Portrait

When available light just isn't good enough, it's time to bring in the studio lights. The author tells us how he threw caution to the wind, and tried his hand at formal portrait photography.

My favourite lens is the first prime lens I bought, and the first Leica lens I bought. Some view it as the best 50mm lens ever made.

Now that my Leica Q3 is one year old, and well-used, it’s a good time to do a comprehensive review of this little camera. It’s only once you’ve used a camera in real-world, highly stressed situations that you get a true understanding of its capabilities. I’ve had plenty of those situations in the past twelve months! And here’s what I think…

The new Sigma 50mm f/1.2 is a compact, relatively lightweight addition to the company's flagship Art range. Designed specifically for mirrorless cameras, this professional-grade f/1.2 prime lens is now the fastest 50mm autofocus lens in the L-Mount ecosystem. If you are an SL-camera owner in search of a wafer-thin depth-of-field, this could the lens for you.

David tells us about a chance encounter with a street crusader which proved pivotal to his photographic career...

A new twist on digital photography: taking pictures of fingers. Not just any old fingers, though; these belong to musicians, who are using them to play their musical instruments.