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Yosemite National Park, established in 1890, is the third oldest
national park in the United States, with the greatest concentration
of granite domes and exposed monoliths in the world. Autumn
in Yosemite is a time of quiet serenity, when the light shifts
and snowy white peaks appear at higher altitudes, providing
remarkable contrast against the expansive valley below. Join
the Mentor Series and Nikon professional photographer Tom
Bol and Nikon Ambassador Dave Black for a late-season photo
workshop in Yosemite National Park to experience the mighty
stillness of the park firsthand.
Tunnel View and El Capitan Meadow in the Yosemite Valley
provide excellent views of Cathedral Rocks, Bridalveil Falls,
and Half Domethe most recognizable symbol of Yosemite. In
the distance, you can see El Capitan, the worlds largest granite
monolith, rising more than 3,000 feet above the valley floor.
The Three Brothers is another recognizable rock formation just
east of El Capitan, with Eagle Peak (the uppermost brother)
and Middle and Lower Brothers resting majestically above the
surrounding panorama. We will schedule sunrise and sunset
shoots to take advantage of the deep contrast of light, the
changing hues of the surrounding trees and foliage, and the
great stillness of the grand meadows as the wildflowers of late
summer are replaced by a light dusting of early snow.
Visited by countless photographers and travelers throughout
the year, Yosemite National Park is a grand and iconic photo
destination. Experience the park in its quiet simplicity, with
the rare solitude that a November visit affords. Join the Mentor
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and iconic imagery of Yosemite National Park. Sign up today!
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46 picturing history Are you a history and photography buff? Pursue both passions by visiting battle re-enactments. Theyre popular around the world and offer clamorous physical action, colorful costumes, plenty of martial accoutrements, and more. Let the shooting begin! By Peter Kolonia
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62 TEN TIPS ForFIlTEr FuN Think glass filters are pass in this all-digital age? Think again! Here are 10 killer visual effects that are yours with the help of over-the-lens optical filters, and none requires hours of computer time. By Dan Richards
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The first-ever USA Landscape Photographer of the Year contest results are in and we showcase the winners. They capture the variety, depth, soul, and, yes, beauty of this land we call home. By Russell Hart
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ahadev (landscape). subscriber cover: vincent boafede (landscape); Joe viesti/viesti associates (soldiers).
this page: eric plante (Jellies); ben staley (headshot). previous page: nagesh m
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21next13 we want this milled from solid aluminum, leicas audi-designed tis a camera steve Jobs would have loved.
14 just out a hypersensitive sony, cross-platform flash, and another glimpse into the future of cameras from lytro.
18 state of the art pentax packs its 645Z with a cmos sensor, high sensitivity, and a too-good-to-be-true price.
share21 photo challenge a singular double exposure triumphs.
22 my project she discovered the human side to heavy-metal rockers: theyre cat lovers. who knew?
24 mentor series tapping into your creativity in the much-photographed yellowstone national park.
26 letters readers chime in on weddings, iso nomenclature, and more.
27 tech talk coming to terms with those loveable Jpeg presets.
28 your best shot this month, our winners turned their cameras on humanity and surprised us.
how33 creative thinking let humor win over your viewers.
36 traveling photographer experience the best of california in a trek down the legendary pacific coast highway.
38 lighting learn how two audacious russians lit up the siberian night for an automotive shot. on the cheap!
40 software workshop tame unruly contrast by relying on the best of not one, but three image editing apps.
44 you can do it capture these easy-to-shoot aquarium dwellers: jellies.
lab67 ilc test panasonic lumix gh4with spectacular 4k video and faultless still captures, its close to the ideal camera.
72 ilc test sony a6000 great pictures, handy controls, and easy wi-fi connections. the camera for you?
78 lens test nikon 58mm f/1.4g the nikkor for weddings. Really.
80 lens test tamron 16300mm f/3.56.3 vc macro widest focal length range ever, great macro, and a nice price.
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Competitive EdgeAs soon as Jim Golden handed me his portfolio,
I saw it. The Grand Prize winner of our Annual
Readers Photo Contest of 2012 occupied the
frst page of this pro photographers book. A
deceptively straightforward shot of a collec-
tion of hundreds of scissors, artfully arranged
into an irregular but harmonious grid on a
white background and shot from above, it had
jumped out from the thousands of entries
Popular Photography received in our biggest contest of the yearand I never
forgot it. At his portfolio review at the Palm Springs Photo Festival this past
April, it still packed a punch. Golden, who had traveled to the California
desert from Portland, OR, to put his work in front of expert eyes, told me
that his scissors photo remains a big hit. And you saw it here frst.
Now in its 21st consecutive year (not counting the similar one this maga-
zine ran in the 1950s), our annual contest identifes photographic talent
among our readers and helps introduce your images to our editors and to
a very wide audience. It rewards winners with publication in the magazine,
as well as payment (by check or gift cards). The contest pulls entries from
all over the world in six subject categories: action/sports, animals, architec-
ture/cities, landscapes/nature, objects/still life, and people (a $1,000 Grand
Prize tops the prize list).
Unlike many other photo competitions, we draw no distinction between
pros like Golden and non-pros like Debbie DiCarlo, a consultant who took
the Grand Prize last year for her beautiful woodland stream. You can
manipulate the image, as long as you disclose what youve donethough
we tend to stick to pictures that read as photographs, not as illustrations. So
fx your contrast, tone, sharpness, and the like; you can even submit com-
posite shots, despite the outrage we sometimes hear about these.
The contest costs $10 per photo, and you enter by uploading it to our
website. Upload the highest-quality JPEG possible, but keep a high-resolu-
tion RAW or TIFF version (if you have one) in case youre a fnalist, since
well need all of the winners to look great in print. (Why not aim for a full
two-page spread, right?) Although this year we did not specify how recent
your photo must be, please send us your best shots taken since September
2013, the end of last years contest. This year, our deadline for entry is
October 17. Youll fnd all the rules, plus galleries of earlier entries, at
PopPhoto.com under the Contests tab.
NewsstaNd Brian Klutch shot the
Panasonic Lumix GH4 (test, page 67) on
Manfrottos new X Pro 3-Way head (page
18) and updated 055XPRO3 tripod.
