Photography Tips
Learn to take better pictures with our round-up of the last few months' technique features. Everything from getting the most out of landscape and sport photography, to improving your camera technique with tips on panning and using filters, or even brushing up on the basics including shutter speed and depth of field.
Studio Portraiture Tips
Your guide to better portraits in the studio with your digital camera
The studio is a magical place where the photographer can create some truely inspiring images. Getting to know your way around the studio can, however, be a little bit tricky. Fear not! We have created this four page guide to help you get the most out of your time spent under flash light. Read our tips for better studio photography.
Still Life Photography Tips
Take better still life pictures with your digital camera
Still life photography is arguably the pinnacle of fine art photography. Working in a home studio, you can create work to rival the best advertising and creative photographers. With every shadow and every highlight under your complete control, you will need your wits about you if you are going to make the most of it, though. Learn to take better still life pictures here.
Black and White Photo Tips
Take better black and white pictures with your digital camera
Black and White photography is the first love of thousands of digital photographers, and with good reason too. Black and white has the potential to be much more revealing, and perhaps even more real than colour photography. Learn to take better black and white pictures here.
Tips for Environmental Portraits
Take better landscape pictures with your digital camera
People are perhaps the most photographed subject in the world, the best way to capture their essence is to snap them doing the things they love doing. Getting out of the studio and on location can be quite tricky, but in this article you will learn to take environmental portraits like the pros.
Depth of Field
Learn to control your focus
The camera's aperture works like the iris of an eye, changing the amount of light that hits the sensor, but it also allows the photographer to change how much of a scene will be in focus. Read tips on aperture and depth of field.
Basic Photo
Basic Digital Photography Tips
Getting the exposure right is a crucial part of taking good pictures. The key is to get the shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings working together smoothly. Once you grasp this and start working in manual, you'll never use auto mode again. Read our basic exposure tips here.
Master the art of Silhouettes
Tips to help you improve your silhouette technique with your DSLR
The silhouette is one of the most striking, and yet one of the simplest techniques in digital photography. You can create beautiful silhouettes too, but you need to know where to start. Find out how to capture the perfect silhouette with your DSLR.
Choose the Best DSLR for you
Which is the best Digital SLR camera for your photography
There are many excellent digital SLRs on the shelves of any camera store, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages, choosing the right one for you can be an intimidating experience, what with megapixels, lenses and shake reduction systems to consider. Find out how to read through the jargon and choose the right DSLR.
Digital SLR vs Compact Cameras
What is the difference between a digital slr and a compact camera
There is a great divide between cameras with interchangeable lenses and those that have the lens built in, and choosing the one that is right for you will make all the difference, not only to your pocket, but also to the satisfaction you will gain from photography. Find out how to choose the best camera for your type of photography.
The magic of filtered photos
Tips for how filters can be used to improve your digital photography
Filters have been around from the days of black-and-white photography, but even in these days of digital images, they are far from dead, find out how to use filters with your digital camera.
