Digital Camera World - 20 Jun 2025
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TRAVEL SPECIAL
Sigma BF
Excire Foto 2025
Digital Darkroom
Hotshots
Sigma 16-300mm F3.5-6.7 DC OS Contemporary
Camera Clinic
Travel photography
Digital Darkroom
Photo Active
Shot of the Month
In Focus
Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.2 S
One to One
The Art of Seeing
Ask Matthew
Readers’ letters
Reader Gallery
Hotshots
Interview
One to One
Photo Active
Camera Clinic
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Kate Kirkman
Thibault Gerbaldi
Will Cheung
Emma Finch
Chris Coe
Jon Devo
This month’s contributors
How to get your 30 digital gifts
Fashion among the follies
Fashion among the follies
Emma Finch
How to get the best from models
Special thanks to today’s location
Emma Finch’s top kit for outdoor fashion
Top tips for shooting couture outdoors
Mill around with your camera
Mill around with your camera
New balls please
Composition ideas
Focusing tips
Fowl play on the water
Shoot fast
Metering matters
Make hay while the sun shines
Crop for effect
Use your tips cards
Aperture settings
Make a sun print
Sunography paper
Make a sun print
In detail: how the image was prepared
Black and white conversion tips
Get in the game
Light it up
Recommended kit
Perfect pictures of the prom
Boost the lighting
Perfect pictures of the prom
Visual perception
Buy the book and save 20 per cent!
Make the trees move
Make the trees move
Five steps to ICM with flowering trees
Wildlife challenge
The ‘Farm or country life’ challenge winner is… Thierry Roibier
The art of seeing
OVERALL WINNER and WINNER: Food for the Family (supported by the Felix Project)
OVERALL WINNER and WINNER: Food for the Family (supported by the Felix Project)
About the competition
WINNER: Bring Home the Harvest
WINNER: Claire Aho Award for Women Photographers
WINNER: Champagne Taittinger Food for Celebration
WINNER: Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year – Produce
WINNER, The James Beard Foundation Photography Award
WINNER, Fortnum & Mason Food at the Table
WINNER: Street Food
WINNER: Champagne Taittinger Wedding Food Photographer
WINNER: Student Food Photographer of the Year (supported by The Royal Photographic Society)
WINNER: On the Phone (in support of Action Against Hunger)
WINNER: Production Paradise Previously Published
WINNER: Cream of the Crop
Drying turban cloths
TELL TRAVEL STORIES WITH YOUR CAMERA
PART 3 Get away from tourist areas
PART 4 Perfecting your travel pictures
PART 1 Capture street and market life
PART 2 Approach locals for colourful portraits
Drying turban cloths
Market exchange
COMPOSITION FIND THE CALM
CAPTURE STREET AND MARKET LIFE
70-200MM LENS TECHNIQUE
Market exchange
TRAVEL TIP GRAB THE LITTLE DETAILS, TOO
APPROACH LOCALS FOR COLOURFUL PORTRAITS
TRAVEL TIP TRANSLATE
COMPOSITION CHANGING POSITION
PRO TECHNIQUE SINGLE AF POINT
Madagascan woman
Feast for the eyes
TECHNIQUE AUTO WHITE BALANCE
GET AWAY FROM TOURIST AREAS
TRAVEL TIP GIVING BACK
Feast for the eyes
COMPOSITION LEADING LINES
RECOVERING COLOUR CONTRAST
PART 4
PERFECTING YOUR TRAVEL PICTURES
SHOOT LANDSCAPES WHEN TRAVELLING
SHOOT LANDSCAPES WHEN TRAVELLING
SHOOTING SCENICS LIKE A PROFESSIONAL
Reader gallery
Reader gallery
SEND US YOUR IMAGES!
This month: The seaside
CAMERA CLINIC
More accessories for your coastal outfit
Photo kit essentials for your seaside kit bag
Get the knowledge
Perfect examples of seaside shooting
Nine ideas that will fire up your imagination
Shoot sensational seaside shots
Pros and cons Look after yourself and your kit
Camera know-how Exposure bracketing
Pros and cons Look after yourself and your kit
Camera tech Which file type should you shoot?
Camera skills Blur moving water
Same scene, different shutter
Details matter
Wait for it
Shoot photos like a pro
Pro tip Treat the coast with respect
Background check
Filter for success
Polariser power
Change the view
Shot of the month
MEET YOUR TRAINERS
Digital Darkroom
DxO PhotoLab 8
Lightroom
Affinity Photo 2
Photoshop
Photoshop/ACR
Download the nine free profiles
Mimic the colours of the old masters
Mimic the colours of the old masters
Warm up a summer portrait
Soft and warm
Warm up a summer portrait
Creative black and white conversions
Creative black and white conversions
Order in a border
What about black?
Light it up in DxO PhotoLab 8
Light it up in DxO PhotoLab 8
Exporting images
26 Actions, presets, profiles and borders
10 AFFINITY BORDERS
FOUR B&W CONVERSIONS
How to use your software extras
9 LANDSCAPE COLOUR PROFILES
SUMMER PORTRAIT KIT
Ask Matthew...
Going to the dark side
Second-hand superstar
Fujifilm launches X half camera
Lumix launches
Focal point
Canon RF 75-300mm F4-5.6
Win a copy of The Ultimate Photography Ideas Book
Capture One gets an update – and a new logo
Behind the lens
Scanning ahead…
Sigma BF £1,969/$1,999 (body only)
Specifications
Rival cameras
Sigma BF Mirrorless
Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.2 S £2,899/$2,797
Sigma 16-300mm F3.5-6.7 DC OS | C £566/$699
Excire Foto 2025 £199/$199 (new); £69/$69 (upgrade)
Excire Foto 2025 Software
GuruShots
Enter GuruShots contests
Honourable mentions
GURU’S TOP PICK
TOP PHOTO
More honourable mentions
Chris Coe
Readers’ letters
Bag it up
Last call for tips cards
What the f-stop?
How did you do?
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