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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