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While artificial intelligence rapidly consumes entire segments of the photography industry, there's a silver lining that deserves attention. Certain specializations possess qualities that make them remarkably resistant to replacement by AI systems. These aren't careers that will merely survive by accident or good fortune. They're photography fields built on fundamentally human skills that machines struggle to replicate: emotional intelligence, split-second adaptability, authentic witness, and the ability to forge genuine connections with subjects in unrepeatable moments.

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Design that pulls a film-era shooting posture into a modern body changes how you work from the first frame. If you chase detail and prefer to slow down, this camera forces intention at the point of capture without the usual digital shortcuts.

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Affinity has unveiled an all-new design app that brings together photo editing, drawing tools, and layout features in one easy-to-use platform. It’s built to be flexible, so you can set up your workspace the way you like, combine different tools, and even share your setup with others. Whether you're editing pictures, creating graphics, or working on documents, everything is now in one smooth and powerful space.

The best part is that Affinity is now completely free. This full-featured design software used to cost money, but now anyone can use it without paying. The update also comes with a fresh new look and marks Affinity’s next step as part of the Canva family, making high-quality creative tools more accessible to everyone.

 

From Affinity:

When Affinity joined the Canva family last year last year, we made a promise to preserve its power while expanding what’s possible. Today, that vision comes to life with the all-new Affinity: a studio-grade creative app that brings vector, photo, and layout tools together in one high-performance platform. Fully featured. Lightning-fast. And completely free.

For too long, professional designers have had almost no choice in the tools they use, from bloated software that slows them down, to subscriptions that stack up, and workflows that interrupt creativity. Across the creative community, we’ve heard the same frustrations: a call for speed, for power, for freedom. Designers have been asking for the tools they love, so we listened, and we built something better.

 

A new era for Affinity

For ten years, Affinity has been the tool of choice for professionals who care deeply about craft. Designers who value precision, speed, and control, and who expect their tools to keep up.

Now, that legacy enters a new chapter. The all-new Affinity was built in close collaboration with its community of creators, shaped by thousands of conversations, feature requests, and shared ideas. Guided by Canva’s Designer Advisory Board, this release reflects what professionals told us matters most: performance, reliability, and creative freedom.

From the smallest details to the biggest design systems, every feature has been built with respect for the people who use it.

  One app to craft it all

The all new Affinity app brings professional vector, photo, and layout tools together in one powerful space, featuring everything you need to design, edit, and publish without switching apps or breaking flow.

For designers who think in lines, curves, and grids, Affinity’s vector tools deliver precision and speed in perfect balance. Every adjustment happens in real time: paths adjust instantly, shapes snap into place, and even large files pan and zoom smoothly. From comprehensive brand systems to complex illustrations, everything feels responsive and effortless.

Affinity’s award-winning photo editing tools give you the freedom to experiment without limits. Every adjustment, from RAW development to retouching and compositing, is non-destructive, so you can refine endlessly without losing your original work. Plus, GPU acceleration keeps even the most complex files fast and fluid, while intelligent tools like Smart Selections, live filters, and batch processing help speed up repetitive edits.

With Affinity’s layout tools, structure and creativity work side by side. From short brochures to multi-page reports, you can edit images, graphics, and text directly within your document and see every change update live. Smart Master Pages, shared text styles, and advanced typographic controls keep everything consistent while giving you the freedom to experiment.

Whether you’re editing a portrait, building a brand identity, or designing a publication, the all new Affinity keeps you in flow, combining power, precision, and speed in a single studio-grade environment.

 

Design your workspace, your way

Every designer works differently, and now, Affinity does too. The updated app introduces a new level of personalization with fully customizable studios.

Creatives can mix and match tools from the Vector, Pixel, and Layout studios to build a workspace that fits their unique process. Rearrange panels, choose the tools you need, remove the ones you don’t, and save multiple setups for different projects or tasks. Custom studios can also be shared and downloaded, opening new ways for teams and creative communities to exchange workflows and learn from one another.

It’s flexibility built for focus, with professional tools that adapt to you and the way you work best. And no matter how you work, Affinity keeps up. Built on a high-performance engine, every adjustment updates in real time, from instant previews and detailed edits at 10,000,000% zoom to projects with thousands of layers. It’s ultra-fast, super-smooth, and precise down to the last pixel.

