Dec 2006 SOLD OUT
Issue 1
On sale 14 November, 2006
Our December 2006 issue includes:
Beginner’s Guide: Understand your DSLR: Exposure Modes
DSLR Technique Guide: Winter scenics
Step-by-step guide: Patterns
Bjorn Thomassen Portrait Lighting Masterclass: Shoot in shade
5-Minute Photoshop: Creating a black & white image with a splash of colour
Digital Convert: Alan Strutt, Celebrity Photographer
Beginner’s Guide
Understand your DSLR: Exposure Modes
DSLR Technique Guide
Winter scenics
Step-by-step guide
Patterns
Bjorn Thomassen Portrait Lighting Masterclass
Shoot in shade
5-Minute Photoshop
Creating a black & white image with a splash of colour
Digital Convert: Main interview
Alan Strutt, Celebrity Photographer
Freelance Factfile
Wildlife Photography
Great Christmas Gift Ideas
60 fantastic ideas
TEST CENTRE
Smart Buyer Test
Pentax K100
Olympus E-400
Canon EOS 400D
Nikon D80
Comparison test: Telephoto zooms
Canon EF 55-200mm
Canon EF-70-300mm
Canon EF 75-300mm
Nikon DX AF-S 55-200mm
Samsung 55-200mm
Sigma 55-200mm
Sigma AF 70-300mm
Tamron 55-200mm
Tamron 70-300mm
Archive
In This Issue
- Four DSLRs reviewed and rated: Canon EOS 400D v Olympus E-400 v Nikon D80 v Pentax K100
- Celebrity photographer Alan Strutt has been on the professional scene for over two decades and he’s never been busier. In the last year he’s taken close to a million shots, all of them on digital SLRs. Daniel Lezano speaks to him about his switch from film to digital and how it has revolutionised the way he works.
- Adobe Photoshop is loved by photographers the world over as it you to apply countless wonderful effects to your images. Each month, in an easy to follow step-by-step guide, our experts bring you a simple yet effective technique to adding new dimensions to your images. In the first of the series, Luke Marsh shows you how to create a stunning black & white image with a splash of colour.
- Shade: Lighting is the single most important factor to shooting beautiful portraits. Learning how to control and manipulate light is essential if your desire is to take creative portraits. Over the next few months, award-winning portrait and fashion photographer Bjorn Thomassen reveals how to use all types of lighting, from natural daylight to studioflash, to create stunning images. This month he explains the wonderful virtues of shade and reveals how careful control of this diffuse form of light can create a range of effects, from magical moods to portraits with power.
- Winter. The season of short days and long, long nights. Of frost and snow, stormy skies, clear air and spine-tingling cold. Most of us wish winter was over before it has even begun. But photographically, it’s a season full of promise.
- Newcomers to digital SLR photography usually keep their camera set to full-auto, often because they have no proper guide on how to take more control. Our major series aims to help beginners take their first steps to creative freedom.
- At this time of year, there is no shortage of colourful leaves just lying around waiting to be snapped. To show you just how easy it is to shoot a stunning image pattern using natural daylight, we’re providing a simple step-by-step guide to photographing a close-up of a leaf. As you’ll see, with care, imagination and the will to overcome the odd challenge, it’s possible to take a stunning pattern picture using minimal equipment. We hope it provides an idea or two to help you find your own great patterns and maybe produce a winning image.