Amateur Photographer

Ask skilled street photographers to name a giant on whose shoulders they stand, and Joel Meyerowitz will crop up. We’re honoured to be running a major interview with this hugely influential photographer, who helped define what we mean by ‘street,’ wh

Online Editor Photo kit expert Joshua gets his hands on Fujifilm’s X100VI to bring you a first look The celebrated photographer is interviewed by AP Acting Features Editor David Clark Editor AP’s editor shares his thoughts after using the full-frame

To commemorate Fujifilm’s 90th year, there’ll also be a Limited Edition version of the X100VI. It’ll only be made in silver, and will feature the original Fuji logo embossed on the top plate and the front of the lens cap. Each camera will be individu

The Drone Photo Awards 2024 competition is now open for entries until 1 April. Open to both professional and amateur photographers, there are seven ‘single-image’ categories to enter, plus Video, and Series – a set of five to nine images on the same

INNOVATIVE Chinese lens maker Laowa is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and has released its first AF lens on 20 February to mark the milestone. The Laowa AF 10mm f/2.8 Zero-D FF is the widest non-fisheye lens for full-frame cameras. Auto

VANGUARD has announced the Alta Pro 3VRL tripod range, featuring a removable levelling system. A lockable handle on the base enables you to find ‘level’ quickly, while the new tripods also feature the Alta Pro 3VRL Platform 30 that allows you to take

HAVE you got nearly $4 million burning a hole in your pocket? The luxury home and studio of legendary photographer Elliott Erwitt in Long Island, New York, is up for sale. Erwitt had continued to work in the studio until his death last November, and

Full disclosure: I have a penchant for quirky, cheap toy cameras. I love the low-fi quality and weird anomalies that cheap plastic lenses produce. I was an early adopter of ‘Lomography’ and have a growing collection of oddball cameras. So I was delig

Over the past few years, the variety of focus motor systems, all with impressive and sometimes even poetic branding, has burgeoned. So, if you have difficulties differentiating between a Silky-Smooth Voice coil Motor and a Rapid eXtra-silent stepping

In the first instalment of this series on Affinity Publisher, we created a basic but effective business card design, explaining along the way how to add graphics and text frames to your Publisher documents and how to resize and export your work for u

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As an impoverished amateur, I went wild a decade ago and bought a six-year-old Canon EOS 7D for just over £300. Years later, sweating, I moved to the dark side and bought a used Nikon D800 for £800. By buying used carefully, moving from camera to cam

Cameras come in three types: DSLRs with optical viewfinders, mirrorless models with electronic viewing, and compact cameras with non-interchangeable lenses DSLRs traditionally have relatively large handgrips, while many mirrorless models have much s

What was your bedroom like as a child? Did your parents oppose the tack, tape and drawing pin or were you able to express yourself from floor to ceiling and across the ceiling? I didn’t have many posters on my wall through choice, fearful of being ju