While the all-new Affinity has been reimagined, it still feels instantly familiar to those who know it best. The tools, workflows, and precision you rely on are all here – refined but not replaced. Every update builds on what professionals already love, so you can pick up where you left off and feel right at home.

 

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Free for everyone

From the beginning, Affinity set out to challenge the idea that powerful design tools should come with a hefty price tag. Today, we’re taking that even further.

 

Affinity is now completely free, forever. 

The full, professional-grade Affinity experience, available to everyone.

There’s no catch, no stripped-back version, and no gotchas. The same precise, high-performance tools that professionals rely on every day are now open to all, because creative freedom shouldn’t come with a cost.

Whether you’re an independent designer, a creative studio, or a team building your brand, we believe everyone should have access to the tools they need to create their best work.

 

Affinity and Canva: Stronger together

Affinity has always been built for people who care deeply about design. Professionals who notice the details others might miss, who stay up late perfecting the final pixel, and who take pride in their craft. That hasn’t changed. But we couldn’t launch the all-new Affinity without something special for the Canva community.

For everyone with a Canva premium account, Canva AI’s tools are now accessible directly inside Affinity through the new Canva AI Studio. This includes familiar favorites like Generative Fill, Expand & Edit, and Remove Background – powerful features that speed up repetitive steps while keeping designers in full control of every detail.

Everything that makes Affinity a precision tool for creative professionals remains at its core: the speed, the control, the depth. Now, those same qualities are enhanced by Canva’s technology, giving you new ways to work faster, experiment more freely, and know that your tools will always keep up. Whether you’re refining a complex composite or extending parts of an image, these features work quietly in the background, supporting your process without ever getting in the way of craft.

We know that transparency around AI use and data handling is essential, and your creative work will always remain yours. Canva AI features are built with privacy and control in mind, ensuring that your creative work in Affinity stays secure, runs on the user's device, and work is not accessed to train AI features.

And when you’re ready to collaborate, scale or publish, you can export your Affinity projects into Canva in just a few clicks, to share with colleagues or clients. It’s the first of many steps toward connecting professional design with everyday creation.

This is a new chapter for professional design. We know some of our community may be curious about what this means for Affinity’s identity. It remains exactly what it’s always been: a professional design suite built for people who care deeply about their craft, now strengthened by Canva’s support and resources to take it even further.

You can also bring your existing work with you. Affinity supports PSD, AI, PDF, SVG, TIFF, IDML, and more, making it easy to open, edit, and collaborate without starting from scratch.

Today is just the beginning. We’re continuing to invest in both Affinity’s professional design tools and Canva’s all-in-one platform, building a future where everyone can design at the highest level, without barriers.

The all-new Affinity is available today for Mac and Windows, with iPad coming next year. The Canva community can activate Affinity with their existing account, while existing Affinity customers and new users can create a free Canva account to download Affinity directly.

For more information, please visit the Affinity website.

The Fstoppers community is brimming with creative vision and talent. Every day, we comb through your work, looking for images to feature as the Photo of the Day or simply to admire your creativity and technical prowess. In 2025, we're featuring a new photographer every month, whose portfolio represents both stellar photographic achievement and a high level of involvement within the Fstoppers community.

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I've gotten my hands on a beta of the new, and I have to say improved, Luminar Neo fall release from Skylum. It keeps everything that's good in the current version and adds a couple of new features that will likely get non-owners of the current product on board.

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You take a single photo that feels strong, maybe even clever, but it sits alone like a stray note without a melody. A great image can stop someone for a moment, yet a body of work builds recognition, depth, and trust in your vision.

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Landscape work gives you space to breathe and space to think. You walk into wild places, wrestle with messy scenes, and try to make sense of them with a frame and your patience.

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Canon’s early full frame bodies still spark debate, and one that keeps resurfacing is the Canon EOS 6D from 2012. You see it pop up in bargain listings, you wonder if that cheap full frame path is a smart move, and this time, there’s real history baked into the story.

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Halloween - it's a perfect time to shoot some portraits and capture some of the small details that make Halloween so spooktacular.

