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Saturday 3 January 2015 FULL TEST Pe nt a x K - S 1 It’s a DSLR, Jim, but not as we know it 12 Passionate about photography since 1884 New Year projects The essential photo jobs you need to do in 2015 Surface tension Matty Smith reveals how he captures the world above and below the waterline Steady as she goes How to stabilise your camera when shooting video PLUS APOY round 9 winners: your best night photos ¥ PaintShop Pro X7 test 001 compact Cover 3.1.15.indd 1 12/12/2014 09:39 AMP JANUARY 3 2015 RUN FILE.indd 1 18/12/2014 10:45 7d ays A week in photography THIS time last year I shared though – at the superbly equipped facilities with you, perhaps unwisely, of The Camera Club in London’s Kennington my New Year’s resolution (thecameraclub.co.uk), just a short stroll from for 2014. After more than a the AP offi ce – and I reacquainted my nostrils In this issue MITH decade editing a purely digital to the smell of fi xer. MATTY S10 New Year’s photography magazine, I would shoot, process This year I intend to complete my mission © COVER PICTURE Gprhereosatoto gidlrauepathsi yfo othrn iysso yuer ar aawbneodllu .p tIr 2idn0itd0 a5b .ru oHyl loa ow rfo dfil lil dmo fI f bgolera tct hkon e& ?fi wWrshte ilttlie,m nfi eol mts isn,o c e asSonomd w emhthaatik’nse gy s ogouomro edp hperonitonoutgsgr.h aHp tohop ipce urfute slolonyl, u tIth’ileol nmw?aa Dlkl.eo and I did take a few pictures, but the fi lm is write in and tell us. 18 Beyond the sea still in the camera. I did visit a darkroom, Nigel Atherton, Editor Matty Smith’s images reveal a beautiful world just beneath the ocean’s JOIN US Like us on Join our Flickr group Follow us surface. Oliver Atwell ONLINE Facebook.com/Amateur. at fl ickr.com/groups/ on Twitter amateurphotographer.co.uk photographer.magazine amateurphotographer @AP_Magazine talks to him 24 Video ONLINE PICTURE OF THE WEEK masterclass Professional videographer Victoria Grech takes a look Win! at how to capture steady video footage Each week 26 APOY results we will choose round 9 our favourite We reveal the winners picture posted of our night photography on the AP Facebook and Flickr round of APOY communities and the AP forum. 34 Film-makers The winner will receive a year’s on a roll digital subscription to AP worth £79.99. Brandon and Brian Wright of CineStill Film have high hopes for a new fi lm that gets great effects under continuous artifi cial light 37 Evening class Martin Evening sorts out your photo-editing and post-processing problems 39 Competition Win a Billingham 550 bag worth £600 46I Pt meany tsaeexm K to- Sb1e all MON ROGERS flu nadsehrinnge altighh ittss, mbuotd ern © GRANT SI skin the K-S1 is a serious Terra Incognita by Grant Simon Rogers ‘My digital Leica cameras have a camera. We test it out small built-in fl ash above the lens, Leica Digilux 2, 28mm (equivalent), 1/500sec at f/8, ISO 100 which I used to illuminate the 55 Corel PaintShop This picture of grass by Grant Simon helps me switch off from my day job. foreground detail and create Pro X7 Rogers was uploaded to our Flickr With the aperture ring set to f/8-11 defi nition in the middle ground. This We reveal what PaintShop page. ‘All my photographs are and the shutter speed between creates the theatrical “Day for Night” Pro version 7 has to offer daytime pictures, and this image was 1/500sec and 1/2000sec, I get a look. The large aperture gives me a Regulars taken in a London park near Brixton,’ really dark picture in all but the wonderful depth of fi eld to play with, says Grant. ‘I fi nd that taking images brightest of sunlight. so most of my subject is in focus.’ 3 7 days 16 Inbox 40 Reader Portfolio Send us your pictures If you’d like to see your work published in Amateur Photographer, here’s how to send us your images: 44 Accessories Email Email a selection of low-res images (up to 5MB of attachments in total) to [email protected]. 59 Technical CD/DVD Send us a disc of high-resolution JPEG, TIFF or PSD images (at least 2480 pixels along its longest length), with a contact sheet, to the address on page 17. Support Via our online communities Post your pictures into our Flickr group, Facebook page or the gallery on our website. See details above. 