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”Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own,” writer Charles Dickens once said. And while winter has provided us with its own share of photo opportunities, now comes the promise of spring. Spring brings with it longer daylight hou

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Shutterstock has released the 10th Anniversary Edition of its annual Creative Trends Report. Aligning with events of 2020, there is a demand for inclusion and representation, with searches such as non-binary 2,300% up. Users are also searching for au

Photographer’s name: Amak Mahmoodian Website: www.amakmahmoodian.co.uk/Zanjir Instagram: @amakmahmoodian Image location: Tehran, Iran Type of commission: Personal Shot details: Nikon FM2 About the shot: Zanjir is a labour of love for Amak. She start

UK-based travel and landscape pro Kav shoots on assignment for editorial and commercial clients, and stock for high-end agencies. He has written over 400 articles on photography, judges a major travel photo contest, and leads tours and workshops worl

So often landscape photography is seen as purely ‘scenic’ imaging, concentrating exclusively on wide vistas encompassing panoramic detail. When mentioning the term many people immediately think of wide-angle shots of Yosemite, the Grand Canyon or an

A 70-200mm or 70-300mm lens is ideal for picking out details in the landscape, and compressing perspective to bring elements closer in the frame. Models with a ‘macro’ function are useful for isolating larger flowers, buds or leaves. This might seem

A neutral density filter is handy for shooting in spring, where low sunlight can make achieving longer exposures difficult. Shooting at f/11 with a filter balances image quality with visible motion. To achieve higher magnifications than your lens’s

Due to the composition challenges of springtime, an ultra-wide lens is not always the best option for inland scenes. Instead opt for a 24-70mm or similar, which will provide a wide look at the short end but with less foreground stretching. An 18-200

Replacing the sky is a basic use of Photoshop, and it always comes in handy if you are working in Lightroom to just jump into Photoshop and change the sky. But as you may know, there is a new feature in Photoshop that can be used to do this. Here we

Our editing skills series is from photo-editing expert and photographer Serge Ramelli. Serge has over 615,000 YouTube followers, and full learning courses on his website. Discover his Photoshop and Lightroom tutorials each issue.Visit www.photoserge.

Make a list Think about everything that you want to accomplish this year and write a list. Marketing? Branding? Improving your Photoshop skills? I find that writing down your goals is an important first step. Prioritise your goals Next, order these

Beata Moore is a professional photographer and author. Currently she is finalising her latest book, Photographing Surrey and Sussex, which will be available for purchase in the first part of 2021. How much of your income comes from selling stock im

Helle: One of our greatest expeditions was looking for wolves in British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada. The wolf is an icon of how strong nature is. It’s been hunted since the dawn of time. It was a shot in the dark to say, “Let’s sail for a

You can use a brush to dodge and burn, adding exposure and painting over the highlighted area of the photo. One key point is to set the Flow and Density between 60 and 80, otherwise at a 100 it will be very obvious, and the effect will destroy your p

45.7 8,256 x 5,504 Full-frame (35.9 x 23.9mm) CMOS 1/8,000 to 30sec, Bulb, Time 64-25,600, expandable to 32-102,400 Auto, Program, Shutter Priority,AperturePriority, Manual Matrix, Centre-weighted, Spot, Highlight-weighted Hot-shoe mounted: front-cur

MacBooks come with a choice of Intel Core processors, or Apple’s new M1 chip, found in the MacBook Pro M1 and MacBook Air M1. This chip can rival high-end Intel processors for speed, while giving you longer battery life. The more RAM you have, the fa

If anything has been proved over the past year or so, it’s that our ability to connect to people via the internet is more important than ever. Social media has shown itself to be a fundamental aspect of communication during the lockdowns – not only e