Tips Tag

It’s important to keep safety in mind whilst taking photos, whether you’re travelling or in a day-to-day environment, there’s always the chance of encountering an unscrupulous character who wants to nick your camera gear…

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…

While reading this week’s Amateur Photographer magazine (Sat 8th August edition) we were impressed with the ‘master macro’ feature and decided to roundup the best macro gear available, plus tips on selecting the right option!

There is only one word in the off-camera flash world: Strobist. It’s an awesome website by David Hobby, dedicated to teaching you how to light effectively with small flashes.

Do you know your OS from your HSM? If you’re a photography novice or have been out of the game for a while, then probably not; all the different labels and acronyms on lenses can be confusing. Each lens manufacturer is keen to let you know their technology is superior to competitors. Most of their features have a unique name but perform the same task!

I was chatting to my friend Chris last week, a very talented commercial photographer who is always busy shooting all kinds of things for his many clients. He told me about one particular job however was not going to be easy, he had to shoot a range of bathroom and kitchen taps for a new brochure. As you can imagine they are all very shiny, with very subtle finishes.