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Eliminate flare with two exposures
Blend exposures and use simple techniques to control stray light
Make your portraits more dynamic
Add a creative element to the scene by offering your models something to interact with
ERIKA VALKOVICOVA
Epic landscape images from a traveller with wanderlust who's always on the lookout for the next big adventure
Create vintage pastel colours
Shift HSL values to achieve candy colours in Lightroom
QUALIFICATION QUERIES
Photography may not require entry qualifications, but Claire Gillo looks at the options available and how they can make a difference to your career
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FLASH
Master the art of professional flash photography, both indoors and outdoors
BACKLIT MACRO INSECTS
Follow Ross Hoddinott's top tips for capturing beautiful backlit images of bugs and butterflies
Write your story, find your people
As much as images are in a photographer's DNA, words (and the stories they tell) are every bit as important. What's your story?
Take control of colour
James Paterson reveals the power of luminosity masking when you want to enhance a photo
The changing landscape
Landscapes might be static scenes, but that doesn't mean they don't change. Carmen Norman explains why you should revisit the same locations time and time again to capture something different...
Winning images
Sridhar Sivaram's wildlife conservation photography won him a Nikon Z 611, which he took on a tour of India's National Parks
Spray & bray
Our apprentice has been champing at the bit to meet horse photographer Astrid Harrisson
Polarized opinions
Mike Harris adds punch to the sky and removes glare using NiSi's True Color NC circular polarizing filter
Making waves
Surf, sea and shore photographer Clark Little tells how a life by the ocean led to a career shooting in, on and under the big blue briny...
Rocky road trip
Tom returns to his native America to explore the red rock formations of Utah, and captures an evocative sunrise at Bryce Canyon
Give it some time
Take your long exposures beyond your Nikon's 30 sec limit. Adam Waring explores Bulb and Time modes
Christy Lee Rogers
After a childhood spent in Hawaii, Christy Lee Rogers moved to the mainland United States to create her unique underwater fantasy images. Keith Wilson finds out how she keeps her head above water, in more ways than one...
Lee Gross – Scene stealer
We turn the spotlight on Lee Gross, pioneer of film set photography and agent extraordinaire, and her showstopping Manhattan loft
Reader gallery
Digital Camera readers continue to show how they've been getting creative, submitting photographs across a range of genres
Shot of the month
Lynsey Cleary, a Cewe Photo Award 2021 UK and Ireland winner, on 'Wildflower'
Chris Fraikin
The Dutch photographer has just re-published a book of mimimal-styled studies of details. Niall Hampton learns more 'Archtracts', architectural
Transform photos with Smudge
Learn the key features of this fun Photoshop tool and create painterly effects with ease
The art of seeing
Free to explore far-flung corners of the world, Benedict Brain unleashes his creativity
Hotshots
Highlights from the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers Photographer of the Year Awards
USE EVERY PIXEL! - SHARPEN UP YOUR SHOTS
Address all your focus and blur errors to achieve crisp, detailed images, whatever subject you're capturing
Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD G2 - £828/$999
The polar opposite of a 'dumb' lens
Viltrox AF 23mm F1.4 Z - £236/$299
One of a trio of fast primes for mirrorless APS-C Canon, Nikon, Sony and Fujifilm cameras
DJI Mini 3 Pro - £709/$669
Professional aerial imaging under the critical 250g threshold has just landed
Project two: Creative techniques - Motion pictures
Mike Harris embraces the Z series' advanced AF abilities to capture a sequence of action shots
Extended reach
The endless white stretches out in front of Tom, but with the Nikon Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S in his arsenal, things get that little bit easier