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For someone who has had only limited dealings with horses – the fear induced by sitting on a trotting pony in childhood put Campbell is a consummate pro who has organised everything beautifully and unsurprisingly she’s as good with horses as she is w

“I bought this full-frame DSLR about five years ago, having used a Nikon D750 before. The D4 is my workhorse.” “The main lens used for shooting my equine portraits. The focal range gives me most focal lengths that I need on the day.” “Mainly used as

Wendy Evans enters a third dimension and travels back in time to the glory days of 3D The history of 3D, especially in the cinema, is somewhat tortuous, with almost every new iteration following the same cycle of a boom in popularity, an initial wave

While portraits at country houses, out in the fields or in a studio setting are all perfectly valid locations for pleasant results, it’s only when you head into the city that the environment lends a sense of drama, foreboding and danger to the mix. T

Whether you’re photographing the Tour de Yorkshire or Sunday morning riders whizzing around your local country lanes, cycle races can offer thrills and spills that are more accessible to the average photographer than, for example, motorsport. Indoor

As the need for huge castles declined, noblemen and landowners looked imposing but more comfortable to live in. Medieval manor houses were based around a great hall with private spaces for the owner and rooms for the household workers. By the time of

When faced with a landscape scene that is to stop down to f/22 to get as much depth of field as possible. Now while that isn’t wrong, the problem is that, at f/22, the lens isn’t as sharp as it is at f/5.6 or f/8. One alternative is to use an f/8 ape

PART 4 OF 4 As well as replacing elements and creating entirely new ones, Generative Fill can also create a variety of artwork styles. This works best where there’s a central subject, rather than an entire scene, so it’s better with portraits, pets a

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PART 2 OF 5 Part 3 in issue 284, on sale 19 July Fog can add atmosphere and intrigue to both urban and rural you’re going to capture a drone photograph of a landscape transformed by this mercurial weather phenomenon. Depending on your location, clima

Exploring Morocco is like stepping into a whole new world of vibrant sights and bustling markets. But when the excitement of the lively streets starts to wind down, there’s a whole other adventure waiting in the vast deserts in the southern parts of

Do you despair of the megapixel arms race or that the latest hi-tech digital camera comes with a NASA scientist, on loan for a month, to show you the more esoteric features? Are you under 25 or over 65? If the answer to any of these whimsical questio

Welcome to our monthly reader photo competition, where the best image wins a £50 voucher that can be used towards purchasing W stunning wall art from the leading photo printing brand Cewe. This issue the theme is coastlines. You can make use of the s

To smile or not to smile? I generally prefer it when my subjects don’t. What do you think? I’m sitting at the airport in Cape Town and reflecting on my latest trip, cruising down the east coast of Africa. I was a guest lecturer on a cruise ship, talk

OVERALL WINNER and winner of Champagne Taittinger Food for Celebration ‘Red Bean Paste Ball’ Yang Zhonghua China “This photograph was taken in the rural area of Xiangshan, Zhejiang, during preparations for a feast in celebration of Spring Festival, a

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If you want to unlock the creative potential of your camera, then Manual mode is the way to go. While the semi-automatic Aperture and Shutter Priority modes can help out by making some of the core exposure settings, Manual mode takes off the stabilis

An exposure can be boiled down to three core parameters that determine how well exposed the scene is, though changing each has its own trade-offs. The three settings are shutter speed, which determines how long the shutter is open: a fast shutter spe

It would be more accurate to refer to shutter speed as the ‘exposure length’, as the rate at which the camera fires its shutter curtains that make up the shutter is constant. Instead, what we’re changing is the length of time that the camera’s sensor

The ISO controls how sensitive your camera will be to light. or digital noise creeping into your shots. The base ISO setting is usually around 100 on most cameras and has the best image quality. But there are times when boosting the ISO is necessary

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the committee that created the now universally adopted and used image file format. On the other hand, ‘Raw’ isn’t an acronym – it literally means the ‘raw’ data straight from the camera’s sensor. Jpeg

Metering modes are the algorithms your camera uses when working in semi-automatic modes. In Aperture Priority (A or Av) mode, you have control over the aperture and ISO, and it will be left to the camera algorithm to choose the correct shutter speed,

Most cameras will have a physical AF/MF switch on the lens or camera body. On kit lenses such as the Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens (above), it’s on the lens barrel so flick it to MF to begin focusing manually. Keep IS switches engaged if s

