Photography

When Pen Densham’s teenage daughter picked up one of his old cameras and started playing around, she inadvertently sparked a creative transformation in her father. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker – whose credits include Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Backdraft and TV shows like The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone – watched her ignore every conventional rule of photography. Then…

December brings some spectacular targets for astrophotographers, chief among them the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Andromeda Galaxy, which ride high on crisp winter nights. It’s also a great month to photograph the full Cold Moon, watch the moon sweep past brilliant Jupiter – acting as a bright Christmas Star — and image the prolific Geminid meteor shower in dark winter…

Most wildlife photographers dream of capturing lions stalking prey on the African savanna. One 17-year-old found his apex predator much closer to home… but needed a microscope-level view to see it. Predator is an extraordinarily detailed image of a pseudoscorpion (chernes cimicoides) preying upon a springtail. It won the German photographer Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas the Youth 15-17 years category…

Canon’s latest AI autofocus technology needs to be seen to be believed! Everyone knows about the Eye Detection AF, which locks on your subject – whether it’s a soccer player, owl in flight, or racing driver in a car on the track. But one setting that doesn’t get enough attention and applause is Register People Priority. This is a brilliant feature available in cameras like the new EOS R6…