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

Digital Camera World

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Fuelling his passion • Alistair Campbell shadows Sam East on a shoot with a Maserati sports car

Using the right lens and the right filter

Preparing the car

Sam’s kitbag for shooting automobiles • Accelerate your automotive photography

Sam’s top tips for photographing cars • Give your automotive images a podium finish every time with these five simple steps

Shooting with prime lenses • Consider getting up close and personal to your subject and capturing your car’s delicious design and interiors

How to create a sense of speed

Use light to maximum effect

The beauty of backlighting • Get out in the soft spring sun and conquer the basics of backlit portraits, says Alistair Campbell

Close to the action • Patience is key to capturing creatures, says Rachel Hannah

Darling buds • Capture emerging spring plants with a macro lens and create dreamy DoF effects

Spring clean 101 • Dust off the winter cobwebs and give your sensor a little bit of love

Try an unlimited phone plan • Fiona Georgeson Powell gets smart with her Huawei to shoot colourful urban scenes

Put a ring on it • You can shoot portraits with one simple LED light, says Alistair Campbell

Try cross-processing • Create interesting and unpredictable colour shifts for exciting results, with Ben Hawkins

The Isle of Skye • There’s no need to chase the light and rush your landscape photography, says Nick Hanson

The focus stack endgame • Concluding our two-part focus stack project, here’s how to edit the images together in Lightroom and Photoshop

Deerly beloved • Put some spring into your step and capture roe deer, says Ben Sutcliffe

The art of seeing • Embracing vertical orientation, Benedict Brain rediscovers the joy of making diptychs

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Hotshots • The winners from the International Garden Photographer of the Year 2023 awards

FRESH & NEW WAYS TO CAPTURE SPRING • As the natural world comes back to life, it’s time to reap the abundant visual rewards that the new season has to offer, says James Abbott

1 Capture a classic • Use your macro lens to focus on the intricate details of garden and woodland flowers

2 Add a wintery twist to your still life • Freeze springtime flowers to create a unique indoor photo

Make the block of ice glow • Use creative lighting to capture flower and ice detail

3 Not to be mist • Take advantage of the weather conditions that are typical of the season at this time of year

4 Shoot waterfalls and streams • Take advantage of the lush foliage and often crystal-clear water that we experience at this time of year

5 Look for abstraction • Capture dreamy images of flowers using a macro lens

6 Dynamic blur with ICM • Follow these simple steps and capture great results every time

7 If you go down to the woods today… • Capture a woodland bluebell carpet for a quintessential spring scene

8 Capture fantastic bird...