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Michael Topham tests the worlds widest-angle rectilinear zoom lens Final Analysis /dayse WHEN Martin Le-May set off for a trip to a local park with his camera he could have had no inkling that he was about to shoot one of the most remarkable wildlife photos ever taken ~ an image that would go viral around the world and even be featured on the BBC's News at Ten (see pages 4-5). Had he not managed to get a photo, few ‘would have believed him ifhe had returned JOIN US ONLINE anotenprtyopt Amateur ike uson Me ED ESieee fe home and told people that he'd seen a weasel. riding on the back of a flying woodpecker. It may not be pin-sharp and technically perfect, Dut it’ certainly a better shot than most of us ‘would have managed if wed been in Martin's shoes. The lesson, of course, is to always carry a camera with us, because we just never know, ‘when we get up in the morning, what we're going to see, Were lucky that Martin had his DSLR with him, and not just his camera phone. Jn our ‘Nigel Atherton, editor Fallow us atch on ter amateurphatgrapher (GAP Masaine ONLINE PICTURE OF THE WEEK Memory by johncb84 Nikon 07000, e0sec at 14, ISC This image, taken by AP forum regular Johneb84, was an eniy to our February forum competition. The theme was Stil Lite, and AP forum members were asked to photograph an object or objecis that held sentimental value for ether @ relative or friend. The entries were, as always, strong, But ‘there could only be one winner ~ and this it ‘was given, by my mother, my sgranddac’s Great War memory box’ says johncb84. ‘In it were his medals, spur cap badge, shoulder tile and several photographs. But most poignant for me was an embroidered field dressing and a crucix, constructed from bullets, that he hhad made wile in hospital and recovering from his wounds Each week we wil choose our favourite cure posted onthe 2? Facebook and Flickr communities and th AP forum, The winner wil receive a year’ tga subscription to AP warth £7999 yo thee see you workable in mater Phtgrapr ete ta an sy ages: Emaitémaiassertont oe {D/OVD Senda es Viaour online communities Posture in mur Fick guy. a (op erin tat appitredes esa JPE, TF or PSD rags ast 280 pls. its ur sk aera on ou wes. ‘eansparecis/rinsl-sackaged pon sds wit lass msl] shud eset Special Dey w Teng with canal het tthe ass ise, rau SAE tobe tess mpage 2 pap 7davse A week in photography NEWS ROU iP ‘The week inbrief, edited by Chris Cheesman New MFT lenses Panasonic hs uvelied anew 3mm macro lens and 242mm porta optic for Mire Four Hrd cameras. The Lune G Macro 30mm. 8 Asp Mega OSs designed for close-ps of insects, food or owes example, The Lumix 42mm #717 Asph Power 1 ams ta achievea beautiful bokeh effect in praitshats Thay are ousin May tices yetto ae announce B&w wins day Arecrd number ostufets rtrd thelr Pot and Haman etna sul photography competi. The contest sought mages onthe theme Motion’ and piled in mare than 1,000 entries. The ford Photo Stues Photographer ofthe Year 2014 ~Datkcoam ttle went to Leeds College oft student lint Jagger wih an entry entitled Lightin the ark tet) Andy Barton fom the Manchester College won Haran Technology Student Photographer ofthe Year 014 Digital Smart case Nyt secret to give DSLR-Lke contalis sa ago ilo production after ‘asin almost seven tiesits $100,000 goal on wifunding website Kickstarter. The Moment Case is designed for ple Phone & and & Plus, but maybe ext Features inlude a mult te ate button that enables half-ress and fllgress features, jut like a DSLR camera Best iPhone shots Aster siting though ns of thosand of mages, pple esas arate images shot using an Phone 6 Smarghee. Tne 7 peple behing them cme fam 9 ange af backgrounds, The potas aresatto feu anbilboards andin pnt abersng m7 thies aos 2 cunts Visit www-apple.com/iphane/ wotd-aly. 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The contestnastunasé craton at photos tat cape the very tstene an spt Bish tite Vist pardon po WTS es eas Shooting minimalist | oo street photography _ s%2! isms of this, Once youve found @ Street photography is more popular than ever good shot, watunilan pefore with many photographersshooting their ineresting peson walks ‘own specific style of streetimagery Much of past before taking your shot. ‘work ofmany famous street photographersrelies upon aceriain technique or subject maller odefine thot style from capturinga definitivenoment ina It your camera can stteet scene toa very specific type of lighting display grid ines inthe The idea ot this project istoachieve simple but viewinder or onthe priligntminimaliststreetimages The greatthing CD, make sure you turn them aboutthis