82 Final Analysis Transparencies/prints Well-packaged prints or slides (without glass mounts) should be sent by Special Delivery, with a return SAE, to the address on page 17. 003 contents JAN 3.indd 3 15/12/2014 14:41 NEWS ROUND-UP The week in brief, edited by Chris Cheesman Manfrotto colour splash Manfrotto has made some of its tripods available in different colours, including blue and pink, allowing photographers to personalise their kit bag. The Befree, Pixi, Pocket series and Compact Light range are now out in a variety of colours. For more details visit www.manfrotto.co.uk. Theft alert Photographers should be on the lookout for new cameras being sold at suspiciously low prices after thieves escaped with tens of thousands of pounds’ worth of gear from Castle Cameras. Contact 01202 526 606 for the Bournemouth branch and 01722 339 909 for the Salisbury one. Drone threat Drone users may fall foul of ‘harassment’, or even ‘voyeurism’ legislation. Chief Inspector Nick Aldworth, of the Metropolitan Police, told a House of Lords committee that, in the absence of privacy legislation in the UK, users of the unmanned devices could fall foul of the 2003 Sexual Ow‘nfaefrgenlniegcdee ntsh tA,a ctr etd,c rokorln e‘ehs sate roacrsh msnmoaleloincgtiyo’ uhusan’sd u eosrp ete.hnee dP uubpl iocp Oprodretur nAictite. sH feo r © 2014 GETTY IMAGES © GMB AKASH ‘BAHkanaesghlla lhd’ae fss ahpio cpcthkooettroegydr a$ sp2hp,5e0ro 0Gt fMloiBrg ht MAGE BY SCOTT OLSON I winning the inaugural Neutral WEEKEND PROJECT Density Photography Awards. His winning image, ‘Angels in hell’, is of Walk in the woods 1 children working in Bangladeshi If you have a macro lens, factories. Visit ndawards.net. make sure you remember As the colder weather starts to set in and winter to take it with you when Flickr under fi re takes hold, many of the plants in a forest will die out on a woodland walk. There down. However, until early January there is still are lots of small subjects to Photographers blasted the chance to see, and photograph, a number of photograph in a forest and a Flickr after the website woodland fungi, such as the one pictured right. macro lens will allow you to began selling photographs In addition to the species of fungi, there are capture the intricate detail. available for use under a other interesting subjects to photograph in our Creative Commons woodlands, from evergreen plants to dying 2 licence. Flickr owner bracken and a variety of berries. Be sure to look It is important when Yahoo made more than 50 on the ground, around fallen trees, on tree trunks going for a long walk to million images available and in dense areas of foliage to maximise your wrap up warm. Being to buy. ‘It ticked me off chances of f nding the right subject. Taking a long cold while you are shooting is that somebody else is selling them when I was giving them away,’ walk around local woodland with a camera and a uncomfortable, and if your mind US-based amateur photographer Liz West told The Wall Street spare lens can be very enjoyable at this time of is thinking about how cold you Journal. Creative Commons is ‘a non-profit body that offers an year – particularly if the weather is cold and are then you won’t be in the alternative to full copyright’, according to creativecommons.org. sunny. Don’t forget to look out for wildlife, too. mood to get decent shots. 4 3 January 2015 I www.amateurphotographer.co.uk I subscribe 0844 848 0848 004&5 7Days 3.1 jpCCna.indd 4 09/12/2014 15:26 BIG picture Tensions reach boiling point in Ferguson, Missouri, in the US This powerful image from Getty photographer Scott Olson encapsulates the frightening tension building in many US cities as people reacted to what they felt was a miscarriage of justice. A police squad car was turned over by demonstrators during a protest on 25 November 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Protesting turned into rioting following the grand jury announcement not to indict offi cer Darren Wilson in the Michael Brown case. Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was killed by Wilson, a white Ferguson police offi cer, on 9 August. At least 12 buildings were torched and more than 50 people were arrested during the night-long rioting. Words & numbers Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer 3 – and of en As a lot of foliage will have died down, it will the supreme be easier to see, and therefore photograph, birds and disappointment other wildlife. Using a telephoto lens will help you get close-up Ansel Adams shots of your subjects. American photographer (1902-1984) 4 As the leaves of , 8 000 deciduous trees and shrubs will have dropped, it’s important to keep acabonsri l geeohvyuteererf onguu rlu etsp euf noabsr j d ecauconltldl o m eubnare.vt rtLirreiooeron,s kms, utfeoocn hrt . © CALLUM MCINERNEY-RILEY lpeinctstu Uaarksneeeds da of elfma tfsaauhicln ertgdooi thpehT RohPteoS gnW Cruoaemplsltehb Yciector ier ookqnfsu pihniipie rBmcereaesdn oftof i nrd , subscribe 0844 848 0848 I www.amateurphotographer.co.uk I 3 January 2015 5 004&5 7Days 3.1 jpCCna.indd 5 09/12/2014 15:26 More than 200 et‘sxoeh eribexniqtesu irlsaaitnnedg nsecu fadrpoeemss’, MUSEUM/SSPL say organisers MEDIA ©NATIONAL MARTIN ‘LEICESTER SQUARE’ 1896 PAUL SAolpnhya c 7o nIIfi p rrmicse The show will be free to visit when it opens in Bradford SONY has confi rmed that the Alpha 7 II will cost £1,500, body only, N MNEY’ C1934 NOEL GRIGGS © NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM, BRADFORD/SSPL ‘PORTRAIT OF CHRISTINA’ 1913 © LIEUTENANT COLONEL MERVYN O’GORMA wtawptc‘ilonihhgllrahius TUeetihacoihethm t nesUS c nebatbvdeoo aK e eiu S2tdmnn£ iiila olgyd8ne1dtp vonoi dA-,’naa7J.ye 7 goclaii 0plsn0Aa tfn ih f 0ombmsulNepainl.arzea hom 7er sgvaay a ee a.Ils7leIm ne qain s dIu bisI nk a,ew itlri i,tl ly ‘CHIHistoric RPMSoving th e RiPS mexhibits to Laondong came aet a prsice The 24.3-million-pixel model features 5-axis image stabilisation and a 117-point, focal-plane- go on show, at a cost phase-detection AF system with an improved algorithm, allowing AF to be ‘30% faster’ than in previous Sony cameras. HISTORIC images plucked from excited to see the masters of the the Royal Photographic Society’s WESTON RPS collection… If you are a famous collection have gone on WARD photography fan, you cannot show at the Science Museum in © ED miss this show.’ L£tPwNhoh8haaDnoti ncierdto haon2onw gthn0arrna,yla 0 a sMbpc sebyohe oxesiLdchrteii .ggaiS nba ho Minhttcs ioufs ieefuesratesorytseum u Cdmdr o eeta hls(flteNe e mtnc hMRtdoeiooM r tyenh)a , e iln ‘NUDE ON SAND – OCEANO, CALIFORNIA’ 1936 fpCsgpepearoeAoornl ltgksefe okerocraerasft mwidtatoeh conmwdecm, h eebaNyas y i aSsns t t th cthfitooeieoee ndrlin demea cb lxAi eaashPg PcMiahbek:n oi su‘ti It niansotothedcngoauomsr ttmam hifpsoe eshr i oym n The Bradford-based RPS Collection Bradford, West Yorkshire, since its running of Media Space for the contains more than 250,000 images move there 11 years ago. The RPS project to be sustainable. itself was founded in 1853. Entry to the exhibition, which takes ‘Although a large number of The show includes images place at the Media Space Gallery works on show in the Media dating back to the earliest days of inside the museum, costs £8 – a Space throughout the year are Subscribe to photography, captured by pioneers move that has drawn criticism from from the National Photography such as Julia Margaret Cameron at least one observer. Collection, there are also loans and British photography inventor When the exhibition opens at the on display.’ William Henry Fox Talbot, whose NMM in Bradford next year, entry She added: ‘The preparation of a experimental cameras are on display. will be free, according to the RPS. major exhibition involves shipping, It also showcases the work of Photographer Andy Blackmore insurance, research, conservation SAVE modern-day photographers such criticised organisers over the entry and installation costs. as Don McCullin, Terry O’Neill fee. He told AP: ‘It’s disgusting. It ‘The Virgin Media Studio in 35% * and Martin Parr. should be a voluntary charge… They the Media Space is a free offer, The Science Museum says the [the images] should be available changing throughout the year, and show will allow the public to ‘discover to see, for free.’ representing different aspects of stories behind some of the world’s Among those positive about the photography and the National Visit amateurphotographer most famous photographers and show, however, is Emma McLean, Photography Collection.’ subs.co.uk/15E or call 0330 their works, and explore how an entertainment agency account The Media Space offers photography has fundamentally manager, who turned to Twitter after concessions, and discounts at 333 4555 and quote 15E shaped our perception of the world’. seeing a preview. She wrote: ‘So certain times of the week. * when you pay by UK Direct Debit 6 3 January 2015 I www.amateurphotographer.co.uk I subscribe 0844 848 0848 006-7 7Days JAN 3.CCna.indd 6 10/12/2014 15:16 Flashgun maker Metz Get up & go in f nancial trouble The most interesting things to see, to do and to shoot this week. By Jon Stapley FLASHGUN maker Metz may be rescued LONDON from insolvency after attracting ‘considerable interest’ from potential investors, AP has learned. A source close to Metz said the insolvency fi ling is expected to affect around 6‘cihntoha0vnsee0 t sbaa tjedcooetmrb snws’i ,ni‘ actbihsnout dnprta sotaithdtdoeaerdnt re itastidh abi nellt eh r ea t © MATT SPRAKE PHOTOGRAPHY interest in the company’. London’s New Years Day Parade Metz makes fl ash The German company Happy New Year! You may be reading this after the big calendar units for amateur Metz makes flip, but if you’re not, and you anticipate being able to stand on and professional televisions New Year’s Day, why not head out to photograph some of the photographers worldwide, as well as celebratory parades that take place? from compact fl ashes to flashguns 1 January. www.londonparade.co.uk handheld fl ashguns. It also makes TVs. company focuses on three invested in the company The German offi ce of areas: entertainment and promoted its COVENTRY BERKSHIRE insolvency administrator electronics, photo continued development. Joachim Exner had yet electronics and plastics ‘Independence was to comment. technology. important to us. At the Metz was formed over Paul Metz died in 1993, same time, we always 7Mmex5eap ktayzienn wadgrh inrsoa ga,d gitinooo 1 osb9etyht4 seP7 rba, eulbinfle oegrsea n aHrufetSnelpnerien nwaeghk toiiocnfhog t k hhl aeoiss v tbwe yurief setaihn ree, ss. pohemlniga chepelxlyodc yme gelloreeetsnia.vt taAl yitnm etdrdpa noinorettadhn,in cge © JASON SCOTT TILLEY of business. Helene Metz said: ‘My will change these values People of India Mobile Photography Today, the owner-led husband and I have always in the future.’ Three series of photographs Eton’s Rhubarb and Custard document India, spanning the gallery open exhibition focuses Brit on £30k photo shortlist past 150 years. Anchoring the on photographs taken using display is Jason Scott Tilley, mobile phones. If you’d like to who contributes his own street see one of your mobile images A BRITISH artist is among those © M portraits and also shots taken mounted on their wall, head to PcpohhUloolaKttsboo-hoggborrroraaatrptplneihsh dtPeye arwdP tMi rrtfihioczik rkeSh tWo2ahuee0atl 1 thDSe5 eruA.hubfortoisuctczsahkeney Bfoör rasne IKHAEL SUBOTZKY/PATRICK W bUwynw thiwils .1 tg1hr eJehaanet-rugbarerarynt.. dofragther. 