Welcome

There’s a definite wildlife theme this month, with

How to get your 15 digital gifts

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Red kite rendezvous

Wildlife photographer Paul Way loves to focus on this majestic bird of prey. Niall Hampton joins him for feeding time at Gigrin Farm’s Red Kite Feeding Centre

A day at the seaside

Wendy Evans packs up her bucket and spade and heads for a traditional British holiday destination

Shoot the beautiful game

Wendy Evans comes off the bench to net some winning images when photographing at a football match

Vintage clicks

Old, obsolete cameras can make for interesting macro projects, as Wendy Evans discovers

Fill it in with flash

Wendy Evans explains how to use fill-flash to rescue your portraits from a murky fate

Rock in a hard place

Steven Christie explains what it takes to shoot bands and get eye-catching images

Capture croft houses

Wendy Evans heads for the Highlands and Islands in search of picturesque houses for tenant farmers

Photographing winding rivers

Fergus Kennedy sends the drones up to capture aerial images of rivers flowing through the landscape

Make a Tesla Vortograph

Csaba Kolbai explains how to capture the electric discharge from a Tesla coil in an abstract fashion

Pick up a puffin

Well, they’re more colourful than penguins. Wendy Evans explains how to photograph these eye-catching little birds

WILDLIFE WORKSHOP

Highlights from the updated edition of The Wildlife Photography Workshop by Ben Hall and Ross Hoddinott

CAMERA CINIC

Master the art of modern photography

The all-new Photoshop Adjustment Brush

Get to grips with the new brush tool and learn how to transform your photos with a series of powerful local enhancements

Taming the shine in your portrait images

Use Lightroom to reduce the intensity of highlights and shine on your portrait images

How to transform a drab landscape

Being in the right place at the right time isn’t always possible, so using Photoshop, let’s stylise an unsuccessful landscape shot

15 Actions and presets to boost your photos

THIS MONTH’S BONUS SOFTWARE EXTRAS

Photo Answers

Going batty over blowouts? Ignorant about interlacing? Send your technique and camera questions to digitalcamera@futurenet.com

The art of seeing

Benedict Brain explores Hope and discovers that deadlines can bring creative opportunities

Hotshots

Winning entries from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation’s Environmental Photography Award 2024

Reader gallery

Digital Camera readers show how they’ve been getting creative, submitting images across a range of genres

Shot of the month

Isabella Franceschini wins the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award 2024

In Focus

The latest photography news from around the globe

Canon RF 35mm F1.4L VCM

The eagerly awaited RF 35mm F1.4L VCM is Canon’s second hybrid lens

Sigma 28-45mm F1.8 DG DN Art

Fast constant aperture zoom for full-frame E-mount and L-mount cameras

Focal point

Rounding up what’s new and exciting

Focal point

Rounding up what’s new and exciting

Gomatic Luma

New collection of camera bags

Tamron 50-300mm F4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD

Superzoom for Sony E-mount full-frame bodies

Panasonic Lumix GH7

The successor to the video-centric GH6 gets a new sensor and phase-detection autofocus

Leica Lux smartphone app

New app for iOS 17.1 or later will turn your iPhone into a Leica

Summer photo reads

Some of these titles will fit in your holiday luggage… and if not, they will sit nicely on any photography lover’s coffee table

Scanning ahead...

Could Apple’s vision for immersive content creation and consumption transform VR?

KitZone

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

Donn Delson

Taken from helicopters, Delson’s images seek patterns, symmetry and balance from above. Niall Hampton meets the photographer with a head for heights

Fujifilm X-T50

£1,299/$1,399 (body only)

DJI Mini 4K

£269/$299

GoPro Hero12 Black

£399/$399

Fujinon GF120mm F4 Macro R LM OIS WR

£2,499/$2,699

Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN II Art

£1,179/$1,199

Mini reviews

The best kit to pass through our labs this month