If you’ve ever noticed those perfect star effects you sometimes see in other people’s Christmas photography and wondered how they did it, the answer is by using what is called a star filter. Typically, these can cost anywhere from £10 to £30. But as Youtuber EVA Landry shows in this

One of the most challenging subjects I’ve photographed to date is badgers. These wonderful, charismatic and clumsy creatures have received a very poor rep over the years and suffered at the hands of humans for many centuries. They are also nocturnal and elusive animals, making phot

BenQ has announced a new flagship monitor for photographers, introducing the 31.5in BenQ SW320. The BenQ SW320 offers a 31.5-inch 4K display with High Dynamic Range (HDR) capability, increasing the dynamic range between black and white and supporting HDR signals through both its HDM

Flash is one of those subjects that intimidates, confounds, befuddles and bemuses many photographers. Most of us get the concept of flash photography and know what to expect when you enable the pop-up flash on your camera. But taking a flashgun off-camera is often uncharted waters.

One of the tenets every experienced photographer holds true is to be ready for anything. While we can mostly plan our shoots and pack a camera bag to cover what we expect to see, sometimes we’re caught off-guard. In this great video by Youtuber Peter McKinnon, he shows us eight quic

Adobe has announced it has added support in Photoshop for the new Touch Bar functionality launched in the latest MacBook Pro. When Apple revealed the new MacBook Pro several weeks ago, one of its signature features is a new interface that replaces the traditional row of function key

What is an anti-aliasing filter inside your camera? An anti-aliasing filter – also known as an optical low pass filter (OLPF) – is a small filter that sits over the image sensor in your camera and it’s job is to avoid interference patterns from spoiling images. It does t

Macphun has added batch process, a new Golden Hour filter and a series of performance enhancements to its Luminar software. Announcing its new Pluto update, Macphun has rolled out a range of new features for Luminar that are available now. Among the new features is a Golden Hour fil

Tom Miles series ‘Capturing the Moment’ has sparked inspiration for action photography with eye catching imagesTom Duquesnoy. Here Tom explains more about the background to the shoot and how he captured the images. By sports photographer Tom Miles In photography, the most memorable

Knowing which f stop to use for landscape photography makes all the difference between images that are sharp from foreground to back and full of detail, and photos that have limited depth of field. That’s not to say there’s a right or wrong f stop to use in landscape photography. Th

You can give you urban landscape images a modern feel by looking for scenes with unusual angles, gritty textures and strong shapes that will make for a dramatic rendering in black and white. Here’s what you need to do it… When you think of great landscape images you often picture ro

BenQ has unveiled the 31.5in SW320 monitor with a 4K UHD screen, aimed at photographers who require a larger viewing area for making precise edits to their images. Key features of the new BenQ monitor include a 99% Adobe RGB wide colour space and GamutDuo technology, which allows yo

Serif’s photo editing software, Affinity Window – price tag $39.99 / £29.99 / €39.99 until 22 December – is now available to buy for Windows, the company has announced. What’s more, Serif has unveiled Affinity Photo 1.5 update, adding a wider range of new features to the

Adobe has announced updates for Lightroom Mobile (iOS 2.6 and Android 2.2.2), Lightroom CC (Lightroom 6.8) and Adobe Camera Raw 9.8. The Lightroom CC 6.8 / 2015.8 update adds a new Reference View mode to the Develop Module which allows you to compare two different images in order to

One bonus of the early, dark evenings of winter is that they provide the perfect conditions for light painting. If you’ve never tried it, it’s time to give it a go as it’s a fun technique that can produce some interesting results, and it’s not as complicated as it might sound. What

Once you’ve got the basics of painting with light sorted, it’s time to have some fun and get more creative. In addition to illuminating subjects within the scene, light can be used to create a subject. How does light painting work? Painting with light uses the light from a torch or

Low Key lighting is more than just taking a picture of something against a black background. In this excellent video tutorial for Adorama TV, photographer Gavin Hoey explains how to shoot a low-key portrait. Step-by-step he takes you through the technique of correctly exposing an im

One you’ve nailed the basics of painting with light and creative light painting, the next thing to try is a technique that’s often called wire wool or steel wool photography. What is steel wool photography? Steel wool photography involves setting light to steel wool and then spinnin

Photographers spend great attention and detail to lighting and arrangement and the right equipment, but they don’t always extend such care to protecting the actual photo assets. The SD cards within digital cameras are magical, as such small devices can hold thousands of images and a

Knowing how to direct models to pose during a portrait shoot and look both natural and engaged with your camera is one of the more challenging aspects of portrait photography. In this excellent video tutorial, Youtuber dphog shares his secrets on how to direct young and inexperience