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UTo5Ohinwfa4nnh s-Scotas ie oflbat au2ioartltt6r lahsiee snA yynAttm p ssPfir nr bodfiitlcoanoo.alc tc w ’eedous ewf mCat cpaniweatrl nylyou.,en,tsn isaapfcntitnee v iJsdroreoikt n tiahyytyaieass,nl a ngct rrhfnraesuaeelf tlpu sieubnegbrru reutei,ieh elr.tdsge hi.. ne li gf e EDINBURGH COURTESY GOODMAN GALLERY © MAGNUM PHOTOSMIKHAEL SUBOTZKY & PATRICK WATERHOUSE, org/portraitgallery subscribe 0844 848 0848 I www.amateurphotographer.co.uk I 3 January 2015 7 006-7 7Days JAN 3.CCna.indd 7 10/12/2014 15:47 Viewpoint New Books John Gilbey The latest and best books from the world of photography. By Oliver Atwell © APdhraeor tykoorsouho osmopm Tmewiogohn-Ste bt weephn?oe H’fs etg yrueoi’slut ywr pohhfy do aot oriengtgrua trphnhe ty o the JOSEF KOUDELKA I fi nally have my own darkroom. is no more double-shuffl e with two Well, technically I’ve had a camera bodies and two fi lm stocks just in darkroom since I was ten years old, case a shutter blind sticks or the aperture but that was just my bedroom with fails to close. No more prayers as you a blanket draped over the curtains to help open the developing tank to check the keep the street lights at bay. Now, though, results. In many ways, life is good. I have a room dedicated to the art and But perhaps it’s too good. When I’m science of photography – a room that not running to someone else’s deadline, I Josef Koudelka: Exiles can act as a focus for my endeavours and, enjoy taking time over my photography. more importantly, a room for all my junk I like to plan how to get the image right Thames & Hudson, £39.95, hardback, (my wife’s word) that’s been spread around in-camera, so that what I capture refl ects 180 pages, ISBN 978-0-50054-441-9 the house for most of my life. what I saw – or imagined – at the time, HOW CAN it be that a Why now? Surely, with everything so rather than ending up with a picture that photographer dealing with themes shiny and digital, I’d be better off putting has passed through the assumptions, of desolation, waste, departure the money into a decent photo printer preferences and compromises of the and alienation is able to produce and a pint or two of ink? I beg to differ, hundreds of other folk who design our such exceptionally beautiful and here’s why. cameras and write our software. They images? The reason is simple: Digital photography is great, wonderful, have their own agenda: they assume we everything Czech photographer Josef Koudelka invigorating. It allows me to photograph want deep blue skies, sharp faces, shadow captures speaks deeply of the endurance of the subjects and events that I would really detail, synchronised smiles – all great human spirit. The photographs were taken during struggle to capture with the best of my aspects of your holiday pics, but not Koudelka’s years of wandering through Europe and the analogue kit – and some of that is very necessarily helpful if you are pursuing United States after leaving his native Czechoslovakia. good. The trouble is, the ease with which your own ideas. The images communicate much about the world that I can capture images digitally sometimes Hence the darkroom. By returning to Koudelka found on his travels, but perhaps say more suckers me in to the old Photoshop my roots in monochrome photography, about the photographer, indeed any photographer, Two-Step – a dance in which you open using manual cameras and hand-printing who suffers from an insatiable desire to see. Typically, the fi le, look blankly at it, click Enhance the results, I feel much closer to being a each and every frame is perfectly beautiful. Master and Auto Levels, let some unknown creative person. I’ll never stop using digital photographer is a term that’s bandied around far too software engineer decide just how – it makes me a useful income – but while much, but here it is more than justifi ed. ★★★★★ much it needs sharpening then do the ‘me’ photography is slower, more a Save As. Game over. I have a picture. It painful and has fewer results, it gives me looks OK, the histograms are spot on and images that I feel great satisfaction in. Af er the Agreement: I know just how it will print on the devices Which I guess is what it is all about. Contemporary Photography I’ve loaded profi les for. in Northern Ireland For rapid professional gigs, this is a John Gilbey is a writer and photographer living in west lifesaver. I know immediately that I’ve got Wales. His work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, by Sarah Tuck, John Duncan, Mary McIntyre the image and can deliver it in the way the The Guardian and a number of other publications. You and Donovan Wylie, Black Dog