Digital Camera Magazine

Digital Camera is the definitive guide to digital SLR photography and will show you how to improve any digital photo. It’s packed with practical photography advice and Photoshop tutorials to help you become a better digital photographer. With buying advice to help you choose the DSLR, compact system camera, lens, tripod, printer, or camera bag that’s right for you, it covers all DSLRs including Canon EOS/Rebel and Nikon systems. The perfect title for both amateur and pro photographers

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Circuit breakers • We take a reader trackside at the Historic Masters Festival, under the creative eye of Michal Pospisil

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Motorsport photos 101 • Things to bear in mind when you’re shooting at your local racetrack

Expert insight Autofocus

Expert insight Back-button focus

Technique assessment • Top tips for how to bag perfect panning shots – and take it further

Expert insight Exposure

Pro portfolio Michal Pospisil

Photo Active • 10 things you can shoot and create this month, from surfing action to lavender fields and festivals

The art of seeing • Benedict Brain captures a chance encounter with a flying hat in the Namibian desert

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Hotshots • Our selection of images from the category winners of The Event Photography Awards 2025

MASTER THE ART OF MACRO • Learn how to shoot incredible close-up photographs of insects in the field with your expert guide, macro maestro Tony North

PART 1 FIELDCRAFT • Understanding your subject is the key to capturing great images

PART 2 FOCUSING AND SHARPNESS • Master the challenges of macro’s reduced depth of field

PART 3 FOCUS STACKING • If a narrow aperture doesn’t achieve the required sharpness, try focus bracketing

PART 4 EXPOSURE • When fast shutter speeds are required, choice of ISO and aperture are important

PART 5 COMPOSITION • Once you’ve mastered the technical aspects, it’s time to concentrate on the art of macro

Reader gallery • Digital Camera readers show how they’ve been getting creative, submitting images across a range of genres

CAMERA CLINIC • Master the art of modern photography

Get the knowledge • No need to take the kitchen sink on your urban shoots

What to shoot and why • Nine ideas and techniques to inspire your urban journey

Pros and cons Location, location… • Some dos and don’ts when pounding the streets

Shoot photos like a pro • Embrace urban shooting and you’ll never run out of ideas

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Digital Darkroom • Transform your photos with our easy, effective guides

Automatic people removal is here • Fix unwanted photobombers and remove background clutter, with James Paterson

Enhance the Northern Lights • Give your aurora shots a boost in Lightroom, with Sean McCormack

Hue, saturation and colour effects • Let’s play with Photoshop’s hue, saturation and colour tools, says James Abbott, for four effects that work with most images

Add summer vibes • Let the sun shine on your summer portraits, with Wendy Evans and Affinity Photo 2

Add some colour in DxO PhotoLab 8 • In this fourth part of our guide to PhotoLab, Wendy Evans looks at the colour options

23 Actions, presets, profiles and gradients • As seen in this month’s tutorials, give your shots a new look with our...