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Viltrox AF 27mm F1.2 Pro £420/$545
www.viltroxstore.com The Viltrox AF 27mm F1.2 Pro picks up the baton from some seriously good f/1.4 lenses, available in Fujifilm X, Nikon Z and Sony E mount options. We were impressed by the Viltrox AF 23mm F1.4 Z, Viltrox AF 33mm F1.4 Z and Viltrox
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Let Us Eat Cake!
Digital Camera loves to cover the wonders of shooting food. It’s one of the easiest ways of enjoying still-life photography, as a bowl of fruit and a basic camera is all you need to get started and, if you want to take it further, you’re only limited
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Capture Spring Flora With A Macro Look
Few things encapsulate spring like the sight of bluebells carpeting a woodland floor. These beautiful and iconic flowers normally appear in April or May, depending on the weather and location. These seasonal displays can be short-lived, so you’ll nee
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Camera Clinic
In this second part on lenses, we turn the spotlight onto primes Zooms are wonderfully convenient, hugely capable and a wise choice for many camera users so their immense popularity is thoroughly deserved. What’s more, having so many focal lengths pa
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How To Master the Art Of Landscapes
Capturing and editing a great landscape photograph is deeply satisfying. But attaching a ‘fine art’ label to it introduces an extra element that will distinguish it from a typical landscape image and elevate it into something that can be viewed again
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THIS MONTH’S BONUS SOFTWARE EXTRAS 25 Actions, Presets And Profiles To Boost Your Shots
This month, we have curated another collection of software extras to help transform your images. Once installed in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom or Camera Raw, these actions and presets can have a huge impact on your photos in a matter of seconds, savin
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7 tilt On Trees
Deliberately moving the camera up and down during the exposure to create ‘streaking’ abstract trees is an easy way to create something visually arresting. For this intentional camera movement (ICM) technique, you need a shutter speed of about 1/15 se
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Shoot Photos Like A Pro
With the latest autofocus systems featuring multitudes of focusing points and eye- and subject-detect modes, it’s easy to be over-reliant on the technology and expect focus to be perfect every time. Most of the time, there’s no problem but on importa
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This Month’s Contributors
At The Photography Show this month, Instagram sensation Lubas will offer her expert tips on editing food shots. Get a taste of what she will cover, from page 8 A fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and the former editor of many photography title
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Explore The Multiply Blending Mode
Blending modes are one of the unsung heroes of Photoshop, providing multiple effects that can be applied to any image layer. Of course, some are more relevant to photographers than others, but one that you should familiarise yourself with is Multiply
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Photo Active
Discover how to use this essential element of classic landscape photography, with Mark Bauer and Ross Hoddinott The rule of thirds is one of the fundamental principles of composition, and one of the first that photographers try to get to grips with.
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Tech Check Mirror lockup
What is mirror lockup? When you take a photo with a DSLR, the mirror inside the camera flips up and out of the way of the sensor, so light can be captured, and drops back into place immediately afterwards. Enabling mirror lockup allows you to take a
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1 capture Epic Compositions
Before we get into the different techniques you can use to produce stunning fine-art shots of landscape scenes, it’s good to consider the basics of photography that will stand you in good stead. The basic principle of considering your composition car
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Get The Knowledge
How much a prime lens appeals will depend on your photography. Many photographers exclusively use zooms for their convenience and flexibility but many others will have a combination of the two in their bag, perhaps with primes bought for their fast a
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Hare Around This Spring
Spring is on its way, and soon there will be an abundance of March hares and rabbits populating the fields once again. This is a great opportunity to dig out your telephoto lens and explore your camera’s autofocus system. Whether you are shooting a s
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Reader Gallery
“This image was shot in Cuckmere Haven, near Seaford in East Sussex. I like the way that as the sun came up, not only did it create a haze on the horizon, engulfing the Belle Tout Lighthouse seen in the distance, but it also cast a golden light on th
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Photo Answers
Move me up from moderate monochrome Q I want to be better at black and white photography, but my images tend to look flat and uninspiring. Any advice to get me on track? Sian Newlands A All photography needs contrast – it’s one of the most important
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The Art Of Seeing
This is Marty, a professional bridge player (the card game). I first met Marty while sailing on a ship between Lisbon, Portugal and New York City, USA, in early 2022. I was one of the ship’s lecturers, giving talks about the art and craft of photogra
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Have Some Flat Lay Fun!
A flat lay is a photo setup where an object or objects is laid on a background and shot from a bird’s eye view, using a flat or soft light so any strong or distracting shadows are avoided. A flat lay can be created with anything – the only thing you
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Pros and Cons Prime Lenses
Prevent damage to the front of your lenses by fitting a protection or ultra-violet filter. They are virtually colourless so won’t have any impact on pictures, but buy a high-quality version so there’s no quality degradation. You get the most depth of
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Depth Of Field
Depth of field is the zone of front-to-back sharpness in a picture. The size of this zone is affected by aperture choice, the camera-to-subject distance and focal length. The last needs qualifying: if you swap from a wide lens to telephoto without ch
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9 shoot For A Triptych
Normally, we try to get everything we want from a scene into a single frame, but we don’t always have to take this approach for our image presentation. A triptych is simply three separate images displayed together for a fresh visual perspective. You
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Editor Niall Hampton niall.hampton@futurenet.com Contributing editors Claire Gillo & Marcus Hawkins Art editor Roddy Llewellyn richard.llewellyn@futurenet.com Production editor Jon Crampin jon.crampin@futurenet.com Reviews editor Gareth Bevan gareth.
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Get Smokin’ Shots
Capturing swirls of smoke as they curl and twist through the air is a wonderful way to create cool, contemporary photos. The beauty of this fun and easy technique is that you don’t need lots of swanky (or costly) equipment, and you can easily do it i
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Content Credentials explained
WATCH THE VIDEO! Trust in photography is at an all-time low. In an era of GenAI and deep fakes, any image must, by necessity, have its authenticity questioned. As such, there is more need than ever for tools we photographers can use to prove our imag
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How Bea Lubas Edits Her Food Photos
1 “I use my laptop for most of my work, but I have been using a tablet and smartphone for editing smaller personal projects.” 2 “Once you get to know the editing tools well, you will know what needs to be done in post-production at the moment you tak
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Sam Davis
Cave photography calls for a varied range of skills, with stamina, endurance and an ability to operate in confined spaces near the top of the list. As it’s a subject many of us will be in the dark about, what could be better than taking a deep dive i
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Welcome
If a group of photographers turns up to the same viewpoint to shoot a scintillating scenic view, they’re all likely to capture similar-looking photos. So discover how taking a fine-art approach (page 50) can help make your landscapes stand out. There
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10 create Multi Exposures
Blending similar shots of the same scene, taken from slightly different angles, gives a unique and dramatic effect that forces the viewer to do a bit of ‘mental processing’ to grasp the content and form of the image. It takes some time to achieve a s
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Transform Your Raw Files With Our Bonus Toning Profiles
There is often confusion about the difference between presets and profiles in Camera Raw. Although both of them allow you to transform the colours and tones in an image with one click, presets move the position of multiple sliders in the Edit panel t
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