September - November 2020

Photo Review

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

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Whose Picture Is This Anyway?
In early July of this year the coast of New South Wales experienced an exceptionally large swell thanks to the formation of a slow-moving and unusually powerful storm system. Known as East Coast Lows (ECL), these storms typically create mountainous s
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History And Devotion
‘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 frighten
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Heights Of Abstraction
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 do
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Stirling Ranges National Park
Located approximately 337 km south-east of Perth and just over an hours' drive northeast of Albany, the Stirling Range National Park (or Koikyennuruff in the Indigenous language) covers an area of 1,159 square kilometres and stretches for 65 kilometr
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360 in 360
‘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
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Crop Factors And Lens Performance
Photographers often become obsessed with lens speed, particularly when shooting in dim lighting and especially with respect to prime lenses. There’s a good reason for this response: faster lenses allow more light to reach the image sensor, thereby re
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Using ICC profiles
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
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Rendering Intents and Gamut Controls
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 renderi
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Critiquing Photographs
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
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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 vent
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Net Effect
www.bit.ly/pr85ne1 An inexpensive ($US8.99) and simple tool for automatically combing through your hard drive for images, PhotoMove 2.5 is a very useful addition to the toolkit of any photographer with a Windows computer. Point it at a directory and

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