November 2007
Issue 12
On sale 14 October, 2007
Our November 2007 issue includes:
Beginner's Guide: Night photography
Digital Convert: Sports photographer Richard Pelham
5-Minute Photoshop: Create a 'comic-book' effect in minutes
One Hour Photo: Simon Rose gets 60 minutes at the British Museum
Camera Test: Canon EOS 40D
FREE! Pocket Gems technique cards: Landscapes
FREE! Landscapes Photo Guide (Volume 2)
Beginner’s Guide
Understand your DSLR: UK Night
One-Hour Photo reader challenge
British Museum
Mark Bauer Landscape Masterclass
Colour
Photo Cheats!
Fake your photos
5-Minute Photoshop
Comic book effects
Digital Convert: Main interview
Brett Harkness, social photographer
DSLR Test
Pentax K100D
Field Test
Ross Hoddinott: Nikon 80-400mm VR zoom
Buying Guide: White Balance Accessories
Small supports for DSLRs
Archive
In This Issue
- The Canon EOS 40D is the latest mid-range DSLR from Canon and sees several enhancements and refinements over the EOS 30D. It faces stiff competition from several models, including the Nikon D300 and Sony Alpha 700. Daniel Lezano puts this 10.1-megapixel DSLR to the test.
- Richard ‘Dickie’ Pelham started taking sports pictures as a young teenager in Grays, Essex. At 18, he got a job in a press agency doing general duties, but after a few years progressed to become a news photographer. He had a brief stint as a freelancer, but the big opportunity came in 1994 when The Sun asked Richard, now 43 years old and married with two kids, to become a staff sports photographer. He is now The Sun’s Chief Sports Photographer.
- Sometimes it’s nice to get creative and have a bit of fun with your pictures. In this instalment of our Photoshop series, expert Luke Marsh shows how to create graphic art effects usually seen on the pages of a comic book.
- Producing an image that does justice to the glorious scene in front of you isn’t always easy. In this series, professional landscape photographer Mark Bauer provides an expert guide on shooting brilliant landscape images. This month, he helps us understand how learning to interpret colours in the scene and set up our DSLR to make the most of them, can improve composition, lighting and mood.
- exhibits, reflections in the marble floor and architectural details. It was a productive quarter of an hour, but it was time to move to the Egyptian/Greek zones for the next part of the challenge: details.
- The world takes on a completely different appearance after dark. So while it’s only natural to relax in the evening after a hard day at work, the truth is that you’re missing out on the opportunity of capturing some amazing night images, as this month’s beginner’s guide reveals
- 2007 Photographic Awards For a look into the world of the weird and wonderful, you can’t beat the Visions of Science & Technology photographic awards, organised by The Science Photo Library, The Engineering and Technology Board and The Daily Telegraph. Its aim is to encourage ongoing discussion about science and technology, through the use of interesting and unusual images that provide an insight into science or the workings of nature. The competition is open to the general public and there are five themes – Concepts, Art, Close-up, Action and People. Each category has a first prize of £1,000 and produces a variety of images taken by everyone from electron microscope-wielding scientists to amateur photographers with their DSLRs. Over the next four pages, we showcase our favourite images. If you’d like to see more images from the shortlist of finalists, please visit: www.visions-of-science.co.uk