Welcome

NIGHT VISION Make the most of the longer

THE TIGER KINGS

Learn to take great big cat photos on a UK safari as our Apprentice spends a VIP day at Longleat with pro wildlife photographer Ben Hall

Buttermere – an exercise in willpower

After travelling to the Lake District countless times over the autumn months, everything was good on a morning of photographic jealousy

Canon Skils

Sharpen up your photography skills with our all-new photo projects and expert guides

The secret to great blur in moving water

James Paterson takes you beyond long exposures with essential tips for capturing wonderful waterfall photos in your local area

ON LOCATION LONG EXPOSURE ESSENTIALS

Master the basics of long exposures during daylight for beautiful blurred waterfalls

TOP TIPS SHUTTER BLENDING FOR BLURRED MOTION

Combine the best motion blur from different frames using shooting skills and Photoshop compositing

PIN-SHARP FOCUS STACK FALLS

Vary your focus point over several frames to capture front-to-back sharpness

TOP TIPS TROUBLESOME TOURISTS

Location overrun with sightseers? Make the crowd disappear with filters and editing tricks

TOP TIPS BLEND YOUR EXPOSURES

Combine exposures in Photoshop for optimum image quality and better skies

Top cat pet photography

Dan Mold teaches you how to photograph your kitten (or any pet) indoors for images that are the cat’s pyjamas

STEP BY STEP SHOOT PRO PET PORTRAITS

Follow these six steps to get perfect kitty cat shots every time

Shoot for the stars

Dan Mold shows you how to get to grips with ISO settings to take amazing astro photos in the final part of our landscapes series

THE SETUP HOW TO TAKE LANDSCAPES AT NIGHT

Get set with the right kit to add fantastic star-filled skies to your night-time landscapes

Finishing flourishes

Louise Carey shows how to export your photos from Lightroom Classic CC

HOW TO PERFECTLY EXPORT YOUR PHOTOS

Use Lightroom Classic CC to get your edited photos ready for printing or posting online

Natural flare

James Paterson demonstrates how to create realistic lens flare effects in Photoshop CC with straight-forward filters and gradient tricks

STEP BY STEP CREATING LENS FLARE EFFECTS

Create realistic lens flares with a mix of filter effects, gradient layers and tonal adjustments

Change the channel

James Paterson modifies Channels in Affinity Photo to make incredibly intricate selections in seconds

STEP BY STEP CHANNEL CUT OUTS

Make complex selections using channels in Affinity Photo to replace a sky fast

MY KIT

Professional photographers reveal their top six tools of the trade they couldn’t shoot without

INSPIRATIONS

STUNNING IMAGERY FROM THE WORLD OF CANON PHOTOGRAPHY

NIGHT PHOTO SKILLS

Shoot for the stars and learn how to capture everything after dark, from city lights and landscapes to astro, the aurora, and nature, with top pro photographers, Guy Edwardes and Matt Parry

GuruShots

We joined up with online photo game GuruShots to print the winning images from the Stunning Flowers challenge. Over 21 million votes were cast – these are the best photos!

PHOTO STORIES

Photo essays from PhotoPlus readers and professional photographers alike

Flights of fancy

Living close to the Nashua River gives Sue great opportunities for amazing wildlife moments, which she’s caught from her canoe

FOCUSPOINT

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the magazine and all things photographic! Email us at p photoplus@futurenet.com

CANON SCHOOL

In part seven of our new series: Learn all you need to know to get creative with colour in your Canon camera

Experiment with Picture Style

Change the way that colours in your JPEGs and movies are processed

Import a new preset

Upload a new Picture Style to your camera

Doing it with Style

Create a custom colour recipe to load into your camera

Checking the exposure

Use the RGB histogram to ensure colours aren’t ‘clipped’

Getting creative in software

Use the HSL sliders to cook up a new look for images

School tip Colour gels for flash

Add a splash of colour by filtering the light

Edit photos with your camera

Use the processing power of the camera’s DIGIC processor to edit your images

STEP BY STEP EDIT IMAGES ON THE GO

Your Canon EOS camera has various functions that allow you to edit while you’re out in the field

Does highly intelligent AF improve photos?

The new Canon R3 features the most advanced AF in an EOS camera, are you ready for it?

Desktop HDs

We pick the very best external hard drives for photographers

CANON RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM

We get our hands on Canon’s new compact, budget telephoto zoom lens for Canon mirrorless EOS R System cameras

THE EARLY VERDICT

An ideal telephoto zoom if you prioritise portability and value

NIFTY FIFTY LENSES

If you only use one prime lens, a 50mm will give you the greatest vers atility, with a natural perspective and super-fast aperture. Here are the best buys …

7ARTISANS 50mm f/1.05 £450/$486

This RF-mount manual lens is super fast, overtaking the mighty Canon RF 50mm f/1.2 for speed

HOW WE TEST

We combine real-world shooting results with rigorous lab testing to arrive at our ratings

CANON EF 50mm f/1.8 STM £129/$126

Designed for DSLRs, this is the smallest and most inexpensive lens in the entire test group

DISTORTION

There’s typically a slight touch of barrel distortion when it comes to 50mm primes

CANON EF 50mm f/1.4 USM £389/$400

It’s been around for decades, but has always been one of Canon’s less impressive lenses

BLURRED VISION

A tight DoF is a major attraction of fast primes

CANON RF 50mm F1.8 STM £219/$200

Small, simple and affordable, it makes a refreshing change to Canon’s range of heavyweight RF lenses

CANON RF 50mm F1. 2L USM STM £2389/$2299

Canon’s range-topping RF 50mm L-series lens for mirrorless is a big beast with a price tag to match

STANDARD PRIMES, APS-C STYLE

Here are some top ‘standard prime’ options if you have an APS-C camera

SIGMA 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM |A £649/$949

Sigma’s ‘Art’ line 50mm prime represents a sizeable step up in size and performance

COLOUR FRINGING

There’s great performance all round

TAMRON SP 45mm f/1.8 DI VC USD £415/$549

It’s a few millimetres short of a ‘standard’ 50mm prime but adds optical stabilization

FAST PRIMES FOR MIRRORLESS

Sigma serves up a 50mm-ish treat for mirrorless EOS M bodies

ZEISS MILVUS 50mm f/1.4 ZE £1159/$1199

A modern-day, manual-focus classic, this Zeiss lens builds on the stuff of legend

BLADES OF GLORY

More diaphragm blades can equate to a more well-rounded aperture

THE WINNER IS… SIGMA 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM |A

It’s a resounding win for Sigma’s Art lens

CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE

Perfect presents to treat the photographer (or yourself) this Christmas!

DSLR CAMERAS

With prices ranging from a couple of hundred to a few thousand, Canon has an EOS camera to suit everyone, from the complete beginner to most demanding pro…

MIRRORLESS CAMERAS

With prices ranging from a couple of hundred to a few thousand, Canon has an EOS camera to suit everyone, from the complete beginner to most demanding pro…