PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine

Editor • 5D Mk IV & R6 peter.travers@futurenet.com “I had a big night out in Bristol, with Canon pro Paul Groom and our PhotoPlus Apprentice, learning to take lush long-exposure night shots of this beautiful city.” PAGE 8 Deputy editor • R & 7D Mk II

It may be cold, a bit wet, and sometimes feel like it’s already dark by mid-afternoon, but that doesn’t mean you should put your Canon kit into hibernation. In fact, it’s quite the opposite, it’s precisely these longer winter evenings that make it th

Canon pro Paul teaches our Apprentice the tricks of the trade for great city night shots in Bristol. PAGE 8 Devon-based wildlife photographer and outdoor instructor Sam talks about his love of nature. PAGE 62 Canon photographer Justa captured a rad a

Editor Peter Travers peter.travers@futurenet.com Deputy Editor Dan Mold Art Editor Martin Parfitt Production Editor Chris McGine Lab Manager Ben Andrews Head of Design Dean Usher All copyrights and trademarks are recognized and respected Photography

We arrived on location an hour before sunset, to get in position, ready to capture the magic blue hour, when there’s amazing blue colours in the sky, which quickly turns into night with much darker skies. Watch out for vibrations due to passing road

GET stuck into our fantastic Canon EOS projects and editing tutorials this month. Kicking us off, James has been making impossible images with in-camera trickery and editing tips (page 46). I’ve been feeling festive so have a go at my project on page

Bokeh is the Japanese word we use to describe aesthetically pleasing out-of-focus highlights that give your images a cinematic quality. Bokeh takes the form of your aperture; Canon’s budget EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens is known for its pentagonal-shaped bok

Photography is all about the light and how you use it. You’ll also need to decide when you shoot too as different scenes will suit a certain type of light at specific times. Photographing your scene before sunset or after sunrise, with warm side ligh

Checking the weather forecast is my first port of call. Will there be rain clearing for sunset resulting inavery golden colour due to high humidity? If there are no clouds I would shoot for side lighting; and due to there being no clouds to obscure t

Canon EOS cameras have either a ‘fullframe’ sensor (which is the same size as a frame of 35mm film negative) or a smaller APS-C-sized sensor. The APS-C format has a crop factor of 1.6x compared with full-frame, which means that a lens will appear to

Sponsored by MPB It’s the season to spread the love by spending money! But what to buy? We’ve gone large on this year’s Christmas wish list, with gear and gadgets to cater for the every type of Canon photographer. You’ll find no fewer than 85 new gif

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PRICES QUOTED ARE BODY-ONLY UNLESS STATED TESTED IN ISSUE 140 PRICE: £370/$N/A CANON has stripped everything down to its bare essentials for the 4000D, and it’s a great if basic DSLR for beginners. And at only £370 (body), it’s the cheapest EOS DSLR.