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A kit lens is an optic that comes bundled with cameras that have interchangeable lenses, such as a DSLR or mirrorless model. A typical kit lens is an 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, which most brands offer for bodies with a cropped APS-C sensor. The focal length of kit lenses will change depending on the sensor size; for example Panasonic offers a 12-60mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens for its Micro Four Thirds bodies. The purpose of a kit lens is to provide versatility, with a zoom range covering wide-angle to short telephoto. While a kit lens is a jack-of-all-trades, it is a master of just one – sharp shots, as the aperture rating of a kit lens is quite restrictive when it comes capturing a shallow to depth of field. This makes kit lenses…

1 OLD PRIME LENS Older lenses with manual rings for both the aperture and focus can be handy when using a reversing ring. Most modern lenses don’t have an aperture ring, so the aperture either opens or closes fully when detached, giving you little control over depth of field. Here, we’re using an Olympus 50mm f/1.8 Zuiko lens that cost £10 from a charity shop. 2 REVERSING RING Buy a reversing ring with the correct mount for your camera, as well as the corresponding filter thread of the lens you wish to use it with. Screw it into the front filter thread and attach it to your camera. Reversing rings can be found online from as little as £13/$13 – a fraction of the price of a macro lens. 3…

This head-turning effect may look like it was created entirely in post-production, but it’s less complicated than that. To achieve it, you’ll need to get hold of a glass prism, which can easily be found in all shapes and sizes and to suit all budgets on sites like eBay and Amazon. A 4-inch glass prism can be sourced from eBay for less than £10/$10, and is a great way to get started. If you like the prism technique, you may want to upgrade to a Fractal Filters Classic 3-pack, which is more versatile but comes with a premium at $119. Bear in mind that the prism needs to be long enough to cover the whole front element of your lens (for most 35mm, 50mm and 85mm prime lenses, the 4-inch…

EASY STILL LIFE IDEAS TO TRY AT HOME Here are some quick still-life ideas to try at home, using everyday household items that you’re likely to have already, and wich won’t break the bank If the weather takes a turn for the worse, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered! Try one of these still-life setups, which can easily be shot indoors on a rainy afternoon with basic camera kit and a few household items… This dramatic high-speed coffee splash shot is easy to achieve at home, although it’s inevitably messy, so it might be worth attempting this in your garage or the garden. To get started, place a cup of coffee on a table, and add some set dressing by adorning the scene with some hessian cloth and a few…

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Few things are better than capturing a landscape in the perfect light; but often we’re met with less-than-perfect conditions, dull skies and flat light, and this can be a great opportunity to try flash painting. Using off-camera flash, you can pick out details, and highlight the contours in a scene. You can also include a figure – or yourself if you’re shooting solo – in the shot to create a point of interest while holding up your light, as we’ve done here. You don’t necessarily need an expensive flash for this, almost any flashgun will do. Firing the flash off-camera is essential, so you’ll need a wireless trigger and receiver to activate it, but these can also be picked up very cheaply. Twilight can be the best time to head…

If you’re heading out to shoot at night – perhaps to capture stars or city scenes – then don’t forget to take a torch with you. Not only will you need it for practical reasons, but you can also use it as a light to lift parts of the scene. Simply set up your camera on a tripod, and set an exposure that lasts for a few seconds. Then fire the shutter, and use your torch to paint different parts of the nocturnal scene. Here we used our torch to light the tree from the side, while shooting a series of 30-second exposures for a star trail image (with each frame blended with the Lighten mode, just as we’ve done in the steps above). As with flash painting, you’ll tend…

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OM Digital Solutions has unveiled its new flagship Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera, the OM System OM-1 Mark II, an AI-powered all-rounder that’s the first camera to offer live GND (graduated neutral density) filters. From the outside, the differences from the OM System OM-1 – the last camera to carry the Olympus branding – might be difficult to spot, but under the hood the OM-1 Mark II offers more than double the buffer size for burst shooting, an industry-best 8.5 stops of in-body image stabilisation, improved autofocus performance, and what might be the most exciting new feature on a flagship camera that we’ve seen in a long time: AI-based GND filters. While the software and artificial intelligence have seen some welcome upgrades, in terms of core technology this is essentially…

