Amateur Photographer

Amateur Photographer is the world's oldest weekly magazine for photography enthusiasts

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Welcome
Diverse, eclectic content has kept AP going for 140 years and this issue continues a proud tradition. First up is a guide to adding interesting liquids like milk and ink to submerged flowers, with insight from internationally celebrated flower and ma
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This Week’s Contributors
The AP regular speaks to Angi Wallace who shares her submerged flower technique AP’s former editor talks to Drew Gardner about his historical project, the Descendants Our resident chief reviewer tests the budget-priced Sonida DC202 camera Isabella te
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The Photography Show 2025 – London calling
MORE details are coming through about next year’s Photography and Video show, which takes place at the London Excel convention centre for the first time – before switching back to the Birmingham NEC in 2026. The four-day event runs from 8-11 March 20
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Go Wild, People
THE PRESTIGIOUS Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has revealed the 25 images in the running for this year’s People’s Choice Award, and voting is now open. The work of several UK photographers has made the cut, including Ian Wood’s charmin
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This Land Is Our Land
ANDREW Mielzynski from Canada has been named the 11th International Landscape Photographer of the Year for his portfolio of four images, which included this atmospheric capture called ‘Cottonwoods.’ Japanese photographer Ryohei Irie won the Internati
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New Rankin Online Store
RANKIN, now one of the best-known photographers in the UK thanks to his TV work, has launched a new store in the run-up to Christmas. As well as books, prints and posters, a new clothing line features some of Rankin’s most iconic images, including of
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More Mental Health Initiatives
AP HAS been at the forefront of promoting the benefits of photography for good mental health, and the past week has seen some interesting developments in this area. First up, Nikon UK and ‘storytelling platform’ Water Bear have released The Mind In F
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New Lightweight Video Tripods
A NEW travel tripod weighing a lightweight 1.15kg and folding down to 54cm has been released by Vanguard. The Alta Pro 3VLT eschews a central column in favour of a levelling system, which enables you to adjust the vertical tilt by 15°, making it easi
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The Women Who Changed Photography
£20, Laurence King, paperback, 216 pages, ISBN: 9781399617277 Understandably and justifiably so, there have been lots of books written recently about the contribution of women photographers to the medium. Women photographers have been often overlooke
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The Descendants
Telling some unfortunate they look just like their father, mother, son, uncle, grandma or someone we’ve seen on Crime Watch seems to be a national pastime. Babies especially are sitting ducks for ‘Oh, look, he’s got his father’s nose’ or ‘she frowns
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Amateur Photograp H F The Year
A new category for 2024, this is where anything goes. You might have an image that doesn’t quite fit into one of our other categories, or you might simply want to save your absolute best shots for this one. Whether you make still-lifes or salt prints
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Reveal The Quality
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Our sample photo shows the Ponte Vecchio in the Italian City of Florence. The original raw file is rather dull and flat, and suffers from some colour fringing near the edges and converging verticals in the buildings on the bridge.
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DxO PhotoLab 8
DxO’s flourishing reputation as one of the best imaging software providers continues to go from strength to strength. Its stable, which includes PureRAW 4, Nik Collection 7 and Film Pack 7, has been joined by PhotoLab 8, the latest update of its raw
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Motorola Edge 50 Neo
The Edge 50 Neo is a budget phone that sits below Ultra and Pro models in Motorola’s Edge 50 lineup. It builds on last year’s Edge 40 Neo, adding a telephoto camera and doubling down on what made its predecessor a good budget option: its low-light ca
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Sonida DC202
A decade ago, you could buy cheap-but-good point-and-shoot digicams from all the main camera makers. But now, smartphones have killed off these cameras. Instead, if you search for ‘cheap digital camera’ on online marketplaces, you’ll find an array of
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Fujifilm Instax Mini Link 3
● £114.99 ● instax.co.uk Fujifilm makes some of the best instant cameras, as well as a line of printers that use the same film. The Instax Mini Link 3 is the latest of these. It’s been slightly redesigned but is largely the same as the previous model
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The Language Of Flowers
Snowdrops are strongly associated with Imbolc, a festival celebrating the returning of light and the beginning of spring. From January onwards, woods, riverside banks, parks and gardens are awash with nodding white flowerheads, lifting the spirits an
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Email ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk Editorial Group Editor Nigel Atherton Deputy Editor Geoff Harris Technical Editor Andy Westlake Features Editor Amy Davies Technique Editor Hollie Latham Hucker Online Editor Joshua Waller Deputy Online Editor Jessica Miller
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Inbox
Thank you for the article A Harsh Training Ground (AP 5 November) on the course about how press photographers and journalists can protect themselves. We are often told that journalists are not trusted by the public, yet we see them nightly, reporting
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Behind The Print
IN ASSOCIATION WITH 1 Crop to tighten the composition and remove the messier parts of the foreground 2 The shot was underexposed to avoid losing any detail in the bright snow so the whole image needs brightening 3 Make selective adjustments to furthe
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It's Good To Share
Sony Alpha 7 IV, Sony 200-600mm F5.6-6.3, 1/50sec at f/6.3, ISO 500, 600mm ‘I was on an evening woodland walk in Lincolnshire, where I noticed this beautiful long-eared owl sleeping amongst the warm-toned leaves. After managing to find a small gap to
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Join the Club
When was the club founded? The club was founded as Windlesham Camera Club in 1935 and held fortnightly meetings with a membership of 94 in its first year. Club numbers grew but were seriously diminished by the war. The club was given permanent premis
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Buying Guide
Interchangeable lenses come in a huge array of types for shooting different kinds of subjects IN GENERAL, the easiest way to expand the kinds of pictures you can take is by buying different types of lenses. For example, telephoto lenses let you zoom
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Final Analysis
The opening line of my piece for this edition must be this disclaimer… this image is by my husband, the well-known documentary photographer Ken Grant. I’ve avoided using his work in this column over the past 18 months despite many of his images from
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Rare Leicas Make Big Money
AN EXTREMELY rare Leica M prototype made between 1948 and 1949 recently sold for an eye-watering €2.04 million (£1,702,879) at the Leitz Photographica Auction 45 in Vienna. Constructed from machine-made and hand-crafted parts, the prototype easily be

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