Project five: Adobe CC - Add starbursts to shots

Jon Adams shows how to use this issue's brush kit to pep up low-light shots, or create your own starbursts

Project four: Affinity Photo - Perfect patterns

James Paterson demonstrates how to map a pattern onto clothes and get to grips with Affinity Photo's powerful Displace filter

Project one: Core skills - Delayed reaction

Mike Harris explains how to reduce bad vibes and capture super-sharp long exposures every time

Project Six: The big project - Drive-by shooting

James Paterson shows you how to shoot portraits in a car, safely, with beautiful blurred motion

Project three: Essential gear skills - Level-headed landscapes

Ensure your horizons are perfectly horizontal with a levelling base. Adam Waring gets his head around it…

Project five: Adobe CC: Magic mushrooms

Craft a fantastical composite and learn key compositing skills in Photoshop CC with James Paterson

Far from the madding crowd

Sometimes you need to break from the crowds of photographers to find peace and tranquillity

Project four: Photoshop CC: Create black-and-white masterpieces in seconds

Jon Adams shows you how to produce a variety of classic mono A4 or A3 prints with our custom-made templates

Project two: Crea tive techniques: Here come the swirls

Mike Harris uses a torch, some string and coloured filters to ‘paint’ mesmerizing geometric patterns

Project three: Essen tialgear skills: Top tips for using filters

Mike Harris tells of seven tricks that will help ensure your filter collection is used to its full potential

Project Six: The big project: The ultra-macro bug

James Paterson demonstrates how to shoot detailed insect photos using extension tubes and focus stacking

Project one: Core skills: Freeze fast subjects

Mike Harris details the basics to capturing speeding subjects and proves camera kit needn’t be a barrier

George Karbus

George Karbus has become one of Europe’s best-known photographers of underwater wildlife. He tells Keith Wilson about the joys of surfing, freediving and making a film about a very special dolphin…

Creative minds

Photography guru James Paterson treats our apprentice to a crash course in creative lighting

Off the beaten path

Anju Mishra prefers the road less travelled as she uses her camera to both document and experience an India that’s seldom seen

50 ways to...Shoot spring!

GET OUT AND ABOUT WITH YOUR CAMERA WITH ROSS HODDINOTT’S 50 HAND-PICKED TIPS TO SHOOT THE MOST COLOURFUL OF SEASONS…

Paul Wilkinson's Top 25... Portrait tips and tricks

Taking perfect portraits can be hard work and there’s so much information out there, but pro photographer Paul Wilkinson guides us through this huge genre with his pearls of wisdom

The ultimate plate spinner

Running a photography business is like running any other company. But you have fewer people. Probably just one: you and a few plates to spin…

Street smarts

Our apprentice views London through the ultra-wide-angle lens of urban pro Ben Moore

Help me buy… a digital frame

With an electronic photo frame you can show your entire image library

Tree's company

Nature-loving photographer Adrian Houston tells of his mission to photograph trees beloved by famous faces

Nikon Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S £2699/$2697

The Z 100-400mm VR S is the first supertelephoto lens in Nikon’s Z-mount line-up, but is it worth the hefty price-tag?

Living on the edge of a volcano

Tom goes in search of colour in the Greek island of Santorini, but he didn’t have to look far as the colour eventually came to him

N Photo PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2022

The search for the world’s best Nikon photographer of 2022 begins! Each issue the monthly N-Photo POTY 2022 photo contest’s top 10 images are selected by the N-Photo team. This issue’s competition has the theme of still life photography…

García de Marina

The conceptual images of García de Marina are proof that surrealism in photography is thriving well beyond the work of the 20th Century masters who pioneered the genre. Keith Wilson finds out how he creates his unique, witty and thought-provoking photographs…

Frame your landscapes with organic borders

Jon Adams shows you how to use your collection of hand-made edge effects in Photoshop CC

New depths

James Paterson shows how to utilize the Depth Blur filter in Photoshop and blur out a distracting backdrop

LIGHTBOX

Our favourite Nikon images from the Environmental Photographer of the Year competition

Isabelle Bacher

The lure of the remote and barren landscape of Arctic Norway has proven irresistible to Isabelle Bacher. The Austrian architect and photographer explains to Keith Wilson why she moved there for five years and what keeps her coming back for more…

Imagination versus technique

Photographic technique is all very well but, at the end of the day, it’s your imagination that creates something that has a real impact