With the Christmas season upon us, our streets and homes are awash with festive lights and colour. There’s no doubt you’re eager to dust off your camera and get shooting. But what should you photograph? Sometimes when you’re spoilt for choice it can be difficult to decide what t

DXO, known for its complex image analysis and optical imperfection correction, has announced an update to its perspective and keystone correction software, ViewPoint. DXO ViewPoint 3 uses DXO’s optical and image science experience to correct distorted perspective and wonky horizons

Any photographer will tell you, learning the technical skills is the easy part. Making sure you take a creative, unique image is what takes the real skill. It’s very easy to fall into the trap of only ever showing the world you see from your own perspective. But often the most impac

Winter may not seem like the ideal time to visit the beach, but for photographers it’s one of the better times of year to capture dramatic coastal photography. Likewise, lakes and ponds and rivers also offer plenty of opportunities to blur water to create a sense of movement in

What is a wide-angle lens and when should you use one? A wide-angle lens is generally considered to be an optic that provides a focal length between 10mm to 40mm. But if you’re new to photography you might have a general sense of what shooting at wider angles means in terms of focal

Once you’ve captured some KeyMission 360 footage it’s time to edit and upload to YouTube. To do this Nikon has provided an application called Nikon KeyMission 360/170 Utility that will enable you to quickly edit and export your footage ready for uploading to YouTube

For a lot of new photographers, the difficulty isn’t learning how your camera works, it’s gaining the confidence to do it. Anyone can learn the technical aspects of taking a great picture, but it takes a certain self-confidence to ask a stranger for their photograph, or put yourself

Adobe has announced its Photoshop and other Creative Cloud 2017 platform updates, which include in-app search, an enhanced Face-Aware liquify tool and a range of other improvements. Making the announcement at its Adobe Max conference in San Diego, perhaps the  most significant impro

The phrase, ‘it’s all about the light’ couldn’t be more true than when you’re photographing wildlife. When used correctly light breathes life into your images and it’s never more true than when working with wildlife. In this article I explain how to make use of my favourite ty

I caught up with Olympus ambassador Gavin Hoey at Camera World’s London Show where he was demonstrating how to freeze action using flash. He kindly let me take a few photos for this post. One of the great things about flash is that it can be used to freeze a subject’s movement. This

In autumn photography and winter shooting – or any time of year here in England – rain can be a constant source of frustration for photographers. While no one likes getting wet in the cold, getting your camera wet is probably the biggest fear. But with a bit of preparati

It’s easy to get discouraged from taking photos over winter. Bad weather and unfortunate lighting conditions are just a couple of reasons we find to keep our cameras in the bag. However, this is also the only time of year when you’ll find great photo opportunitiess like Christmas ma

Panasonic’s Focus Stacking mode stems from a development of the company’s Post Focus mode and both modes use 4K video technology. In Post Focus mode you are able to select which part of the image you want to be sharp post-capture, but in Focus Stacking mode you can create an image t

Photographers who use Microsoft Windows can now download Serif’s Affinity Photo software as part of the company’s free public beta. Up until now, Affinity Photo has been available for Mac users and the new Windows version retains all of the original features of the photo editing sof

One of the advantages of night photography and the absence of light is the total control you sometimes have to add light back into a scene and completely transform it into something people haven’t seen before. Painting with light, so to speak, is an effective night photography techn

Dodging and burning in Photoshop is one of the photo editing techniques many new photographers struggle to get right. Photoshop’s traditional Dodge and Burn tools use a destructive editing process and can over-saturate the colours in your images. However, as Youtuber Jimmy McIntyre

Here at Camera Jabber we like to get the lowdown on the latest kit, but as well as testing all the new cameras and accessories ourselves we love to hear what others are thinking and of course doing. Last month I was sent a message from Jessop’s in the UK about a new

Babies are probably the most photographed subjects in world, yet they are notoriously difficult to work with. It’s virtually impossible to communicate direction to a baby, leaving both photographer and subject quick to impatience and irritability. Sure, baby photography can be great

I got lucky with the weather and the tide when I visited Crosby Beach to photograph Antony Gormley’s Another Place… Last weekend I was at Wilkinson Cameras’ Digital Splash in Liverpool so I took the opportunity to pop up to Crosby, just a few miles up the coast, to check-out A

Sometimes we get so caught up in right and wrong ways of doing things that we fail to see how breaking a rule could give a more interesting effect. When you’re starting out in photography it’s best to learn these rules to provide a solid foundation from which you can build. But once