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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Following the gameplan • Professional photographer James Clarke has imported an American style of sporting portraiture. Niall Hampton sees how it plays on home turf

What is a sportrait?

The technical bit

Essential kit for shooting sportraits • Our pro’s tried and tested equipment

How to shoot superb sportraits • James Clarke shares five insights for getting started with sporting portraits and achieving results that will be worthy of a championship team

Bag yourself some pirate booty • Relive watching the umpteenth Pirates of the Caribbean film over the festive period with first mate Wendy Evans

Shoot better indoor portraits • Wendy Evans reveals four ways to make the most of lens choice and location in your people shots

Get your skates on this winter • Wendy Evans heads for the ice to combine ambient light with flash

How to create a custom white balance • For pristine photos, vanquish colour casts by making your own setting

Catch a cathedral • Wendy Evans checks out the photographic opportunities at the seat of power for the local Bishop

Make a meal of it • Kim Bunermann explains how to take advantage of the quality of natural light to produce appetising food-based still-life photos

Capture the Northern Lights • John Cuthbert ARPS heads out after dark to photograph the shimmering beauty of the Aurora Borealis

Walkaround settings for the street • In the second part of his series about street photography, Brian Lloyd Duckett discusses typical camera settings to use

Photograph winter foxes

Indoor still life challenge • Send us your best shot to win a £50 voucher towards CEWE Wall Art

The art of seeing • Benedict Brain gets excited by abstracts in Andalusia in this month’s photo adventure

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Hotshots • Our showcase of the winning entries from the Wildlife Photography of the Year Awards 2024

HARNESS THE POWER OF RAW! • Take your captures to the next level with this 10-step tutorial for Adobe Lightroom Classic CC. Dan Mold is your expert guide…

1 Understand the Lightroom interface • Work with speed and precision within the main developing window

Import your images

At a glance The Library module • Get to know the key features of Lightroom’s organising workspace

2 Make basic adjustments to the brightness of an image • Raw files have extra exposure information that give you much more control over brightness

Step by step Get the perfect exposure • Adjust your exposure, highlights and shadows after the point of capture

3 Control colours with three powerful options • Boost, change and shift colours to make your colours pop

Step-by-step Make your colours pop • Bend colours to your will using these Lightroom Classic settings

4 Reframe your photos • Crop your shots early so you’re only editing the pixels you need to

5 Make local adjustments • When you need to edit specific areas, these are the...