Sept 2007 SOLD OUT
Issue 10
On sale 14 August, 2007
Our September 2007 issue includes:
Beginner' Guide: Make colour work for you
Digital Convert: Miguel Lasa
5-Minute Photoshop: Create colourful art effects
Camera Test: Sigma SD14 v Nikon D200
Beginner’s Guide
Understand your DSLR: Colour
Mark Bauer Landscape Masterclass
Light
5-Minute Photoshop
Create a Colourful Art Effect
25 Expert Gems
Summer fun
One-Hour Photo reader challenge
Action
Digital Convert
Miguel Lasa
TEST CENTRE
Head to Head DSLR Test
Sigma SD14 versus Nikon D200
Comparison Test: Image Recovery Software
Basic Packages
Photo Saver
Klix 1.0
Car Recover v3.40
Premium Packages
Lexar Image Rescue 2.0.5
Sandisk Rescue Pro Deluxe
Dan’t Panic – Photo edition
Photo Recovery 3.5
Tripod Test
Manfrotto 190X Pro B
Archive
In This Issue
- The £1,000 price bracket is a highly competitive and very lucrative sector of the digital SLR market. The likes of the Nikon D200, Canon 30D and the Fujifilm S5 Pro are just three highly-rated models aimed at satisfying the needs of the high-end amateur/enthusiast as well as the professional. The Sigma SD14 is the latest model to challenge for your cash and, originally priced at £999, it has just seen its price drop to £799 to make it even more competitive. We test it against the Nikon D200 to see what it has to offer.
- Some wildlife photographers can spend an entire lifetime and not capture images with such impeccable timing and impact as those by spanish snapper Miguel Lasa. The fact he’s an amateur photographer that has only been shooting wildlife for four years is near impossible to believe. Digital SLR Photography uncovers one of wildlife photography’s best kept secrets – in Hartlepool!
- Our team of experts provide you with their favourite gems for taking great images in summer. Follow their advice and improve your photography.
- Producing an image that does justice to the glorious scene in front of you isn’t always easy. Over the next few issues, professional landscape photographer Mark Bauer provides an expert guide on shooting brilliant landscape images. This month, he explains how lighting how to make the most of light to fit the subject matter and add mood and atmosphere to your images
- Shooting a colourful still-life image is only the beginning. Photoshop expert Luke Marsh shows you how you can take your original image and create a modern, stylish and colourful art print using a few simple colour and layer techniques.
- It’s easy to overlook the influence of colour in photography, but as our major guide reveals, when used carefully it can be a powerful and creative tool . Colour is everywhere; affecting and touching our lives in far more ways than we realise. It is also one of the most important and influential ingredients to photography, greatly dictating the feel and appearance of our images – regardless of the subject. A good understanding of colour, and how it affects the final image, is important if you wish to manipulate it for creative effect. It can also be employed to portray a specific mood, emotion or feeling. For example, colour can be utilised to give the impression of warmth or coldness or the feeling of harmony or discord. In fact, it can play a wide variety of roles within our photography. You just need to know what to look for and how to set your camera to optimise for it.
- A digital compact inspired Ronald to return to photography after years of disillusion