject at the 24mm end of im range, giving a magnification ratio of 114.9, The lens is compatble with Sigma’s USB. ing deve firrmare and refine the focus settings using the manufacturer's Optimization Pro ‘The sheer mass of the lens imp going to be best paired with ful-frame DSLRs tether andrmet rere handgrps. can't be used ¥ It also compatine. Attach ito an AP: DSLR with a 1.5x crop factor andit to an 18-36mm lens, whereas on Canon APS-C DSLRS it has an equivalent focal length ¢ mounts and. Fs for Cann, Nikon and Sigma users. Buildandhandling lens cap that's a d by ama d this newlens. Its bulbous shape isn't too dssimiler to Canon's EF 11-24mm f'4L USM lens. The petal-shaped hood shields the frant element from lens flere and doubles up as a way of protecting t »ypersive element from any bbe caused by knocking into some thelens cap srt attached. ting what we're looking ats a faity big and heavy Pen eee’ Cae than the Canon EF 11 Tamron 5- n/4L USM, C USD and G AF-S ED. The frst mighty SP DIVCUSD, ns looking forward, ll notice how the barrel tapers out sightly before you reach the zoomn ring. Althoughii's the lergast 2com ring we've come across in oes reauit imemal opti i, yOu can get from 12mm to 24mm and vice versa very quickly with less than a quarter ‘abit more force to shit the heavy han you migrx be used to, BestLENS TEST Rtsiuelesalolal “the smoothness of the focus ringis truly excellent? tn Beyr the orig you eta tlre Semootshed mo earns Sher crcl esha that a ot Sit Arteries. To one side of this you have the AF) MF switch that juts out slightly from the side of ebarelarcon ops be xen window that displays its information in feet and metres. The AF/MF switch offers a satisfying ick, and the white background that's revealed batnd the vith aten tose to Aras \Sua relrence or rere fost ton on i Jur seaa fhe fos atance non tres asteep sp up tothe oes ng hich BS cond yger neater enh zcamin Ths Glesetates he of Seam ngendeesengtonbetnd te Carecgand ests yute never GO statyoeadusig The smoot the focus ring is truly excellent and can't be fauted. Imagequality ‘As our review sample was in Cancn-ft it seemed aoproprate to pair it up ith one of Canon's 50-milion-dixel DSLRs ~ the EOS S5DS R. Eager to find out how well the lens performs wt regard to controling curviinear ‘istortion, | headed out to take some real- ‘world sample images throughout the focal range before exerniring these alongside the Jmages of our cistortion chart taken in the lab CCreatng such an ultra-nideangle lens vith 2er0 dstortion was alnays going tobe a bg ack, ‘and althouch there's virtually no distortion between 18mm and 24mm, you canstil expect to see barel dstorten in sos taken atthe \widest end of the zoom. That sac the level of barrel dstorton at 12mm isnt. as sovere as you might eect and shouldn't be cfficut to correct using an Adobe lens profile as soon as one ‘becomes available fr Lightroom CC, Photoshop Cand Camera Raw. Analysing our Appied Imaging tests at each ‘aperture setting revealed that the lens resolves ‘exceptional sharpness. Qur results tell us the lensis atts sharpest in the centre at the widest ‘end of the focal length, with comer sharpness. ‘at 2mm peaking at 8, Zoomingin to 18mm ‘also sees the comer sharpness peak at f8, vith the centre sharpness at this focal length ‘measuring slightly below the figure recorded at ‘12mm at 4. inspecting our results atthe long cend of the zoom tels us the centre sharpness isnt quite as impressive as itis at the wide end when its used Wide open (ff), but sharpness ‘does improve by closing the lens down to 1/5 6. Examining the edges, where aberrations can ‘often be ciscovered, revealed that this lens does en admireble ob of keeping fringingin check. twas only in the very brightest areas of a fev of mi test shots, where branches were backit by the sun, that | noticed purple fringes ‘of colour Vignetting s apparent in images shot at the widest end of the zoom at 4, but can't be traced at (/5.6 and beyond The same can be said of the long end of the zoom where ‘comers appear approximately 1.2EV darker then the centre at 14, Purple fringes of colour were trod in afew