How to get your 28

BONUS SOFTWARE EXTRAS! See page 108 STEP 1

Welcome

The short days of winter are an ideal

Streaks ahead in Bristol!

Join us for a night out capturing light trails and long exposures with Nikon pro Iain Afshar

Ask Matthew

All your questions answered. Send your questions to digitalcamera@futurenet.com

10 skills for you to learn this month

PHOTO SKILLS

GuruShots

Bruno Ribeiro, Portugal

FINE-ART ARCHITECTURE

10 tips for turning out gallery-quality images the next time you visit a big city, by Mike Harris

CAMERA CINIC

Master the art of modern photography

It’s presentation time

Dan Mold helps make your shots look their best with fine-art borders in Photoshop

How to expand your range

Sean McCormack merges bracketed files for better landscapes

Edit with some blue-sky thinking

James Abbott explains how to boost plain skies in your cityscapes, with four simple but effective Photoshop techniques

Clean up your face

Remove blemishes and stray hairs with the help of frequency separation – and Wendy Evans

How to replace skies in landscape photos

Wendy Evans continues our new series on getting to know ON1 Photo RAW MAX 2026

23 Actions, presets, LUTs and borders

THIS MONTH’S SOFTWARE EXTRAS

Nikkor Z 24-105mm f/4-7.1

This affordable everyday zoom is suitable for a wide range of photography and videography, including landscapes, travel, street snapshots and close-ups

Readers’Letters

Have a burning question about the future of photography? Want to discuss a feature or a tutorial in the magazine? Send us your letters

Remembering Giraffes

ENTER TODAY! Submit your images of giraffes in the wild for the chance to be featured in the next Remembering Wildlife book – plus win a Nikon Z 8 camera and 180-600mm lens worth £5,588/$7,510

Daryl Balfour & Wim van den Heever

One long-term contributor to Remembering Wildlife and the latest addition to the competition’s judging panel look forward to the 11th book in the series

Reader gallery

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

Hotshots

Our showcase of category winners from the Nikon Film and Photo Contest 2024-2025

Shot of the month

Bernice Bernice Bradley explains the process behind her stunning shot of a frozen bubble on snow

Jonathan & Angela Scott

The leading conservationists tell Niall Hampton about their Sacred Nature Initiative

What the f-stop?

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

Sony A7 V £2,799/$2,899 (body only)

HANDS-ON PREVIEW

Ricoh GR IV From £1,199/$1,499

Beloved compact street camera gets its biggest upgrade yet

Canon RF 85mm F1.4L VCM £1,799/$1,649

Canon’s classic portrait lens receives an update with hybrid video performance

Lumix S 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 Macro O.I.S. £799/$948

Reprises a popular telephoto zoom range of old, in a thoroughly modern design