Amateur Photographer

Girls evacuated from Ilford celebrate Shrove Tuesday with a traditional pancake toss. This year, Shrove Tuesday falls on 16 February. The word ‘shrove’ comes from the Old English word ‘shrive’, meaning ‘absolve’. In the Middle Ages, a bell would be r

Fujifilm XT2, 35mm lens, 1/125sec at f/2, ISO 1250 Paul is based in Manchester and says his work sits somewhere between street, architecture and fine art. ‘This image was made in the Mayfield area of Manchester, a yet-to-be-redeveloped industrial pa

FUJIFILM has announced the latest addition to its X-E range of rangefinderstyle mirrorless cameras. Billed as the most portable model in the X-series line-up, it employs the same 26.1 MP X-Trans CMOS 4 sensor and X-Processor 4 as the flagship X-T4. I

FUJIFILM has released its fourth medium-format mirrorless model, the GFX100S. This places the best features of the two-year-old GFX100 into a smaller, lighter and much more affordable body. It features the same 102MP sensor measuring 43.8mm x 32.9mm

SONY has announced a new flagship full-frame mirrorless camera, the Alpha 1. It offers remarkable headline specs, being capable of shooting at 30 frames per second at 50.1MP resolution. It also offers a sensitivity range of ISO 50-102,400, while prom

We’ve come a long way from being able to try cameras and lenses in camera stores to being offered free loan incentives from different manufacturers. Photographers who’d like to try before they buy have never had it so good. I always find it fascinati

Mary Ellen Mark was a highly influential and respected photographer during her 50-year-plus working career, which spanned from the mid-1960s till her death in 2015. She was a pioneer in the art of empathy and embedding herself with her subjects – fro

A bleak scene contrasted with the happy message, ‘Welcome to Paradise’. Paradise is a Chinese restaurant that has been closed for some years. Fujifilm X-Pro3, 50mm, 1/450sec at f/4, ISO 320 I thought this view evoked the increasing feeling of urban

Kingsley Singleton Kingsley Singleton is an experienced photographer, tutor, and writer with decades of experience in shooting technique and image editing. Specialising in landscapes, nature and travel subjects, he lives in Lincolnshire but likes to

Bristol-based Esther began as a runner for TV and film production companies, eventually directing episodes of Doctors, Hollyoaks and Skins. She continued with her personal photography alongside. During lockdown, she has been sending out ‘photography

Ragnar Axelsson’s interest in photography dates back to his childhood when he would regularly peruse his father’s collection of photography-led magazines. He recalls, ‘My first impression of great photographers was when I was looking through magazine

I first came across Max Waugh’s work during the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Gala Dinner. As the black & white category has subsequently been dropped from the competition, this image could arguably be called the reigning champion. Monochrom

This unassuming ‘Yorkshire lad’ – to use his words, not mine – is perhaps not the face (or voice) you expect to be behind the work shown here. Sexy, provocative, and perhaps even crossing the line into inappropriate, his images are designed to make y

When it comes to converting images to black & white there are lots of options available to you. Over the next few pages we’ll explore some of the best tools for black & white in Adobe’s photography range. Whether you use Lightroom, Photoshop or Eleme

Ask Fujifilm users what their favourite lens is and you’re likely to get a variety of different answers. Ask the same question to users of X-series cameras who have a love for portraiture, reportage or candid photography and there’s one lens that’ll

Richard Fox has been a photographer for eight years and lives in Stirling in Scotland. See more of his work at www.richardfox photography.com, or on Instagram @richard_fox_ photography. AP. Tell us about your photography background RF: I started la

● £59 ● www.hahnel.ie The kit is supplied with six colour filters, namely blue, green, purple, red, orange and yellow. This attaches securely to the magnetic clamp. The lantern diffuser is also magnetised for quick and easy removal. Users will need a

Cameras come in three types: DSLRs with optical viewfinders, mirrorless models with electronic viewing, and compact cameras with non-interchangeable lenses DSLRs traditionally have relatively large handgrips, while many mirrorless models have much sm

Working as a professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the chemistry department of the University of Patras in Greece, Vassilis Tangoulis is rather fond of experiments. Around 15 years ago he developed a passion for black & white photography, and started p