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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.

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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-

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2013, the end of last years contest. This year, our deadline for entry is

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NewsstaNd Brian Klutch shot the

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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

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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.

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

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lytro Illum

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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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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

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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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>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

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father-friendly

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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

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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,

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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

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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

AlexAndrA CroCkett (7)

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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

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.

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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

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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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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

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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

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color saturation, and hue?

Oh, yes you do. Even if you just

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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

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typical default profilemost camera

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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

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a profile, and most cameras let you

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The same RAW file was converted with

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I wanted the photo to be dramatic

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It all started with my love for and desire to

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I tried to induce the atmosphere of mystery.

When I think of Marrakech, I see colors, cultures,

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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

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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

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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

PAINTERLY PIC Channeling a long-agocamera buff

FIX IT FAST

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.

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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.

HOW * TRAVELING PHOTOGRAPHER

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

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Pelican Nemo 4300 underwater

flashlight ($45,

street)

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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

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

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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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.

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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how * software workshop 4

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

HOW * YOU CAN DO IT

Hit the aquarium for a sure thing

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.

SIMPLE COMPLEX

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

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loud re-enacted

war can be.

the sounds of

cannons and

guns firing

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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!

By Peter Kolonia

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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

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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

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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,