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Remembering the greats

Sadly, too many great photographers passed this year. Here's our tribute - as photographers, we are always standing on the shoulders of the giants who've gone before

Amateur Photographer of the Year

Here are the top ten images uploaded to Photocrowd from Round Ten, Action, with comments by the AP team and our guest judge

Fright night

Photojournalist Peter Dench takes a 'ghost hunting' camera out on a chilling walk into the bowels of London's haunted alleyways

Four decades on

John Swannell's latest book celebrates his 40 years in the business, and showcases the breadth of his immense talent, says Damien Demolder

Shelf life

Amy Davies presents her pick of the best photography books featured in AP over the past 12 months

AP out and about

The AP team loves to take photos and our interests cover a wide range of genres. Here are our favourite shots that we have taken during 2022

Supply issues easing amidst economic angst

THE MAIN headline in our news round-up last Christmas was, 'Retailer challenges remain, but positive signs, and in many ways it's a similar story this year.

Following the (mirrorless) money

AS ANDY Westlake's in-depth round-up of the best cameras and lenses on page 75 reveals, it's been a strong year for mirrorless camera and lens releases, and demand for higher-end kit remains robust.

HOW TO...BLEND IN A POINT OF INTEREST

James Paterson shows you how to add a focal point using basic compositing skills

OM SYSTEM OM-5

Everything great about Olympus lives on in this camera

TTARTISAN BRINGS ITS BUDGET FISHEYE TO EF AND F MOUNTS

Manual-focus 11mm F2.8 is now available for Canon and Nikon DSLRs

CAPTURE GRACEFUL LOW-LIGHT CITYSCAPES

Jason Parnell-Brookes explores the creative art of low-light cityscapes using long-exposure techniques

MASTER RAW!

Dan Mold shows you how to transform your captures with just 10 essential edits in Adobe Camera Raw

23 Fantastic Ways to Improve Your Photography in 2023

Claire Gillo shares some top techniques to master over the next 12 months - give them a go and make 2023 your best-ever photo year!

CANON RF 135mm F1.8L IS USM

26 years after the EF 135mm, Canon’s resurrected this classic portrait focal length in a new RF mount

CANON EOS R6 Mark II

The new R6 Mark II is the fastest EOS ever, shooting at 40fps! Plus updated AF tracking for trains, planes and automobiles

CANON EL-5 Speedlite

Canon launches its first Speedlite specifically designed for the latest EOS R mirrorless cameras

Primed for wildlife

Learn the benefits of using a pro-super-telephoto 500mm prime lens to take better photos of small and wary wildlife subjects with Peter Travers

Winter wonderland

June headed to Yellowstone National Park to capture the great scenery and big bison transformed by magical snowy conditions

Master the Clone Tool

James Paterson fixes distractions, removes messy details and clones in perspective with these tricks

Light orb images

Dan Mold shows you how to add mysterious orbs of light to your landscapes with this fun and fascinating light painting technique

Familia feeling

On a recent trip to Barcelona, Graham challenged himself to the character of two iconic pieces of architecture photograph

An education in Israel Bethlehem, Israel. 13:35pm. 25 December 2018

A trip into Jerusalem on Christmas Day took us into another world... of poverty, conflict and children growing up in a refugee camp

Festive snow fakes

Put kids in a snow globe to boost Christmas photos with James Paterson

STEP BY STEP CREATE A FUN FESTIVE SNOW GLOBE IMAGE

How to use Photoshop to blend your portrait and snow globe images – or use the ones we’ve supplied

Pep up landscape shots with a new sky

Learn how to add drama and impact to any scenic shot as Jon Adams shows you using our Skies Kit and Photoshop’s Sky Replacement Tool

Bloomin' portraits

James Paterson gets creative with flower composites and layer blending skills in Affinity Photo... and the good news is it’s far easier than it looks

DANI CONNOR

Peter Travers talks to the up-and-coming British wildlife photographer Dani Connor about how she shot to stardom with baby squirrels on Twitter, to taking photos of buzzards and big cats in Spanish mountains

The right lens, every time

Matching the lens to the subject will help you to take your best-ever shots. Will Cheung explains more, as he asks – prime or zoom?

Earth matters

The winning images from this year’s Environmental Photographer of the Year are as powerful as they are poignant. Amy Davies finds out more