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Super Structure
our assistant Web editor Dan Bracaglia
stood directly under the Williamsburg
Bridges eastern tower and pointed the
Sony a6000 with 1650mm f/3.55.6
lens (set at the widest end of the focal
range) straight up. his exposure: f/9
at 1/1000 sec, ISo 400. he corrected
the lens distortion at this 24mm (full-
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SonyS new low-light full-frame ilC
an old ruSSian lenS, reSSurreCted
a 50mP, Sub-$9,000 medium-format dSlr
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Milled froM a solid block of
aluminum, the Audi-designed
16.3MP Leica T, with its sleek
lines and large touchscreen,
looks a bit like an Apple product.
And with built-in Wi-Fi and a
free iOS app for image transfer
and remote control, it plays well
with actual Apple devices, too.
But unlike most Leicas, this
new APS-C interchangeable-lens
compact is light on the knobs
and dials, so its customizable
Leica t
16.3MP aPs-c sensorbuilt-in wi-fiiso 10012,500Micro usb charging$1,850, street, body only us.leica-camera.com
Meet Mr. tLeica unveils a truly compact new system
menus and the touchscreens
functionality will likely factor
large in the user experience.
A new T line of autofocus
lenses debuts with a 23mm f/2
and an 1856mm f/3.55.6 zoom,
but with the M-Adapter-T, you
can mount up to 20 different
lenses made for Leicas M line
of rangefinders. The camera
takes SDHC/XC cards, but also
packs 16GB of internal storage.
Myriad accessories abound, from
a tilt-and-swivel EVF to snap-on
cases (the T-Flap, shown here)
and straps that latch onto a novel
new clip system. We cant wait to
put the new system through the
paces in our test lab.
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ISO WOW
after a 2013 filled with
cameras that tested the limits
of just how small a full-frame
digital body could be, Sonys
first full-frame ILC of 2014,
the 12.2MP a7S, takes aim at
the sensitivity crown lately
worn by Nikons D4s. With a
top ISO of 409,600, the a7S
sensor matches that DSLRs
sensitivitythough not its
16.2MP pixel count.
But the a7S has something
the D4s doesnt: Ultra HD
video capture. Via HDMI,
it can export video at 4K
resolution (3840x2160 pixels)
to an external recorder. When
limited to
1920x1080p60
at 50Mbps,
it can record
directly to the SD/
Memory Stick Pro slot.
And with only 12.2 million
pixels on the standard 35mm
frame, the larger pixel wells
team with a new logarithm,
Sony says, to promise a wider-
than-usual dynamic range for
video. We cant wait to put this
new low-light tool to the test.
Sonys new full-frame ILC has hyper sensitivity
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Button UpLytros innovation lies in a compound lens called the micro-lens array comprising thousands of tiny lenses placed over the sensor. It records more information than a conventional sensor by measuring light at various distances simultaneouslythe light field. the new Lytro Illum has a button to let you preview this field with colored overlays while composing your shot.
InsIde tech
> The recently launched
website
crated.com
is a new
marketplace for
photographers
to sell their
work. The site
lets users
upload their
photographs for
free and pays
out 80 percent
of the profit
made from
sales.
A lOnger lOOkThe evolution of an unusual camera
lytros second camera with
a plenoptic light-field sensor,
the new Illum takes on a
more familiar form than its
kaleidoscope-like predecessor.
Its sizeable lens provides
a 30250mm focal range
(equivalent) on its 1-inch sensor,
both of which dwarf their
counterparts on the original
Lytro. The 4-inch, 800x480-
pixel touchscreen is also
a big upgrade from
the tiny original.
Lytro still uses a
cloud-based system
for viewing and
The a7S has the same EVF and 3-inch tilting LCD found on the a7 and a7R, and like its siblings, connects to smartphones via NFC and Wi-Fi.
sharing its photos, which allow
viewers to change focal points
and shift perspective long after
the photo was taken (see Inside
Tech for how).
sony a7s
$2,498, street, body only
www.sony.net
lytro Illum
www.lytro.com
$1,499, direct
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> Think before you post. A
new algorithm
from MIT
doctoral
candidate
Aditya Khosla
predicts the
popularity of
your Instagram
picture based
on a number of
social and
content
factors. Try it
yourself on his
website:
popularity.
csail.mit.edu.
> With the support of the
#MissionSmile
campaign,
Mark E. Miller
and Ethan
Hethcote set
the Guinness
record for most
selfies taken in
an hour: 355.
The duo took
to Miamis
South Beach
to find 355
different
people to
include in their
pictures.
> The American
Museum of
Natural History
Research
Library has
digitized and
uploaded its
entire
collection of
photographs.
More than
7,000 of its
images are
now available
to the public in
a searchable
online
database.
WIreless flashes open up a world of
lighting opportunities, but products from
different brands rarely work well together.
Cactus, with lots of competition among
third-party flash makers, has made
compatibility its calling card. Its new RF60
is a universal hot-shoe flash with a built-in
wireless transmitter and receiver that can
control up to four groups of other flash
units. But the real star may just be the new
V6 wireless transceiver, which mounts to
any camera with a hot-shoe or PC sync port
and can wirelessly fire and control power
output from Canon, Nikon, and Pentax
flashessimultaneously.
All-IncluSIveFlash system from Cactus plays nice with the big boys
WIde lOmO
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cactus rf60 and V6 transceiver
$140 (flash); $55 (transceiver)
cactus-image.com
eyes In the skIesWhile regulators are at least a year
away from allowing commercial drone
flights, Jim Williams, the chief of the
federal aviation administrations
unmanned aircraft division, recently
said the agency is looking into ways
to expedite approvals. It is expected
to propose a rule allowing small
commercial drones by november,
which could once again open the skies
to commercial photographers.
the Lowdown
lomography made its name
selling inexpensive plastic
cameras like the Holga and
Diana to vintage aesthetes and
trendy teenagers, but with the
New Russar+, it takes a different
approachnot unlike its
relaunch of the all-brass Petzval.
An overhaul of Russian
lensmaker Zenits 1958 20mm
f/5.6 Russar MR-2, the New
Russar+ upgrades the MR-2s
aluminum to a chrome-plated
brass, and Lomography says
it made significant design
improvements from the
original. These include adding a
modern anti-flare multicoating
and modifying the lens barrel to
make it compatible with both
digital and analog cameras.
Out of the box the New
Russar+ will mount to Leica M
and screw-mount (L39) cameras,
but it can easily be mounted to
ILC systems with the addition of
a third-party adapter.
