On an Arctic roll

Welcome to issue 124

Beautiful flowers and plants galore in our monthly

Street smarts

Photojournalist Colin Moody encourages our  Apprentice to capture her own narratives

LIGHTBOX

Our favourite Nikon images from the Sony World Photography Awards 2021

Say it with flowers!

Flower photographer Andy Small shows you how to get bloomin’ great floral shots in your home, garden and wildflower fields

Come rain or shine

You can’t change the weather; all you can do is make the best of whatever Mother Nature decides to throw at you

How to fix colour fringing

Mike Harris reveals a couple of simple editing tricks to rid your photographs of chromatic aberration in Adobe CC

Frame within a frame

Mike Harris shows you how to get into the right frame of mind to up your compositional game and find frames within frames

Don your thinking cap

Mike Harris shows you how to make the most of your lens caps, with five innovative ways to improve their functionality

Glitch your photos

James Paterson uses a combination of filter effects and layer skills to make a fun digital glitch effect in Affinity Photo

Make landscape colours sing

James Paterson shows how to get to grips with targeted Curves edits in Photoshop for an array of landscape-boosting tricks

To bubbly go…

Turn soap bubbles into distant planets! James Paterson shows how to capture the otherworldly display of colours and textures

Life’s a beach

Sometimes it takes a little more than parking your car close by to find great photo ops, sometimes you have to do a little more…

Tanya Habjouqa

In the world of photojournalism,  the Middle East is never far from  our eyes. Based in East Jerusalem,  Tanya Habjouqa captures images  that defy the cliché and  stereotype. Keith Wilson gains  an insight into her unique way  of storytelling…

Readers’ letters

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the mag and all things photographic! You can write to us, message us or share your images in the following ways:

Grand prix pix

Danniella Edginton was hooked on motorsport photography the moment she captured her first marvellous MotoGP image from the stands

Sunset seascapes

Landscape photographer Jerome Colombo captures stunning skies and makes his own luck by visiting the same locations again and again

Off-camera flash

NIKON ACADEMY PART 3 

Customize your NX Studio workspace

Neil Freeman shows you how to personalize your NX Studio workspace for faster image editing

Ask Matthew...

Our resident Nikon expert Matthew Richards answers your questions and solves your problems. If you have a Nikon-related question, email it to mail@nphotomag.com

Dane’s blood

Hertfordshire: The county of opportunity. At least, that’s the tag line on the signs…

N Photo PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2021

The search for the world’s best Nikon photographer  of 2021 continues! Each issue the monthly N-Photo  POTY 2021 photo contest’s top 10 images are selected by the N-Photo team. This issue’s competition has the theme of flowers and plants…

N Photo Gear Zone

New gear, buying advice and the world’s toughest tests

New gear

Here’s what caught our eye this month

Help me buy… ND filters

The best neutral density filter will help you capture incredible long exposures – even in the middle of the day

Nikon Z 6II Essential Movie Kit

Nikon’s Z 6II is already the best mirrorless for enthusiasts and the Essential Movie Kit bundle makes it the best choice for videographers too

Portrait primes

Been missing people recently? Shoot the ones you love and keep them close, with a premium portrait lens

Call for back up!

Mike Harris has been ignoring his undisciplined approach to backing up data for too long, and it’s come back to bite him