1 CHOP IT DOWN TO SIZE An old unused tripod was gathering dust, so we decided to give it a second lease of life as a miniature tripod. The first step was to mark out around 10cm (4 inches) for the top leg sections and cut them down to size with a hacksaw. 2 SHORTEN THE CENTRE COLUMN Next, we need to modify the centre column of the tripod so that it doesn’t get in the way when we’re shooting close to the ground. If your tripod has a longer centre column, then simply cut it down to size with the hacksaw. 3 PUT IT ALL TOGETHER Now bond everything together. We used superglue, as the join wouldn’t be load-bearing and it’s ideal for adhering the metal pipes. Finally, we…

Whether you’re taking pictures of wildlife, motorsports or even landscapes, shooting with a long telephoto lens means there’s more risk of camera shake causing blurred images. A 50mm focal length on a full-frame camera gives roughly the same angle of view as the human eye, so any focal length higher than this is more zoomed in and considered to be ‘telephoto’. A 70mm focal length is called a short telephoto, while a 300mm is a long telephoto. The more you zoom in, the more apparent shake and blur will become in your photographs, so image stabilisation can be handy. If you can, it’s worth stabilising your camera with a tripod, monopod or even a beanbag if you’re shooting from a wildlife hide. Most modern cameras and lenses have some form…

Use miniature models to turn a bowl of cereal into a macro swimming pool, or food into a forest, and produce some fun images, too. A macro lens will help you get close to the miniature figures and make them look more life-size, but if you don’t have a macro lens, try our reversing ring hack in project 3. We found that 1:100 scale miniature figures worked well, and as they come in all sorts of themes and colours, and are pretty cheap to purchase online, you could quite easily buy a few packs to experiment with. Carefully position your mini figures around the scene – use a pair of tweezers for extra precision. Set up on a tripod, and use natural light or a little bit of camera flash…

RISING SUN AND WAVES HOWARD PRATT “This image was one of a series I shot as I tried to capture a rolling wave in the distance, in the sunlit area beyond the central rocks, while also having some motion and interest in the shaded area in the foreground.” https://bit.ly/4agEY8E LULU FROM FINAL FANTASY SALVATORE VITALE “I took this photo during the annual Lucca Comics & Games fair, which takes place in Lucca in Tuscany. The model in dressed as the character Lulu from Final Fantasy.” https://bit.ly/3zmSje4 TREE ON A HILL MARIO OTTAVIANI “I was attracted by this beautiful tree growing in arid soil on a hill.” https://bit.ly/3Akm016 CIRCLES OF THE MIND BRUCE ROBERTSON “I took this photo for my weekly challenge, which this particular week was to photograph something that…

1 TRIPOD We set the camera up on a tripod to keep it still, which not only means we can shoot with a slow shutter speed of 1 sec, but also fire off multiple frames from the same position. This allows us to experiment with our flash, lighting the scene from different positions to give us options for exposure blending and compositing. 2 CAMERA SETTINGS Our camera here is set to Manual mode with an exposure of 1 sec, f/11, ISO100. Keep in mind that the shutter speed has no bearing on the effect of the flash, because the burst of flash is incredibly fast; the shutter speed only impacts the ambient exposure, which in this case is the fading daylight. 3 FOCUS AND QUALITY When shooting in low light the autofocus can…

If you want to capture landscape imagses that are packed with detail, you need to try multi-row panoramas. Essentially, the technique involves shooting the scene in a series of overlapping segments, just as you would a regular panorama. But instead of a single row you shoot several rows to create an entire grid of photos, and the longer the lens and the wider the grid, the greater the resolution you can achieve. The individual images are stitched together in Photoshop or a pano stitcher like PTGui. This can give you an astonishing level of detail, allowing you to make a huge print or a wall mural. In this video tutorial we’ll start by looking at the basics of multi-row panoramas, from camera settings to shooting technique. The fundamentals are fairly…