New life for a classic Russian ultrawide
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lomography new russar+ 20mm f/5.6
$649, direct
lomography.com
Filter ThisAlien Skin Exposure 6
digital photo filtersso hot right now. But to stand out in the Instagram era, youll need something other than Valencia and hefe.enter exposure 6 ($149, www.alienskin.com), an effects plug-in that also works as a standalone application. the streamlined interface is visually similar to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, albeit without the useful cataloging features. But with a borderline-absurd number of film-emulation filters and creative effects, youll be the envy of your social network.
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Screen images simulated. Reprinted from www.reviewed.com, with permission. 2013, 2014 Reviewed.com. All rights reserved. *Based on results from models in the same price range: Nikon D7000, Canon EOS-60D, Canon EOS-70D.
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FA S T E R , L I G H T E R A N D S M A R T E R T H A N D S L R .
With lightning-fast shutter speeds, ultra-compact designs and smart sharing capabilities, Samsung
NX System cameras outperform DSLR in virtually every category.* Its time to #DITCHtheDSLR.
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>Planning a vacation to
Yosemite?
Leave your
drone at
home. The
National
Park Service
has banned
the use of
unmanned
aircraft,
arguing that
the noise
disturbs the
wildlife and
other visitors.
> Nokia engineer Ari
Partinen is
leaving to join
team Apple
in June. He
most recently
led Nokias
successful
Lumia
Photography
division,
hinting at a
new direction
for future
iPhone
cameras.
> Getty Images iStock
released an
infographic
showing the
top trends in
business stock
photography
for 2014. The
list includes
glass-walled
offices to
illustrate
transparency
and open-
ness and
photos of men
with babies to
demonstrate
father-friendly
workplaces.
WHEN IT COMES to tripod heads, you generally want something that will be able to hold cameras with large, heavy lenses attached, but also won't take up too much room (or weigh too much) when its time to pack it up. Manfrotto's new XPro 3-way
head ($140, street) is rated to hold up to 17.64 pounds. That's more than enough to support a Canon EOS-1D X with the monstrous 800mm f/5.6L Canon EF IS USM lens attached. But thanks to its efficient design, the head weighs only 2.2 pounds itself. Friction controls help keep all that weight from flopping around while adjusting angles. The pan/tilt handles retract
over the posts so the head becomes highly compact. So on the tripod or in your bag, they wont get in the way.
Manfrottos XPro 3-way head folds small, holds heavy loads
0.582SOURCE: Research In Chinas Global and China CMOS
Camera Modules Industry Report, 2013-2014.
IF THERES ONE clear trend in medium-format cameras right now, its the shift toward CMOS sensors. Ricoh recently announced that the follow-up to its well-received Pentax 645D, called the 645Z, will pack a 51.4-megapixel CMOS sensor. This new sensors imaging area of 43.8x32.8mm makes it about 1.7 times larger than a 35mm (full-frame) sensor. Both Hasselblad and Phase-
One have also announced medium-format 50MP CMOS models, beating Pentax to the punch. But while those bodies come with five-figure price tags, the Pentax is going for a more reasonable $8,497 for its new body, which also looks a bit more versatile than most of the competition.The 645Z boasts 76 weather
seals throughout its diecast aluminum chassis and magnesium alloy frame, plus sensitivity up to ISO 204,800 and a tilting 3.2-inch 1.037-million-dot LCD screen. All other medium-format cameras use fixed screens,
and the new Hasselblad and PhaseOne both top out at ISO 6400. And the 645Zs 27-point autofocus system (25 of them cross-type) is akin to what you'd see in a full-frame or APS-C DSLR. The 645Z can record HD
video at up to 1920x1080i/60. Though Wi-Fi isn't built-in, you can add a special FLU SD card ($100, street, for 16GB) in one of the camera's two SD card slots to allow image transfer, live view, and camera controls from a smart phone. If youve ever thought about
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mountain manA filmmaker double-exposes a mountainside selfie
photo challenge
Ben STaley
hiking in the mountains near
Whitehorse in Canadas Yukon
Territory, Ben Staley stopped to
rest a couple thousand feet above
the city. He scrolled through the
settings menu on his Panasonic
Lumix GH3 and realized that
he had yet to use the cameras
double-exposure mode.
Ben staley made his double exposure in his panasonic GH3 but edited the image on his ipad in snapseed.
lens, he set the GH3 to Auto, set
exposure compensation to 2 EV
to maintain the highlights, and
snapped a selfe. In double-expo-
sure mode, he neatly aligned the
scraggly mountain with his face,
winning our double-exposure
challenge. Matthew Ismael Ruiz
I had a pretty epic beard at
the time, says Staley, 40, who is
a cinematographer/producer for
the Discovery series The Deadliest
Catch and lives in Santa Clarita,
CA. The mountains and foliage
seemed to be a good match.
Using a 20mm f/1.7 pancake
In both picturing history (page 46) and Fix it Fast (page 34) we feature subjects wearing costumes from bygone eras. Send your best period-dress portraits by July 31 and you could win $100 and your photo here. For rules, visit popphoto.com/contests.
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Fur FiendsAlexandra Crockett lives in Seattle. For more Metal Cats, visit facebook.com/metaldudescats.book
pet owners often have
two voicesone for normal
conversation and a goofier one
for their furry friends. The cat
owners in Alexandra Crocketts
new book, Metal Cats, tend to
take it a step further: Theres
a lot of baby talking, she says,
and a lot of metal vocal talking.
Currently working on her
doctorate in clinical psychology,
Crockett has been making
photos since she was a teenager,
picking up the hobby from her
father. Around the same time,
she became active in the metal
scene in her native Seattle,
snapping promotional photos
for bands and periodically
cat-sitting for them, too. Metal
Cats began in the fall of 2010
when she photographed her
then-partner Jean-Paul Garnier
together with his docile feline.
Other cats werent so easy.
To better capture the finicky,
constantly moving creatures,
Metal music bros
and their feline friends
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she switched from film to
the digital Nikon D200 and
originally used stage lights
wrapped with homemade gels
whose heat helped the cats
relax in their owners laps.
After switching to strobes
and taking on subjects who
werent already friends, she
had to develop a getting-to-
know-you routine with both
owner and cat before taking
out her camera.
Metalheads and cats make
for a peculiar combination,
but Crockett points out the
independent creatures make
fine companions for touring
musicians or busy artists.
