Welcome

Whether you’re an experienced hand or just starting

It’s lighting-up time in Bath

Alistair Campbell shadows Sam Nash on a fashion shoot that uses some glorious Georgian backdrops

Pier pressure

Alistair Campbell shows how to use a graduated ND filter to smooth out a crashing sea

Take a textured self portrait

Melinda McIntyre explains how this simple technique can add a fine-art aesthetic

Autumn mornings

Richard Potter finds early autumnal mornings the best time to shoot

Great try, marvellous mono conversion

Alistair Campbell shows how you can use cropping, clarity and contrast adjustments to get a flat, basic-looking image over the line

A shroom with a view

Autumn is the perfect time to practise off-camera flash, says Alistair Campbell

Bask in the Earth’s glow

Siân Monument visits Llyn Padarn for low-light landscape photography

Go on a stag weekend

If you’re looking to try a different type of photography, then head out to capture a deer, says Alistair Campbell

Love the light

Johnson Wee explains how to go the extra mile for couples shots at weddings

Making scents

Alistair Campbell creates perfect product posters from home with digital backdrops

MASTER RAW!

Transform your captures with just 10 essential edits in Adobe Photoshop CC’s Camera Raw. Dan Mold shows you how

GuruShots

We’ve joined up with online photo game GuruShots to present the winning images from its Fragrant Flowers contest. More than 58.7 million votes were cast to find our winners!

Camera College

The complete guide to modern photography

Create traffic trail blends

Learn how to combine a sequence of night-time long exposures in Affinity Photo and use simple layer tricks to perfect the results

Your FREE DENOISE projects 2 download

Clean up image noise, hot pixels and other artifacts with this simple-to-use software

Discover automatic portrait masking

Find out about the clever new face masking tools in Camera Raw and Lightroom

Liven up your scenic shots

Use Lightroom and Camera Raw to bring your vision to life

Colour grade your shots

There are many ways to colour grade images in Photoshop CC, each producing different results. Here are four approaches…

Improve your shots with our Actions and Presets

As seen in this month’s tutorials, you’ll be able to transform your photos in just a few clicks

Photo Answers

All at sea over aperture? Losing it over Live View? Send your technique and camera questions to digitalcamera@futurenet.com

The art of seeing

Benedict Brain creates boundaries and simple strategies to show you how to stimulate creativity in your shots

Hotshots

Outstanding images f rom the 15th edition of the Landscape Photographer of the Year contest

Reader gallery

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

Shot of the month

Edd Allen visits the same location all year round to achieve seasonal results

In Focus

The latest photography news from around the globe

Scanning ahead…

PTZs are starting to nail down a presence in the market. Jon Devo gives us the lowdown

KitZone

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

Neil Aldridge

For over a decade, Neil Aldridge worked away from the wildlife photography pigeonhole. Now, as he tells Keith Wilson, his conservation photojournalism is more in demand than ever…

What the f-stop?

How much do you really know about photography? Test yourself to the max every issue with our tricky trivia quiz!

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This new software promises to transform photos with a single click – and it actually does