 

Low Light

Most Halloween themed activities don't start until after the sun's begun to set and that means there's not a lot of light left around to play with. If you're shooting still objects such as pumpkins, you can put your camera on a tripod and use slower shutter speeds but with kids that are running around high on sugar, longer shutter speeds will turn them into streaks of blur. Try using a slightly higher ISO or just shoot your portraits under a porch light or street lamp, to add a little bit of extra light to the scene. You can also head out at dusk when there's still light in the sky but the atmosphere you're trying to capture is just beginning to build.
 

Jack-O-Lanterns

If your flash is set to automatically fire, switch it off as you'll end up with a shiny looking jack-o-lantern that's lost all of its glow. Instead, use a longer shutter speed, making sure you have your tripod with you to stop shake spoiling your shot. If you find the glow from inside the lantern isn't bright enough, use a few more candles or switch the candles for a torch. You'll just have to position yourself so the torch can't be seen in shot. You can also try bracketing if you find metering to be a problem.

 

 

Portraits

There will, of course, be plenty of people in costume and shooting candids while you're out with your kids trick or treating, should give you plenty of interesting shots. If you're taking photos while they're knocking on a door, position yourself so once the door's open, it won't block your view.

For shots with more impact, get down to the child's level before you take your shot and fill the frame. If you have more than one child to photograph, make sure they're stood close together when taking group shots as people have a habit of putting space between themselves and another person.

Take time to study their makeup and costume to see which parts are the most interesting and should be focused on. If they have a particularly interesting mask, shoot a headshot and if you're going for a full body shot, make sure you take a look at their feet before you do as people tend to head out in shoes that aren't Halloween themed and they can spoil the overall feel of the shot.

Don't forget your basic composition rules such as filling the frame, rule of thirds and giving your subject space to look into. 

 

Small Detail

Look out for the spider's webs, decorations and pumpkins as shots of these, combined with shots of people in fancy dress will give you a great overall account of the day's events.
 

Graveyards

If you fancy heading to a graveyard to shoot some close-ups of detail or want to use them as a backdrop for portraits, have a look at our previous technique: Graveyard Photography
 

Have A Play In Photoshop

If you want to give a house a spooky feel, as David did with his image above, or add a ghost to a shot you've already taken, open up Photoshop and have a play around with the various tools and features to see what Halloween-themed image you can create.  

 

Autumn is the perfect time for capturing close-up/macro shots and this is something you can do even if you're a compact user who doesn't have an arsenal of lenses at their disposal. Be on the lookout for subjects that have interesting textures or are full of colour, plus look on the ground as well as up at the trees as you'll find conkers and other interesting items that make the perfect subject for an Autumn macro shot. 

 

Use the close focus mode

To get started, you're going to need a compact camera that has a close focus. Around 10cm is fine, however many modern compacts focus much closer now. The macro mode is usually indicated by a flower icon and you need to ensure this is selected otherwise your camera won't know you want to shoot macro shots. Plus, this mode will also usually mean your camera picks a larger aperture (small f-number) so you get backgrounds that are nicely thrown out of focus. 

A tripod will help prevent camera shake and if you plan on shooting fungi and other subjects that are close to the ground, one that has a reversing centre column will help but it's not essential. A beanbag or even your camera bag can be used as a support for a quick snap if you don't own a tripod.

 

1. Working with low light conditions

For locations where there's not much light, such as in woods, you may need a small reflector to bounce more light on to your subject. If you don't own one try making your own from a piece of card and silver foil. You can use your camera's built-in flash but it tends to be a little harsh which can result in fungi looking a little too shiny and can take away from the overall atmosphere of the shot. Do try taking a few shots with it, though and see what you think. You never know, you may prefer the shots with flash rather than without. 

So you don't cause camera shake by pressing the shutter button you can use your camera's self-timer on its shortest setting. By doing so, you'll not be pressing the shutter button as the exposure begins, reducing the chances of shake spoiling your shot. 

 

2. What Can I Photograph? 

Autumn means lots of gorgeous coloured leaves falling off trees and they can make interesting macro shots on their own or you can use your macro leaf shots as textures in other photos. Look for different patterns and shapes but this doesn't mean they have to be perfect as little imperfections can add interest to your shot. Make the most of backlight to really make your images 'pop'. 

As the leaves fall off the trees, they become bare, and this gives you the chance to capture shots of bare branches and bark which again, make great textures for background montages. Also, consider textures that can be printed as triptychs - three photos framed in panels side by side.

