Photography Tag

With more snow forecast over the weekend, we thought it was high time for a round up of the Top Tips that will enable you to capture some stunning snowy scenes!

The word ‘photography’ has Greek origins and means ‘a light paintbrush’ or ‘painting with light’. This meaning is sometimes overlooked, as we tend to think we are capturing a moment or an emotion in time. But in the end, it all boils down to harnessing rays of the visible spectrum to create an image.

Rather than merely using a flash to complement light from the sun, you can use a flash to beat the sunlight, making the flash the dominant light in the scene. To do this, you need a camera with a fairly fast flash sync speed. Thankfully, most digital SLRs can sync at a speed of 1/250sec, and some…

Canon has taken the developments both pre and post digital, and provided a fast, high quality camera body for both stills and video. It has improved metering, focusing and a gamut of new features that raise the stakes across the DLSR board. Read the full review…

The sun isn’t always our friend and its light can create harsh, unflattering shadows across faces. Thankfully, you can soften these shadows, or erase them entirely, by using a flashgun. In addition, the catchlights created by the flash add a sparkle to the subject’s eyes.

It feels like a storm of discrimination is brewing against photographers; many parents can’t take photos of their children on sports day and setting up a tripod near a tourist attraction is likely to attract only one thing – a swarm of security guards. How many disenchanted photographers are out there wondering “Why has photography become a criminal offence?”

We all fall into bad photography habits but some gaffes are just unforgiveable. Here are the top mistakes to avoid: The Seven Deadly Sins of Photography.

If you’ve read any of my reviews or lighting guides, you’ll know that I often use images taken by my photographer friend Chris Reeve. I’ve known Chris a long time and I hire his studio from time to time. Over the years I’ve watched his commercial photographic business grow from strength to strength.

The key to amazing landscape photography is combining the all the basics (read on) with compositional prowess (you bring that bit). Here are our top landscape photography tips…

Kicking off the WexWorkshops is ‘Getting the Best from your Digital SLR’, a Beginners course in association with Canon, which aims to enable you to take better pictures and improve your photography confidence by explaining the principles of photography.