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***

Welcome to issue 147

This issue’s special contributors…

The London look • Our apprentice photographs a model in an urban setting with portrait pro Darren Boyd

PRO PORTFOLIO DARREN BOYD

LIGHTBOX • Our favourite Nikon images from the International Garden Photographer of the Year contest

READER OFFER FREE LOWEPRO PASSPORT DUO * • Take out a subscription to N-Photo: The Nikon Magazine and get 13 issues per year direct to your door, plus a Lowepro Passport Duo bag worth £29.99 for carrying your Nikon gear…

Whatever the weather! • From the gloomy winter months to the height of summer, there’s never a bad time to be out and about with your camera. Edyta Rice shows you how to make the best of the conditions, whatever the four seasons may throw at you…

Altered images • When The Rolling Stones told us ‘You can’t always get what you want,’ they probably weren’t thinking about landscape photography

Flight School • Stop winging it! Learn how to photograph birds in the air like wildlife pro Andrew Mason

All winds and weathers • Are you a fair-weather photographer? Mike Harris shows you how to take top scenic shots when it’s wet

Ticket to ride • Dallian Macadam takes the long-exposure express through Rainbow Bridge

Stars in their eyes • James Paterson makes a cosmic composite in Affinity Photo using a portrait and a celestial shot from NASA

Pep up your landscapes • Jon Adams enhances a scene using Adobe CC’s Sky Replacement tool and our free Skies Kit

Cool to be warm • Discover the mind-bending brilliance of colour correction gels with James Paterson

Back issues • Missed an issue? All our back issues are available digitally and selected issues in print at www.magazinesdirect.com/nph/singleissues

THE N-PHOTO INTERVIEW Robert Canis

NIGHT FLOWERS • THERE IS MUCH MORE TO LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY THAN CAPTURING WIDE-ANGLE VISTAS, AS ROBERT DISCOVERED WHILE EXPLORING A LOCAL WOODLAND AT TWILIGHT…

Hidden in plain sight • Street photographer Livingston Armytage documents the plight of homeless people living on the streets of downtown Sydney

Readers’ letters

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2023 • The search for the world’s best Nikon photographer of 2023 begins! Each issue the monthly N-Photo POTY 2023 photo contest’s top 10 images are selected by the N-Photo team. This issue’s competition has the theme of still life photography…

WIN! A Nikon Z9 • The overall winner of N-Photo’s Photographer of the Year 2023 will receive the grand prize of a Nikon Z 9!

NIKOPEDIA • The only camera manual you’ll ever need…

Expose to the right • Make the best use of your Nikon’s sensor by using exposure compensation function

Ask Matthew… • Our resident Nikon expert Matthew Richards answers your questions and solves your problems. If you have a Nikon-related question, email it to mail@nphotomag.com

Play the long game • David Spencer went from taking snaps on his mobile phone to creating masterful long exposures of the Welsh countryside

GearZone • New gear, buying advice and the world’s toughest tests

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