 

3. Look for the first frost

In the Autumn, the first frost of the year usually appears and can make interesting photos when it covers leaves or grass. Head for open spaces (lawns and fields) rather than places that are sheltered, which can stop frost from forming. Side and direct light will help emphasis the way the frost glistens and it will last longer in shaded areas but you'll need to use a reflector to bounce extra light into the shot. For shots that capture the patterns and textures frost creates, get in close and avoid using flash.

Conkers are becoming ripe and falling so be on the lookout for them. Don't just go for brown ones either as they look just as good when popping out of their bright green shells. They are perfect subjects for an Autumn still life when used alongside leaves and even berries. If you do use berries you may need to adjust your shooting position as reflections can be a problem due to them having an almost shiny surface.

 

4. Focus on the small details

To give your close-up work a more abstract feel remove your subject from its surroundings by focusing on a small part of it. Look for interesting shapes and textures that you can focus a tight crop on. Overcast days are good for this sort of technique as the diffused light will help bring out detail in the shapes, lines and form you're capturing.     

There's no gentle way to say this: artificial intelligence has already infiltrated the photography industry, and its advance is outpacing what most professionals are willing to acknowledge. While photographers debate the artistic merit of machine-generated visuals, whole segments of the profession have quietly vanished through automation.

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Action cameras are a tough sell these days. They’re in a category that’s being squeezed from above by 360 cameras that largely duplicate their functions, and smartphones that perform similar functions and are always with you. So where does that leave the Insta360 GO Ultra?

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Most people who struggle to book paid work online think the problem is low demand or bad luck. The real issue is usually clarity, branding, and how you guide someone to hire you. When a potential client lands on your portfolio and leaves without reaching out, that gap matters more than any algorithm.

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With its Fall Update, the popular Czech photo editing and management software introduces features that accelerate photo selection, streamline editing, and simplify export. Users will greatly value the faster workflow, simpler selection of their best photos, and the ability to enlarge images without losing quality.

“At Zoner Studio, we’re taking the path of gradual evolution, bringing real value with each step. This update once again helps users work with their photos faster and easier,” says Jan Kupcik, Product Manager at Zoner Studio. 

 

AI Close-ups: Select your best shot in seconds

The most notable new feature is the enhanced AI Close-ups. Previously, it only detected faces. Now, it can automatically detect entire figures, animals, vehicles, and airplanes. This allows users to immediately focus on the most important parts of a photo and easily compare multiple shots without manually zooming in. This dramatically speeds up the selection process when sorting through dozens of portraits or action photos. The feature works entirely offline, with local calculations and results displayed in seconds.

  AI Resize: Enlarge photos without losing quality

The Zoner Studio Fall Update expands your creative possibilities—you can now enlarge photos without compromising their quality. Whether you re preparing a photography exhibition, printing an album, or want to keep the original dimensions of a cropped photo, AI Resize gives you freedom without compromise.

 

Efficiency without excess

Zoner Studio remains the easiest way to start editing photos for photographers who want highquality, realistic results without unnecessary effects. The Fall Update brings more than just two new tools. There are numerous improvements across the entire interface to make everyday editing faster and more intuitive: easier selection, quicker edits, and streamlined export. Zoner Studio continues to be simple, fast, and affordable—whether you re working with family portraits, wildlife, or event photography.

For more information, please visit the Zoner Studio website.

 

About ZONER Inc.

ZONER Inc. is a Czech technology company specializing in photo management and editing software. Its flagship product, Zoner Studio, has long been among the leading photo editing software, as recognized by the EISA Photo Software 2025–2026 Award. Zoner Studio stands out for its unique combination of powerful functionality and user-friendly design. It’s trusted by first-time users for its intuitive interface and valued by experienced photographers for its wide range of advanced tools. Zoner Studio offers a complete, cost-effective solution without a steep learning curve. 

The Panasonic Lumix S 24-60mm f/2.8 promises f/2.8 performance in a smaller package, but does trimming 10mm from the standard zoom range actually matter? Its direct competitor, the Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG DN II Art, offers that extra reach plus features like a manual aperture ring, yet the Panasonic undercuts it by $400.

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Night portraits are often unpredictable. Light shifts, colors flare, and every setting demands balance between exposure and mood. In this breakdown, you see how a simple one-light setup can turn a busy carnival into a controlled and cinematic scene.

