The digital version of Amateur

Photographer dated 5 April 2014

is available now!

Win a Samsung NX300 with 20-50mm f/3.5-5.6 lens



















Wildlife photographer Drew Buckley discusses his unusual and
strikingly graphic shot of a stag in silhouette at Glen Etive in the Scottish
Highlands


Michael Topham studies the differences between two of the
best software packages for raw conversion – Adobe Lightroom 5 vs DxO Optics Pro 9

Martin Evening explains how to apply non-circular spot
removal in Lightroom/Camera Raw to rid your images of distracting elements



















Callum McInerney-Riley tests

















Reallusion



FaceFilter3 Pro, a portrait-editing
suite that is capable of advanced retouching

We’ve prizes of Olympus kit worth more than £2,000 in the
Animal Planet round of our Amateur Photographer of the Year competition



















Alfred Eisenstaedt was a pioneering photojournalist who
believed his job was to ‘find and catch the story-telling moment’, writes David
Clark






 This week’s news





























  • Air chiefs sound exploding battery warning
  • Samyang debuts
    12mm APS-C lens
  • Calumet shuts down US stores
  • Sigma wins £8.7m payout from
    Nikon
  • Race to find best camera-trap photo
  • Britain’s ‘best amateur’ named
  • PermaJet reveals photo-printing rescue plan

Details on how to download your digital version of Amateur Photographer