November 2019

PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine

The only monthly mag for Canon SLR users

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Welcome
Our Apprentice gets expert tuition from Canon pro motorsports photographer, Drew Gibson. Page 8 Editor What’s better than watching motorsport racing on the track? Photographing that same exciting motorsports action with your Canon gear, of course! Th
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Editor • 5D Mark IV peter.travers@futurenet.com “Getting up close to photograph motorsports is nearly as exciting as racing in the cars yourself, as our Apprentice discovered this with pro Drew Gibson.” Page 08 Technique editor • 7D Mk II dan.mold@fu
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The Need For Speed
DREW GIBSON CANON EOS-1D X MK II Drew, 35, is a London-based professional motorsports photographer with an eye for creative imagery. He travels the globe to shoot everything from World Endurance Championships to Formula E. His clients include car man
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The Exposure Triangle
There are three main variables at work when taking an image on your Canon EOS digital camera, these are: aperture, shutter speed and ISO. The aperture is a series of blades inside your lens that make up a diaphragm which can be set to let in more or
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Inspirations
01 ZOE VS ZOE BY HENRY SZWINTO Henry’s shot of young international Modern Pentathlete, Zoe, is a composite of her playing both fencers and has been cleverly stitched together in Photoshop. It’s a brilliant way of showing her battling her inner demons
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High Dynamic Range
The sensors in Canon’s EOS digital cameras have improved dramatically over the years and are able to capture an incredible amount of detail and definition. But there’s a limit to the range of tones you can achieve in a single frame, even when shootin
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How To Meter A Scene
Canon’s creative EOS cameras have metering modes that let you prioritize which parts of the frame you want to be correctly exposed. These are Evaluative, Partial, Spot and Center-weighted average on the majority of them. Spot metering only takes into
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Balance The Exposure
More often than not the scene you’re trying to shoot will have a range of bright highlights and dark shadows. While there have been huge strides in the sensitivity of digital camera sensors and their ability to effectively capture a wide range of ton
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Sri Lanka Hatton, Central Highlands, Sri Lanka. 08:21am. 9th December 2013
A tea plantation near Hatton, Central Highlands, Sri Lanka. A panorama image stitched from ten vertical frames Lens Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM Exposure 1/13 secs, f/1.4, ISO100 should know by now, always eat the local fare. The chicken sandwich ordered
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New Kid On The Block
Shoot a portrait and blend it with toy blocks for a fun composite Two hours Intermediate • Whiteboard • Toy blocks • Tripod • Photoshop CC or Elements • Flash kit (or window light) he best composites are often those that are photographed specifically
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Mastering Depth Of Field
Learn how to manage depth of field in your shots One hour Intermediate • A ‘fast’ lens (optional) One of the joys of using a Canon DSLR is the ability to use different lenses, such as lenses with a wide maximum aperture (eg f/2.8) to really blur back
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Super-sharp Scenes
Take images you can focus stack 30 minutes Intermediate • Tripod • Kit lens or wide-angle lens Depth of field is a term used in photography that you’ll likely be familiar with, referring to how narrow or wide the aperture of your lens is and therefor
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Whip Up A Storm
Capture a mini vortex swirling inside of a glass 30 minutes Beginner • Coloured paper • Milk frother whisk • Speedlites (optional) Here’s a fun project you can try at home this month that’s sure to leave your friends and family asking how on earth yo
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Unleash Raw power
Work up your Raw files in ACR in Elements to give them more impact 10 minutes Beginner Photoshop Elements Modern digital cameras have many advantages over film, but arguably the most useful is the ability to shoot Raw files, that contain masses of ex
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Stunning Skin Tricks
Enhance skin with a simple smoothing technique 10 minutes Beginner Photoshop CC The most successful portrait retouching tricks are those that let you enhance the subject – so that they look their best – without resulting in hyper-real or unnatural ef
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Bad Backdrop Begone!
Use the Inpainting and Clone tools in combination with selection skills to remove the messy bars behind the bird 20 minutes Beginner Serif Affinity Photo Sometimes a photo-worthy moment happens so quickly that it’s near impossible to compose the fram
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Editing your photos can transform them, bringing out the vivid colour and incredible detail you saw in person while you were taking the shot. But photo-editing skills take time to learn, and more time is needed to get the best from each image. Photol
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Simon Annand
FOR MANY photographers, the darkroom is a sacred place, a fiercely guarded sanctum of creative magic where the alchemy of developer and paper under a dim red light conjures faces from the past. When I call, Simon Annand is in his darkroom looking act
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The Right Formula
Photo essays from PhotoPlus readers and professional photographers alike Intense action caught in a brief 1/320 sec shutter speed Lens Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS III USM Exposure 1/320 sec, f/5.6, ISO100 was lucky enough to shoot the Formula One Grand
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Pics Of The Litter
All five kittens would cram into the log when they felt threatened Lens Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 II USM Exposure 1/500 sec, f/7.1, ISO800 In May earlier this year the Pallas cat at the Miller Park Zoo, Bloomington, Illinois, USA, gave birth to five
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Alastair Batchelor
When I’m not doing my day-to-day headshots and promo work, I create content for my own personal portrait projects. As a self-confessed night-owl, my favorite has to be taking portraits in the dead of night, lit by neon signs and artificial lighting.
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Software Solutions
Fix lens-induced artefacts such as vignetting, distortion and chromatic aberration Even the most expensive lenses can add geometric distortion to a photo. As light is focused through a lens onto the sensor, it can cause horizontal and vertical lines
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Digital Slr Essentials
How to take more control of your exposures If you’re looking to move on from basic point-and-shoot photography, or you just want to take more creative control of your settings to take your photography to the next level, we can help you! EOS cameras h
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Eoss.o.s
Is it possible to disable the touchscreen LCD on the Canon EOS RP, if so how? Tim Crowthorne, Lancashire BRIAN SAYS… Yes it is. It can be done either completely or partially. The SET UP menu includes a touch control setting, and you can set this to d
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Sensor And Pixel Size Matters
From the beginning of digital cameras there’s been only one headline specification: megapixels. But there is much more to understand about pixels and sensor size than some might think. There are two main kinds of sensor in EOS cameras, full-frame mea
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Gear Update
A flashgun with a very clever head £399/$TBA https://kenkoglobal.com KENKO‘S first flashgun boasts an Auto Bounce head, much like that featured on Canon’s trailblazing Speedlite 470EX-AI. It automatically calculates the best bounce angle for more fla
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Canon EOS 90d
The EOS 90D is the most exciting thing to happen in the Canon DSLR world for quite a while! Canon has really raised its game with a all-new 32.5-megapixel sensor with 25 per cent more resolution than any of its existing APS-C cameras. But while it’s
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Streetwise Lenses
Street photography is all about reacting to your environment, anticipating events as they unfold and capturing the definitive moment. More often than not, classic street images will include people set against urban surroundings, photographed candidly
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Wireless Flash Triggers
GET CREATIVE with flash photography and you’ll soon find it necessary to liberate your flashgun from your camera’s hot shoe to get more advanced effects, and lighting. The best flash trigger used to be a good old cord, but times change. Using a wirel
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Focuspoint
I received my much anticipated PhotoPlus issue no.157 today and I saw your travel photo on the cover with a lovely view of the eternally beautiful Santorini, Greece. As it happens, I was there just a few days ago as part of a cruise holiday. I found

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