shots Our verdict THIS lens has created abit of a buzz among lerdscape, architectural and interior photographers, and all for good reason, Yes Ie heavy and may not hold the tte of being the worlds widest rectlinear zoom len ike the Canon EF 11-24mm f/4 L USM, butit does have many ofthe features ofits closest rival, fora lt less money. There are faster wideangle zooms should you demand a faster maximum aperture, but f you'd Ike the opton of squeezing more in the frame than the Nikon 14-24mm (2.8 GAF-S ED or Tamron 15-30mm 2.8 SP IVC USD atow youto co, this Sigma lens takes some beating. DSLR users who've been calling out for an affordable ul-rerne tents ES capablect celveing pyar ss ‘exceptional results on Filter diameter N/A thehhestresoluton _(ageolenen I. cameras hae inaly Gaye ‘got what they've Deen Diaphragm blades ? askingfor. its yet Aer 2 another superbaddtion — thanentoos to Samasértine-up. bmn Omens 1A Son ei ito Lenstrount Ginn Non Sone ees Lenses pouch ‘subscribe 0330 333 1113 urwamateurphotographerco uk 7 lanuary 2017 EE Sigma 12-24mm {/4 DG HSM Art (ar Api imaging tests indicate thatthe ersis at ts sharpest inthe centre towards the witest end of the fecal length. t's exceptinally sharp whan used wide open at 1m andthe chart tls ws the centre improvesat 24mmhen the aperture is close own toward 56 Users wil inc they eon the inst edge-to-2ge sharpness acioss the frame between 5.5 ane 18. m0 120 pees is m0 amcetue ances ‘Shoot at th widest one ofthe 2com (12mm) wth an aperture of f4 and vignetting is nobceatle. This omer shai iy Gegpeneat neen you close the lens down to 756. Edges are approximately 1.26 carkr than the centre at ‘Amin, but again this corner shading improves by stopping dew tof/5.¢ or beyond | i Bi! \ l ‘Dom tit Mmmm i Curvilinear distortion Straight lines bow outward from the centre of ‘he image at no, bat you fi that ths brel distaton becomes fess recngisble when you ‘tcom in, At 187m, there's no trace of distortion whatsoever ard theres onlya fant sign of sinceshon distortion when you push fo 2am,Zoom in on the right | you | insurance policy for COVER INCLUDES eee NU re ee CCE rien CORT LE te es Ee Pic econ) re cover included as standard whilst replace or Ue oe oe Cie See Poeun Dori geod fren Option to ad protection for you against damage to pS en oy oes Oem neat Pn @ Mechanical Breakdown One orc ‘onitems purchased from new less than years ogo eeSupport Email your questi to; apanswers@timeinc.com, Twitter @AP Magazine and #AskAP, or Facebook. Or write to Tectinical Support, Amateur Photographer Magazine, Time Inc. (UK), Pinehurst 2, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough Business Park, Farnborough, Hants GUI4 TBF ‘example, Adobe Lightroom, the For my holiaysin software would respect the crop Viernamlastsunmer,| made and display the cropped ditcted myheay Caren view ofthe image, although the £05 7D Mark Il and lenses, and took my small Olympus OM-D E-M1O Mark I, mucho the reef ‘of my back, Iwas amazed by the fantastic performance ofthis Itle ‘emera, but! had a hitch when ‘Wied to develop the raw fies in Capture One software. Iset the ‘output to raw + JPEG in 3:2 ratio, but only the JPEGs get cropped \have to manvally crop every raw fle in Canture One so they look like they JPEG counterparts. ‘Also, it doesn’t feature any profle for my old Panasonic lenses (7-14mm. 14-45mm and 45-200mm), soit can't apply any automat correction to distortion, ~and s0 on. Very few Panasonic lenses are sted, and even newer ‘ones such as the 12-60mm ere ‘otincluded. Do you have any solutions to these problems? ‘Alessandro Rissone entire sensor area remains accessible if requited. It doesn't appear that Capture One does {this ~ at least not by default. Its not difficult to set the crop manually within Capture One ‘and then to apply itto the rest ‘of your images. Capture One and lens-speciic ‘corrections for distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration ‘and even comer softening isa bit fof a grey area, Phase One does Provide lens profles, butits Product notes suggest that these are not necessary with Micro Four Thirds and other lenses