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1 HOUR If you’re shooting a popular location after hours you might have to share the space with a fellow photographer or two, but with a little common sense it’s not difficult to work around each other. However, visit a popular location in the middle of the day and you’ll often have to contend with crowds of sightseers. If you’re intent on capturing a people free photo of a scene you have two options: wait and hope for a lull in the flow of visitors, or remove each and every offender in post. The former is preferable if you’re happy to wait, but during the hour we spent at Glastonbury Tor in south-west England the flow of visitors never let up. The obvious remedy in post is to use Photoshop’s…

THE NIKON Z 24-200MM F/4-6.3 VR Some of the latest lenses for mirrorless full-frame cameras that we’ve seen over the last three years have been significantly better than the older DSLR-based siblings. Superzooms are no exception, and the Nikon Z 24-200mm, Canon RF 24-240mm and Tamron 28-200mm all deliver excellent image quality and all-round performance, albeit with quite a lot of help from in-camera corrections. Either way, they’re superb and enormously versatile lenses for Nikon Z, Canon EOS R and Sony Alpha E-mount cameras respectively. The Nikon Z DX 18-140mm, Fujifilm 18-135mm and Panasonic 14-140mm lenses for crop-sensor cameras aren’t quite as impressive in terms of outright image quality. On the plus side, however, they’re nicely compact and lightweight, making them particularly appealing as travel and walkabout lenses. Again, they’re…

We were pretty impressed by the Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift lens when it came out, and Laowa has now taken the unusual step of producing a ‘red ring’ version of the lens, which offers some refinements over the original ‘blue ring’ version. The optical configuration is the same, but the diaphragm mechanism has changed. The blue ring lens has just five diaphragm blades, but the new red ring version has 14. This has an effect on highlight rendition and bokeh quality. Laowa puts a premium on ‘sunstar’ rendering from the sun, its reflections and other specular highlights, and where the blue ring lens produces five point sunstars, the new red ring lens generates smoother 14-point sunstars. Background bokeh is changed too. The blue ring lens produces hexagonal out-of-focus highlights,…

Built in November 1969, this TVR Tuscan V6 is a classic car lover’s dream, and we wanted to capture the beautiful flowing lines in a magazine-style photoshoot; however, the car’s usual home, a suburban garage, didn’t really work as an appropriately stylish backdrop. Ideally, we’d have brought the car into a studio and lit it with a dozen flashes, but we didn’t have a huge studio or a dozen flashes – but, as you’ll discover in this video tutorial, it’s possible to get the high-quality studio car look without a studio. Instead we can call on two of a photographer’s most powerful tools: Photoshop and flash lighting. By lighting the car with flash, we’re able to overpower the natural light so that it plays a minimal role in the exposure,…

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INSPIRING QUOTES Wisdom from the masters of photography PRO TIPS Advice from top working photographers CAMERA CRAFT TIPS Shooting skills with Marcus Hawkins PHOTO EDITING TIPS Photoshop techniques with Jon Adams PHOTO EDITING Techniques and smart shortcuts for Photoshop 1 HIDE SELECTION EDGES If the dotted line of a selection is making it difficult to see an adjustment you’re making, press H to hide the ‘marching ants’ so you can see the effect of your edits without any distractions. Pressing H again will reveal the selection. 2 LOSE YOUR PALETTES To focus on your image without the clutter of the various panels and tools, press Tab to hide these. To restore them, press Tab again. To hide everything except the Toolbox, press Shift+Tab. 3 GO FULL-SCREEN To see your image…

The winners of the inaugural Storm Photos of the Year competition have been announced – and we’re amazed that someone didn’t think of creating a contest for storm photography long ago, such are the varied and dramatic possibilities for images that capture the weather at its most extreme. The overall winner of the 2021 contest was Alexis Maillard, for his strikingly composed and (naturally) perfectly timed photo of a lightning strike in France’s Chardonnay region (above, top-left), which he captured after briefly leaving the safety of his car during a thunderstorm. Prizes were awarded in three categories: Photo of the Year, Tornado Photo of the Year and Photographer of the Year, judged on a portfolio of 10 images. Click the link to see more winning and placed photos, to learn…

Whether you’re taking casual shots on a walkabout break or travelling to the ends of the Earth, nobody really wants to be weighed down by a big bag of lenses. A so-called ‘superzoom’ lens offers an all-in-one solution, typically covering everything from useful wide-angle coverage to powerful telephoto reach at the twist of a zoom ring. As well as enabling you to adapt to pretty much any shooting scenario, it also ensures that you won’t miss any definitive moments because you were changing the lens on your camera at the time. Sticking to just one lens might seem counter-intuitive if you’ve bought a system camera that takes interchangeable lens; and historically, superzooms were notorious for being a poor substitute for using the right tool for the job, with their oversized…