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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Olivia Arthur • Ahead of her appearance at The Photography Show, this documentary photographer tells Graeme Green about capturing unseen worlds

How to take more intimate portraits

The big question • How can ambiguity make photos more powerful?

See Olivia at TPS • The Super Stage, 3.30pm, 19 Sept

The beauty of sharks • Mike Coots uses his powerful images to promote conservation of the species

Cool cats • Sarah Medway creates a fine-art feel with black-and-white shots of big cats

Exposing for the elements • Long exposure in the Outer Hebrides by Peter Kwasniewski

Magical mono • Roddy Llewellyn shows how a careful but simple conversion can turn your photo into a fine-art print

Outer limits • A long-awaited trip to the Outer Hebrides inspires Beverley Mackenzie to create her first photo blog

Paradise islands

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Nine ways to record your trip • Beverley gives her advice for capturing the best bits of your next big adventure

Create a photo blog to generate interest

Light it up • Alistair Campbell gets creative with a simple dining table and a match

Let your skies shine • Louise Carey demonstrates how to selectively enhance overexposed skies with the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom

The wonder of wildlife • Kevin Pigney explains why you don’t have to venture too far for great animal images

Peak of perfection • Lee Howdle falls in love with the tranquillity of the Peak District

Bubble planet • Deborah Pugh gets creative at home with a simple bowl of bubbles

The art of seeing • This month, Benedict Brain shoots a fine‑art landscape… or does he?

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

1 Get a fresh perspective by using a macro lens • After investing in a 105mm optic, Niamh Cottle explores new ways of presenting everyday household objects and subjects in her garden

TOP TIPS 10 SUBJECTS TO SHOOT WITH A MACRO LENS • Find subjects in your home and garden, and show them in a completely different light

2 Build a workflow for printing your images • Dave Kai Piper presents his step-by-step process for making sure that you get photo prints that look how you’d expect after editing them on a screen

PRO ADVICE FIVE STEPS TO PRINT PERFECTION • Follow these handy pointers for displaying your images in the glory they deserve

3 Use light-painting to make creative images • Steve Gemmell shares his first attempts at still-life light painting, using a simple torch to bring a painterly approach to his photos

STEP BY STEP GET READY FOR LIGHT-PAINTING • Once you’ve got a fully darkened room to shoot in, it’s easy to set up your camera and start ‘painting’...