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 156

Here come the squirrels • Nikon School’s Neil Freeman takes our reader to one of England’s last pockets of red squirrels

TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT

HOW TO: EDIT RED SQUIRRELS

PRO PORTFOLIO NEIL FREEMAN

LIGHTBOX • Our favourite Nikon images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

The Perfect Christmas Gift

10 places you must shoot before you die! • Pro photographer Edyta Rice has travelled the length and breadth of the UK in her quest to find the country’s best landscape locations and reveals how, when and where she shot her top 10…

Best coastal Locations • As an island nation, you’re never too far from the coast and its spectacular photography opportunities. Here are a couple of my favourite seaside spots…

Keep your horizons level

Best natural beauty • Britain’s national parks offer truly jaw-dropping beauty, with rugged mountainscapes peppered with serene lakes, and there’s a photo hotspot around every corner

Light on the landscape

Best waterfalls • Britain is blessed with no shortage of wonderful waterfalls, which are surely the most photogenic of all natural features to be found in the landscape?

Slow the shutter for waterfalls

Best landmarks • From crumbling castles to lonely lighthouses, including man-made elements in compositions can help create scenic shots that really stand out from the crowd

Fog post production

Best woodlands • From carpets of bluebells stretching as far as the eye can see to the gnarled, twisted trunks of ancient oak forests, a day in the woods can offer something truly magical

Woodland exposures

Look skywards • Tom headed off to Zaragoza in Spain for an architectural adventure. He came back with much more than he could imagine…

Nikon Skills • Ingenious recipes for stunning shots

Atmospheric seascapes • Landscape photographer Mark Bauer shows you how to capture atmospheric seascapes

Shadow puppet • Mike Harris shows you how to create a shadowy spectre portrait this Halloween

Fall for it • Landscape pro Edyta Rice outlines her gold standard when it comes to capturing stunning autumnal compositions

Stack your scenes • Shoot for a focus stack then use the Focus Merge command for sharper landscapes with James Paterson

Mix up your landscapes • James Paterson shows you how to get to grips with the spectacular AI-powered Landscape Mixer tool

Do the can-can • James Paterson creates a stunning gravity-defying still-life with watering cans

In the studio • GET SET UP FOR CREATIVE STILL-LIFE PHOTOGRAPHS LIT WITH FLASH

Creative still-life

Combine frames in Photoshop • LEARN HOW TO BRING A SET OF STILL LIFE PHOTOS TOGETHER AND REMOVE WIRES WITH PHOTOSHOP

Experiment with colours • USE THE COLOR MIXER PANEL IN CAMERA RAW AND LIGHTROOM TO MAKE QUICK HUE CHANGES

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Gareth Cattermole • Photographing celebrities might sound like a glamorous job, but Gareth Cattermole claims he is never star-struck. For him, it’s always about...