Today’s digital camera’s are highly tuned with advanced automatic metering and colour balance. However despite the huge steps forward in technology if you want to get colour right in camera then you’ll need to ensure that your camera is correctly calibrated. X-Rite

When you’re just starting out in photography its often all about capturing the image and discovering new techniques that you can try out with your camera. The fun and excitement of capturing the perfect image is something that will inevitably stick with you so making sure that

Sometimes a tripod simply isn’t possible, whether it’s because you’re on unstable ground, the side of a mountain or you simply didn’t want to carry it! Shooting a landscape hand-held increases your chances of camera shake, so to help you avoid soft images below we’ve suggested some

A Big Stopper is fast becoming a staple for photographers so in this post we explain everything you need to know about using one. What is a Big Stopper? A Big Stopper is a neutral density filter made by Lee Filters. It’s called a Big Stopper because it’s very dense and it reduces th

Phase One will be rolling out a new range of photo editing presets called Styles Packs for its Capture One software. The Styles Packs will contain 15 to 18 different ‘Styles’ focused on a specific theme to help photographers speed up their editing workflow. Capture One Styles Packs

Spring and summer are wonderful seasons for landscape photographers because of its variety of colour, but what comes with that is a wide variety of weather. Spring boasts very changeable weather patterns, and if you don’t adjust your camera settings quickly, you might find your imag

Shooting portraits with natural light can be a real challenge. Here you’ll find the best camera settings for shooting window-light portraits. Great portraits are all about connecting with your subjects and being quick enough to capture that fleeting connection. With that in mind, th

You spent a lot of money on your camera, and it’s often your chief travel companion. So it only makes sense you want to take care of it and keep it clean after your adventures. Unfortunately, there are some common camera cleaning mistakes many photographers unwittingly make that can

Macphun has announced an update to its Luminar editing software, introducing a new Accent AI Filter that analyses your scenes and makes automatic improvements. The Accent AI Filter, as its name suggests, uses artificial intelligence to study areas of an image for their structure, ar

Drone photography, like still photography, takes preparation—if not more so. In this guest post, Mike Brewer, VP and GM of Lexar, highlights some of the items any aspiring drone pilot needs to check off their list before take-off. Drone photography has gone mainstream. Last year alo

Why keep applying a series of adjustments manually, when you can automate your favourite techniques with a Macro in Serif’s Affinity Photo software? On the left, our original image. On the right, our finished image. It’s often difficult to balance the brightness of the sky with the

Your camera’s autofocus system is a well-designed, intelligent piece of technology, but like those computers that play chess, sometimes they get confused and need some human intervention! But the key to getting good images in these situations is knowing when your AF system is likely

Some GoPro cameras are void of a screen, so out of the box there’s no way to actually see what you’re going to be recording. However, with a fish-eye field of view of 170 degrees, the small GoPro lens can capture a huge amount. So while you might not be entirely sure wha

Macphun will expand its Luminar and Aurora HDR photo editing software to the Windows platform in autumn 2017, the company has announced. Available only for Mac users up until now, Macphun will launch a public beta of Luminar for Windows in July, during which users can edit images fo

Shutter speed and aperture are not the same. In laymen’s terms, your aperture is the size of the hole that lets light into your camera. And shutter speed indicates how long the camera opens its door to allow this light to reach your sensor. Let’s explain it a bit further, starting w

Lexar is one of the market leaders in memory cards for all manner of devices. Recently we caught up with Joel Boquiren, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Lexar, who answered some of the common questions we hear from photographers about memory cards, such as what are memory card cl

Google has announced it will no longer update its popular Nik Collection photo editing software, nor add any new features. PetaPixel reports the announcement was made quietly via a banner message on the Nik Collection’s home page, which said: “The Nik Collection is free and compatib

As one of Dorset’s leading landscape photographers, Matt Pinner’s landscape photography has been widely published and he’s achieved huge following on social media.  We spoke to him about how he got started and what he sees for the future of landscape photographers. What first attrac

Time lapse videos are one of the more popular features of GoPro cameras, and the Hero5 Black makes it incredibly easy. In this quick tutorial we’ll show you how to shoot a time lapse video with a GoPro Hero5 Black which you can apply to any subject.   Save   How to

Tesni Ward is a young and accomplished wildlife photographer and Camera Jabber contributor. We thought it was time she told us a little more about herself. What first attracted you to wildlife photography? There’s something magical about spending time amongst nature and wildlife. Wh