Welcome
With its long nights and short days, winter may not feel like the most ideal season to enjoy an activity so dependent on light, but canny photographers will see this time of year as an opportunity. And there will be extra rewards for those who apply the learnings from this month’s in-depth feature on low-light photography (p60). But if taking your daily exercise at the coldest times of day doesn’t really appeal, then Stay at Home (p43) offers some new projects to enjoy indoors – or turn to Camera College (p72) to discover how to convert your kitchen into a studio for capturing incredible images of water drops and fruit splashes. Fresh inspiration also awaits on the pages of Photo Active (p16), and Hotshots (p84), where you can enjoy the winners of SINWP’s The Living World competition. Elsewhere in this issue, we review the Nikon Z 7II (p114) and the latest version of the image editor Capture One (p120), and round up the best fast 70-200mm zooms for DSLRs and mirrorless (p126). Enjoy the issue.