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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Harry Gruyaert • We sit down with one of the world’s greatest exponents of colour photography, who has just published a new book of his images of India. Steve Fairclough finds out more…

Set your sights on the big shot • Mike Harris scopes out using a dot sight at Langford Lakes Nature Reserve

Walk on by • Alistair Campbell gets creative with slower shutter street shots

Paper sky • Fiona Georgeson Powell uses textures to finesse her photos

Simple skin • Alistair Campbell enhances skin tones within Capture One

Spellbinding creations • Katie Forshaw brings imagination to life in the studio with magical themed shoots

A splash of colour • Nicky Simpson gets creative with product shots

Daydreaming • Andrew McClelland packs up his camera and favourite wide-angle lens to take to the Peak District

All you need is love • Scott Johnson explains how to make a big day out of small nuptials

Book of love • Kristina Kelly uses an artistic eye for a slower approach to lockdown creativity

Water for wellness • Emily Lovell finds harmony within photography

The art of seeing • Benedict Brain explores his local landscape in search of the essence of spring

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

1 Make magical movies using time-lapse • Master time-lapse on your camera to produce a fun movie to share online, or grab a still from your sequence. Roddy Llewellyn shows you how

TIME-LAPSE 1 CREATE A SIMPLE MOVIE IN-CAMERA • Use time-lapse mode to create a QuickTime movie in-camera, ready to post online

QUICKTIME MOVIE THE RESULTS • So you have produced your time-lapse movie – what now?

TIME-LAPSE 2 CAPTURE STILLS AND CREATE A MOVIE • Record a sequence using an intervalometer, then edit together your own movie and choose individual frames for some great standalone shots

MOVIE FROM JPEGs CREATE A MOVIE FROM YOUR STILLS • Produce an animation from the stills shot with your camera’s intervalometer setting

2 Use aspect ratios to improve composition • Move beyond your camera’s default image format mode and you’ll soon be able to visualise and plan your photography in a whole new way, says Niamh Cottle

3 Create distinctive digital solarisations • Produce eye-catching artworks from photos taken on your daily walk, using a 19thcentury darkroom technique that’s easily replicated in software.

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

HOW TO TAKE INCREDIBLE TRAVEL PHOTOS • Tips, advice and ideas to help you make the most of your next travel adventure.

1 PRODUCE MEMORABLE PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS • Work with people for better photos and more rewarding experiences to take home

2 FIND FESTIVALS...