December 2022 - February 2023

Photo Review

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

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The Portrait
As you’ll discover when you turn to page 4, creative team Man&Wah employ light painting techniques to reveal the extraordinary and intricate beauty of their botanical still life studies. On the other hand, Steve Packer’s profile of photographer Nic D
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Editor Don Norris | dnorris@photoreview.com.au Technical Editor Margaret Brown | mbrown@photoreview.com.au Contributors Steve Packer Creative Director Melissa Kallas Accounts Manager Kerrie Pook | mpaccounts@photoreview.com.au Publisher David O’Sulli
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Cosmos Within
‘I remember as a little boy,’ Man said, ‘I would sit there and flick through the countless books of botanical drawings that Joseph Banks [and others of that era] did. I just marvelled at the detail of the brush strokes and the colours.’ Years later,
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Portraits In Essence
In a quote on your website (nicduncan.com), Fremantle photographer and educator Dale Neill says: “Denmark [Western Australia] photographer Nic Duncan is a special breed. She doesn’t follow trends, she sets her own agenda. Nic’s contributing more than
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Lake Tyrrell
Lake Tyrrell, Victoria’s largest salt lake, is a shallow, salt-crusted depression seven kilometres north of the town of Sea Lake in the Mallee district of north-west Victoria. Before COVID-19 curtailed overseas tourism, the area had become a tourist
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Developments In Image Sensors
We’ve come a long way since the CCD (charge-coupled device) sensors used in the first digital cameras. Backside-illuminated (BSI) sensors and stacked chips are now the headline items in promotions for the latest cameras. In this feature we’ll look at
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Are DSLR Cameras On The Way Out?
This story began on 12 July 2022 with the publication by respected Japanese English-language news magazine, Nikkei Asia, of an article titled ‘Nikon pulls plug on SLR camera development in shift to mirrorless’, with the subhead: Smartphones push Japa
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Image Review
By Ros Osborne Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark ll; Olympus 60mm macro lens Late one afternoon I spotted this spider dangling by a thread in a dark corner of our back garden. It was a little windy at the time so the spider was swinging back and forth on its th
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Why Your Images Are Soft
Many photographers are quick to blame their equipment when their images aren’t up to scratch. However, image softening can occur for a number of reasons, most relating more to how the equipment is used than the equipment itself. We’ve listed the main
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Net Effect
▶ www.bit.ly/pr94ne1 When a friend wanted some t-shirts featuring a graphic in a png format image, the printers told him they needed a vector version instead. Since he didn’t have any software of his own, I did a quick search for conversion services

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