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ENTRY-LEVEL CANON EOS R100 We test Canon’s basic,

WILDLIFE CLOSE-UPS

Canon professional photographer Oliver Wright takes PhotoPlus Apprentice Peter Lau to some of his favourite accessible nature spots to take brilliant nature photos

Night photography in Arizona

White Pocket, Arizona, US. 17 March 2016. 01:48am

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Canon Skills Sharpen up your photography skills with

Work the room

Stop shooting inferior interiors and level up your lighting skills as James Paterson shows you how with his essential advice

ON LOCATION FLASH-PAINT YOUR INTERIOR SCENES

Fire a flash multiple times over several frames to balance indoor spaces with windows

TOP TIPS PERFECT INTERIORS

Here’s how to compose and light interior scenes

STEP BY STEP POLISH IT IN PHOTOSHOP

Combine your flash-lit frames in Photoshop with simple masking skills

TOP TIPS ADD A FAKE FIRE IN PHOTOSHOP

Give an empty fireplace an inviting warm glow with Photoshop fakery

Super telephoto photography tips

Canon’s RF 800mm F11 mega-telephoto lens is a unique proposition, but as our ed Peter Travers discovered, it’s not without its limitations…

STEP BY STEP LONG & LIGHTWEIGHT TELEPHOTO

Follow our expert advice to get the best out of Canon’s super-telephoto prime RF lenses

EXPOSURE TIPS APERTURE AFFECTS SHUTTER SPEEDS

How to tackle slower shutter speed problems when you’re using a telephoto lens fixed at f/11

EXPERT TIPS RESTRICTED FOCUS AREA

Getting to grips with Canon’s RF super-tele 800mm and 600mm F11 primes

Ticket to ride

Capture one-time events and split-second action with ease as Dan Mold shares his top tips for perfectly planning special photography events

THE SETUP SHOOT ONE-TIME EVENTS

We go through the kit and factors that can help or hinder your shoot

STEP 1 GET SET UP

To catch the famous Jacobite ‘Harry Potter’ train,

STEP 2 PREFOCUS FIRST

Once you’re set up with plenty of time

STEP 3 TAKE THE SHOT

About half an hour before the train arrived,

STEP 4 EDIT IN PHOTOSHOP

In some of our shots, a tourist’s head

Changing your background colours

Get to grips with masking as Sean McCormack looks at the best way to change the background colours in your images using Lightroom

STEP BY STEP ADD A NEW HUE TO YOUR BACKGROUNDS

Clever use of inverting a mask in Lightroom makes it easy to alter the look of an image’s background

Automatically hand-tint old photos with Colorize

James Paterson explores this clever AI filter and explains how to perfect the hand-tinted effect

STEP BY STEP GIVE OLD PHOTOS A HAND-TINTED LOOK

Photoshop’s Colorize filter takes mere minutes to do what it used to take hours to achieve by hand

The sweetest blend

James Paterson swaps selections and masks for the amazing Blend Options command in Affinity Photo to create incredible composites

STEP BY STEP CREATE A MINIATURE COMPOSITE

Combine two photos and learn how to use the Blend Options in Affinity Photo

ALEXANDRA ROBINS

Alexandra Robins had always wanted to become a wildlife photographer, but at university she discovered a talent for capturing top dog shots. She shares the joy and challenges of pet photography with Lauren Scott and reveals how her career has evolved…

INSPIRATIONS

STUNNING IMAGERY FROM THE WORLD OF CANON PHOTOGRAPHY

TRAVEL & ADVENTURE

Join travel pro photographer Jeremy Flint as he shares his top tips for tremendous travel images with your Canon EOS camera

A view of Venice

David and his wife returns to the Floating City and capture its stunning landmarks

BUYERS’ GUIDE

MIRRORLESS CAMERAS

BUYERS’ GUIDE

With over 200 lenses we’ve listed for Canon EOS cameras, picking the right one can be tough. Here’s the lowdown!

BUYERS’ GUIDE

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MASTER YOUR CANON MODES

Boost your Canon camera confidence by learning to make the most of all your exposure modes

FOCUSPOINT

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

Shooting summer

Enjoy the longer days with your EOS camera

Dealing with dynamic range

You may not be able to capture every detail in a single exposure

Expand your exposure options

Camera functions to capture more balanced exposures in bright light

Work with the light

Use sharp shadows and highlight flare for better shots

Boost summer skies

Add some punch with a polarizing filter

Get creative with colour

Major and minor colour tone and saturation changes

School tip Get a better view in bright light

Make it easier to see exposure errors when viewing shots on rear screen

Process HDR images with DPP

Discover how to produce images with an extended range of tones and details using HDR

STEP BY STEP PRODUCE RICHER-LOOKING SHOTS IN DPP

By combining photos taken in AEB or HDR mode, you can create images with a wider tonal range

EOSS.O.S

Our technical guru is here to help. No Canon conundrum is too big or small. Get in touch today at EOSSOS@futurenet.com

White balance and the colour of light

White balance affects how colour is processed in your Canon photos

CANON EOS R100

The new basic, beginner-budget APS-C mirrorless is set to become one of Canon’s best-selling EOS cameras

Canon RF 28mm F2.8 STM

Canon’s first pancake lens for the EOS R system

SUPER-TELE LENSES

Need more reach? Read on to find the best-buy super-telephoto lenses for your Canon camera, for shooting action, sport, wildlife and more

BUYERS’ GUIDE

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…