Photography Week

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Fujifilm has announced the X-S20, the successor to the X-S10, its user-friendly all-purpose mirrorless camera. The X-S10 won over fans with its strong specs and compact design, which includes an articulating screen for vlogging, and the X-S20 improves on the original with longer battery life and 6K video. The headline feature of the X-S20 is its new and improved battery, the NP-W235, which is used in more premium Fujifilm cameras such as the X-T5 and X-H2. Fujifilm claims this is good for around 800 shots, which is more than double the X-S10’s 325 shots. Despite the increased battery, the X-S20 still weighs a diminutive 491g, and its overall size and design are the same as the previous model, maintaining the large comfortable handgrip, 2.36 million-dot electronic viewfinder, and the 1.84 million-dot LCD…

Sony has announced the Z-V1 II, which it’s billing as the ultimate successor to the Sony ZV-1, which it launched back in 2020, and which is the oldest in its ever-increasing ZV range of cameras designed for vloggers. The ZV-1 II offers a wider zoom range than its predecessor, with an 18-50mm f/1.8-4 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T zoom, rather than the original’s 24-70mm f/1.8-2.8. Sony says the wider lens is a more natural choice for vlogging, making the camera easier to use in selfie mode and allowing you to get more of the background in your shot. The camera improves on the simple Bokeh Switch capabilities introduced with the Mark 1 model too, providing a multi-face recognition mode for video shooting that automatically adjusts the aperture (and bokeh) to ensure that if a…

Want to capture gorgeous landscape photos oozing depth and atmosphere? While great landscapes can be captured at any time of the day, many photographers favour the golden hours – just before and sunrise and just after sunset – when the light is warm and magical, and the skies can be vibrant. Light found early and late in the day is both directional and soft – qualities that are hard to find together in any location with natural light at other times of the day. The sun’s low elevation casts long, inky shadows and creates contrast that shapes and defines the landscape, while skies tend to be at their most interesting and dramatic too. This creates a cinematic style that is more popular than ever, thanks to social media trends. Shooting during the…

One of the biggest challenges photographers face when shooting during the golden hours is high levels of contrast. With the sun close to the horizon, the skies are bright and intense, and although modern cameras have impressive dynamic range, they can struggle to capture scenes where the sky is bright but the land is dark. One way to balance the light is to use a graduated neutral-density filter. By positioning the dark part of the filter over the sky, you can balance the light and capture natural-looking results. Grads are best used in combination with a holder, which allows you to move the filter up and down as required. Grads come in different strengths – and hard, medium and soft transitions – to suit different scenes. They’re the only in-camera solution…

MIRRORLESS MAGIC While there are few quality or speed differences between DSLRs and mirrorless cameras for landscape photography, mirrorless models offer some advantages. There are fewer moving parts, such as the reflex mirror, which reduces vibration at longer exposures. Exposure simulation is available in the electronic viewfinder, and there’s a reduced risk of eye injury through accidentally looking at the low sun via a reflected image. If you don’t own any grads, don’t worry – there is another way to deal with golden hour contrast. One limitation of an ND grad is that there will often be trees, cliffs, hills, mountains or a building breaking the horizon that will be darkened along with the sky. A better solution here is to bracket and blend. With your camera on a tripod, take three or…