Digital Camera World

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

Digital Camera World

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The unseen world • One of the biggest names in photography, Steve McCurry has a new book of images he shot around the globe. Steve Fairclough discovers more

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Neon lights • Abstract Reality (aka Natasha) uses long exposure and lighting to create modern-day psychedelia

Think more dog • Marc Deri explains how adjusting your mindset can lead to better images

Time travel • Jocelyn Gale reveals how you can turn any image from daytime into nighttime in four simple steps

Amazing space • Roddy Llewellyn marvels at the beauty of ‘Britain’s Sistine Chapel’

Life in prism • Alistair Campbell shoots through glass to create analogue effects

Watching paint dry • Tyrone WIlliams captures passing moments for unique images full of colour

Northern exposure • Julien Carcano captures the beauty and simplicity of Norway with compositions that use a mix of textures, colours and geometric lines

Beautiful bears • Marco Ronconi reveals how he captures a side to these wonderful animals that we rarely see

Autumn gold • Luis Cruz shoots eco fashion as the autumn colours form in Westonbirt’s beautiful woodland

Reader photo challenge • This month’s challenge has moved to Camera College – see page 81

The art of seeing • Benedict Brain photographs a dog in Alaska and considers the decisive moment

STAY AT HOME PHOTOGRAPHY • Keep calm and camera on with our guide to projects you can complete indoors

1 Create abstract artwork in your own home • Exploring the world around us will help you to produce creative photography, says Roddy Llewellyn. Here’s how to capture your own ‘Impressionist’ images at home

2 Bring the outdoors into your home • Can’t get to a suitable location for your photoshoot? Adam Waring uses a pre-printed backdrop to bring the location to him…

3 Send us your shots and star in our photo gallery • Digital Camera readers show us how they’ve been getting creative at home

10 LANDSCAPE MYTHS BUSTED • Jon Adams and Andrew James on how to fly in the face of convention

MYTH 2 COLOURS SHOULD ALWAYS BE VIBRANT • Scenics don’t have to be bright and zingy. Many shots gain extra atmosphere from a more controlled approach to colour

MYTH 3 SCENICS SHOULD ALWAYS BE TAKEN IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS • Not necessarily! With a handful of screws and an A4 print of a good sky, you can build your own spectacular skyline in the warm and dry…

MYTH 4 SHOTS SHOULD ALWAYS FEATURE STRONG SKY DETAIL • If that dull, flat sky is spoiling your shot, then instead of worrying about it, embrace it within your composition

MYTH 5 LANDSCAPES SHOULD ONLY HAVE NATURAL ELEMENTS • Make your next landscape trip a city break, and you’ll give your photography a tonic

MYTH 6 YOU SHOULD SHOOT WITH WIDE LENSES • For a different perspective, ditch the wide-angle and shoot longer

MYTH 7 LANDSCAPES SHOULDN’T HAVE PEOPLE IN THEM… • “Oi, get out of my shot!” If you can’t avoid people, then...