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 132

Land, sea and air • Laurie Campbell teaches our apprentice that every animal is a potential photo opportunity

TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT

HOW TO: ACE AN ABSTRACT

PRO PORTFOLIO LAURIE CAMPBELL

LIGHTBOX • Our favourite Nikon images from the Epson International Pano Awards

READER OFFER FREE LOWEPRO TRUCKEE 150 BAG • Take out a year’s subscription to N-Photo: The Nikon Magazine and get 13 issues direct to your door, plus a Lowepro Truckee 150 bag worth £70 for carrying your Nikon gear…

How to shoot… Winter wonders! • Wrap up warm and embrace the chill to shoot breathtaking wintry images with the help of travel photographer Dave Williams

What do you want to be known for? • Earning a living from photography requires you to think like a business: and a big part of that is figuring out what you want to be known for

Nikon Skills • Ingenious recipes for stunning shots

Project one: Core skills A photo a day… • Mike Harris explains how you can embark on a 365 project in 2022 and stick to it all year round

Project two: Creative techniques A feast for the eyes • If it looks good enough to eat, then it’s good enough to shoot. Adam Waring plays with his food…

Project three: Essential gear skills I like big bokeh • Mike Harris shows you how to turn your Christmas tree lights into a festive bokeh-filled backdrop

Project four: Affinity Photo Boost with blend modes • James Paterson shows off a host of tricks for enhancing your scenes with layer blend modes in Affinity Photo

Project five: Adobe CC Make a Christmas wreath • James Paterson shows you how to create a design for your own Christmas cards in Photoshop CC

Project Six: The big project Light-painted portraits • James paterson reveals how to create surreal portraits with a fibre-optic paint brush

Prepare to paint • GET SET UP FOR LONG-EXPOSURE LIGHT PAINTING IN A DARK ROOM

Light brush skills

Enhance your paintings • USE SIMPLE TOOLS IN PHOTOSHOP TO BOOST YOUR PORTRAITS OR COMBINE SEVERAL FRAMES INTO ONE

WHAT HI*FI?

Lofoten light • Some locations in the world look so much better when photographed in the winter, and the Lofoten Islands are no exception

Steve Schapiro • Now 87, Steve Schapiro is one of the last surviving photographers of America’s ‘golden age of photojournalism’. Keith Wilson hears how he learnt his craft from W. Eugene Smith, became immersed in covering the civil rights movement, and why he always carried five Nikon cameras when shooting for LIFE …

Untold stories • Renowned German fashion and supermodel photographer Peter Lindbergh’s life’s work laid bare in a self-curated exhibition

WIN! A copy of Affinity Photo

Readers’ letters We’d • love to hear your thoughts on the mag and all things photographic! You can write to us, message us or share your images in the following ways:

Pickup lines • Travel and street photographer David Hicks explores the streets of Antigua, Guatemala, using an unusual form of local transport…

Crowd pleasers •...