Beyond that, she adds, cats
have this I-dont-give-a-damn
attitude and theyre gonna
do their own thing no matter
what you think about it. That
showed up in the photos, with
the cats being like, I dont want
to do this, and because youre
trying to make me, I especially
dont want to.
Highly invested in gender
Clockwise, from top left: Jason Roberts and Oliver; Brandon Fosse and Rbo; Aub Driver and Freya; Andrew Beattie and Dakini; Jeff Bennet; Roman Kovalik and Lucy; Jeffrey Poso and Spazz; Travis Ryan and Nico.
and social issues (all proceeds
from Metal Cats will benefit
no-kill shelters), Crockett
photographed only men and
trans-men to challenge gender
expectations and reveal the
inherent tenderness of a group
typically stereotyped as having
aggressive, hypermasculine
traits. Though she kept her
shoots simple and sweet, she
does remember one subject
who became quite emotional,
recalling a difficult time when
having a cat made life that
much easier.
As Crockett compiled
Metal Cats, her Facebook
page Metaldudes Cats Book
amassed more than 700-plus
submissions from metal heads,
both male and female, across
the world, and convinced
Brooklyn-based PowerHouse
Books that there was enough
interest to publish a volume of
her photos.
I did find it adorable
that people would say, I
cant wait for my cat to be
famous! Crockett says. It
was sweet, because they were
so unconcerned with having
attention on them, but really
excited that other people got to
see their cat. Jon Blistein
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Hot Spring in her job as a construction
manager for a pharmaceutical
company, Doreen Miller is often
traveling. And while she packs
her camera every time, squeezing
in an extra day at the end of her
trip just to take photos, theres
nothing like having someone else
scout locations for you. Its one of
the things she appreciates most
about her Mentor Series treks.
Theyve already identified
where the great areas to
photograph are," the 50-year-old
from Park Ridge, IL, says. I dont
always have that opportunity.
A veteran of the New York
City, Turkey, and Montana
(Yellowstone National Park) treks,
she finds them conducive to
stoking creativity. Enough so that
photos from her Mentor Series
adventures have been published
in Fodors Travel Guides.
On the streets of New York, she
learned a panning technique to
catch streaking yellow taxis, and
how to get in close on famous
buildings and monuments for
detail shots. When it comes to
popular photo destinations, no one
wants the same picture that the
teeming masses bring back with
them from such trips. You want
to add something, so it doesnt look
like the same picture that a million
people have come back with.
For this photograph of a steaming
geyser in Yellowstone, Miller
was in the parks lower geyser
basin, practicing panoramas and
learning how to compose with
the steam and the setting sun. By
underexposing a bit, she got the
most of the sunsets burning orange
in the background.
All my best pictures have come
from the treks, she admits. Its
such a creative environment.
Matthew Ismael Ruiz
The group brings out this trekkers best
Doreen MillerFor more more photos by this avid traveler, visit doreenmiller.com.
While traversing Yellowstones lower Geyser Basin on a wooden catwalk, Miller managed this
colorful shot by underexposing (0.3 sec at f/11, iSo 100) at the suggestion of mentor John rettie.
Doreen Miller
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It takes a special breed of photo enthusiast to sign up for a 3-day video dog-sledding
adventure in the wilds of Minnesota in late March, when icy temperatures and a
profusion of snow herald the start of mushing season. Under the friendly hands-on guidance
of veteran mentors Corey Rich and Layne Kennedy, and gracious input from seasoned dog-
sledders at the renowned Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge in Ely, our happy a troupe of intrepid
trekkers learned to do two challenging fun things at the same time! 1) Manage a dogsled
as it hurtled past breathtaking northern wilderness scenery. 2) Shoot broadcast-quality
videos of all the incredible action with the latest Nikon HD DSLRs and high-end compact
cameras! As we all discovered, theres no better way to explore the dramatic northern
grandeur of frozen lakes, mountain passes, and the icy wilderness beyond than hitching
a ride behind a team of huskies. And no better way to hone your skills than by capturing
spectacular videos of the action as the sled dogs race along the trail, along with an entire
world of sounds unique to this very special region.
The stars of the show were the magni cent Canadian Inuit sled dogs, whose interaction,
enthusiasm, and engaging personalities provided another whole range of still and video
opportunities that was documented in charming detail by the trekkers. After a challenging,
exhausting, and totally fun day of mushing and shooting, we luxuriated in the comfort and
superb accommodations of the lodge and swapped amazing stories of our day on the trail.
To give you a sense of just how unique, enjoyable, and ful lling it was to participate in this
unique video workshop, and how rapidly the trekkers were able to enhance their shooting
skills, here are some brief edited comments from the trekkers themselves:
Im a professional transportation coordi-
nator so I can really appreciate the superb
organization that went into this event.
I started out with little interest in video,
and I thought I could never do this in mil-
lion years, but by the end of the trek I was
transformed into a video enthusiast thanks
to the inspired teaching of the mentors.
- Shari Haushalter
I learned enough at the last morning video
editing session to pay for the course.
- Virginia Jamieson
The excellent team of mentors made learning
how to dogsled through an awesome natural
environment fascinating and fun. The entire
trek was outstanding and working the sled
and capturing video at the same time was
a thrilling once-in-a-lifetime experience.
- Chauncey Davis
Once you experience a Nikon-sponsored
Mentor Video Trek and the unique
camaraderie of a seamlessly organized
photographic adventure rolledintoa total-
immersion course in visual expression, youll
de nitely be back for more.
Sign up for our next video adventure
in Puerto Rico, September 11-14, 2014
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MINNESOTADog-Sledding Video Workshop
A look back at our ecstatic experience
Special thanks to our premier sponsor:
Come on a trek and try out some of the latest equipment that Nikon offers including their high-performanceHD-SLRs, NIKKOR lenses, the Nikon 1 System, and a
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Trekker Amiel with his Nikon camera getting up close with the Inuit dogs.
Nikon Ambassador Corey Rich providing in-the- eld hands-on learning with Nikons latest gear.
Nikon Pro Layne Kennedy using the AW100 tocapture video of the dog sledding action.
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Trekkers capture the dog-sledding action using their newly acquired video skills.
