Props, pose, party!

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

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

Manage your ever–growing photo collection and edit pictures to perfection

1 Tap the flash icon to turn it on or off, to suit current lighting conditions. 2 Tap this to change the Night Mode setting. A slider lets you switch from Auto to manually setting the time length of t

How to take group shots of this new fixture in the school calendar, with Wendy Evans