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Photo Active

10 things you can shoot this month, from landscapes and portraits to surrealism and classic steam trains

GET IT RIGHT IN CAMERA

Reckon you can fix everything in Photoshop? Nail as much as you can when pressing the shutter and free up more time for taking photographs, say Jon Adams and

Camera College

The complete guide to modern photography

Make stunning architectural abstracts

Discover how to use a combination of multiple exposure and colour effects to craft contemporary artworks in Affinity Photo

Spotlight on… NFTs

What are nonfungible tokens, how do they work and what do they mean for photographers? Pro Jordan Banks explains more

WISE BUYS

You don’t just buy a camera, you buy into a whole system! A leading Wise Buy is the Canon EOS R with a 50mm f/1.2 lens – and it’s even wiser when bought used…

Changing your background colours

Get to grips with Masking as we look at the best way to change background colours

Dive into detail

Try four different Photoshop techniques for working with detail in creative ways

Shootout Special

Two technique editors travel back in time to the Roaring Twenties for a real-world test of Rotolight’s latest LEDs. Now where’s that Peaky Blinders hat, wonders

Photo Answers

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

The art of seeing

This month Benedict Brain captures an anthropomorphic heart with a surreal twist

Hotshots

Highlights from International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2021

Reader gallery

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

In Focus

The latest photography news from around the globe

Scanning ahead…

Jon Devo takes the Nikon Z 9 out for a test drive and it’s good… but is it too good?

KitZone

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

Craig Easton

The long-form documentary photographer tells Alistair Campbell about his project Bank Top, shot in Blackburn in 2019-2020

with Chris George What the f-stop?

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

Leica Q2 Reporter £1,999/$2,198 (body only)

A luxury compact camera built like a tank https://leica-camera.com

Nikkor Z 28-75mm f/2 .8

£949/$997

DxO PureRAW 2

£115/$129

Sigma 20mm F2 DG DN |C

£649/$699

Laowa Argus 45mm f/0.95 FF

£869/$799

CFexpress Type B cards

It’s the format of choice for many pro cameras – Angela Nicholson puts some ultra-fast options through their paces

Canon EOS R3 £5,879/$5,999 (body only)

Doesn’t just move focus points with your eye

Nikon Z 9 £5,299/$5,497 (body only)

Takes full advantage of being mirrorless

Sony A7 IV £2,399/$2,498 (body only)

A real powerhouse for both stills and video