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Hire a Pro I read Peter Kolonias How to Shoot a Wedding (June 2014) with interest. The best tip was in the beginning of the article: Get the happy couple to hire a pro. Giving them money as a wedding gift to help is a great idea. One more tip: Read Peters article forwards and backwards to be sure you understand everything! Sam Feinstein
Millville, NJ
photography needs to get with the
program. A 1TB hard drive actually
holds 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, but
no one would advertise it that way.
Similarly, no one cares that a 400K ISO
is actually 409,600. I suggest that large
ISOs could be listed as 12.5K, 25K, 50K,
etc., with this cycle repeating as needed.
This would make life a lot simpler for
everyone. Paul Monaco
Medford, OR
My heart always beats a little faster
when I discover my nice, crisp issue
of Popular Photography in the mailbox.
No different as I received the latest
(June) issue with the lab test on the
new Nikon D4s. No doubt, great
commentary on an incredible camera.
However, the Canon EOS 5D Mark III
is not the only other camera that can
claim a Low or better noise rating to
ISO 12,800, as the article suggests.
The Canon EOS 6D (March 2013) also
holds that distinction.
Cyrus Tookes
Jacksonville, FL
editors note: Canons 6D did score a 1.7
(Low) rating for noise at ISO 12,800. We
should have double-checked our test records.
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WHEN YOU shoot JPEGs in your DSLR or
ILC, do you set contrast, sharpness,
color saturation, and hue?
Oh, yes you do. Even if you just
flick on the camera and fire away
on Auto, the camera is applying a
set of default parameters that we at
Pop Photo call a JPEG profile (every
camera maker has a different name
for these, listed in the table below).
You can opt for a half-dozen or more
JPEG profiles in your cameras menu.
All digital cameras first capture
in RAW. But if you save images
as JPEGs, the camera converts
the RAW into a compressed file
with certain adjustments applied,
including the JPEG profile. The
typical default profilemost camera
makers call it Standardapplies a
moderate amount of saturation and
sharpening, along with relatively
moderate contrast. From there,
the JPEG profiles can vary all over
the map, from soft, low-contrast
but color-accurate profiles (most
manufacturers call this Neutral)
to highly saturated, sharpened,
contrasty images (Canon: Landscape;
Nikon: Vivid; Pentax: Vibrant).
You are not limited to the specific
settings in a JPEG profile; you can
adjust an individual setting within
a profile, and most cameras let you
save at least one custom profile. Most
DSLRs and ILCs also let you manually
process RAW files in the camera after
capture, so you can try your image
with several different looks and save
the ones you likeno computer
needed. On a computer, the RAW
conversion software that came with
your camera (or a third-party program
like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) will
let you apply and adjust these JPEG
profiles, too. Dan Richards
The same RAW file was converted with
the extremes of Canon JPEG profiles,
from least to most processed.
Change the look of your photo with a menu clickIn Profiles
NEUTRAL LANDSCAPE
BRAND JPEG profile term
Canon Picture Style
Fujifilm Film Simulation
Nikon Picture Controls
Olympus Picture Mode
Panasonic Photo Style
Pentax Custom Image
Samsung Picture Wizard
Sigma Color Mode
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3rd Place $100 Prize Pauly Pholwises, 20, student,
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I wanted the photo to be dramatic
and emotional, with that nice blurred
background and bokeh. We were shooting
around noon on a big hill covered in
grass and flowers, but the lighting was
not greatI kept getting unwanted
shadows and highlights. After a few
shots, I wasnt satisfied, so I decided to
have her hold the flowers. That was the
moment that I felt really connected with
the photo. From that day, I began to
incorporate props in my photos.
teCh info: Canon eos Rebel t2i with
85mm f/1.8 ef lens; exposure, 1/320 sec
at f/2.8, iso 100. Minor image adjustments
in adobe Photoshop Cs5.
2nd Place $200 Prize Chee keong liM, 49, PhotogRaPheR, Bentong, Malaysia On vacation in Bali, Indonesia, I passed this dam. I saw some kids splashing water at each other, and they looked so happy. I asked
them to let me shoot the happy moment, and they immediately lined up neatly and started splashing. One, two, threeand this
beautiful picture formed. teCh info: Canon eos 5d Mark ii with 24105mm f/4l Canon ef lens; 1/125 sec at f/11, iso 250. Cropping and
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William Innes. Changing Photography with 4K Video.
With the new Lumix GH4, William Innes is discovering how easily 4K cinematic in-camera
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It all started with my love for and desire to
travel to Marrakech, Morocco, a fascinating
city full of mystery. My friend Andreea had a
very nice blue scarf. While taking her portrait,
immediately my mind went to the place I love.
I tried to induce the atmosphere of mystery.
When I think of Marrakech, I see colors, cultures,
mystery, faces. It was here I wanted to go, and
I think I succeeded. teCh info: nikon d7000 with 70300mm f/45.6 di ld tamron lens; 1/160 sec at
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For more of Reynolds often humorous photography, visit andyreynolds.com.CUTAWAY ILLUSTRATIONS never
fail to fascinate, and applying
the cutaway design principle to
a photograph adds a realistic
edge. Thats exactly how Seattle-
based commercial photographer
Andy Reynolds wanted to amuse
viewers with this glimpse inside
a trailer home. Back when my
stock agency commissioned
shoots, my editor and I thought it
would be fun to shoot dioramas
of a trailer family with the trailer
cut open, he says. [The wife]
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FILTERS VS. AUTO WHITE BALANCE
OPTICAL COLOR-BALANCING filterssuch as amber warming and cyan cooling filters from the film dayshave become somewhat obsolete with digital cameras, which allow
adjustments to color-balance via the white-balance settings. But DSLR shooters may still
want to use color filters over the lens, such as the gold/blue polarizers and enhancing
filters we describe in 10 Ways to Filter Fun on page 82. And some photographers
prefer the look of certain filters (the Tiffen 812 warming filter has many fans). But
beware: Automatic white balance will counteract the color tone of these filters to restore
a neutral color balance. So use a WB preset (sunny, cloudy, etc.), set a Kelvin color
temperature appropriate to the lighting, or set a custom WB with the filter off the lens.
