Welcome

Dan Tidswell – image taken prior to Covid-19

Harry Gruyaert

We sit down with one of the world’s greatest exponents of colour photography, who has just published a new book of his images of India.  Steve Fairclough finds out more…

Set your sights on the big shot

Mike Harris scopes out using a dot sight at Langford Lakes Nature Reserve

Walk on by

Alistair Campbell gets creative with slower shutter street shots

Paper sky

Fiona Georgeson Powell uses textures to finesse her photos

Simple skin

Alistair Campbell enhances skin tones within Capture One

Spellbinding creations

Katie Forshaw brings imagination to life in the studio with magical themed shoots

A splash of colour

Nicky Simpson gets creative with product shots

Daydreaming

Andrew McClelland packs up his camera and favourite wide-angle lens to take to the Peak District

All you need is love

Scott Johnson explains how to make a big day out of small nuptials

Book of love

Kristina Kelly uses an artistic eye for a slower approach to lockdown creativity

Water for wellness

Emily Lovell finds harmony within photography

STAY AT HOME PHOTOGRAPHY.

Keep calm and camera on with our guide to projects you can complete indoors

Make magical movies using time-lapse

Master time-lapse on your camera to produce a fun movie to share online, or grab a still from your sequence. Roddy Llewellyn shows you how

2 Use aspect ratios to improve composition

Move beyond your camera’s default image format mode and you’ll soon be able to visualise and plan your photography in a whole new way, 

3 Create distinctive digital solarisations

Produce eye-catching artworks from photos taken on your daily walk, using a 19thcentury darkroom technique that’s easily replicated in software. 

4 Send us your shots and star in our photo gallery

Digital Camera readers show us how they’ve been getting creative at home

HOW TO TAKE INCREDIBLE TRAVEL PHOTOS

Tips, advice and ideas to help you make the most of your next travel adventure. 

1 PRODUCE MEMORABLE PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

Work with people for better photos and more rewarding experiences to take home

2 FIND FESTIVALS AND EVENTS

Be prepared and adapt quickly to create vibrant, captivating photos, even in chaotic situations

3 CAPTURE MOMENTS OF AUTHENTIC LOCAL LIFE

Soak up the realities of daily life – work, travel, romance and religion – that will turn your insights into memorable pictures

4 CONVEY A SENSE OF SPACE

Think creatively to produce original, evocative photos of landscapes and cityscapes, by day and night

5 LEARN HOW TO DEVELOP AN EYE FOR DETAIL

Understanding a place often means picking out small details other people might miss

6 CREATE A SENSE OF ADVENTURE

Whether there’s an adrenaline rush or a sense of mystery, adventure travel photos should always be visually exciting

Camera College

The complete guide to modern photography

Moving camera or moving subject?

Explore the different ways in which you can capture and create motion blur in your photos

Which mode?

■ As well as the speed and direction

Making long exposures

Use ND filters to give you magical motion blur on sunlit days

Problems to avoid

Follow these simple steps to avoid long-exposure errors

Camera skills How to work with a square filter system

Using one of these two-part holders will make it easy to add and remove filters as you shoot

Combine shorter exposures

Use multiple exposure mode to build up motion blur – although you’ll need to watch out for repetition

Camera skills AF point selection

Keep the subject sharp within all the blur

Explore ICM…

Go extreme with your camera movement and make blur the main focus of your shot

Camera skills Second-curtain sync

Get more natural-looking motion blur with flash

Motion blur photography tips

You won’t go wrong if you…

Reader challenge Motion Blur

Enter your best shot to win a copy of Affinity Photo for Windows or macOS worth £49/$50

Different strokes in Affinity Photo

Get to grips with the Brush Tool’s vast array of scatter, stroke and brush tip settings

Give any picture a new look in one click!

Use our Actions to apply creative effects to an image, then prepare it for printing in seconds

Perfect your perspective

Use the powerful Geometry tools to fix converging verticals and wonky frames

Enhance resolution easily in Lightroom

A new feature from Adobe will help tease out more detail from low-sized captures

Texture and detail

Use any of these techniques to enhance the fine detail of textures in your photos

Photo Answers

Exasperated by exposure settings? Nonplussed by ND filters? Send your technique and camera questions to digitalcamera@futurenet.com

The art of seeing

Benedict Brain explores his local landscape in search of the essence of spring

Hotshots

Our highlights from the GCCA Concrete In Life 2020 contest

In Focus

The latest photography news from around the globe

Behind the lens

The portrait photographer on his book ‘High Gloss’

Scanning ahead…

Jon Devo tries out Adobe’s new technology for taking your photos from low-res to high-res

KitZone

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

Olga Michi

Olga Michi’s Vulnerable project involved photographing indigenous people around the world. Steve Fairclough spoke to her about shooting it…

Sony Alpha 1

£6,499/$6,499

Canon EOS M50 Mark II

£589/$599

Luminar AI

£59/$79

Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift

£1,249/$1,199

Portrait lenses

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

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM £379/$419

An old-school lens with charm

Canon RF 85mm f/2 Macro IS STM

£669/$599

Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R APD £1,099/$1,499

Comes with a trick up its sleeve

Nikkor AF-S 85mm f/1.8G

£427/$477

Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.8 S £709/$797

A fabulous portrait lens

Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm f/1.8 £249/$299

A light, budget-friendly lens

Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM |A £929/$1,099

A heavyweight contender

Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG DN |A £999/$1,199

Newer, smaller and even better

Sigma takes the top spot

The Sigma 85mm f/ 1.4 DG DN |A is a stunning portrait lens

What the f-stop?

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