Photography Monthly | Oct 2008

My monthly round-up of the Photography Monthly for October 2006.

10 Techniques for shooting buildings in 28 locations around the UK
Sub £400 DSLRS from Olympus, Nikon and Sony
How to capture "magic" shots of mushrooms... erm?
Using photoshop to master MONO

and..

Create a website in minutes (I'll be reading that!!)
So, that's the front cover, let's have a look inside and see what they've got!...

Featured Photographers this month include;
Domenico Gargarella
Adam Duckworth
Matt Stansfield
Elizabeth May - What an outstanding young photographer! Wins my "You rock!" award! for this month. (Photo Above! Website here )

The Canon EOS 50D and the Nikon D90 Break cover.... Incidentally, Nikon also released their range topping P6000 at a hefty £430, but, it does have GPS built in... erm...

Tamron have kicked the MegaZoom Tamron 18-270mm zoom out of their doors, ready for sale... 15x zoom, should be interesting for those of you that like Tamron stuff.

LaCie, err.. yeah, personally, I will not touch LaCie, but some people like it... Nothing like over priced, underspecced drives to screw your day... But, anyway... They've released a new little big disk with a 1tb capacity... Go buy one, ruin your life...

The "Shooting Structural Splendor" section of the mag is pretty darn good with some great tips on making your shots of dodgy old buildings look a hell of a lot better. check that out, it's great.

There's a good little piece on "Cloning out rubbish" and another daft tutorial on HD flipping R... I'm so over HDR, sorry...

The next piece I really enjoyed, it's about shooting people in public by Simon Armstrong... So many of these types of pieces are all about "Oh, don't shoot kids, don't do this, don't do that"..His just says, yeah - shoot what you like, be setup and prepared to shoot (he gives you his basic setup for some street shooting) and don't be a weirdo basically... really cool piece

The next story was about football (Sorry Alex) I flipped straight past it... football, ugh....!!

Wills piece on conversion from Colour to B+W is a great little write up, well worth a read. I use B+W conversions a whole lot, but after reading this piece may start to approach them differently... It does very much rest on how I'm feeling as to what I'll do with a photo once I've taken it.. dark, light, b+w.... yeah, well... good piece Will

Then it's on to the testing.... Kicking it off is the Fujifilm S100FS ...this little piece has a camera prize attached to it, if you can answer one simple question...

q: In 35mm terms, how far does the S100FS' zoom lens extend? (400mm folks) You can text your answers to 83426 Start your text with "FUJI" followed by your answer, full name and address...(it'll cost you £1 plus the text...)

Then we head into some images submitted via the forums, you can sign up to the forums by heading over to www.photographymonthly.com and clicking on the forums link... I'm a member, I should spend more time there, but, you all know where my heart is... (can you say DPS)

The current "photographers guide" is workflow, you can read about "creating a slideshow" or indeed setting up a website... very handy!

Reviews:
Cameras
Nikons , Sony and Olympus all have cameras on review this week - check them out.

Will tests some lenses, the Tokina AT-X Pro DX 16-50mm f2.8, the Tamron SP AF 70-200mm f2.8 (Di LD - IF - Macro) (Does that have enough letters in its name for ya?!) As well as a Sigma 150-500mm APO DG OS f5.6-6.3 and then there are ome tripods to choose from... The Giotto MTL 8351B the Slik Pro 713EZ... a Manfrotto 190CXPRO4 and the Velbon Sherpa Pro CF-537...A sturdy lot, I'm sure you'll agree!

There's a buyers guide to Photobooks.... with no real "yeah, we'd suggest this one" and then pages of advertising, as ever... Some q+a tucked in the back and then an add for www.clikpic.com which I'm off to have a look at now...

Hope this wrap up was helpful! go buy the magazine, it's a ripper!

Sime