Digtal Camera Reviews – The Imagery Resource!

The challenge: Capture a memery of the 1970s

The challenger: Zach Rathore ES75

The result

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Well, I have to say that wasn’t really looking forward to my challenge this month. I was completely stumped at how I could recreate the 70s, at its nearest, 32 years ago. Apart from donning some flares (which I don’t have) or taking some photos of the 70s tower blocks near me (too obvious), I thought about how things have changed in the intervening years.

I realised that this would be a good opportunity for my brother and I to have a photo of us together. I used the self timer on the ES75 to capture my brother and I. Comparing it to our school photo from 1978, you can see how time has changed us. Whereas my brother certainly had quite a wild head of hair, he’s gone the way of our father. And my whereas I sport a beard, which I certainly didn’t when I was 5 – my eyesight certainly isn’t as it was.

I am the youngest out of a family of six. I don’t really see my family as often as I could, as they are all over the UK. With such a beautiful weekend ahead, my brother Zaid, (who is six years older than me) invited me over for a catch up. We had a superb time and we went for a drive to the wind turbines near where he lives. It was a nice opportunity to take some photos up there. The photos below are not taken with the ES75, but my GX20:

Brother From Another Planet

A Normal Family

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The challenge: Get a shot of your wardrobe

The challenger: Zoe Sugg using the ST600

The result

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Hello Everyone,

The last of my challenges was some what personal to my blog and personality. As most of you will know, I write a fashion and beauty blog, so it was obviously only apt that I let you decide what you’d like to see more of. All you nosey parkers voted to see inside my wardrobe.

I will admit, it is not organised in the slightest, but brimming full of vintage, designer and cheapy cheap items that I love wearing. Obviously I could only post one photo for the purpose of the challenge, but I hope you see something in there that you like the look of.

I will definitely do an in depth photo montage of inside my wardrobe on my blog if you all rate this highly enough (Not blackmailing in the slightest).

Definitely the easiest of the challenges, but enjoyed giving you all an insight!

Zoe x

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For this month’s challenge of texture, I struggled to choose between these two images for my final submission, so much so that I’m presenting both as my joint choice.

Neither are perfect – they’d both benefit from being shot with a macro lens on a tripod, rather than hand-held with the NX100′s kit lens – but they do both capture the dual texture of food, appealing to our sense of touch and taste, that I was trying to achieve.

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The challenge: People

The challenger: Jack Schofield, using the WB2000

The result

Catching a ride

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“People” is probably what most of us photograph most of the time, though usually it means family and friends. I excluded those in the interests of having a go at “street photography”, which basically means photographing random strangers. You can either do this with a long lens from a safe distance, or get up close with a small camera with a moderately wide-angle lens. The Samsung WB2000 works pretty well at this task because it’s small, light and unobtrusive, and the 24mm Schneider lens goes wider than the average compact camera.

Markets are one of the most popular areas for this type of photography because they tend to attract interesting characters and because people are often too absorbed in bargain hunting to notice people taking snaps. You can also get lots of colour from things like fruit and fabrics, as well as touristy gewgaws such as fridge magnets. If I had to do this again, I’d pick a decent London market such as Borough or even Petticoat Lane. Foolishly, I thought the temporary French market in my local Sutton High Street would do, and it didn’t.

My range of options was somewhat limited by the fact that quite a lot of my shots were less sharp than I’d like. As someone whole normally uses a DSLR, I might be too fussy about this: most people seem to be perfectly happy with very fuzzy photos taken with cameraphones. However, one of the attractions of using a real camera is that it takes better pictures in a wider variety of situations. If it didn’t, you might not bother carrying one.

People who like street photography tend to love Henri Cartier-Bresson, co-founder of the Magnum photo agency, and probably the best photographer of all time. I do. HCB had the concept of the “decisive moment” — the English title of his 1952 book — which in practice means you captured a slice of real life in the split-second when the composition was perfect. I’m well aware that my shot fails this test — I could have posed it better — but with real street photography, you don’t usually get a second chance.

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Borough Market in London is a veritable treasure trove for all things culinary, and it’s well worth a visit for budding photographers (though beware, some stall holders inexplicably take exception to snaps of their wares).

On the hunt for a subject that satisfied my theme this month, Texture, it suddenly occurred to me that food is a great fit, from both a visual and taste point of view.

These cheeses caught my eye, with their aged look and sheer crumbliness, and although the kit lens on the NX100 struggles with really close focus, it does get near enough to just about fill the frame.

These photos are just my first attempt – I’ll be posting my final image next week…

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