What photo magazines or journals do you read?

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Having recently picked up an iPad, I was thinking of subscribing to one of the many photo magazines or journals available on the newstand app. From the 'British Journal of Photography' which looked very fancy, or just a newsagent mag like digital photographer.

I've got no experience at all with reading these. Can anyone recommend a good publication? I'm more interested in tips about taking photos and processing, and reading about other photographers, than stuff about cameras/equipment. :)
 
Digital photo is my choice! Good informative tips and a dvd to show the video lessons.

Half of it, like all mags, are adverts thou.
 
BJP on subscription, AP when it looks interesting.. it really depends what you want from a magazine.

On Issuu I'll have a look at Camera Obscura, Square, Le Negatif and a couple of others I can't remember the names of. I think there's an Issuu app for iOS.

Of the standard newsagent photography monthlies.. they're much of a muchness. Read one for 6 months and you've read them all.
 
Bjp religiously these days, i have seen the bjp app on ipad but don't have one myself, very impressed to be honest. I checked out hotshoe a while back but can never find a copy these days.
Totally agree with the 6 month loop on the likes of digital photo (too many foshop tuts for my liking) and its sister mag. Can't remember its name now.
I do pick up advanced photographer and AP now and then too.
 
I like "Outdoor Photography", not that much about camera gear, more about doing something with it.
 
Basically you can ignore anything you can get from Smiths and the like, they are all just glorified adverts and the same articles rewritten every 12 months. The only things I read photography related now are the occasional BJP and I subscribe to lenswork. The examples Alistair has listed are pretty good as well
 
I have a sub to bjp and love it to bits. Don't really bother with anything else but a local market trader does older issues of all the mags for 70p each so I pick up a handful of those every so often. Practical photogrshy is quite a good one.
 
I personally buy practical photography on pretty much a monthly basis.

Then I look at Digital photo and the cd tutorials if theres anything i want to try, I never see anything in amateur photography that makes me want to buy it :-/
 
No longer take any mags, apart from the cost there's only so much repetition one can take ;)
 
If it's tips you're looking for then any of the 'consumer' mags will give you that - Digital Photo is probably the best. BJP and the like will not do much for you in this way. My suggestion - don't subscribe to any of them, just buy an issue if it has something of interest. As has been mentioned above they do get very repetitious!

Good luck!

Andy
 
BJP, Amateur Photographer and some pro mags depending on the content. I have a subscription to Black and White Photography.

As for the others, they are basically the same magazine with different names. I actually bought Practical Photography this morning out of boredom and skimmed through it in about five minutes.
 
I have a sub to BJP and get AP most weeks as it's a good mix of news, tips and gear and regularly features vintage stuff.
Sometimes I get 'Hotshoe' and 'Photoworks'.
As others have said the monthlies stocked by WHS all feature the same stuff over and over again (as do the birdwatching mags) but the odd issue is ok now and again. I bought an issue of 'Photography Monthly' recently as it was a 'vintage special'. That issue was good but the later issue(s) looked a bit predictable and uninspiring.
By the way, half the techniques alot of the magazines teach are around photoshop rather than photography.
 
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By the way, half the techniques alot of the magazines teach are around photoshop rather than photography.
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Go back twenty years, would there be the same comments if it was all darkroom and not photography? - or would that comment just not make sense? Processing is an essential part of digital photography that cannot be removed from the act of pressing the shutter, but there is a tendency for the magazines to go all Deviant Art about things..
 
I just look at whatever I can find on the net. Usually AP and What Digital Camera and Photo Plus are what I tend to look out for but can often get others through the month.
 
Im a big fan of outdoor photography also, but I suppose its only interesting to some due to the nature (pardon the pun) of it.

Paul
 
I have stopped buying photo magazines monthly, as they are very repetative,and quite often copy each other. Much better flicking through them when you get the chance,and buy the ones that have articles relavant to your interests.
 
I have a subscription to black and white photography magazine, I also have a couple of the nikon magazine that I liked.
 
paulf1990 said:
Im a big fan of outdoor photography also, but I suppose its only interesting to some due to the nature (pardon the pun) of it.

Paul
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Another vote for outdoor photography. Intertesting articles about different photogrpahers and styles, great location guides and always interesting. Have mentioned it several times in the past when people ask for recommendations but it normally gets ignored. :shrug:
 
I appreciate what as been said about the repetition in the Mags and that most of the content can be found online but as a newbie I am finding enough of interest in AP, Practical Photography and the rest to justify the cost.

Further down the line I think I will focus ( no pun intended) in on more specific areas of interest but for now I think the mags give a good overview of what can be achieved.

I should add that currently I do not feel confident enough to submit images for critique so that form of Feedback is not yet open.
 
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sc0ttie said:
I have a subscription to black and white photography magazine, I also have a couple of the nikon magazine that I liked.
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Would like to add to this, bought a copy of a bi-monthly magazine called Hotshoe, which was a really interesting read And I plan on getting the Feb/march issue this month if I can remember which shop I got it from.
 
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If I want photo inspiration, I look through Flickr, 500px or 1x. For politics and deeper thought, I hit magnum or worldpressphoto. for reviews I use online forums. For prices I use the usual websites.

If I did subscribe, it would be to the BJP.
 
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