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Master your Nikon

11 easy lessons to help you get to grips with

24 your Nikon’s modes and settings in a weekend

Rick Tomlinson describes

a thrilling assignment

144 shooting off Cape Horn

Discover Chris Packham’s

114 wildlife photography

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Gear tests

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Freeze the action

Get ready to take great shots of skiing

and hiking in challenging snowy conditions

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Pan for gold

Make the most of the countryside with this

guide to taking more abstract landscape shots

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Thaw out

Simulate the coming of spring by shooting

leaves and flowers embedded in slowly-melting ice

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Time it right

Master the use of intervalometers for

shooting timelapses and star trails

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Fix lens distortion

Discover how easy it is to correct lens-

created distortion and fringing in Lightroom

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Make animal magic

Use Photoshop’s powerful Liquify filter

to create a playful ‘creature caricature’

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COVER FEATURE Create a moonstack

Discover how to capture the passage of

the moon across the sky in a single image

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This issue Michael Freeman explores the

effect gesture and expression have on your shots

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Nikon software

How to use Capture NX-D to lift detail

from dark shadows without blowing out highlights

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Ask Jason

From misbehaving software to buying

decisions, Jason is here to solve your problems

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Head to head

We pit a gimbal head against a ball head

to see which gives the best support to heavy lenses

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We take an in-depth look at Nikon’s

game-changing new D-SLRs

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Mini test

We reveal which is the best holster

or clip for when you really want to travel light

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COVER FEATURE Big test

Eight standard DX zooms that’ll see you

through most situations, rated and compared

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Buyer’s guide

Don’t buy a new body or lens without

checking out all the stats and figures that count!

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4 March 2016 http://www.digitalcameraworld.com

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