Digital 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.
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.
Tips for better landscapes
Take better landscape pictures with your digital camera
Landscape photography is perhaps the most popular subject for amateur photographers, and why not, there is no feeling like returning home with a postcard quality scape on your digital memory card, so in this month's edition of our digital photography magazine, we look at how to take great digital landscapes.
Take better sports pictures
Digital sports photography tips to make you a better photographer
Photographing sport can be a tremendously rewarding experience and whether you are taking your digital camera to a motorsports event or an athletics meet, the possibilities for capturing human emotion at its most raw are endless. To get the most out of action photography, read our sports photography feature here.
Shutter Speed
Get the exposure just right
Leaning to control the length of time the camera's shutter remains open is a key skill that will improve your pictures and allow you visual control well beyond just deciding how light or dark they will be. Learn more about shutter speed.
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.
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.
Mastering Flash Photography
Tips to help you improve your usage of flash in digital photography
A flashgun can be a powerful tool, but in the hands of the unwary photographer it can just as easily ruin a picture. In this feature we will teach you how to use fill-in and bounce the flash. Find out how to get the most out of flash with your digital camera.
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.
Pan for golden sports pictures
Take better sports pictures by reading our photography tips
Panning is one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of a sports photographer, but it need not be the preserve of the professionals, we'll give you a full guide to this impressive technique, find out how to pan for golden pictures here.
