Amateur Photographer

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Welcome
There’s something for everyone in this week’s issue. Two of Britain’s top nature photographers have got together to offer their tips for composing wildlife photos, while award-winning landscape shooter Mark Littlejohn talks about his approach to soci
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This Week’s Contributors
Technique Editor Hollie shares some of Ben Hall and Ross Hoddinott’s top tips for wildlife AP’s former editor on an exhibition about the late Tim Hetherington, a unique war photographer David interviews the UK winner of the EISA Maestro Contest 2024,
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World’s First F/1.8 Full-frame Zoom Lens
NOBODY can accuse Sigma of resting on its laurels, and the industrious independent lens maker has now announced the 28-45mm F1.8 DG DN Art, the world’s first full-frame zoom lens with a constant maximum aperture of f/1.8. While the zoom range is some
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Major Travel Contest Opens
THIS stunning image by Greek photographer Athanasios Maloukos was a category winner in last year’s Travel Photographer of the Year competition, which is now open for 2024. Portfolio categories include Faces, People, Cultures; Planet Earth – Landscape
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Full-frame Pinhole Camera
THE CubeFF 35mm film pinhole camera has been released by Chroma Camera, with FF standing for full-frame (it can also shoot in half frame via a drop-in frame insert included in the box). Key features include a 0.2mm laser-drilled pinhole, 30mm focal l
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Take Note: Abbey Road Music Awards
IN MORE competition news, this year’s Abbey Road Studios Music Photography Awards competition is open for submissions until 18 July. Entry is free, and the categories include Music Moment of the Year and Undiscovered Photographer of the Year. The res
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New Range Of Lexar SD Cards
LEXAR has expanded its Professional Silver Card range, offering a decent amount of storage and data transfer speeds at a competitive price. You can get the 64GB version of the Lexar Silver SDXC UHS-I Card for a mere £12.79 on Amazon, while the 128GB
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Nikon Marks Lens Milestone
NIKON hit a production milestone of 120 million lenses for its interchangeable-lens cameras in April – this includes both DSLR and mirrorless glass. As with Canon, the company has a long history. The Nikkor trademark was first registered by Nippon Ko
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Middle of Somewhere
Until 17 November (Wed-Sun), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, NE8 3BA Many people have an idealised view of sparsely populated rural locations and what it would be like to live and work in them. In Middle of Somewhere, Joanne Coat
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Books & exhibitions
Free. Until 15 September at National Galleries Scotland: Portrait, 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JD Subtitled ‘Images and Voices from Scotland’s Mining Communities’, this free exhibition focuses on the history and impact of coal mining. Its starting
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The Visual Novelist
I knew Tim Hetherington before he became a war photographer. We worked together on a couple of stories for a new magazine that never launched. It was 1999 and our paths then diverged; I went to leafy Sussex and Tim went to war. In choosing Liberia, h
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Words And Pictures
If you aren’t a fan of social media, then this article probably isn’t for you. Because it’s about my use of social media. In particular, my little daily stories on social media. Spiels, I call them. I’m not a fan of the word ‘blog’. I’ve never been a
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The Cult of The Carte
In 1877 Rossa Richter (also known as Zazel) began appearing as a Human Cannonball at London’s Royal Aquarium. As a child, she was taught to walk the tightrope and master the trapeze, but at 17 she climbed into a spring-style cannon and was fired 20ft
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Nikon Nikkor Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR
Announced in March, the Nikkor Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR is designed as a versatile superzoom lens that might, theoretically, never leave your camera. Giving you a 14.2x zoom, it could cover subjects as diverse as landscapes, portraits, macro, sports and w
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SECOND-HAND CLASSIC Canon EOS 550D
The EOS 550D was introduced in 2010, succeeding the 500D from 2009. Although it was billed as a baby EOS 7D by Canon at the time of release, the maximum shooting speed of 3.7fps was never a match for the 7D’s 8fps burst, and neither was its nine-poin
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Hollyland Lark M2 Combination Kit
● £170 ● hollyland.com Technically I’m not a sound man, but I do know that sound people hate to see a microphone in the frame. So, I was very pleased to see Hollyland offering a set of wireless microphones that are very small and discreet, and which
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The Focaflex
LAUNCHED 1959 PRICE AT LAUNCH £40-50 GUIDE PRICE NOW £130-150 Foca cameras were made in France by Optique et Précision de Levallois, better known as OPL. The company made military equipment that included machine guns and marine rangefinders before de
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Packing A Punch
The EISA Maestro Photography Contest is always a tough challenge and involves submitting portfolios of 5-8 connected photos on a given theme. This year, the theme was Sports and Games and images had to be taken between 1 May 2023 and 30 April 2024. T
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Where The Wild Things Are
Composition is the age-old art of arranging elements within a frame into the most visually pleasing, stimulating order. It is key to successfully communicating your ideas, vision, creativity, and message. The two biggest compositional challenges are
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Inbox
I am a fan of film cameras and regularly use them instead of my DSLR and mirrorless cameras so it was good to see your article highlighting classic cameras of the 1970s (AP 14 May). I still use my Canon EF, Canon AE-1P, Canon T90 and Canon EOS 5. I d
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Email [email protected] Editorial Nigel Atherton Group Editor Geoff Harris Deputy Editor Technical Editor Andy Westlake Features Editor Amy Davies Acting Features Editor Ailsa McWhinnieActing Features Editor David ClarkTechnique Editor Hollie Lath
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It's Good To Share
Sony Alpha 7 III, Sony 24-105mm F4, 1/80sec at f/14, ISO 125 ‘Thru-hiking the Kungsleden in Arctic Sweden, I witnessed raw elemental beauty combining to create images akin to paintings. While Lapland is often represented as winter white, there are ot
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Best Buys
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Final Analysis
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the 19th century’s most renowned civil engineer. At age 20, he joined his father Marc Brunel in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, a project that nearly cost him his life in a flood. He went on to design and build some

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