typeof photography isthatitrequures on Tis will alaw you to verylittlepreparation-allyouneedisacamera, __cumgase your shots more afew bulldingsor structures, a couple of people precisely and achive a mare ‘and sharp eyes to find the right place to shoot balanced composition 21 March 2015 | amateurphotagrapherco.k | subscribe 0230 233 4555, Straet photography dees nat ey on thee alight, 4 cones and manhole covers can te big distractions ina minimalistic scene, Dont be shy about using software clone out bits you dan ik picture The woodpecker and moment, amateur photographer Martin Le-May 1g his Canon EOS, 1's astonishing image € weasel riding on the back of a ‘green woodpecker has been ‘any millions of times March, although not von-grabbing Martin didn't have much time to seize the moment during is wife Ann, With his camera ade, Martin used to record the involved was to crop the image Martin told AP how he had posted ton a Facebook page accessible only to a ‘closed group! of Essex birdwatchers. It may not have become famous at all had not been for a group member asking Martin fhe could tweet it AieceEE cs eler else Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera Yousuf Karsh ‘Armenian-Canacian portrait photographer (1908-2002) 7dayse Aweek in photography rr Pras ara Nicephore iro Images revealed that pre-date photography FEI IMAGES that pre-date the invention of photography as we know tare set to go (on display in the UK. ‘Amateur French ‘scientist Joseph Nicéahore Niepce (right) captured the fist surviving Photograph from nature n around 1826, Nigpce = who later worked with French pioneer Louis Daguerre ~ created permanent images by exposing chemicals on metal plates to light, 2 process known as heliograph. Now, three of his olass plates ~ of vwiich there are believed to be only 16 imsexstence — are set to go on show at the National Mecia Museum (NM) in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Niépce was not only able to develop his images, but he was abso able to fhe ‘them, having frst experimented by copying drawings through the action of ight subsequently applying the technique to hand-drawn etchings “These form part of the NMM's Drawn by Light exhibiton, which runs from 20 March-21 June. Nigpce is believe to have contributed to Daguerre’s 1831 clscovery of the light, sensttvty of odised siver plates. ‘Other historic images have also been in the news recently, including work by Britsh photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron An albumen print of Cameron's “The Dream, 1869' raised £18,600 atthe Bloomsbury Auctions of 19th and 20th Century Photographs from ‘Private Collection. Cameron's 1867 portait of Jula Jackson (the ‘mother of writer Virginia Woolf) fetched £13,640. Gustave Le Gray's ‘Panorama du Port de Séte, 1857’ shattered its presale estimate of £2,000- £3,000, bowing out for £9,300 However, photos by Britsh hotography inventor Willan Henry Fox Talbot fled to reach their reserve price. Among them was “The Frutt Sellers, Lacock Abbey, {rom around 1845, that had been expected to fetch up to £15,000. The lots also included Man Ray's ‘Mannequin de Man Ray’ (1938), ‘which fetched £6,820, alongside a much larger body of his work documenting the Exposton Internationale du Surréalisme. “Le Cardinal ¢Amboize, 1826, by Joseph Nicéphore Nigpce > Photographer builds a ‘Mega Mammoth’ Jig APHOTOGRAPHER plans to take his Mega Mammoth’ wet-plate camera across America Chris Honeyset, from the US, nas secured funds to buld what he describes sa Mega Mammott ‘lass-plate camera that is ‘capable of shooting images hundreds of times larger than 35mm fim. Chis, who has already tured his trailer into a ‘mobile wet colladion darkroom, plans to use the 22 x 27in glass-plate ‘camera to photograph the ‘American Southwest. He raised more than $15,000 through crowdfuncing webste Kickstarter ‘The photographer has already but the wooden fend of the bellows, and attached them to the ‘camera, He needs the Additional funds to buy at least two ‘vintage’ lenses of diferent focal lengths. ‘The photographer reckons ft wil take around ‘a month to finish ill. [a Subscribe to Amateur Photographer it amateurphotographer subs.co.uk/186 hon you ayy UK ie 21 March 2015 | amateurphotagrapherco.k | subscribe 0330 333 4555, 7Cayse Aweekin photogra ‘ es L18K Kravitz Getup &go Leica was pre-aged — ssncsunsvitesosceou and to shoot this week. 