German action photographer Lorenz Holder has turned his hand to infrared, and the results are pretty spectacular The post Get inspired for autumn with these stunning infrared images appeared first on Amateur Photographer ..read more

Winners of the 2024 Mangrove Photography Awards have been revealed and Supratim Bhattacharjee has been crowned Mangrove Photographer of the Year The post Sundarbans Cyclone image wins Mangrove Photography Awards 2024 appeared first on Amateur Photographer ..read more

New generative AI features are available in Adobe Photoshop - some with updates and others moving from beta to public. The post New generative AI features come to Adobe Photoshop appeared first on Amateur Photographer ..read more

One of Nikons best DSLR cameras is now on offer, meaning you can save over £800 on a full-frame Nikon DSLR The post Full frame Nikon DSLR now cheaper than ever! appeared first on Amateur Photographer ..read more

The results of the third round of our prestigious Amateur Photographer of the Year competition are in! Daniel Goody wins the top place in this round, with Liberty McAuley coming first in the Young APOY competition. Here are the top ten images uploaded to Photocrowd from APOY Round Three, Urban Life, with comments by the AP team and our guest judge. Urban life comes in every possible colour, sight, sound and texture, and it’s no wonder so many photographers throughout the decades have been compelled to capture it. From the quirky to the classic, almost every human experience can be fo ..read more

Amateur Photographer verdictLarge screen, great value for money, only let down by the poor digital zoom, and spare macro camera Pros Great value for money Very good main camera Good enough ultra-wide Good selfie camera Cons Would prefer telephoto camera as 3rd camera Digital zoom is poor The Samsung Galaxy A35 is one of Samsung’s budget smartphones, with a price around $349 / £339, this is an affordable phone, some would even say cheap. It’s often on offer, and can be found for under $300 / £300. Or for a little bit more, you can get the generously spacious 256GB version.  But ..read more

Nikon President Muneaki Tokunari has confirmed in an interview published by Nippon that Nikon is planning to use RED video tech in upcoming Nikon mirrorless cameras – joining other brands like Sony and Canon in making cinema cameras for filmmakers and videographers. Nikon bought US cinema camera maker RED earlier this year for $85 million. PetaPixel reported that Nikon and RED engineers had begun working together in April but that a new camera was still ‘a few years’ away. RED was established in 2005 and became renowned for its digital movie cameras like the RED ONE 4K and V-RAPTOR. According ..read more

Sony is currently selling the most interchangeable lens cameras in Japan, with Canon coming second, according to the latest statistics from retail watcher, BCN. The findings cover the first half of this year, and reveal that Sony had a 36% market share by sales volume. Canon still dominates the dwindling DSLR market, though, with a huge sales-volume percentage of 76%. There was good news for homegrown lens maker Sigma, which increased its share of the market to 18.2%. Kodak – big in Japan again, says BCN Foreign makers are also doing well in Japan according to the BCN report, with GoPro domina ..read more

Amazon Prime Day may be over but there are still good deals to be had out there, particularly when it comes to older DSLR lens technology – Canon EF lenses for example. With so much attention given to mirrorless cameras and their lenses these days, prices of some DSLR gear are falling, so it’s ironically quite a good time be buying into the technology. Maybe you already use a Canon DSLR, or have one as a back-up, or are just looking to snaffle a second camera bargain. In our recent buyers guide to the best Canon EF lenses for DSLR users, our expert reviewers zoned in on the Canon EF 24-105mm f ..read more

Amateur Photographer verdictWith excellent optical quality providing sharp, detailed images and minimal vignetting, this bright zoom lens is a versatile companion Pros Constant f/1.8 maximum aperture  High image quality Weather-sealed Cons Limited focal length range Large and heavy The Sigma 28-45mm F1.8 DG DN Art breaks new ground for full-frame zoom lenses as it’s the world’s first to feature a constant maximum aperture of f/1.8. That means it lets in 1.3 stops more light than an f/2.8 lens and 2.3 stops more than an f/4 lens, making it useful in low light conditions or when y ..read more