With modern cameras often costing upwards of a couple of thousand pounds or dollars, and many top-flight optics costing the same again, photography can often feel like a pursuit for the well-off. However, in this budget photography feature, we’ll show you that this need not be the case. While many expensive pieces of camera equipment will undoubtedly be worth the asking price for working professionals, where any edge over the competition is vital, this is not something the everyday amateur or enthusiast photographer should feel restricted by. Casual shooters might be surprised by how capable even entry-level modern digital cameras are. Over the next few pages, we’ve assembled 10 projects that can be tackled using an entry-level DSLR or mirrorless camera with a kit lens or budget-friendly optics, such as…

Specialist optics designed for specific tasks, such as macro photography, can command a high price. Sony’s FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS lens costs £849, for example, while Canon’s RF 100mm F2.8L Macro IS USM costs an eye-watering £1,379. While they are undoubtedly brilliant lenses, it isn’t essential to spend such a large amount to capture amazing close-up photos. In this project, I’ll introduce you to reversing rings – inexpensive adapters that fit any lens with a front filter thread. Old prime lenses, such as a 50mm, will also work well and, once attached to your camera body in reverse, will allow you to focus much closer, making macro photography much more accessible. Here’s how to use a reversing ring… PRO SHOT MAGIC MUSHROOMS Depth of field becomes much shallower…

You don’t need to travel to exotic places to bag incredible wildlife photos; you can take top wildlife portraits in your back garden, or, if you don’t have a garden, a nature reserve. To take winning portraits of garden birds, you need to think carefully about where it’s best to place bird feeders, and take into consideration the background and lighting that these places get throughout the day, before setting them up or moving them to a better position. You’ll also need to feed your birds on a regular basis to encourage wildlife into your garden. Set up some mossy logs near the feeders so that the birds have a photogenic place to perch, rather than taking shots of the birds on the feeders themselves, which can look staged. A…

The winners of the 2023 Travel Photographer of the Year contest have been revealed, showcasing spectacular images captured around the globe, and no doubt inspiring many of us to start thinking about our next adventure. Slovenian photographer AndreJa Ravnak was crowned overall winner for her portfolio of images featuring hop growing in Slovenia and rolling fields in the Czech Republic and Italy. Ravnak’s work combines fairytale-like beauty with compositions influenced by her background as an architect. More than 20,000 images were submitted from photographers in 150 countries, with portfolio and single-image prizes awarded in categories including Nature, Wildlife & Conservation, Landscape & Environment. and three Young Travel Photographer categories. Click the link to see all the winning and commended images at the Travel Photographer of the Year website. SEE MORE…

1 PREPARE THE LAYERS First choose the images you’d like to combine – we used four photographs here – then make any changes you like to the entire set using Camera Raw or Lightroom. Once done, Cmd/Ctrl-click to highlight all the images in Adobe Bridge, then go to Tools > Photoshop > Load files into Photoshop Layers. 2 COMBINE BEST BITS Go to the Layers panel and click on the topmost layer. Hold Cmd/Ctrl and click on the third layer down to highlight everything but the bottom layer. Then click the Blending Mode drop-down and select Lighten – this will change the blending mode of each image, so all of the brighter parts are combined. 3 REVEAL THE FIGURE If you want to include a figure in your landscape, drag the layer…

www.leica-camera.com £8,000 /$9,195 All of Leica’s cameras are iconic in their own right, but it’s the M series that perhaps has the most fervent following. Since last year’s reveal of the latest generation of the M-series with the M11, we’ve been waiting for Leica to unveil its usual collection of variations on that core camera. So far we have seen the black-and-white-sensor M11 Monochrom and now we have this generation’s M11-P variant. The Leica M10-P was unique for its focus on a redeveloped silent shutter for quieter street photography or photojournalism, where discretion is paramount. The M11-P is also aimed at these audiences, but a quieter shutter is not the focus of the M11-P. Instead, the camera has a trick that’s to combat the rise in photos being misappropriated by…

Content Credentials is Leica’s big new feature on the M11-P camera, and to use it you simply have to enter your details into the camera – each photo you take from then onwards will have your details coded in. These credentials can be tracked across image-editing software, including Adobe Photoshop, and social media platforms that support the feature, such as X (Twitter). You can also upload images to the Content Authenticity Initiative website to check their credentials. However, as welcome as it is to see camera manufacturers trying to protect photographers’ work, the system just seems too easy to get around at the moment; it remains to be seen how robust the system is, and how widely it will be supported.…