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Here he looks at the Malina 35X 1 Thad £1 for each time Ive seen camera described as ‘the poor ‘man's Leica could buy nearly three 'ssues of Amateur Photographer ‘The phrase has been bandied about to encompass all sorts of models, oten with very itl in cornmon with each other let alone the Leica range. Sometimes, asin the \Voitlander Bessa series, the expression alludes tothe qualty of buld and range of ‘eatures, while with this cheap and nasty lump from Hong Kong itrefers to the cameras shape and appearence Haking ‘the manufacture; even had the cheek to include a red dotin the design, but tne company is fooling aryone. The base is stamped ‘Empire Made! which apparently was often a euphemism for Made in Hong Kong and at that time it was widely perceived as a source of second-rate tat ‘Along with the Italan Bencini Comet ‘cameras ~ which in my opinion, though cheap and cheerful, are design classics ~ ‘the various versions of the Halina 35 are some of the commonest cameras to ‘appear in junk shops and at car-bool sales, impossibly st focusing rings, making it Mass produced and cheap to buy, they awkward if not painful to use, k may be ‘lourshed in the family snapshot market of thatthe 50-year-old grease has tutned to ‘the 1950s and'60s, before being dumped glue and that a clean, lubricate and adjust len masse in the '80s and '90s. would rejuvenate it, but frankly I don't This version, aHalina 35X complete with think would be worth the effort its box, cost me £2 ata local boot sale. _ Most 35mm films would set you back. ‘The box itself isa period piece. Printed in more than the value of this camera, but yellow, red and black, itbears the legend fortunately the local Poundshop stocks ‘A camera for good photograpty,.so no Agfa Vista colour fi. | wouldn't descnbe pressure there then. Perhaps fm being a using the Halina as a pleasure, since the Ite unfair, as the Halina 35X does, after tif controls and coarse feel were a chore all, sport a four-speed shutter and 2 In fact, | went looking for subjects that focusing lens with apertures from 1/3,5 matched the settings to avoid further down to 1/16, placing t several notches wrestling The results were reasonable and above the various Kodak Brownie clones typical of a 1960s print. My subject was a retro festival land gir using a threshing machine ~ only marginally more strenuous _ than operating the focus on the cameral een Ce cad ofthe period. ve handled a number of examples, and they have all had Tony Kamps Lev photgraply ega asa tema adver sae e hasbeen electing cameras wth view olesting as vary ase can Yu can foo Fis progres nis 2 Cameras got Seamer. blogspot co uk Youcanaisasee mar phates am heal 5k at wwwlick.com/tony_kemplen! sats TTS TA3S542627696 Do you have something you'd Ike to get off your chest? Sen us your thoushts in ound 50 words to the adress on page 22 and win a yea’ cigialsubscriation to AP worth £7598 New Books The latest and best books from the world of photography. By Oliver Atwell Resort2 by Anna Fox and David Chandler, Schilt Publishing, £38, hardback, 104 pages, ISBN 978-9-05330-840-0 IF YOU picked up a copy of Anna Fox's Resort I, the fst par of her two-year Yagil journey into te heart of Bish lesure culture then yout have some idea of Bagi viiat to expect from ths continuation. in part one, Anna focused exclusively ‘on families visting the iconic Butin's resort in Bognor Regs, West Sussex. In this current volume ~ stil thn the confines of Butin's~ Anna explores thei adut- themed weekend parties. The book nds an interesting ‘companion in Dougie Wallace's latest volume Stags Hens & Bunnies. Yet where that collection indulged in decadent garishness, Anna's mages seem somehow softer and more human Even wnen faced with a 5ft inflatable phat, what comes across simply the nostalgia of seaside kitsch anda strange breed of Engish innocence. Annas images confidently navigate the terrain between cand and staged images, and it tis approach that reveals the bizarre world Butin's cultivates nits themed weekends. Ak IK Photography Visionaries by Mary Warner Marien, Laurence King, £24.95, paperback, 312 pages, ISBN 978-1- 78067-475-9 PERHAPS the greatest thing about photography books that explore g Influential photographers is that they demonstrate just ow democratic photography is. However, volumes Ike Photography Visenares (to be feleased on 5 Apri) can suffer from the imted space afforded each Contributor It’ dificult to getinto the meat of a photographers work wth ust @ couple of columns of {ext andthe bare minimum of mages Having said that ths book does have ane cuca tng gong for the design. is certainly presented in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and engaging, Even the feel ‘ofthe covers pleasant. Ifyou'e looking to grab a volume on the history of popular photographers, this ould be the one "or you. 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