Amateur Photographer - UK (2019-11-23)

7 days

A week in photography

In this issue

14 Moody winter

wonderlands

Creating images full of

mood and atmosphere

takes a keen eye

and an ability to see

order in chaos, as Neil

Burnell explains

22 Call of the wild

A superb selection of

images from this year’s

Wildlife Photographer of

the Year competition and

exhibition, as chosen by

Amy Davies

33 Christmas gift

guide

Looking for a Christmas

gift for a photographer

friend – or for yourself?

Andy Westlake and

Michael Topham have

selected 62 awesome

accessories for you to

choose from

46 Underwater

gannets

In this week’s ‘Photo

Insight’, Amy Davies finds

out more about Tracey

Lund’s incredible shot

50 Eastern promise

In ‘Photo Stories’ this issue,

Peter Dench talks to Özge

Sebzeci about her difficult

yet important project

56 The look of LUTs

Want a more distinctive

look for your images, with

more ‘cinematic’ colours

and tones? As Geoff

Harris explains, it’s time

to fall in love with LUTs

Regulars

3 7 days

12 It’s Good to Share

20 Inbox

30 Reader Portfolio

54 Join the Club

61 Tech Talk

74 Legends of

Photography

COVER PICTURES © NEIL BURNELL / GEOFF HARRIS

We all know that trees play a

vital role in making our planet

habitable, by removing carbon

dioxide and releasing oxygen

into the atmosphere. Which

is great, of course, but their most important

role is to act as compositional elements for

landscape photographers, providing a frame

for a distant view, or a focal point on one of

the thirds. In winter their bare branches form

twisted shapes that make great silhouettes.

Neil Burnell’s gothic woodland landscapes

look like scenes from a Tim Burton movie,

and he shows us how he created them.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is surely

the world’s most beautiful and moving photo

competition. I urge you to go and see it

in its natural habitat (the Natural History

Museum), but in the meantime enjoy our pick

of this year’s winners. Nigel Atherton, Editor

This week in 1947

TREASURES FROM THE HULTON ARCHIVE

The Getty Images Hulton Archive is one of

the world’s great cultural resources. Tracing its

origins to the founding of the London Stereoscopic

Company in 1854, today the Hulton houses over 80

million images spanning the birth of photography

to the digital age, across glass, paper and film.

Explore it at http://www.gettyimages.com.

Royal Wedding

by Bert Hardy

20 NOVEMBER 1947: As a nation,

we have long been gripped by royal

nuptials. The 1947 wedding of the

then Princess Elizabeth to Lt Philip

Mountbatten took place 72 years

ago this week. On the morning of

the wedding, Philip had been made

the Duke of Edinburgh. In this

photograph, page boys can be

seen holding Princess Elizabeth’s

veil as she walks down the aisle at

Westminster Abbey with her father,

King George VI. For the wedding

dress, Elizabeth famously required

ration coupons to buy the material

for her gown, which was designed by

Norman Hartnell. It was made from

duchesse satin, and you can see

the motifs of star lilies and orange

blossoms that adorned the veil in this

photo, captured by Bert Hardy for a

story on the Royal Wedding which

appeared in The Picture Post.

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