Best mag for beginners?

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Picked up a couple of magazines yesterday as a beginner. The first is a weekly aimed at the amateur and to be honest I found it to be little more than a catalogue. The second is a monthly, and was much better with lots of projects well described. Many of the photos included basic exif data so it was much easier to see how the shots were taken.

I have deliberately not named either magazines yet, kinda to see if they come up in the course of the discussion.

So Im wondering what magazines you would suggest to a beginner.

David, its over to you.....
 
I am a subscriber to Practical Photography, Photography Monthly and Outdoor Photographer. Consistently, PP is the best and I tend to find PM rather repetitive. I've not bothered with the digital magazines
 
going off you use photoplus is good magazine for beginners, over the year they cover most if not all of the topics landscape, portrait, sports & even nude also has the usual in whats best to buy & things to try
 
I get Digital SLR photography not the digital copy though just subscription to the mag. It has a nice budget feature each month. I do consider trying another at times though.
 
I don't get any on a regular basis, I just look around for all the offers for 3-5 copies for a pound each. That way I get a good take on everybody's opinions and not just a limited version. Plus, a lot of the time they have a free gift to go with it that also helps.

I've just gone for 3 copies of one mag that's offering a free tripod and it's going to cost me £3 altogether. I'll only use the tripod for an off camera flash or something similar but every little helps.

I do download some of the other magazines to the computer and read them either on there or on my Kindle whenever I feel like it. I've got about 3 or 4 mags to catch up even now and they haven't cost anything.
 
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Save the money and look online, use YouTube buy good books instead. From my experience a lot of the magazines tend to be linked and share same projects, themes and on occasion photos and end up repeating themselves each year. Not always but a lot.
 
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Save the money and look online, use YouTube buy good books instead. From my experience a lot of the magazines tend to be linked and share same projects, themes and on occasion photos and end up repeating themselves each year. Not always but a lot.
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Just that. One book from the library can be enough. A lot of magazine publisher's only interest is only to get you buying issue after issue, because the whole guide is never printed in one issue, when a book will have it all.
 
The topics just seem to keep on rotating round and round, buy for a while then get fed up. You can read far better resources in books for the genre you like. Or even on-line resorces are fab,
 
I'm a subscriber of Digital SLR Photography which I find varied each month with different articles. I've read others too and found them of a similar standard with the exception of Photography Monthly which I got bored of.
 
I've had various ones in the past - Digital SLR and Photoplus amongst the few. Both are worthwhile, but as has been said, after a while, the topics are repeated.

I might get one of the 3 for £3 or 5 for £5 offers every now and again.
 
Oh, and Photoplus (Canon mag) have recently brought out a Nikon version of the mag
 
I got a good quality ringbinder and some plastic sleeves. Then take out all the bits you like out of each mag you have and sort them in sections, ie macro, landscape, portrait etc. Then after a while you will have your own library. Also on my local market there is a chap that sells mags for £1 that are only a month out of date. I just take out the bits I need.
 
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