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Being a photographer is beautiful; you wake up every day then (in theory at least) pick up your kit and create. Portrait photographers capture characters; landscapers portray the world around them; the product guys lift the lid on packages; and wedding photographers? Well, they capture everything from landscapes to fashion, products to portraits and everything in-between (as well as being counsellors, planners, jesters and directors).
Every month, as I sit and write this series of articles, I am acutely aware that I write from the viewpoint of a portrait photographer. Like most of us, I can switch genres (I love capturing a twilight landscape once in a while) – but I am a thoroughbred portrait photographer when all is said and done. Nonetheless, I spend my life fascinated by everything from a shaft of morning sunlight to the colour shifts created by hotel lighting. Maybe I will spot the texture of a wall or be curious about a magazine cover.
Currently, I am having a love affair with behind-the-scenes movie-making videos on social media: watching each scene being planned, lit, shot and edited is inspirational, even though I have little desire to move into film-making!
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Master luminosity masks
James Paterson gets to grips with Photoshop Channels and makes use of our 10 free actions
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Photo hoot
Andrew Mason finds and photographs one of the UK's most beloved birds
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Seeing double
Edyta Rice shows you how to use reflections to balance and enhance landscape compositions
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Zoom, zoom, zoom!
Mike Harris reckons that Nikon's new Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR could be the one lens to rule them all for keen photographers
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Manfrotto Befree Advanced Carbon Fibre Travel Tripod
Sturdy and lightweight tripod that's packed with features and built to rack up the air miles
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AstrHori 25mm f/2.8 Macro 2-5x
A macro lens and then some, this specialist optic gives you anything from 2x to 5x magnification, but it's a bit of a one-trick pony
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Gone walkabout
Chris Aldred rambles through rural Somerset with his trusty Nikon D3500 and covers four different genres in the same week!
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NIKON KNOW-HOW - How to track the action
Keep focused on moving subjects with all the latest autofocus finery
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Horsing around
Wildlife photographer and autism campaigner Alfie Bowen tells how spending time with horses and photography changed his life
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Tony North
Less than 10 years ago, Tony North only took out his camera on holidays. Now the Manchester-based macro photographer is winning international awards and writing a book. Keith Wilson hears how he has spread his wings from photography's chrysalis...