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Digital Camera is the definitive guide to digital SLR photography and will show you how to improve any digital photo. It’s packed with practical photography advice and Photoshop tutorials to help you become a better digital photographer. With buying advice to help you choose the DSLR, compact system camera, lens, tripod, printer, or camera bag that’s right for you, it covers all DSLRs including Canon EOS/Rebel and Nikon systems. The perfect title for both amateur and pro photographers

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Red alert on Brownsea Island • One reader, one pro… we visit a National Trust squirrel reserve with top wildlife photographer Dani Connor

Red squirrel photos 101 • Things to bear in mind when photographing Sciurus vulgaris

Technique assessment • You won’t go wrong with these top tips for capturing squirrels

Pro portfolio Dani Connor

Squirrel safaris • Where you can photograph Sciurus vulgaris

In Focus • Photography news from around the globe

Ask Matthew • All your questions answered. Send your questions to digitalcamera@futurenet.com

Readers’ Letters • Have a burning question about the future of photography? Want to discuss a feature or a tutorial in the magazine? Send us your letters…

The world with Nat • Looking for photographic inspiration? Try taking the higher ground, says Natalia Zmyslowska

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Reader gallery • Digital Camera readers show how they’ve been getting creative, submitting images across a range of genres

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PHOTO SKILLS • Tips, tricks and techniques to improve your photography

NEW EDITION FOR 2026 • ALL OF THE BEST CAMERA, LENS AND ACCESSORY REVIEWS THAT YOU’LL NEED TO MAKE THE MOST INFORMED PURCHASES.

HOW TO CREATE STUNNING CLOSE-UPS • Exclusive extracts from Digital Macro and Close-Up Photography, by Ross Hoddinott

TEN CLOSE-UP TOP TIPS • For over 25 years, I’ve been peering through either a macro lens or close-up attachment trying to highlight the beauty, texture and intricacy of small things

Hotshots • Category winners of the World Food Photography Awards 2026 sponsored by Tenderstem Bimi Broccolini

CAMERA CLINIC • Master the art of modern photography

Get the knowledge • Not all bridges are beautiful, but they all have a purpose

Capture your best-ever bridge photos • Expert hints and tips for great images of these super structures

Pros and cons Shooting bridges is a good all-round test • Use your architecture, landscape and urban skills

Shoot photos like a pro • Do your research. Use the internet before you head off to your shoot

Shot of the month • Ian Groves, who captured this month’s cover image, discusses the photo – and helping to raise awareness of red squirrels

Digital Darkroom • Transform your photos with our easy, effective guides

Wish you were here! • Dan Mold explains how to use Photoshop to transform your holiday snaps into perfect postcards for a vintage vacation memento

Use simple masks to boost your outdoor portraits • Sean McCormack makes his portraits shine with AI masking tools

Black and white with a difference • James Abbott converts his colour images to mono using a range of linear conversion techniques in Photoshop

How to create a retro travel poster • Wendy Evans uses Affinity to create an art deco-style poster redolent of a bygone era

Noise reduction in PhotoLab 9 • Wendy Evans looks at the new options in DxO’s flagship...