Photo answers

Overcome common problems and create better-looking shots

Embrace urban shooting and you’ll never run out of ideas

We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Take manual control over a host of photographic settings

When everything comes together, there’s no better feeling, as Michael Topham experienced in Croatia