Welcome

Helping you to become a better Canon photographer is what we do. Every issue we bring you brilliant new EOS DSLR techniques, tests and tutorials to help you master your camera and improve your photography. This issue we have an essential and extensive DSLR skills guide to all the key camera settings you need to learn, simply explained over 15 top tips, starting from page 27.

Professional photographer David Clapp takes our Apprentice for a day out around Wells Cathedral to capture the historic architecture (page 8). Our intrepid columnist David Noton travels to the other side of the world in search of great landscape shots in Tasmania (page 40), while we talk to the fantastic commercial and advertising pro photographer Clive Booth about his creative photography and colourful career (page 62).

Our filled-to-the-rafters Canon Skills section has more photo projects to try, from how to levitate your subjects to how to get great results using your Canon DSLR’S multiple exposure mode, plus mastering high-speed sync for better flash-lit outdoor portraits. The fun begins from page 43.

Canon School, from page 79, continues our Cash with your Canon series, and we look at the best ways to use flash in daylight conditions, while in our Gear section, from page 95, we test Canon’s new beginner DSLR, the EOS 800D – find out what we really think in our big test. We also review eight great prime lenses in our Super Test, and six hides for keeping cover for wildlife photos. And don’t miss our fantastic subs offer – where you can get five issues for a fiver! See page 38 now.