because the necessary correction data is accessible in the image tle metadata. There certainly is such date ~ that’s how compatible ‘cameras produced corrected versions of the image in-camera ~ but must not exactly sure how well or extensively Capture One makes use of this data Utimately, you should be able to tall from examining your shots if ‘any automatic corrections are adequate or not. Ws uite normal that the raw fie doesn’t get Physically cropped. The fundamental concept of araw fileis thatit contains unaltered image data, With Olympus raw files the cropped mode and other Op advic have spied a laptop ina sale. thas an AMD AB 7410 processor with AMD Radeon 5 graphics, 2.2GHz picture customisations are recorded in proprietary ‘metadata. If you loaded the fle into Olympus Viewer or, for ‘Alessandro Rissone ad some issues using Cepture One software ‘ubecbe 0230 333 1113 yrwiamstourphotographerco.uk 7 lanuay 2017 € 2 ‘The Canon ens in question l'vehhad a Canon EF-$ 10-18 4.5-5.6 15 STM lens for ‘about year and i's been a good bit of kit, Recently, though, it's sutfered from two bouts of moisture vsible through the front element, which have precluded ts use for an hour or so. On neither occasion did the lens go through sudden ‘changes in tempereture or been subject to moisture. Both times were sunry days with the lens performing perfectly normally Can you suggest a possiole cure in adction tolapart fram puting tin {2 bag of rice for a day? Velocette For moisture to condense on the optical surfaces inside {Your lens there would normally be considerable humidity {and a relatively cold lens glass, Clearly there is water in, the lens, lthough why you are getting condensetion on sunny daysis abit puzzling. I'd recommend getting some decent-sized packs of desiccant slica gel. Seal the gel packs and the lens in ‘an airtight container and place ina warm, but not hot, piace for, ‘2 couple of days or so. In the meantime, check for any moisture where you store your lens. If the condensation reappears, you need to get the lens serviced. If youignore ths, there isa risk of Internal corrosion and the lens might even stop working propery. 8GB RAM, ITB herd crve, 15.6inscieen wit the resolution of 1366x768 pyes, which | believe is HD, just not 1080p. How do you think it would perform with Lightroom 6? | have an SSD drives. The AMD A8 7410 CPUis nota hot rod, butit’s adequate ‘and should be able to run Lightroom. ! have run eariier versions of Lightroom on much less powerful hardware. Probably can use with the main issue is the cisplay, but Monkeyphotogir! ‘again it's not a disaster, although 1366x768 pixels means the Lightroom’s main screen will be crowded. Cheap challenge to a computer |s fle handling. An SSD ‘would defintely be a big help, but moder laptops are usually up to the task with conventional hard laptop screens are usually not very good for colour accuracy or viewing angles. 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North Afica ‘and the Midole East published by Bloomsbury Natural History and a coffee-tabe, large-format book 2 Roptorsin Focus pubished by = SS Reed New Holland. Vt ‘war dickforsman com, ( MinoltaSR-T 101 [| J temootia se: sa 101 was myfirst SLR with imerchangeable lenses, wich I got second-hand from friend in 1970. Beore the Minolta, hac a Russian Lubite-2, an ‘ld-time twin-lens reflex, for some five years, but this was no {900d for shooting birds. With the Minolta! now had my fst serious tool for capturing brds, and | could ‘also do some macro photoarapty. @1999 Nikon F Photomic tn 1971 | started what wrned out to beneary 30 years as aNikon phoxographer. The Nica F was a superb brand with great lenses, which I was loyal to until the late 1990s. | upgraded ny cameras £ reguarly and finished my Nikon careerwintre ij then flagship ‘model the Nikon #5, whichis regarded by many asthe best Nikon camera ever made ‘sutecibe 0250 3331112 wuazmateurphetographerco uk 7 anuary2017 a 2 20 eagle one of the most endangered rapters in Europe (\(\() Canon E0s3 When Canon launched its J S SF image-siztilsed long lenses in the late 1990s thad no choice but to give up Nkon