N-Photo: the Nikon magazine

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 128

A day in the Dales • Our Apprentice joins Nikon School’s Neil Freeman for a landscape shoot in God’s Own County…

TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT

HOW TO: QUICKLY EDIT LANDSCAPE IMAGES

PRO PORTFOLIO

LIGHTBOX • Our favourite Nikon images from the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2021 competition

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Magical, Mystical, Mysterious • Discover how to capture a sense of magic, mystique and mystery in your landscape photography for truly enchanting images

‘No’ is not a four-letter word • Positivity and a can-do attitude are crucial to your business, but saying ‘no’ has its place

GuruShots • We joined up with online photo game GuruShots to print the winning images from the ‘Memorable Travels’ challenge, and here are the winners!

Keep it composed • Mike Harris shows you how to improve your landscape photos with a few simple compositional tweaks

Frame & adjust • MASTER LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION WITH THESE ESSENTIAL PIECES OF KIT

Double dip a duotone • Mike Harris shows you how to spice up a simple outdoor portrait by creating a striking duotone effect

Have your cake and shoot it • Adam Waring creates a focus-stacked food photo to show tasty treats in all their mouth-watering glory

Create a retro postcard • James Paterson shows you how to age your photos with textures, borders, and colour shifts for a classic look

Building better images • James Paterson takes architectural shots to the next level by building up local adjustments in Camera Raw

Expert Tip

Get creative with gels • James Paterson demonstrates how to use colour gels over your lights to craft delightfully vibrant portraits

Vibrant studio portraits • TINT YOUR SUBJECT AND BACKDROP BY FITTING GELS TO YOUR LIGHT SOURCES

Make your colours pop

Three ways to gel • CREATE COLOUR BACKDROPS, MOODY LOW-KEY EFFECTS OR SUBTLE TINTS

NPhoto Next issue

Same but different • Tom and a fellow photographer apply their own unique vision to a single scene…

Andrea Jones • For more than 20 years, Andrea Jones has been one of the world’s foremost garden photographers. She tells Keith Wilson about her most daunting assignment, the importance of knee pads and step ladders, and why she believes winter is the most rewarding season for garden photography…

Andrea Jones Profile

A PERFECT PLACE • ENGLAND IS RENOWNED THE WORLD OVER FOR ITS COUNTRY GARDENS, BUT ANDREA SAYS THERE IS A GARDEN ON SCOTLAND’S WEST COAST THAT’S HARD TO BEAT…

PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW • ANDREA JONES IS ONE OF THE NIKON PROS SPEAKING AT THIS YEAR’S SHOW…

Arctic adventures • Tour guide and photographer Rick Tomlinson shares his shots of the wildlife and landscapes of the high Arctic

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Readers’ letters • We’d love to hear your thoughts on the mag and all...