September - November 2021

Photo Review

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

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Don Norris | dnorris@photoreview.com.au Margaret Brown | mbrown@photoreview.com.au Steve Packer Melissa Kallas Kerrie Pook | mpaccounts@photoreview.com.au David O’Sullivan | dosullivan@photoreview.com.au edmail@photoreview.com.au ■
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Sailing On: Photo Review At Twenty
As manifestos go, ours was modest. Speaking for the team in the first edition’s editorial, I promised our new readers that our ambition was to keep them up to date on technological advances relevant to photographers but, I added, ‘Important as the te
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Thunder Over Yonder
It’s quite common for photographers to have one or two shots of distant storms they have happened to witness, but you’ve made them a speciality. How do you do it? There are channels through Western Australia that are almost like magnets for wild wea
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Spontaneous Moments
When Tamara Voninski was young, her anthropologist father would bring home ethnographic films which he’d show on one of those slightly rickety pull-up projection screens so familiar to anyone growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s. ‘That was sort of my wi
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The Wes Anderson Project
Stills and motion picture photographers have traded ideas ever since cinematography was invented. During the ‘classic’ period in the middle of the 20th century, there was a particularly close relationship between the aesthetic styles of both arts. Ba
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True Macro Photography
Close-up shooting is a special photography genre that has attracted a broad range of photographers ever since lenses became capable of close focusing. Interestingly, the term ‘close-up photography’ has no scientific definition, being applied simply t
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Authentic Vision
Ten years ago Lauren Bath first discovered Instagram, and within three years her captivating travel photography saw her established as a professional Instagrammer. But she didn’t just settle into her comfortable niche of travelling and taking pretty
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Defining Macro Photography
The term ‘macro photography’ was first proposed back in 1899 by a photographer named W. H. Walmsley for defining closeup images with less than 10 diameters magnification, to distinguish them from photo-micrographs. That’s a pretty obscure definition
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What To Do When Equipment Is Discontinued
Progress is inevitable and sooner or later the equipment you’re using will be classed as out-of-date. It may be in five years time or, if you’re lucky and have made wise choices, 10 to 15 years. Technology changes quickly in the digital age. Have you
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What Would Ansel Do?
The foreword to the 1981 publication of The Negative, the second volume in The Ansel Adams Photography Series, which outlines the techniques and procedures developed by the renowned photographer over his working life, states: For Ansel Adams the art
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Image Review
Nikon Z6; Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 Panning shot of Sydney's Bondi Beach to highlight the colours in a minimalistic style. Photographer Asad Rajbhoy's beach abstract is a beautiful example of this very simple technique. As long as your camera allows you to
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Dynamic Range Considerations
In Australia, it’s not uncommon for outdoor scenes in bright sunshine to have dynamic ranges in excess of 2300:1 (equivalent to approximately 11 stops or about 11 bits). In a JPEG image, this range must fit into an 8-bit scale with 256 steps, which i
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Net Effect
} www.bit.ly/pr89ne1 Evgenia Arbugaeva is a National Geographic Society Storytelling Fellow, a recipient of the ICP Infinity Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. She was born in the town of Tiksi, located on the shore of the Laptev Sea in Russia
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Win An Intuitive Loupedeck Photo Editing Console
Simply submit up to three of your favourite images for your chance to win one of four $399 Loupedeck+ consoles for faster photo and video editing (https://loupedeck.com/en).Send your images to imagereview@photoreview.com.au • jpeg, minimum 200mm on t

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