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would be making breakfast, [the husband] would be reading the paper, and there would be chickens on the counter and other gnarly stuff.With a green light and a budget
from the agency, Reynolds proceeded to gather the props for his vision. His first stop was Craigslist, where, for $500, he found the trailer. The woodwork and fabric were vintage and gorgeous, says the photographer.From there, pulling off this
shot was a matter of logistics. Reynolds found a location (the middle of nowhere) in eastern Washington state to park the trailer, and he arranged with nearby farmers to supply goats and chickens. His set decorator added a few props, and friends who had modeled for him before supplied themselves, with their own tracksuits. There was only one creative casualty: An unexpected delay on the morning of the shoot caused the animals to be cut from the schedule.Sawing the front off the trailer
was a little like opening a sardine canand almost as easy. It took Reynolds and four others only about an hour. He then illuminated the scene with flat, sitcom-style lighting, using two large octabanks on either side of his Hasselblad 500 CM and Zeiss Planar CF 80mm f/2.8 lens. Digital capture was with a Phase One P45 back.Reynolds directed his models
to do ordinary things. I wasnt looking for campy or schtick, he says. The result? The photographer put a little color (and a lot of humor) where things might otherwise be as mundane asMonday. Lifestyle stock photos tend to take a cheery view of things. Reynolds couldnt resist putting his own spin on this subject.Or rather, his chainsaw. Laurence Chen
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THE FIX-IT FAST team took one look at Crystal Gonsalvezs image and said, Vermeer! And while the picture was taken in Old Sturbridge Village, MA, and not Delft, the perspective and play of light and shadow strongly suggest the great 17th-century master.While we often work with
RAW files, here we used the photographers edited version, as we felt her choices in exposure, contrast, and color balance were right on the money. Then, inspired by the window light, we asked ourselves, what would Vermeer do? Were pretty sure he would have gone with a vertical, which works better with the framing device of the door. We used the custom panel
in Adobe Photoshop CCs Lens Correction tool, with a grid overlay as a guide, to fix the geometric (pincushion) distortion in the doorframe, and also corrected the slight keystoning. Finally, we thought we would bring down the brightness of the doorframe lightly to make it less distracting; a mask and treatment with Curves did the trick. Total time fixing: 15 minutes.
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MY FAVORITE place along
Californias Highway 1 is McWay
Creek Falls in Julia Pfeiffer Burns
State Park, says photographer
Ron Niebrugge, who splits his
time between Seward, Alaska,
in summers and California and
the Southwest in winters. A
wonderful waterfall drops 80 feet
straight onto a pristine beach.
The Pacific Coast Highway
(officially, California State Route
1) between Monterey and Pismo
Beach is among his favorite drives
in the U.S. Some of the best stops:
Pfeiffer Beach, not far from
Big Sur, is an isolated slice of
coastline with fascinating off-
shore rock formations. This is
one of the few places where you
can easily drive or walk to the
shoreline, Niebrugge says.
The Piedras Blancas Elephant
Seal Rookery below Big Sur
(elephant seal.org) is home to
more than 17,000 northern
elephant seals. A telephoto zoom
Drama and nature on Californias coastline
Best ofthe west
CALIFORNIA DREAMINGWhat good is a scenic drive without interesting places to stop and ponder them? Here are a few highlights worth hitting the brakes for.
17-MILE DRIVE www.pebblebeach.
com/activities/explore-the-monterey-
peninsula/17-mile-drive
Going from Pacific Grove to Carmel, this
scenic seaside toll road has been luring
gawkers since the 1800s. Wish-you-were-
here highlights include the 250-year-old
Lone Cypress (youll recognize it when
you see it) and close-up views of sea
lions basking on the rocks.
HEARST CASTLE hearstcastle.org
If anything man-made can compete
with the natural views across the road,
this is it: William Randolph Hearsts
incomparable 165-room castle set
among 127 acres of gardens, pools and
walkways in San Simeon. Youll burn
through SD cards faster than Hearst
burned through his millions to create it.
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM
www.montereybayaquarium.org
On Cannery Row in Monterey, its
home to more than 550 different sea
creatures thriving in almost 200 exhibits.
Among the highlights: one of the tallest
aquarium tanks in the world.
WESTON PHOTO GALLERY
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Located in Carmel, it features vintage
works by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston,
Harry Callahan, Imogen Cunningham,
Yousuf Karsh, Maggie Taylor, Brett
Weston and others. Call for an updated
exhibition schedule: (831) 6244453.
in the 100mm to 400mm range is
a useful focal length, he says.
Limekiln State Park, 56 miles
south of Carmel, is a choice place
to camp and shoot. The beach
is rocky, but the rocks are full of
interesting colors and patterns,
making for a great foreground,
says Niebrugge. The 100-foot
Limekiln Falls is a must.
Bixby Creek Bridge crosses
Route 1 over a steep canyon
postcard-pretty. There is a nice
pull-out on the North side of
the bridge which offers a good
vantage point, he says.
Pismo Beach offers weather-
twisted trees and sand dunes,
California classics. Jeff Wignall
Ron Niebrugge found this weathered tree at Pismo Beach and captured it with a Canon EOS-1Ds and 1735mm f/2.8 Canon EF lens (at 17mm), exposing for 1/3 sec at f/18, ISO 100.
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The photographers shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark III and 24mm f/1.4L II Canon EF lens. The exposure was 30 sec at f/4, ISO 400.
WhEN DEtroIt hires the top-tier car photographers to produce promo shots for its Mustangs and Malibus, lighting budgets can top $100,000. Care to guess what it cost to light this awesome scene?
About $300, and that included the services of two ice fishermen.
Pictured is a Chevy Malibu on Russias massive Lake Baikal in Siberia in mid-winter, and it was taken by Dmitry Chistoprudov and Nikolay Rykov, co-owners of a Moscow-based photo and video production company, Vostok. The
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To light this scene, the photographers clamped a divers flashlight onto an inexpensive, folded tripod (A) and submerged it under the car through a hole in the lakes surface. (They used a MagicShine MJ801B light, but the Pelican Nemo, below, would work.) They then set up an extendedheight tripod (B) (similar to the Gitzo below) for the camera (C). The photographer (D) controlled the camera wirelessly with a CamRanger trigger and an iPad (not shown). Two assistants (E) lit the cars exterior with LED flashlights, while a third (F) moved the light below. The cars interior was lit by the its own cabin lights. The team worked through the Siberian night in thick down coats, wearing headlamps.
