N-Photo: the Nikon magazine

Every month we bring you 132-pages of step-by-step advice on how to get the best results from your Nikon digital SLR. Our camera skills section will show you how to shoot great pictures and how to edit them to make them even better! You'll be inspired by the beautiful images shot by top photographers and fellow readers. And you'll learn the basics through our Nikopedia reference pages – picking up tips from the pros with our exclusive interviews and masterclasses. ****Note: This digital edition is not printable and does not include the covermount items or supplements you would find with printed copies***

This issue’s special contributors…

Welcome to issue 114

Moors and tors • Ross Hoddinott broadens the horizons of our Apprentice on the windswept wilds of Dartmoor

TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT

HOW TO: EXPOSURE BLEND

PRO PORTFOLIO ROSS HODDINOTT

LIGHTBOX • Our favourite Nikon images from the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2020 competition

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TAKE YOUR BEST EVER LANDSCAPES • We give a masterclass on how to take better landscape shots. Here’s how to change your compositions, make them more eye-catching, and frame stunning scenes

CLASSIC COMPOSITIONAL APPROACHES • Improve your landscape compositions with these tried-and-tested techniques

ASPECT RATIO AND FOCAL LENGTH • Why the size of your sensor and the lenses you use can play a big role in the composition of your images

Different focal lengths • Focal length is a vital compositional tool. Here’s what you need to know

LEAD THE EYE IN • Get to grips with lead-in lines in your landscapes

PLAY WITH PERSPECTIVE • Understand how changing your shooting height and depth of field can impact the perspective

Dealing with depth of field • Sharpness throughout the whole frame isn’t necessarily your only option

CREATIVE APPROACHES • Play by your own rules to get the creative composition that you envision

Nikon Skills • Ingenious recipes for stunning shots

Shine a light • Mike Harris uses planning and patience to boost his chances of capturing stunning landscape lighting

Bring the outside in • Can’t get to a suitable location for your shoot? Adam Waring brings the location to him with a pre-printed backdrop…

Street at home • SET UP A LOCATION SHOOT FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME

How to profile a printer • Mike Harris explains how you can use ICC profiles to fix the disparity between your monitor and printer

Super-charged sunsets • James Paterson gives dull sunset colours a boost using Affinity Photo’s powerful Channel Mixer

Learn new CC tricks • James Paterson gets to grips with the updates in the June 2020 releases and learns how to craft a stunning portrait effect

Intro to Instagram • Mike Harris takes a look at the photo and video-sharing social media behemoth that boasts a billion monthly active users

That’s why Tom goes to Iceland • Iceland’s harsh weather conditions open it up to a world of unique photo opportunities

Nina Berman • The photography of Nina Berman focuses on the contemporary stories of her homeland, but her images are the antithesis of glory and the American dream. Indeed, Keith Wilson discovers that in a year of fear and violence, Nina doesn’t like what she’s seeing…

Marrakesh express • One of the world’s leading landscape photographers Charlie Waite escapes from lockdown to reflect on a series of photographs taken in Morocco

Readers’ letters

Social Club • Your best...