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January 2024

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January 31
- Add the X factor to your travel photography and video, with the Fujifilm X-S20
January 30
- Unwrap a must-have photography gift with us on DCW Unwrapped!
- Astrophotography in February 2024: what to shoot in the night sky this coming month
January 29
- These are the settings and techniques I use to shoot motorsport photography
January 27
- I get inspired by the charm of minimalistic landscape photography
January 24
- Shoot like a pro: Urban Energy
- Keep your 200MP camera phones – I'm still happy with my 12MP iPhone 11
- What's in a name? The Canon Rebel XS was literally called "Friendly" in Japan!
- The MacBook M3 pricing debate: some people will still stick up for Apple!
January 23
- My mission is to take great motorsport photographs: here’s how I got into pole position
- Canon refurbished cameras: are these bargains a green light, or a red flag?
January 21
- Kodak Instamatic: a brief history of the best-selling camera that shot the swinging sixties
- Like it or not, DSLR users, your next camera will almost certainly be mirrorless
- My mission is to shoot beautiful fashion photography, and I've never stopped learning
- Leica Digilux 3: a classic camera, but should you buy a used digital camera?
- How do YOU delete photos from your memory cards – and is it damaging them?
January 20
- "By zooming in on these tiny creatures, I hope to spark curiosity about the hidden beauty surrounding us"
- My mission is to take brilliant photos of birds in flight, and I’ve taken some quacking shots!
- So… does AI mean we're just not going to bother with better cameras any more?
January 19
- Colored cameras, what do I think? Make mine black with a splash of Sunshine Orange!
January 18
- GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Winter Wonders photo challenge
- Become a slow shutter speed expert!
- “Most years, I keep an eye out for an photo to use to celebrate the festive season”
January 17
- “As a homage to the mighty tree at Sycamore Gap, I take the time to notice and acknowledge lone trees everywhere”
- The Nikon Zf has given new life to a favorite lens I bought 30 years ago
January 16
- The MacBook Pro M3 debate: "As an always PC person, I have always been envious of the build quality and engineering of Macs BUT..."
- 9 top cameras for travel photography – capture every moment and memory
- Is the Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 still worth buying?
- “I couldn’t return empty-handed, so I started to experiment with intentional camera movement (ICM), albeit reluctantly ”
- I’ve always wondered what the sky would look like if you lived on a planet within a globular cluster… This photo is a concept of what I think it could look like…
January 15
- My mission is to bring a human element to architecture photos: I do it by playing the waiting game
- ”Perhaps the wild landscapes of north Wales are just too beautiful for my aesthetic. However, I still take my camera in the hope that something will resonate".
January 14
- “It has been photographed so often that it felt to me like there was nowhere to go creatively”
- “I find the process before the photo exciting – learning about the subject, failing to get the shot, and finally being rewarded.” Dani Connor talks about her journey in wildlife photography, from family pets to Iberian lynx
- I changed aspect ratios to beat a creative slump, and I think you should too!
January 13
- These are the camera settings I use when I shoot night-time seascapes
- "AI has ruined one CES, and it'll get worse". Where did the real products go?
- “It’s at moments like this that boredom can set in. And boredom is lovely”. Experimenting in the bedroom conjures up a ghostly photo
January 12
- “It’s awesome. It’s also terrible, and that’s what I love about AI photography”
January 11
- “It’s not the slick, commercial-type vistas that inspire my photography, but rather the quiet little corners and the people I briefly encounter”
- "Probably two percent of all photographers in those days were black", Normski recalls how he became the man with the golden shutter in the age of hip-hop
January 10
- “I knew in an instant that there was a photograph here that I wanted to take”
January 9
- GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Macro View photo challenge
- The M3 MacBook Pro range is so sneaky that I'm thinking of ditching Apple
- Has Amazon created its own CCTV network that promotes racial bias?
- Apple's new VR headset may make you want to start thinking more about how the content you capture today will be viewed in tomorrow’s world
- “It felt much more natural from a purely design point of view to pair photos together”
January 8
- Everything you could want in a smartphone - the Infinix ZERO 30 5G is the cream of the CES 2024 crop for vloggers
- “It was a crisp, freezing cold winter day, with a beautiful low-raking light that spilled into my camera's lens”
January 7
- Discover the golden hue that takes this photo to different dimensions
- “A humble broom handle, some peeling paint or a burnt piece of wood can hold the same allure as a beautiful bloom or an epic vista”
- “I was fascinated by this young monk who was sitting there waiting and meditating” – Steve McCurry reveals the story behind a previously unseen photo
January 6
- Unboxing ain’t what it used to be: I review cameras for living, and I’m glad cameras come in less packaging than they used to
- “I often found myself dumped in a photogenic location, only to be told to be back in 15 minutes”
January 5
- 12 lenses of Christmas: December 2023 was portrait primetime for Fujifilm, with something new replacing two things old
January 4
- “I find myself often using words such as exercise, discipline, accountability and boundaries, which seem at odds with creativity”
- 12 lenses of Christmas: November 2023 was Canon’s BIG month, launching a world-first super-telephoto zoom
January 3
- “I strive to create a state of being where I’m looking – really looking – in a mindful, considered way”
- 12 lenses of Christmas: October 2023 gave us a game-changing super-telephoto from Nikon
January 2
- “An autobiographical element can be an interesting way to approach landscape photography”
- I can’t wait for Paris 2024 – I love Olympic years, what a time to be a photographer!
- 12 lenses of Christmas: September 2023 heralded a quintet of medium format lenses
January 1
- “By the end of the trip, I was definitely seeing and behaving differently as a photographer”
- 24 creative photography projects for 2024
- 10 must-shoot events for astrophotographers in 2024
- 12 lenses of Christmas: August 2023 saw lots of addition, along with some subtraction for Tamron
- Photography New Year's resolutions: we WILL stick to these in 2024!