Photography Week

There’s a whole new world just waiting to be discovered with your camera – all it requires is a macro lens, or even budget-friendly macro accessories. This will help you get closer to everyday items, and transform them into extraordinary photographs

These nifty reflectors have a hole in the middle that’s large enough for you to poke a lens through while bouncing light back onto your subject. Editing software such as Photoshop CC is ideal for enhancing your macro images with exposure and colour t

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Nikon has announced two new Z-series telephoto zooms, the Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR super-telephoto and the Z 70-180mm f/2.8, a fast all-purpose telephoto zoom. Starting with the Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR, this lens had actually been listed as a 200-60

Macro is a specialised field of photography that draws on a whole assortment of specialised kit to help you take better close-up pictures, from LED lighting to illuminate your tiny subjects, to focusing rails that allow you to incrementally adjust yo

You’d be amazed at the detail of some of the tiny creatures and critters that visit your garden, and getting close with a macro lens will enable you to capture that detail. Here, we’ll look at some useful tips for photographing insects. It’s always w

Achieving a totally sharp shot can be much more difficult when shooting macro photography because your depth of field becomes more shallow as your subject gets closer to the front of your lens. This means that even a relatively narrow aperture of f/1

Some cameras, like Canon’s EOS R5 and R6, have a focus bracketing mode that rapidly fires off a sequence of shots, changing the focus distance by a small amount in between frames. Focus bracketing will increase the chance of getting a shot in which t

While dedicated macro lenses are ideal, and essential if you want to shoot macro professionally, you can still achieve fantastic results with other lenses, such as a Lensbaby or a standard telephoto that can focus at a reasonably close distance. Here

As the name suggests, a focus limiter is a useful feature included on many macro lenses. It allows you to lock the focus distance to a range of preset distances, which comes in handy if you know you’re going to be shooting a subject just a few centim

When shooting on sunny days, harsh sunlight can cause haze and a loss of clarity, so it’s worth using a lens hood to make sure your images have maximum contrast and sharpness. Some lenses don’t come with a lens hood, and buying one can cost at least

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Set up your camera on a sturdy tripod with a focusing slider rail attached to the tripod head. Now, frame up on your subject at your desired magnification and focus so that the closest part of your subject is sharp. Go into Manual mode to lock the se

“This is one of my nephews’ pets. The photo was taken in Crosby, Texas.” https://bit.ly/3CziEHM “This image is from a series called ‘Beautiful Junk’. I have a love for all things old and rusted; I am drawn to the unique textures. All the images in th

The CEWE Photo Award is the world’s largest photo competition of its kind based on the number of entries, and we’ve been given a sneak preview of some of the more than half a million images that have been submitted to the 2023 contest, ahead of the a

www.dxo.com £115/$129 (£69/$79 upgrade) While many swear by Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom, in terms of raw processing they aren’t actually the best tools around. Adobe’s raw engine does a good job with colour profiles, AI masking, tonal adjustments

N-Photo is a monthly magazine for Nikon photographers, and is packed with technique and Photoshop video lessons every month. http://bit.ly/3atHLfO https://apple.co/2TNE26T PhotoPlus is a monthly magazine for Canon photographers that features expert

Festivals offer lots of great opportunities to cut your teeth as a music photographer. Big-name headline acts share the stage with lesser-known groups and singers, and as well as the performers there are all manner of sights that are worth capturing

There are lots of tools that can help your images to pop out of the screen or from a printed page, but few have as instant an effect as Clarity. Available in Camera Raw and Lightroom, Clarity works by increasing the contrast in midtones, the range of