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Two cameras promise huge files and flexible video without forcing you into a cinema body. If you care about cropping room for wildlife and clean oversampled footage in one rig, this comparison hits the sweet spot.

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Penda Photo Tours has opened entries for its Penda Travel Photography Competition 2025. Open to all photographers around the world, it offers a chance to win a dream safari in Botswana. It will also raise funds for Wild Shots Outreach, a nonprofit that teaches wildlife and conservation photography to young people in South Africa who have limited access to resources.

 

Photography with Purpose

Penda’s collaboration with Wild Shots Outreach underscores the belief that photography can do more than just create striking images - it can build connection, agency, and opportunity. Based in the Greater Kruger area in South Africa, Wild Shots Outreach gives young people from disadvantaged communities access to cameras, mentoring, workshops, and bursaries to help them engage with their natural heritage and pursue pathways in conservation, storytelling, and creative careers. By entering the competition beyond the free first submission, contributors will be directly supporting the work of Wild Shots Outreach - helping fund equipment, education, and program expansion.

 

Competition details

• Main Prize: Botswana Photography Safari

The overall winner will receive a space on an exclusive guided photo safari in Botswana, running 17–23 July 2026. The prize is worth USD 4,995 and includes accommodation in a private camp, guidance by professional wildlife photographer Alan Hewitt, and exclusive wildlife photography opportunities (lions, leopards, elephants, and more).

• Category Prizes & Runners-up

Category winners will receive a camera bag by VINCOV, a boutique brand of quality camera accessories, and runners-up will receive VINCOV camera straps.

• Competition Categories

The competition has three categories; Wildlife, Landscape, and People. Photographers can enter in all categories, and there is no limit to the number of entries.

• Entry Terms

The first image entry is free. Additional entries (in sets of up to 10) are available for USD 10, with all profits going to the nonprofit partner.

• Deadline & Announcement of Winners

Entries close on 10 December 2025, and winners will be announced on 15 January 2026. 

 

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Judges

The entries will be judged by a panel of eight professional photographers with diverse backgrounds and impressive portfolios. This includes former White House photographer Susan Sterner, National Geographic photographer Tyrone Turner, and Fuji-Film ambassador and wildlife conservation photographer Alan Hewitt. Judging will be based on storytelling, technical excellence, creativity, and overall impact.

Alan Hewitt, explains what he’ll be looking for when judging the entries;

“I’m absolutely thrilled to be part of the judging team for Penda Photo Tours’ photography competition! I’ll be looking for quite a few qualities in the submissions; first and foremost, technical excellence, sharpness and focus, correct exposure, pleasing composition and careful and natural processing. Getting these right are crucial.

With these qualities in mind, behavioural insight and natural history context is also important. Can we learn something from the photography or does it evoke curiosity? Creativity use of light is always interesting, as is trying to incorporate surroundings. Crucially, I’ll also be looking for respectable ethics, no signs of disturbance or stress to the subject/s or habitat and also authenticity, avoiding set ups and manipulation.

Let’s celebrate the beauty, resilience, and diversity of wildlife and culture in this competition, and I hope these images inspire us all to continue to cherish and protect the natural world and respect its diversity of cultures.”

 

Last year’s winner

The competition ran for the first time in 2024, and the winning image was ‘Taken by a Ghost’ by Pandora Maund. In July this year, Pandora ventured to Botswana to cash in her prize.

“The Penda safari has got to be the best prize I have ever won,” Pandora says. “I'd been looking at the various safaris Penda offers, as I really liked the small numbers to a vehicle and guide ratio, and then to win a trip was such a wonderful surprise.

Botswana had been on my bucket list for a while and it didn't disappoint. We had some super sightings including large herds of elephants, lions, jackals, zebras, and much more. But my favourites have to be the leopard and the brown hyena, neither of which I had been able to photograph before on other safaris. The drivers and photography guides Alan and Mike really knew their subjects and ensured we got the best sightings possible with lots of tips on how to get the best shots. All in all a wonderful experience. Many thanks to Penda for running such a great competition.”

View Pandora's winning image and the other category winners.

 

How to enter

Photographers interested can submit entries (JPEG, max 2 MB) through the competition page on Penda’s website. All entrants must agree to terms including permission for Penda to use images for marketing purposes, with due credit.

