THE ASTRONOMY Photographer of the Year 17 competition is now open for entries, and it’s a great new year contest to get your teeth into. Organised by Royal Observatory Greenwich and the BBC Sky at Night magazine, the competition is open to photograph

THIS quintessentially British seaside shot by Quintin Lake appears in The Perimeter, a new book commemorating his epic walk around the entire UK coastline between April 2015 and September 2020. It took 454 days for Quintin, an award-winning photograp

MAP Camera, one of Japan’s largest camera retailers, has revealed its ten best-selling cameras of 2024, and the results make interesting reading – particularly for Fujifilm, which dominated the top five. Despite the difficulties in getting hold of on

£45, Bluecoat Press, hardback, 196 pages, ISBN: 9781908457899 One of our finest documentary photographers working today, Kirsty Mackay’s latest book was financed via a successful Kickstarter which raised more than £15,000. Given that it covers the im

£60, Aperture, 440 pages, hardback, ISBN: 9781597115537 This extensive book contains more than 500 images and 25 artist portfolios – in short, it’s an expansive and generous redressing of a historic imbalance in representation of an important group.

Chris Porsz, a former paramedic, has published no fewer than ten volumes of his photography, with titles that include Barking!, Reunions and Just be Kind. He has an eye for the absurd and a love for the genre, so it’s always a treat to flick through

‘This series of foggy morning trams in Silesia, Poland. I am a public transportation photographer, aiming to showcase the hidden aesthetics of public transportation around the world.’ ‘The infamous display back in May taken at Mussenden Temple, North

If you do a lot of image editing in programs such as Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, you’ll know that operating them using a keyboard and mouse can quickly get repetitive and uncomfortable. This is where editing consoles come in. By providing more pre

Before DJI rose to world domination in all the areas in which it operates, the Zhiyun Crane was the name on the lips of every YouTuber, and indeed a good number of people who used them in anger every day. Zhiyun is still making the Crane and, along w

While the DJI Air 3S tips the scales at 724g, well above the magic 250g weight that attracts the lowest level of regulation, it strikes a nice balance between portability, performance and value. That makes it a strong contender in the mid-range drone

● £79.99 ● 3leggedthing.com The 3 Legged Thing AirHed Trinity is a compact, lightweight pan-and-tilt tripod head. Built from aerospace-grade magnesium alloy, it combines strength and durability with a sleek, portable design. While it’s primarily aime

This is the second of a few articles concerning depth of field (DOF) resulting from a query from AP reader Richard Sharp. In my last article I discussed traditional depth of field theory. I will now discuss an alternative approach, which provides som

You can see more of Nejc’s work at ilenic.photos, or on Instagram @nejc.ilenic How did you get into photography? I first became interested in photography in high school when I got access to an entry-level Sony DSLR. There was a long pause during my

A super-telephoto prime lens can transform your wildlife, bird, sport and aviation photography, enabling you to frame distant subjects and create high-impact images. Fujifilm’s latest addition to its XF lens series, the Fujinon XF500mm F5.6 R LM OIS

Having studied photography throughout early education, Matt started working as an assistant and then fell in love with the retouching process. It’s the perfect role for anyone with great attention to detail and the quest for perfection. Matt has been

Of all the AI-powered image enhancements developed over the past few years, high-ISO image denoising has probably been the most spectacularly successful. AI subject masking can be useful, AI upscaling has its place and AI object removal can be very e

DxO has released so many generations of its groundbreaking denoising process that it’s becoming hard to keep track. The original DeepPRIME process was joined by DeepPRIME XD (eXtra Detail), and this itself has been through a number of iterations and

Topaz Photo AI 3 is like an amalgamation of all of the company’s AI photo enhancement tools, which are no longer sold separately. Image denoising is not the only thing it does, but it’s the feature we’ll pay closest attention to here. You also get im

Just as camera and lens makers are striving for better performance from their products, the software developers are doing exactly the same with some apps enjoying updates several times a year, although the current trend is for big changes to come alo

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