EQUIPMENT

There are whole magazines devoted to modern digital camera gear (Future Publishing has five of them!) and we want to focus more on the ‘how to’ rather than the ‘what with’ here.

Many smartphones have superb cameras and some software for making edits to photos. Bow recommends downloading the free Snapseed software for editing, as it allows you to save ‘recipes’ for making edits. Once you’ve found something you like, you tend to want to do the same thing to other images.

More enthusiastic photographers will graduate to consumer or professional digital cameras; these tend to come in two flavours: DSLR or mirrorless. There are countless articles on the web explaining the difference between the two. Camera manufacturers are gradually phasing out DSLR gear and moving towards mirrorless. This means that much high-quality DSLR gear is available for deals and on the second-hand market for very reasonable prices right now!