CamRanger Wireless
Transmitter ($300, street)
Gitzo 5 6X (Giant) Tripod
($1,300, street)
Pelican Nemo 4300 underwater
flashlight ($45,
street)
B
car sits on meter-thick, fissured ice that, thanks to the lakes clear water, resembles glass in its transparency. By drilling a hole through the surfacepaging ice fishermen!and submerging a divers flashlight below the car, the photographers could light the car from below. The aura-like glow around the vehicle and the
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illuminated fissures that streak
through the surrounding ice like
lightning bolts were created by
moving the divers light during
the 30 sec-exposure.
The take-away here? With a
little creativity, magical lighting
doesnt have to break the bank.
Other unusual challenges of
this shoot included:
Smoothing the ice. The fishermens studded boots
scratched the ice surface
rendering it unusable as a
background, but the photo-
graphers were able to erase the
marks by pouring water across
the ice. With temps below 20
degrees F, it froze on contact,
forming an unmarred surface.
Clean the scene. From the hole drilled behind the auto-
mobile, the fishermen excavated
more than 220 pounds of ice
that had to be removed from
the scene by hand. (The team
hadnt thought to bring bags
or shovels.) It took several
people more than an hour to
accomplish. Peter Kolonia
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how * software workshop simple complex
chris TennanT
Have you ever taken a photo
of a vibrant landscape scene
only to be disappointed by
a lifeless result? And then
noticed that adding contrast
alone wont fix the problem?
Simply sticking to the
contrast slider can easily
impart an unnatural, overdone
look. After all, photographs
can suffer just as much from
having too much contrast as
from not having enough of it.
As with many image editing
tasks, the trick is to strike
exactly the right balance.
Often youll find it useful
and even necessaryto use
several kinds of software in
editing a single image
to achieve the look you
want. No matter the
application, there are a variety
of ways to control tonal
contrast. Adjustments made
in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
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Contrast forLandscapes
after
tennant captured these waves crashing against rocks and the iconic Wind Combs sculpture by eduardo Chillida in San Sebastian, Spain.
Use multiple apps on the same image to get the tone right
cHris
tennanta physicist with a
longtime passion
for photography,
chris Tennnat lives in Virginia
with his wife and three boys.
his award-winning landscapes
and waterfalls can be seen
on his website at www.
christennantphotography.com.
4 or 5, Photoshop CS6 or
Creative Cloud,
and Niks Color Efex
Pro 4 plug-in can work
hand-in-hand by helping
you make progressively
more targeted corrections.
Youll learn to create a
finished photograph that
not only pops, but also
maintains the realism of the
original scene.
Chris Tennant
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3Step 1Start with basic RAW adjustments.
Find your image in Lightroom
(were using version 4, but 5 will
work, too). Head down to the Lens
Corrections panel and check the
Enable Lens Corrections box to
remove optics-induced distortion.
For more pleasing blues, which
dominate this seascape, change
the profile to Canons Camera
Landscapeother camera makers
offer similar presetsin the
Camera Calibration panel. Finally, use the Crop & Straighten tools Angle slider to rotate the image until the horizon is level.
Step 2In making global adjustments,
the most obvious way to increase
contrast is to use the Contrast
slider in Lightrooms Basic panel.
While adjusting it, keep an eye on
the histogram to avoid clipping
highlights or shadows. After increasing the Contrast slider (set to +25 here), make a similar decrease in the Highlights (25) and boost the Shadows (+25) to preserve detail in each region; for more midtone contrast, increase Clarity (+25). Use each slider with restraint to build a good
foundational image.
Step 3With the initial adjustments in
Lightroom complete, its time to
import the image into Photoshop
CS6 (or CC). Two of the most critical
adjustments to any image are global
contrast and color cast corrections
this step achieves both. First, create
a new Levels Adjustment layer.
Then adjust each color channel (red, green, blue) separately by moving the black- and white-point sliders to the edge of the histogram. When done properly, setting the contrast will naturally
saturate colors and restore vibrancy.
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1
Tame Distortion
Lightrooms Lens
Corrections panel (far
left) profiles your glass
to tackle vignetting, too.
Custom Camera
Available for most
cameras, these presets
automate color editing.
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Step 4Contrast adjustments do not always have to be
made globally. Using simple masks in Photoshop
for local adjustments, you can target changes
to draw attention to (with higher contrast) or
away from (lower contrast) specific areas. Here
the rocks are getting a bit too dark in the shadow
regions. Lighten them using a dodging layer:
Create a new blank layer and fill it with 50% gray (Edit > Fill). Next change the layers blend mode to Soft Light. Then, with a soft, white brush
set to low opacity (10%), paint to selectively
lighten the shadows. (You can burn an area that is
too light simply by changing the brush to black.)
Step 5Among the many plug-ins for Photoshop, we like
the tonal contrast filter in Niks Color Efex Pro 4
for its exceptionally good contrast control. This
filter provides another degree of refinement by
targeting highlight, midtone, and shadow areas
separately. First create an adjustment layer (Filters > Nik Collection > Color Efex Pro 4) and increase the contrast in the Highlights (+30) and Midtones (+30). This brings out detail and texture in the crashing waves. But to avoid affecting the
sky, where adding structure to the clouds would
have given the whole image an unnatural look,
add a mask to the layer (Layer > Layer Mask >
Hide All) and with a white brush paint on the
mask to reveal only the water.
Final Step Notice that with your contrast properly set,
the colors are rich and saturatedno further
adjustments are necessary. Back in Photoshop,
its time to put the finishing touches on the
image. Add a slight vignette to the bottom half
to keep the viewers eye focused on the center of
the image and prevent it from wandering out of
the frame. One simple way to do this is to create
another dodging layer (see Step 4). We used a soft,
black brush set to low opacity to paint (Burn) in
a vignette. After cloning out sensor dust spots using the Spot Healing Brush tool, and then sharpening the full image (Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen), the finished photograph is ready for display. Making use of several complementary methods of contrast control, were
able to profit from what each app does best and
create a more visually dynamic image.
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Artful Dodging Fill any layer you create for
dodging (lightening) or burning
(darkening) with 50% gray.
Override the Defaults Photoshop starts with a heavier
hand than we want here. Change
Blending from the default to Soft
Light and Opacity to just 10%.
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IF LAST MONTHS feature story
about photographing undersea
creatures got your creative
juices flowing (Secrets of the
Deep, June 2014), we have one
word for you: jellies. No longer
called jellyfish (since theyre not
actually fish), jellies displayed
in public aquariums across the
county make excellent subjects
for photographers who are into
capturing sea creatures. Eric
Plante, a nature and wildlife
photographer from Glendale, CA,
offers these reasons why:
They move slowly. This gives
you a better chance at capturing
sharp images of them, even in
relatively low light.