and switch to Canon for good. The EOS 3 was my first workhorse ‘or several years, with a high-speed motorcrive anc ‘a quick and accurate autofocus, both of which are essential quatesif you are shooting brds in flight. The Canon EOS 3 was also my last fm camera, which | used with my first digital ‘cameras for a few years, 7 Canon EOS10D J 5 tradmy fist L Cigital camera at atime when people were stil hesitant about the development of dgtal cameras. Would they improve and finally outate fim cameras, or would film remain the tool of professionals? One could review the shooting results immediately, hence te learning curve rose steeply. ) Canon EOS-1D X | / since te £0 100, Ive Li upgraded my Canons reqialy and currently vrork with two EOS-1D X models. This is by far the best camera ve ever nad. is very fast, has a terribly accurate autofocus andits sensor is superb. t Gives me excelent resulis fren when hanchalding 2 800mm fers wen a 2x telecomvorier (mearing a huge 1,200mm piece). Ths reelly is the dream tool of | every wife photographer. aWhereis the best place to buy a camera? Who can provide you with the right information, the right products and at a good price? The Good Service Awards aim to answer these questions by presenting photography retailers who stand out from the rest with an award. 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There is something curiously disrespectful in their stance: they have begun, like Frankenstein's monster, to Rage Wks r wm cogeandfancese a2 dominate their creators. We see Blake’ dark, satanic mills, only ‘the USA town of Bethlchom stead of Jerusalem. ‘Then you start to look more closely. To a devout Christian, the cross is a syimbol of eternal life to come, but it isalsoa symbol of suffering and death. The terraced houseson the right look neat and well kept this does not appear to be poor neighbourhood. But ‘equally, there is nothing to be seen on the little verandahs. Compared with where Hive now, in a quiet rural village, this looks odd. People leave tables and chairs out on. verandahs and in gardens, they do not expect them to be stolen. Then again, everyone has more of everything today, and iteosts little to replace such things, especially ifyou buy them second-hand. ‘The steel industry Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was founded on Christmas Eve 1741. In the 19th century, it became heavily industrialised: the Bethlehem Steel Corporation poured steel there from 1857 to 1995 and was smaller only to steel in Pittsburgh. When, this picture was taken, demand for (and the price of) steel had plummeted and lay-off had cat ‘deep and hard. The city’s fortunes were not realy restored until the Second World ‘War, when it was one of the bastions of the Arsenal of Democracy. Today, it's pretty much post-industrial city with arising quality oflife: as long ‘ago as 2006 it was listed by 7 anwar 2017 | wow amateurphotegrapher cok’ subsc nop Nex week he considers animagey Paul Brust “The terraced houses on the right look neat and well kept - this does not appear to be a poor neighbourhood’ Money magazine as sth in the top 100 places to live in the US. ‘This is what I meant by the photograph maturing. Today, ‘we know about the Second World War, and the collapse of Bethlehem Steel, and gentrification. Are those houses now gentuified? I don't know, but Ido know that tourism and casinos are probably more important to Bethlehem’s future than steel ‘Tobesure, most people would much rather live in the 2st century instead of 1935. But progress is never unalloyed and seldom universally beneficial, A picture like this makes u consider what we have lest alongside what we have gained. What woulda steclworker in 1955 have thought if he saw this photograph? 0330333 1113VISIT OUR WEBSITE - UPDATED DAILY PARKCameras © hiconcoininianesiees 01444 23 70 60 +18.55mm Is ST. HAL ISUSM Canon EOS 80D - Body only Canon EOS 750D Canon EF 16-35mm Unlock your creative potential Canon EF-S 17-55mm. 1/2.81S USM Olympus OM-DE-MI0_Olymaus 6omm One OM-D| EMS Mark I TE + 14-42mm EZ ‘2.8 Macro ED Premium build. 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