December 2017 - February 2018

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Inspiring photography, practical tips and useful information for photographers at all levels

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Slow Down
It was a beautiful day for a drive. The weather was mild, the skies were mostly clear but for a few picturesque cumulus and the air had that clarity that makes every detail of the landscape ‘pop’. Nor were we any any particular hurry. All my brother
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Portable Storage Round-up
Margaret Brown As camera pixel counts and frame rates increase and video streams require increasing storage capacity and data transfer rates, photographers must seriously assess how and where they will store their images and movie clips. Choosing th
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Weather Eye
Don Norris ‘In winter in particular, the Grampians are a very dramatic landscape,’ said landscape photographer Marty Schoo. ‘You get a lot of cloud and there are dramatic shifts in weather. In the west beyond the mountain are only plains. Because of
Photo Review2 min readScience & Mathematics
A Tale of Two Frames
Our ‘Tale of Two Frames’ challenge asks you to create two images which are related in some way to each other. The extra twist is that one picture should have a horizontal aspect ratio and the other should be a vertical composition. You may also speci
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Image Review
Canon EOS 5DS; EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II USM @ 190mm; 1/2000s; ISO 100 Love the rodeo at Warwick. Great opportunity for action shots, this one in particular with his feet stuck in the stirrups, horse and man eye balling each other. He walked away unsc
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On Top Of An Ocean Of Emotion
Steve Packer Looking at your photos on the internet, it’s like Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: ‘Water, water everywhere/ Nor any drop to drink’. There’s seawater just about everywhere. Why is that? I grew up in South Au
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Click-worthy Sites
www.bit.ly/pr74ne1 To see all 100 images in the latest Wildlife Photographer of the Year collection, you’ll need to get along to London’s Natural History Museum before 28 May, 2018. But if that’s not practical, there’s a portfolio of some of the very
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Chambers Pillar
Margaret Brown Chambers Pillar is a spectacular solitary column towering 40 metres above the Simpson Desert plain. It was formed from sandstone deposited and worn down over 340 million years. The adjacent Castle Rock, a mesa located 500 metres to the
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A Lens And Two Wheels
As a passionate rider himself, Marcus Enno knows all about the fine line between being close or too-close to the action. ‘A rider touched my foot in the Vuelta but I was pushed up against a wall with nowhere to go,’ he said of a rare instance where h
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Is Your Monitor Up To Scratch?
Margaret Brown Having a monitor you can trust not only makes printing your images easier and more enjoyable; it will also save you time and money. When the monitor you use can display the full range of hues and tones your camera has captured and kee
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Online Resources
Several manufacturers of imaging-related products provide online resources that can be helpful for evaluating monitors, particularly those that will be used for printing photographs. Eizo in Belgium has a very comprehensive test that will show up def
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Dodging And Burning
Margaret Brown The terms 'dodging' and 'burning' take us back to the chemical darkroom days when special tools were used to lighten or darken discrete areas of a photo by increasing or limiting the exposure while exposing a print. These tools are si

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