Publishing, £19.95, paperback, 978-1-90896-691-9 customer wants, when he wants it. There can follow him on Twitter @John_Gilbey. DURING any confl ict, there are Jwtooi lhsl hnfro’seo edt ahtrhikmer ouopm BOTH PICTURES © aeselawega.e yWrs t hpoi hledo oitnco ugthmraeep cnhate swresh owafth ntohe ewayrse way he wants JOHN GILBEY pcreohqnoutteoirmgerspa soporhmayr eyth adisris tit spa ahn coneteo. cgTerhasesp iethyvy,e nts must be absorbed and considered. Only then can artists communicate what they have learned. This is particularly true of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and that is what makes this book such a vital addition to the conversation. The book draws on a series of talks by the photographers John Duncan, Mary McIntyre, Donovan Wylie, Paul Seawright, Kai Olaf Hesse and David Farrell. It is a fantastic opportunity to explore the role that contemporary Do you have something you’d like to get off your chest? Send us your thoughts in around photography plays in our understanding of the events. Light reading it is not, but was it ever going to be, 500 words to the address on page 17 and win a year’s digital subscription to AP, worth £79.99 ★★★★★ considering the subject matter? 8 3 January 2015 I www.amateurphotographer.co.uk I subscribe 0844 848 0848 008 Viewpoint Jan3.indd 8 15/12/2014 14:43 AMP JANUARY 3 2015 RUN FILE.indd 4 18/12/2014 10:46 Technique SeT yourSelf goalS New Year’s resolutions The New Year is the perfect time to set some goals for your photography. Here are some ideas to get you started Step back from your images and look at them again later 1 © Phil hall Improve your image selection there’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of a the trouble is, we’re often too close to them, away and coming back to them some time successful shoot – that buzz of seeing a stack having invested so much time and energy in later – ideally getting a good night’s sleep of potentially great images on your rear screen them, but being ruthless with your images will before you take another look at them. You’ll be can be incredibly gratifying. however, once make you a better photographer. Coming away surprised how the shots differ from the ones home and they’ve all been loaded onto with one strong shot will be better than having you remember. In some cases, they won’t hit your computer (and backed up!), it can be 2a host of mediocre or almost-there pictures. the mark quite as much as you imagined, while extremely diffcult to nail down which shots A good starting point is to select a number of others will naturally come to the surface and to edit and which ones to leave out. images, even processing them, before walking perhaps stand out more than they did before. Back up your images We put an awful lot of faith in the reliability We suggest you avoid storing images on of hard drives, and while many of us will be your computer’s hard drive too, and instead lucky to experience only minor issues, when store them on a dedicated external drive, a hard drive does fail (and they do – a lot) it and also invest in a second drive to mirror can be an emotional experience, to put it the frst. It may seem like a bit of an outlay, mildly. that is, unless you’ve backed up all but the cost of memory has dropped your images (and other important data) on signifcantly over the past couple of years an additional drive. If your hard drive does and ultimately, what price do you put on fail and you’ve backed up your data, the only your images? major loss is the original drive and the fact Make archiving images part of your you’ve got to buy a new one – not the workfow. Maybe once you’ve copied the drama and pain of realising you’ve lost every images across to one drive, you repeat the Back up your images onto external drives © single image you’ve taken, including those same step onto the other, or schedule in g-tech all-important test shots of the cat. weekly updates to mirror your main drive. 10 3 January 2015 I www.amateurphotographer.co.uk I subscribe 0844 848 0848 010-14 NewYear'sResolutions Jan3.indd oc.indd 10 09/12/2014 14:59