Creative mirrorless and DSLR cameras have a plethora of drive modes you can choose from that determine how quickly shots are taken in succession, whether they are delayed, quietened or even shot with the mirror locked up on a DSLR to reduce vibration

White Balance affects how ‘warm’ or ‘cool’ an image looks by changing its Kelvin value. A lower value, such as the Tungsten preset of 4000K, will produce much bluer tones and a colder-looking image, while a higher value, such as the Shade preset at 7

These essential accessories will improve your photographs – guaranteed! Filters are immensely useful accessories that can help you realise the images that you have imagined but they also have many practical benefits. A protection filter can save your

“The rapidly changing evening light meant I had to work quickly, taking multiple frames to stitch together using the shifting abilities of my tilt-shift lens. I opted for this approach to get a wider field of view, including all of the castle and its

An international competition for photographers aged 24 or under, the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant is awarded to a project that addresses an important issue related to the human condition. In 2023, the recipient was Nikoletta Stoyanova from Donetsk

The new Remove tool in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw features a brilliant new generative AI mode. It can now employ machine learning to remove unwanted objects from your images. Most older retouching tools work by sampling the surrounding pixels, co

Newborns truly are one of life’s miracles – so delicate, so dependent and so photogenic. However, the sheer joy of shooting a week-old baby is often tempered by the work that needs to go into editing their skin. While their skin might be soft, it’s o

This month, we have curated another collection of bonus software extras to help transform your images. Once installed in Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom or Photoshop, these actions and presets can have a huge impact on your photos in a matter of seconds,

The black and white darkroom was – and remains – a place of huge creative potential, where special effects ranging from simple dodging and burning to complex composites and much more were possible. But keeping things simple, we’re going to focus on f

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Q I’ve bought myself a macro lens with the specific intention of building up a portfolio of butterfly photos. Can you give me some tips to get me started? Lesley James A From April through to October, different butterfly species will give you lots of

www.glennrandall.com A photographer, educator and writer based in Colorado in the USA, Glenn Randall has had his work published in Outdoor Photographer, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, the New York Times Magazine and ma

X-T50 with 40MP APS-C sensor and XF16-50mm F2.8-4.8 R LM WR kit zoom available for pre-order Fujifilm fans will have noticed that the X-T50 succeeds the X-T30 II and the manufacturer will have sound reasons for giving an X-T40 a swerve. Nomenclature

Each year, marketing teams spend millions trying to create the right environment for products their brands have spent millions on developing when it’s time to reveal those products to the world. Some of that goes on traditional marketing channels, in

https://leica-camera.com The Leica SL3 is the first mirrorless camera from the brand that I’ve fallen in love with. I love using the M and Q cameras, but the SL series never did it for me – it certainly didn’t help that they were disturbingly similar

www.panasonic.com The original Panasonic Lumix G100 was launched in 2020 as an entry point to the Lumix mirrorless camera range and with an emphasis on vlogging features, notably a vari-angle screen and an advanced mic array for recording in differen

www.panasonic.com Ultra-fast f/1.4 and f/1.2 prime lenses are headline-grabbing ‘dream’ optics for most of us, but the Lumix S 35mm F1.8 lives in a more affordable and practical world and doesn’t carry quite the same glamour. And yet a 35mm f/1.8 pri

www.sony.co.uk Everybody loves ‘trinity’ wide-angle, standard and telephoto f/2.8 zoom lenses, right? Actually, you can count me out. Especially for mirrorless cameras, I prefer ‘slower’ f/4 zooms that are smaller, more lightweight and better balance

www.nikon.co.uk I’m a fan of ‘superzoom’ lenses for walkabout and travel photography. They give me the ability to react to unfolding photo opportunities at the flick of a wrist, rather than swapping lenses or carrying around more kit. I’ve been impre

The DxO Nik Collection consists of seven different plug-ins, five of which offer creative inspiration and effects, with two ‘corrective’ image enhancement tools. These plug-ins can be used from within Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop, Capture One,

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Showing some of the past century’s iconic documentary photographs, The Camera Never Lies is a new exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. Running until 20 October, it is one of the strands in a six-part series of programming that considers the

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1 Who is holding the camera? A Jon Pertwee B Colin Baker C William Hartnell D Tom Baker 2 What is the name of the magazine Rankin helped launch in 1991? A Dazed & Confused B The Face C i-D D Wallpaper 3 Where are Viltrox lenses made? A South Korea B