For more details, including full rules, judge bios, and past winners, please visit the competition website.

 

About Penda Photo Tours:

Penda is a travel company specialising in photographic safaris and tours, designed for photographers of all levels to explore and capture the natural world, wildlife, culture, and landscapes. Penda was founded in 2016 with trips in Africa, and has since expanded throughout the rest of the world.

 

About Wild Shots Outreach:

Wild Shots Outreach is a South African nonprofit that uses photography as a vehicle to engage disadvantaged youth with their wild spaces. Founded in 2015, it offers training, workshops, bursaries, and pathways to careers in conservation and creative sectors. 

Stop relying on chance and hoping for the best when you press the shutter button. Let's see how asking three simple questions can instantly transform your photographic process and knowledge of the scene.

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Winter's on its way which may mean dark nights and cold mornings but it does bring ample photography opportunities for those who don't mind braving the cold. We can capture sunrises at more reasonable hours and depending how low the temperatures drops, we could even see some snow filled landscapes appearing in people's portfolios. In preparation, here's 30 tutorials to kick-start your winter photography with a bang. 

 

1. Photographing Winter Portraits

Living in the UK, most of the best clothing in our wardrobes is probably winter stuff so why not encourage people to get out and about with their favourite coats, hats and scarves and have fun shooting some outdoor winter portraits.

 

 

2. Shooting Winter Landscapes

Water in the landscape makes a great photograph at any time of the year but in winter, after we've had heavy rainfall or fog's settled in, lakes and rivers suddenly take on a new look that's well worth braving the cold to capture.

 

 

3. Photographing Winter Birds

Winter days leave us with a shortage of daylight hours to photograph, but also is not the perfect time for birds to find food, with much less food about and less daylight time to feed.

 

 

4. Winter Wedding Photography

Winter weddings are becoming ever more popular. As a wedding photographer, the natural light on a winter day may only be short, but if you are comfortable using available light whether it be tungsten or candlelight, you can create some really atmospheric photos.

 

Image courtesy of Limeleaf Weddings.

 

5. Working With Winter Sun

While winter may often be associated with wet, gray, and generally downbeat weather conditions, when the sun makes an appearance it is perfect for landscapes.

 

Image from  Landscape Photography: The Four Seasons title from Ilex.

  6. Winter Photography Tips 

Whether portraying a bitterly cold day or a snowy Christmas scene, there are certain things to consider when heading out for a winter photography shoot. I have put together a number of tips which have proved invaluable.

 

Photo by Barry Chignell

  7. How To Shoot Winter Silhouettes

The low position of the sun in winter makes it a perfect time to shoot silhouettes. You just need to find a bright background (the sky's perfect) and the right subject to give you a shot with series impact.

 

 

8. Winter Wildlife Photography Tips

Learn how to take great images of winter wildlife around the coast, in your garden and in various conditions. 

 

 

9. Snowboarding Photography Tips 

Nathan Gallagher gives ePHOTOzine some tips for capturing snowboarders in action on the snow as well as tips on capturing portraits in the studio. 

 

 Photos by Nathan Gallagher.

 

10. Coping With Contrast In Winter

The low angle of sun in the winter may bring with it fantastic lighting, but it can also cause problems when it comes to contrast in your images.

 

Photo from Landscape Photography: The Four Seasons title from Ilex.

 

11. Even More Winter Wildlife Photography Tips

Winter can be a great time to photograph wildlife. With the trees bare, it can be a lot easier to spot illusive species such as deer and foxes. A telephoto zoom lens will be a necessity, and you'll need a tripod and possibly a hide, too depending on what you intend to look for.

 

 

12. Indoor Themed Winter Portrait Tips 

With winter approaching, more people will be heading indoors but this doesn't mean you have to stop looking for ways to bring your portraits to life. Of course, if you have a willing subject you can brave the cold and venture outside to capture some great winter imagery. But if the cold isn't for you, then going indoors works very well at this time of year too.

 

Photo by Michael Alan Bielat.

 

13. Photographing Mountains In Winter

There are plenty of great mountain ranges scattered around the UK that are well worth a photo at any time of year but in winter, when a covering of snow's fallen or a hard frost has settled they tend to look even more impressive.