Jellies almost always stay
front and center in their tanks.
Unlike other aquarium species
that will lie at the bottom for
hours or hide under sand, in
kelp, or behind coral, these
creatures generally remain
visible and ready for their close-
ups, according to Plante.
Theyre usually dramatically
lit. Aquariums often light tanks
Eric Plante waited hours at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA, for this smack of jellies (yes, thats the collective noun) to congregate.
JellyDance
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of jellies from both the top and
the bottom, so the creatures are
strikingly suspended in space
against boldly contrasting black
or blue backgrounds.The lighting
is also usually very even in many
areas of the tankperfect for
photographers, Plante says.
Theyre relatively easy to focus
and expose. Despite the dramatic
lighting, the photographer says
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For more of Eric Plantes nature and wildlife photo graphy go to www. picturesbyplante.com.
Step 1In advance of the shoot, visit
the aquariums website. Look for
rules pertaining to photography.
Many aquariums prohibit tripods
and fash. Dont go through the
trouble of bringing them only to be
turned away at the door.
Step 2Bring the right lens. Plante
stresses the importance of glass
selection. Youll need a wide-angle,
relatively close-focusing, fast lens;
image stabilization (on the lens if
not in the camera); and to avoid
reflections and hold your rig steady
against the tank, a lens shade.
Step 3Stake a claim. Even if there are
no jellies in the area yet, stake out a
position in front of the best-lit part
of the tank. You want bright, even
lighting that spans a broad area.
Stay patient; eventually they will
float into the lightand your frame.
Step 4Make your exposures. Set an
ISO that will allow shutter speeds
no slower than 1/60 sec. When
the jellies form an interesting
grouping near the tanks glass
plate, lightly press your lenshood
against the tank. This will stabilize
the camera, eliminate reflections,
and prevent someone from coming
between you and your subjects.
Fire away. Once youve got the
shot, make way for other visitors.
Final StepFine-tune your images in
software. For his photo here, I
used Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 to
sharpen, bring down the highlights,
and add a bit of yellow saturation
in order to bring the yellows back to
their natural levels, says Plante.
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that exposing the shot shown
here could not have been easier:
I used the Canon EOS 7Ds
evaluative meter, the center
focusing point, and auto white
balance, he explains.
By the way, the Monterey (CA)
Bay Aquarium, featured in this
months Traveling Photographer
(page 36), is one of the worlds
best for jellies. Peter Kolonia
Using a Canon EOS 7D (A) and 24105mm f/4L IS USM Canon lens (B) with its stabilization system engaged, Plante exposed his jellies for 1/60 sec at f/5, ISO 800.
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this view of
a Battle of
trenton (nJ)
re-enactment
hints at how
loud re-enacted
war can be.
the sounds of
cannons and
guns firing
make dogs
bark and young
children cry.
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Passionate about history and photography? Battle re-enactments can engage your camera, and your imagination, too. The action ranges from individual hand-to-hand combat to full-scale battles with hundreds of troops wearing historically true duds. Let the shooting begin!
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EvErything happEns so quickly,
reports Ken Bohrer, a Philadelphia
photographer and fan of war-
based re-enactments. Wherever
you look theres something or
someone to photograph: Hundreds
of soldiers marching in regiments,
men dashing back and forth on
horses, cannons going off, muskets
fring, smoke rising, and soldiers
shouting. The best stagings are
really like being in battle.
Sound interesting? You bet. A
visit to a battle re-enactment can
be an immersive trip backward in
time. Popular all over the world,
theyre organized around many of
historys most important military
engagements, from the Norman
invasion of England in 1066 to the
Vietnam War. A quick Web search
will list the re-enactments nearest
you, and the good news is that
battle organizers may even wel-
come you with specially located,
roped-off photographer pens.
Battle re-enactments are orga-
nized by (often obsessive) history
buffs who form intricate societies
dedicated to recreating history.
These players often impersonate
actual military regiments of the
past, and they form surprisingly
complex societies with their own
social hierarchies, vocabular-
ies, and values. Witnessing their
intense role playing can be part of
your pleasure.
The most common re-enact-
ments in the U.S. depict battles
fought in Revolutionary and
Civil Wars. And they can feature
literal representations of historic
battlessortie for sortiewith
encampments where soldiers,
women, children, horses, dogs, and
chickens form a living represen-
tation of military camp life. The
encampments give you more than
just handsome uniforms and
smoking cannons to photograph.
According to Del Hilbert, who
owns the Victorian Photography
Studio in Gettysburg, PA, and is a
Look for
mood
atmospherics
like the
hovering
smoke at
a Battle of
prairie grove
(arkansas)
re-enactment,
and falling
snow for
Washington
crossing the
Delaware
make these
images.
portraitist to Civil War re-enactors,
these fans divide roughly into
three types based on the historical
accuracy of their dress and behav-
iors. If youre photographing a re-
enactment, it helps to know which
type youre dealing with, because
each has different expectations of
your behavior.
The most accurate re-enactors
dress in clothing made from
historically true fabrics (down to
precise thread counts) that are
cut from copies of antique sew-
ing patterns. For posed portraits,
says Hilbert, these perfectionists
wont give your DSLR the time of
daythey only pose for antique
cameras and lenses and for photos
produced by antique processes.
Less-serious re-enactors are
similar in their passion for accu-
racy, but they will sleep in hotels
or RVs, not on bare ground, under
the stars, explains Hilbert.
For both these groups, re-
enacting is an expensive hobby.
Muskets and dress uniforms cost
in the thousands of dollars, and
regiments spend small fortunes
transporting, storing, or renting
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watch the
faciaL ex-
pressions
think twice
before asking
a re-enactor
to smile.
period pictures
of rebel
soldiers often
portrayed
them as tired,
fearful, or
distressed, as
demonstrated
by this re-
enactor in
Clayton, al.
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battlefeld accoutrements.
The re-enactors least concerned
about historical accuracy, Hilbert
says, are called mainstreamers.
They go out and buy way more
stuff than they need, and look
more like Hollywood creations
than actual soldiers, he explains.
Mainstreamers are usually merely
tolerated by serious re-enactors,