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

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A journey into history • One of Dave Kai Piper’s ongoing projects is chronicling abandoned dwellings in Ireland. He shares his tips for shooting historical buildings with Niall Hampton

Brought to life • Claire Morris reveals how she makes the characters on vintage book covers come alive through her lens

Create a bedscape • Roddy Llewellyn is inspired by a recent trip to create his own landscapes in the comfort of his bedroom, using his duvet

Best foot forward • Ire Akinfisoye shoots for the sky with his new love for product photography

Create an illusion • Jocelyn Gale shows how to create a visual illusion by changing the perspective in Photoshop with only a lightbulb

Up in smoke • Alistair Campbell uses smoke grenades to create a vibrant editorial-style scene

Create a silhouette • Jocelyn Gale produces a beautiful silhouette scene using only a few steps in Lightroom

Peak perfect • Gary McIntyre shares one of his favourite locations to photograph in Scotland

World view • Polly Rusyn takes big travel photography to a small village

Moody sunsets • Rich Wiltshire captures a dramatic coastal image in Somerset

Abstract • Send us your images of abstract photography

The art of seeing • Benedict Brain goes for a walk to exercise his creativity with self-imposed boundaries

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

1 Capture colour in the comfort of your home • A simple purchase can make photography in your home fun for hours on end, says Roddy Llewellyn. Give it a try and you’ll be surprised

2 Build a photography website in Drupal • Continuing our look at using this flexible content management system on a local server to develop and test your ideas for a photography website

3 Discover inspirational photography content • Spending time at home is a great opportunity to be inspired by the work of some of the world’s leading practitioners of photography – as seen on a screen near you

4 Bag a best-buy photo product for home use • These top-rated photographic accessories will help you make the most of lockdown. Full reviews at www.digitalcameraworld.com – click on the ‘Home working’ tab

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

Add cool light leaks for the retro look! • Use our free light leak effects to style up your shots with a creative filmic feel from yesteryear in Photoshop CC

Take control of colour with PhotoLab • Discover a new way to adjust hue and saturation with DxO’s powerful image editor

Clean up skin the easy way • Use Affinity Photo’s dedicated Frequency Separation command to improve skin and retouch faces

Speedy HDR raw panoramas • Discover a handy feature in Camera Raw and Lightroom that enables you to create highly detailed panoramas in seconds

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