Digital Camera Magazine

Digital Camera is the definitive guide to digital SLR photography and will show you how to improve any digital photo. It’s packed with practical photography advice and Photoshop tutorials to help you become a better digital photographer. With buying advice to help you choose the DSLR, compact system camera, lens, tripod, printer, or camera bag that’s right for you, it covers all DSLRs including Canon EOS/Rebel and Nikon systems. The perfect title for both amateur and pro photographers

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Red kite rendezvous • Wildlife photographer Paul Way loves to focus on this majestic bird of prey. Niall Hampton joins him for feeding time at Gigrin Farm’s Red Kite Feeding Centre

Kit for capturing kite photos • Take a peek inside Paul Way’s Vanguard Alta Sky 53 backpack

Top tips for photographing red kites • These birds of prey move fast so follow our pro’s shooting smarts for getting a better hit rate

Photo Active • 10 things you can shoot, create and edit this month, from rock bands and Tesla coils to football and puffins

Shoot the beautiful game • Wendy Evans comes off the bench to net some winning images when photographing at a football match

Vintage clicks • Old, obsolete cameras can make for interesting macro projects, as Wendy Evans discovers

Fill it in with flash • Wendy Evans explains how to use fill-flash to rescue your portraits from a murky fate

Rock in a hard place • Steven Christie explains what it takes to shoot bands and get eye-catching images

Capture croft houses • Wendy Evans heads for the Highlands and Islands in search of picturesque houses for tenant farmers

Photographing winding rivers • Fergus Kennedy sends the drones up to capture aerial images of rivers flowing through the landscape

Make a Tesla Vortograph • Csaba Kolbai explains how to capture the electric discharge from a Tesla coil in an abstract fashion

Pick up a puffin • Well, they’re more colourful than penguins. Wendy Evans explains how to photograph these eye-catching little birds

Sunsets challenge • Send us your best image to win a £50 voucher towards Cewe Wall Art

The art of seeing • Benedict Brain explores Hope and discovers that deadlines can bring creative opportunities

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Hotshots • Winning entries from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation’s Environmental Photography Award 2024

WILDLIFE WORKSHOP • Highlights from the updated edition of The Wildlife Photography Workshop

1 LENSES • How to choose the correct optics for capturing wildlife photography

2 APERTURE • This setting controls depth of field – the degree of acceptable sharpness

3 EXPOSURE • A good understanding of this key photographic principle is essential for success

4 SHUTTER SPEED • Control how the motion of your subject is recorded

5 WHITE BALANCE • A vital setting for recording the colours seen by your eyes

6 COMPOSITION • Get to grips with negative space and other rules of framing

Reader gallery • Digital Camera readers show how they’ve been getting creative, submitting images across a range of genres

CAMERA CINIC • Master the art of modern photography

Shot of the month • Isabella Franceschini wins the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award 2024

PRACTICAL Photoshop® • SENSATIONAL IMAGES MADE SIMPLE!

The all-new Photoshop Adjustment Brush • Get to grips with the new brush tool and learn how to transform your photos with a series of powerful local enhancements

Taming the shine in your portrait images • Use...