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 143

Shock stock • Our unsuspecting apprentice takes a step into the weird world of macabre maestro Rick Jones and his little studio of horrors

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LIGHTBOX • Our favourite Nikon images from the Bird Photographer of the Year 2022 competition

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7 reasons to use a tripod • …and low light isn’t one of them! Steve Davey outlines seven reasons why always carrying a tripod can give you more creative choices and help you to take better photos

Shooting a panorama • Using a tripod to shoot a panorama will give you a much higher success rate, maintaining the height of the pano and eliminating camera shake

Create Blur • With a tripod you can use a long exposure to photograph moving water, or people or traffic and create spectacular blur effects that help convey a sense of movement

Multiple exposures • Using a tripod gives you plenty of options for multiple exposure techniques, such as shooting parts of a scene at different shutter speeds to later combine in Photoshop

High Dynamic Range • Shooting High Dynamic Range photographs can be useful when you need to balance extreme contrasts in a scene that are greater than your Nikon’s sensor can cope with

Astrophotography • If you want to capture stunning photographs of the sky at night, you’ll find a tripod is an absolute essential for astrophotography

Focus stacking • Combining images with different focus settings is a way to achieve a greater depth of field

Removing people • Here’s a handy trick to magically make people disappear from your shots, as long as they keep on moving…

Celebrate your successes! • Running a photography business is a mix of highs and lows – learning how to focus on the positive, rather than dwelling on the problems, can make all the difference

NikonSkills • Ingenious recipes for stunning shots

Project one: Core skills What’s on the menu? • Adam Waring shows you how to set up your Nikon so all your frequently accessed settings are in one place

Project two: Creative techniques Ghoul school • Who ya gonna call when ya wanna create a series of hoax-worthy pics? N-Photo’s ghostbuster Mike Harris…

Project three: Essential gear skills Bit of a long shot • Mike Harris ditches his wide-angle zoom and uses a telephoto lens to capture landscapes from a hilltop

Project four: Affinity Photo Learn to dodge and burn • James Paterson shows you how to give your landscapes the edge by enhancing the important details

Project five: Adobe CC Create painterly Impressionist-style images • Turn your photos into Impressionist masterpieces in Photoshop with this issue’s gift

Project Six: The big project Made with love • James Paterson gets creative with baby photography and creates stunning composites with playful backdrops

DISCOVER THE UNIVERSE

Above the mist • Misty mornings can provide a wealth of photographic material, especially climbing a mountain to capture an inversion

Carolyn Mendelsohn • Photography was the farthest thing from...