 

 

14. Tips On Photographing Ice In Winter 

Ice is only frozen water – so it's clear, isn't it? Far from it, and I love ice – naturally occurring on lake edges, round waterfalls, as icicles, however it forms. I'm only going to look at natural formed ice, rather than ice made in freezers and photographed in studio conditions; although either makes amazing pictures.

 

Photo by John Gravett

 

15. 10 Top Robin Photography Tips 

Robins can be found in their numbers and as many would agree, they are very photogenic and this becomes even more true at this time of year when the cold weather sets in, bringing snow to cover the ground.

 

 

16. Tips On Photographing Frost And Ice

Frost might not be good for plants but it is great for photographers who are looking for winter scenes and interesting abstracts to add to their portfolio.

 

 

17. Fast Moving Vs. Slow Moving Waterfalls - How To Capture Both With Your Camera

When capturing waterfalls you can make water appear as if it's frozen in time so every splash and droplet is captured in frame or you can go to the opposite end of the scale and smooth the flow of water out into almost a dry-ice, cloud-like texture. At this time of year there's the added option of capturing frozen shapes that water's created when it's splashed up over rocks and grass found at the edges of the falls, too.

 

 

18. Top Cold Weather Photography Tips

 It won't be long before the temperatures drop and we're venturing out over the Christmas break with cold weather photography in mind. Here's a few ideas how to prepare yourself – and your camera equipment – to ensure you get the most out of your cold-weather photography.

 

 

19. Tips On Photographing Snow & Ice

Winter brings a new range of photo opportunities where familiar colourful scenes are suddenly covered in a blanket of snow. Bare trees become stark outlined silhouettes against a brilliant white backdrop, grasses poke out from below white canopies and old barns look like sets from pantomimes.

 

 

20. Urban Christmas Light Shoot

As the majority of festive pictures are of parties taken on small apertures on compacts with auto flash, having a good image of the Christmas lights, particularly with people in them will really stand out and as a result are a great subject to have a go at photographing.

 

 

21. Cold Weather Photography Tips

The temperatures are slowly dropping which means it's a good time to start thinking about cold weather photography and how you can protect yourself as well as your kit. 

 

 

22. How To Take Black & White Shots Of Snow Scenes

Find out how using the black & white medium can add so much more to your snowy landscape shots. 

 

Photo by John Gravett

 

23. How To Photograph Frost

Set your alarm, wrap up warm and get outside to capture the magic of a frosty start. You don't have to head to far either as you'll find plenty of frost-themed images right in your back garden. 

 

Photos by John Gravett

 

24. More Snow Photography Tips

Snow scenes are very picturesque. They make excellent additions to your landscape portfolio but they can be tricky to photograph. Here are some tips to help you take better snow scene photos and make your time in the chilly outdoors more enjoyable.

 

Photo by Mark Elliott 

 

25. Tips On Photographing Stormy Seas

For those who don't mind a fierce wind and cold weather, winter is a great time to shoot at the coast. Why? Well it's quieter as you don't tend to get many tourists visiting out of season and strong winds can create strong sea swells which means they'll be plenty of big waves crashing into cliffs and sea walls to capture.

 

 

26. Capturing Snowy Landscapes

What better excuse do we need as photographers than a blanket of snow for wonderful photographic opportunities, but it's important to get a few techniques right to ensure you capture everything at its best.

 

Photos by John Gravett

 

27. Photography Tips On Capturing Patterns In Ice

When temperatures begin to fall, lakes, ponds, puddles and even waterfalls (when it's really cold) freeze, all of which make excellent close-up photography subjects.

 

 

28. Explanation On Why Snow Can Appear Blue And How To Fix It

We all know the feeling of photographing in snow on a bright, crisp day, only to realise that the snow is coming out blue in your pictures. This is generally due to one or two errors which can be quickly and easily put right. 

Photos by John Gravett

29. Snow Photography For Beginners

Snow can be quite tricky to capture and can leave many beginner photographers asking questions. To help them out, here we will answer some of the most frequently asked questions about snow photography.

 

 

30. Quick Tips On Taking Photos In Icy Conditions

If you're out in icy conditions, there are a few hazards to contend with which are particular to the weather. Yes, this includes obvious things like taking care to not slip but there are other problems you may not have thought of too.