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With nine new tips cards on offer this issue, either add to your collection or start collecting today! This month, learn how to shoot reflections at night, close up bluebells and flash-lit action portraits, and gen up on your tech. These handy wallet

THE famous Royal Photographic Society has launched its 160th International Photography Exhibition (IPE). Claimed to be the world’s longest-running photography exhibition, the IPE takes the form of a competition that’s open to both amateur and profess

Push your photography in new directions, with seven fresh projects to try out CLAIRE Droppert says she has always been interested in the natural elements. “Gravity is an interesting subject and, together with light and the wind, it can alter the way

THERE’S lots of photographic fun to be had shooting abstracts – especially if you free yourself from the traditional ideas of what a photograph should be and begin experimenting with colour, texture shape and form. You’ll soon discover wonderful new

NEW MONTHLY PHOTO PROJECT! THIS is a quick and easy photo project that only takes minutes to shoot, but produces amazing results. If you’ve ever taken macro shots of eyes before, you’ll know how much fun it is – but you can take things a step further

CAN’T get out of the house to go landscape shooting this weekend? You can cheat and build your own landscape – or a fakescape, as we like to call it! For this project, we created our mountains using some flour, some sugar and a touch of Photoshop. It

NEW MONTHLY PHOTO PROJECT! KEVIN SAYS: One of the best ways I’ve found to improve my photography has been to participate in a personal photo project, where I’m forced to think outside the box and photograph things new to me. A personal project is a w

IF you can make your camera focus really close on your subject, you can reveal texture and form the unaided eye simply doesn’t see. By magnifying detail that would otherwise go unnoticed, you create a whole new world for your viewer to enjoy. In this

MAKING your ideas and set-ups simple keeps macro shooting free of frustration. There’s seldom room for visual complexity when you work on a small scale, and revealing the intricate detail in nature’s humblest specimens makes for an excellent photo pr

YOU can capture the amazing detail in fruit slices without any specialist lighting kit – all you need is a sunny day. Any citrus fruit will work fine as a subject, but kiwi fruit is a great starting point because the seeds and radiating patterns prov

GETTING precise and accurate focusing is much trickier with a macro lens, and using the view?nder can be a hit-or-miss process. Instead, frame up with your camera on a tripod and switch to Live View mode to see your composition on screen. Use the scr

THE patterns and textures lurking within machined parts take on a new life under magnification. Add a splash of colour from a well-placed paper background and a little extra light from a torch, and you have a classic still-life in the making. Once yo

PRO INSIGHT MICRO WORLD We tend to think of the Victorian era as drab and austere. This is far from true, however, and the art of the era was bright and vibrant. This quest for colour was also evident in the exhibitions of microscopical specimens of

EVEN if you’re a newcomer to photography, you’ve probably heard the word ‘bokeh’ being bandied around. Bokeh, which is pronounced ‘bouquet’ or ‘bow-kay’ by people in the know, is used to describe the blur in a picture. Not its quantity – that’s somet

THE aperture you select has an influence over the shape and size of the bokeh in a photo. The number of blades that form the hole in the lens makes a difference to the shape; the more there are, the more circular any out-of-focus highlights will appe

NAME: Nathaniel Merz LOCATION: Daejeon, South Korea KIT: Nikon D810 with 70-200mm f/4 lens EXPOSURE: 1.3 sec at f/14, ISO 64 WEBSITE:www.500px.com/ nathanielmerz The colour palette in this riverside shot is vibrant yet natural. “Part of my goal was t

Andreas Eriksson of Inglorious at the Bristol Bierkeller Alice Cooper at Swindon’s Oasis Leisure Centre Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society at the O2, Bristol and Vivian Campbell of Last in Line at the Bierkeller. NAME: Duncan Everson LOCATION: Radstoc

CRAZED BY A CMOS SENSOR? IN A TIZZY OVER A TRIPOD? Send your question to digitalcamera@futurenet.com and let us provide you with a solution Our expert photo advisor is here to help Shooting outdoors? Make sure you choose a tripod that’s sturdy enough

RATE MY PHOTO GET RATED! Email your shot to digitalcamera@futurenet.com (subject line: Rate My Photo) VAL SAYS: On a recent trip to Timbavati Lodge in South Africa, our friend who is a guide came back and said he’d seen a leopard up a tree and did we

RATE MY PHOTO GET RATED! Email your shot to digitalcamera@futurenet.com (subject line: Rate My Photo) LAURA SAYS: I was in Norfolk for the weekend and went for a wander with my camera. At this coastal spot there was a high bank behind where I was sta

EVERY ISSUE, we challenge you to take the most creative and arresting shot around a theme, and share it at the online community at Photocrowd (www.photocrowd.com). Here, you’ll be able to browse the entries and vote on your favourites. The best entri

This month our theme is ‘Beauty in the Banal’. Get inspired by the everyday objects that surround you, and put your creative thinking cap on. Maybe you could set up a studio and shoot inanimate objects in a still-life scene, such as a fork, a cheese

Y When did you get the photography bug? All my family are artistic, and I wanted to be an illustrator originally. I got interested in photography when I started borrowing my dad’s Olympus OM-10 and Olympus Trip when I was 14 or 15. After school, I we

A warm jacket is an essential part of your kit bag on a walk – but make sure it doesn’t get lost along the way. Past Moylgrove, the rumble of waves far below is more felt than heard from the cliff tops. My mobile rings, startling me. It’s an American

Now 79, David Hockney is one of today’s most influential artists. He has restlessly explored different styles and ways of working, adopting new technology along the way. Although most of his career has been devoted to drawing and painting, a signific

CSC www.fujifilm.co.uk 2 The GFX is a mirrorless camera, so it uses an electronic viewfinder. The standard unit can be slid out and replaced with a tilting version. 3 Like the Fujifilm X-T2, the GFX has traditional ‘mechanical’ lens aperture, shutter

CSC www.panasonic.co.uk 2 The electronic viewfinder boasts a very high resolution of 3,680k dots, together with 0.76x magnification and a longer-than-usual 21mm eye point for easier viewing. 3 A lot of thought has gone into the controls. The White Ba

SLR www.nikon.co.uk 3 The viewfinder uses a lower-cost pentamirror design with 95% coverage, but it’s bright and clear. 4 On the top are a mode dial, a single control dial and the shutter release and power switch. The external controls are minimal, b