Create your own forest scene with layered paper cutouts

Create this tropical decoration in a 3D frame, entirely from paper, and brighten up your walls with this exotic, personalised decoration!

Decorate your home interior, create a soft, intimate ambiance and light up your garden table with a string of paper lamps featuring cutout designs.

Create your own multicoloured paper insect. Follow this step-by-step guide to create the basic insect, then add your own personal touches.

Depth of field is the area either side of the focal distance where objects still appear sharp. . Controlling depth of field is a key part of how you interpret the world that you are photographing.

Extremely light subjects will tend to produce a dark image. Why? Because the camera's light sensor automatically sets the brightness of the scene for a middle grey.

In the hands of a creative photographer, the right lens is what makes the perfect picture. Your task is to choose yours with care!

Below is an overview of different paper types and their corresponding uses.

The light falling on a scene always has a predominant colour, such as yellow in the case of the sun, or an orangey hue in the case of tungsten bulbs, blue in the case of a cloudy sky or green in the presence of neon lighting.

Given that your camera's light sensor reduces the dominant brightness in the scene to a "middle grey", how can you tell your camera that the subject is darker or lighter?