Every month we bring you 132-pages of step-by-step advice on how to get the best results from your Nikon digital SLR. Our camera skills section will show you how to shoot great pictures and how to edit them to make them even better! You'll be inspired by the beautiful images shot by top photographers and fellow readers. And you'll learn the basics through our Nikopedia reference pages – picking up tips from the pros with our exclusive interviews and masterclasses. ****Note: This digital edition is not printable and does not include the covermount items or supplements you would find with printed copies***
This issue’s special contributors…
Welcome to issue 125
Free ebook! Photography Tips, Tricks & Fixes
Light the Beacons • Our Apprentice shoots first and last light in rural Wales with landscape pro Edyta Rice
TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT
PRO KIT AWESOME APPS
EXPERT INSIGHT LEADING LINES
PRO KIT STURDY TRIPOD
EXPERT INSIGHT FIGURE IN A LANDSCAPE
HOW TO: BLEND AN IMAGE
EXPERT INSIGHT OUTSTAY YOUR WELCOME
PRO KIT FILTERS
PRO KIT HIKING GEAR
BE OUR NEXT APPRENTICE!
PRO PORTFOLIO EDYTA RICE
LIGHTBOX • Our favourite Nikon images from the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year competition
READER OFFER FREE LOWEPRO TAHOE 150 BACKPACK • Take out a year’s subscription to N-Photo: The Nikon Magazine and get 13 issues direct to your door, plus a Lowepro Tahoe 150 backpack worth £66.95 for carrying your Nikon gear…
How to shoot cities • Award-winning travel photographer Jordan Banks shares his tried-and-tested tips and tricks for shooting stunning shots of towns and cities
The trick to effective culling • There’s more to picking pictures to present than you might think… Here are some tips to help you pull the diamonds from the rough
N-Photo NikonSkills • Ingenious recipes for stunning shots
Projec tone: Cores kills Seeing double • Mike Harris shows you how to capture an ethereal double exposure of a beautiful blossom in-camera
Project two: Creative techniques Fork handles • What on earth is that? Adam Waring shows you how to shoot super-close, super-shallow depth of field abstract images of everyday objects
Project three: Essential gear skills It’s hip to be square • Adam Waring shows how a set of square slot-in filters can transform your scenic shots…
Project four: Affinity Photo Put the moves on • James Paterson demonstrates how to add panning blur effects to moving subjects and get to grips with live filters in Affinity Photo
Project five: Adobe CC Turn the kids into superheroes • James Paterson shows you how to add special effects to your portraits and master Photoshop blending skills
Project Six: The big project Glow-in-the-dark flowers • James Paterson crafts psychedelic images of fluorescent flowers and plants using ultraviolet light
FATHER’S DAY OFFER
A race against tide • Some landscapes have a narrow window of time when conditions are perfect, doing your homework will help you get it just right
Adam Oswell • Investigative photojournalist Adam Oswell specializes in covering the illegal wildlife trade where the dangers aren’t always clear and ever-present. He tells Keith Wilson about elephant abuse, burial pits and why gang busts go wrong…
Treated like animals • Animal photojournalist Amy Jones shares her experience of documenting our relationship with captive creatures
Readers’ letters
Room to bloom • John Holmes made the most of lockdown restrictions by improving his editing skills and experimenting with a whole new genre
Water wonderlands • Phil Cooke meticulously plans his waterthemed landscape shoots in a bid...