8/29/2023

Amateur Photographer

Amateur Photographer is the world's oldest weekly magazine for photography enthusiasts

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Welcome
We live in a beautiful world teeming with magnificent creatures – though sadly less teeming than it once was. It’s no wonder that wildlife is among the most popular genres of photography both to do and to consume (Sir David Attenborough has made a ca
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This Issue’s Contributors
The editor of several acclaimed photo books interviews pros who share tips on British wildlife The photographer and travel writer talks to pros from African countries who share their wildlife insights The top photo tutor discusses which you should pi
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MPB Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced
FOUR cameras and a drone have been inducted into the 2023 MPB Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame which was announced by the major used camera-gear retailer on World Photography Day, the 19th of August. A team of industry pundits put together a shortlis
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Buy A Calendar, Help The Homeless
THE MYLONDON calendar, produced by photographers who have recent experience of homelessness, is pre-selling online in order to help fund a bigger project to get participants off the streets. The project has been running since 2013, and was championed
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Group Effort
THIS powerful group portrait by Australian photographer Forough Yavari has won the 2023 International Portrait Photographer of the Year competition. As well as citing the influence of Rembrandt, Goya, Delacroix and other old masters, Yavari’s biggest
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Third-party RF-mount lenses? Maybe…
IN A recent interview with the Chinese social media giant, weibo. com, Canon revealed it’s in discussion with third-party makers about licensing the RF mount for AF lenses – at the moment you can only get Canon-branded glass. ‘Now if we receive a req
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Say Hello To Cyanbird
BENRO has announced a new lightweight, travel-friendly tripod called the Cyanbird. Where the firm’s other travel tripods use reverse-folding legs for a compact folded length, the Cyanbird adopts flattened leg sections and a trigonal centre column, wh
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Major Portrait Prize Shortlist Revealed
THE FIVE shortlisted photographers in the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 have been announced by organisers the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). And the overall winner of this prestigious contest will be revealed on 6 November. The first pri
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Powerful New Wireless Mic
MAJOR microphone maker Rode has announced a ‘groundbreaking’ wireless mic system for filmmakers and content creators, the Wireless PRO. Key features include 2.4GHz digital transmission with 128-bit encryption designed for clear audio recording within
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Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith
£55, Getty Publications, hardback, 256 pages, ISBN: 9781606068465 From its cover, you might think this is the work of another mid-century black & white photographer. And while there’s just something about the era that makes it seemingly endlessly cap
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Books & exhibitions
£40, GOST, hardcover, 128 pages, ISBN: 9781910401965 Prior to starting a new life in the UK, photographer Wong Chung-Wai wandered Hong Kong alone to create memories and imprints of the things he’d be able to take with him. This book is designed to sh
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It's Good To Share
Fujifilm X-T5, Fujifilm XF 18-135mm at 135mm, 1/150sec at f/5.6, ISO 400 ‘This feather grass was growing in a pot in the back garden, and I was drawn to its flowing lines, highlighted in the sunshine. The whiteness of the wisps reminded me of a cyano
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Top Used Cameras And Lenses For Wildlife
Wildlife photography is one of the more demanding genres of photography, but also hugely rewarding. Even better, you don’t need to travel to some far-flung destination, as even if you live in a city, there is urban wildlife to photograph, or a nature
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Amateur Photographer Of The Year
Around 84 per cent of the UK’s population lives in urban environments. As such, the vast majority of us are surrounded by architecture in all its myriad forms – be that a view of a 1930s suburban street or the sight of an ultra-modern city skyline, a
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Email ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk Editorial Group Editor Nigel Atherton Deputy Editor Geoff Harris Technical Editor Andy Westlake Features Editor Amy Davies Technique Editor Hollie Latham HuckerOnline Editor Joshua WallerDeputy Online Editor Jessica MillerO
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Inbox
In 1918 Sinn Fein won 73 out of 103 seats in the election held in all of Ireland. Before the treaty was signed Lloyd George threatened ‘immediate and terrible war’. A system was set up in the North of Ireland with massive discrimination in housing, b
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Local Guardians
Wildlife photo holidays and safaris continue to enjoy growing popularity among Britain’s photographers, and there’s no denying the excitement and memories that such experiences provide. But many of the professionals who lead these trips also stress t
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The Quest For The Perfect Bear By Paul Souders
Although Paul Souders lives in the big American city of Seattle on the Pacific northwest coast, that doesn’t mean you can expect to find him there most days, or even assume that he’s easy to track down. When I contact him to find out the back story t
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A Deeper Understanding
‘The longer you spend in an area, the more that it reveals its rhythms and its essence,’ says photographer and TV presenter Jonathan Scott. He’s talking about the Maasai Mara in Kenya. But the same lesson applies to any wildlife location. ‘Over time,
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Diving With Sharks
Being attacked by a shark would put many people off going back into the ocean. But for Hawaiian surfer Mike Coots, 44, the near-death experience led to a new life as an underwater photographer working to understand and to help protect the majestic bu
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A Bird In The Hand
Earlier this year, we featured the work of the UK winner of the EISA Maestro competition. Angi Wallace is in contention to take home the overall prize at a ceremony taking place in September. In the meantime, there were also some excellent portfolios
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16 Essential Accessories For Wildlife Photographers
● £220 ● www.arcteryx.com Not everyone’s happy to wear leather or animal products these days, for plenty of good reasons. Arc’teryx Acrux GTX Boot is a heavy-duty trekking boot but it’s surprisingly lightweight, suitable for being out all day in chal
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Object Removal And Retouching In Affinity
The world isn’t always as tidy as we’d like it to be. Sometimes there’s a lot more in the frame than the subject we’re trying to photograph, and while a little careful cropping might help, it’s often not the answer. That’s certainly true of this phot
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Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome
Two years ago, Ricoh Imaging released the Pentax K-3 Mark III, a high-end APS-C DSLR aimed squarely at enthusiast photographers. It turned out to be a very capable camera indeed, combining fine handling, robust build, and impressive image quality. No
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Vanguard Veo City CB29 Cross Body Bag
● £109.99 ● vanguardworld.co.uk Sitting in the middle of Vanguard’s VEO City range, the 6-litre CB29 is ideal for carrying enough kit for everyday or travel usage, without getting bogged down with the excessive weight a larger bag can tempt you to br
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Professor Newman On… Patent Hunting
If someone wants to know the details of how something works, then very often the best source is a patent. A patent is a deal between an inventor and the state. In return for a guaranteed monopoly for a period (up to 20 years) the inventor makes publi
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Buying Guide
Interchangeable lenses come in a huge array of types for shooting different kinds of subjects IN GENERAL, the easiest way to expand the kinds of pictures you can take is by buying different types of lenses. For example, telephoto lenses let you zoom
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Final Analysis
I was born with a lazy left eye. It wasn’t the left eye’s fault. It was so bad it could peer round corners. Treatment for a lazy eye should ideally start before age seven, when vision is still developing. As soon as it was practical, my fully functio

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