Setting a custom white balance is the best way to ensure accurate tones in your images when working with challenging light conditions. If you’re a Canon EOS 200D / Rebel SL2 user, it’s very easy to set a custom white balance, which we’ll show you how to do in this quick step-by-step

If you’re in the market for a new camera this holiday season, you need to know these great Black Friday tips for photographers. Black Friday falls on the day after Thanksgiving and officially kicks off the holiday retail season, and it’s your best bet all year to bag a great bargain

Camera shake is a common problem for photographers and is the number one cause of soft images. You may think you are keeping your camera still when you take an image at a slow shutter speed – you may even be using a tripod – but in some conditions and at slower speeds, e

Colour management is one of those mysterious aspects of photography, like flash, that can confound people before they even try it. Many people think they can fine tune their monitor settings by eye, or simply proclaim that the whole concept is just fake news, so why bother! But the

The size of your camera’s sensor is important because it affects image quality. Between two cameras with the same pixel count, the one with the physically larger sensor will produce better quality images. This is due to the fact that photo receptors, which we now call pixels,

Knowing how to expose to the right is a technique many landscape photographers use to protect their images from over-exposure. In this guide we’ll explain the principles behind this technique. It may sound counter-intuitive to deliberately set up your camera to shoot a ‘

Okay so there’s the tree and the decorations, the presents and the dressing up as elves and Father Christmas, but food is right up there as one of the most important parts Christmas. Shops are full with attractively packaged temptation and the long dark nights are the perfect time

Featured image: Cookies Ready by Judith Balari Although the prize and prestige of winning a title like Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year might be what first tempts you into entering the competition, the process itself can be very beneficial to your photography. For a start it

Featured image: Cookies Ready by Judith Balari Although the prize and prestige of winning a title like Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year might be what first tempts you into entering the competition, the process itself can be very beneficial to your photography. For a start it

David Loftus is a long-standing judge of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year and now Chair of Judges. For those of you who know David’s work, and drool at his delicious Instagram posts, he will require no further introduction. For those of you who are new to the world of Lord L

David Loftus is a long-standing judge of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year and now Chair of Judges. For those of you who know David’s work, and drool at his delicious Instagram posts, he will require no further introduction. For those of you who are new to the world of Lord L

The long-awaited GoPro Fusion is now shipping – ours has arrived! – and for many who may be shooting 360 video and images for the first time might be wondering… how do I set up the Fusion to start shooting and sharing your 360 photos and video. In this quick-start guide

Soft photos are the bane of the serious photographer’s life, and a major reason why images get rejected by stock image libraries or lose out in competitions or photo society distinctions. Anyone can zoom into images at 100% these days, meaning that any soft areas in your photo

If you’re new to interchangeable lens camera photography one of the things you’ll quickly realise is that you have a lot more control over the image-making process than you may have done on your smartphone or compact camera. Focus is one of the areas in which you’ll no doubt find a

Peter Dazeley, known more commonly as simply ‘Dazeley’, is a world-renowned advertising photographer, working in London. Winner of numerous awards and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Dazeley is also acclaimed for his fine art and nude photography. In 2010 he was voted am

Shooting a timelapse video can be incredibly rewarding, but in the past it required quite a bit of work on the computer. Thankfully, modern cameras have simplified this a great deal and now many models from beginner to pro offer a timelapse mode, including the Canon EOS Rebel SL2 /

We’re fans of GoPro cameras at Camera Jabber, but we don’t jump out of aeroplanes unless we really, really have to. We love the GoPros’ small size and ease of use, which means you can shoot with them at the drop of a hat in situations where you couldn’t use a regular cam

Over the last few years, the use of drones both for commercial and personal use has exploded across the world, especially in the UK. In this guest post, the team at Heliguy explain why you might need a PfCO drone licence… and how to get one. From television and film to profess

Formatting your memory card is a good habit to get into, as it not only maximises your storage space but ensures your card is completely compatible with your camera. It may seem like a scary thing to do, given that formatting a memory card will erase all your images, but as long as

Getting exposures right is one of the biggest challenges a photographer will face, and this is even more so in high-contrast scenes. One way to navigate this is by using a neutral density filter to balance the exposure – and in this tutorial we show you how to use an ND filter