Nature provides one of the most powerful photographic tools: sunlight. With a little know-how it can easily be harnessed and will instantly help you to improve your outdoor portraits with stunning effect. Utilising natural light will give your portraits a more natural look and gives

The topic of focusing for video shoots is not as straightforward as you may think. Aside from the obvious manual or autofocus choice you also have technique, technical and creative choices to make. To try to make things more clear Steve Fairclough examines some of the key things you

To guide you through the jungle of options for selling your images through agencies we take a closer look at what you need to consider when trying to sell your images. Steve Fairclough examines the current options for signing with photo agencies to help to ignite your photographic c

Launch back in 2013 the new style Mac Pro featured impressive spec’s, especially when you looked at the benchmarks. Looking back now and it’s possible to see that much of the hype was down to the new breed of storage.   However, the new style Mac Pro 6,1 has not be

In this series of tutorials, I’ve shown you how to completely overhaul your Mac Pro 5,1. Boosting the speed so that your old 7-10-year-old machine can hold it’s own against the latest MacBook Pro’s. One area that I’ve overlooked due to the relative simplicity

The DJI OSMO Pocket is a revelation for vloggers, amateur filmmakers or anyone who wants to create professional-looking, stabilised video. But unlike some other cameras, it’s not quite as simple as taking it out of the box and recording straightaway. Before you can film with the OSM

You’d think that with all the guides now built into cameras you’d be able to take a picture with a straight horizon. It would appear not, as levelling horizons is still a much asked for common fix for your photos. Luckily built into Photoshop’s ACR (Adobe Camera RA

It’s a small thing, a spec of dust, but once it’s implanted itself on the surface of your sensor it’ll dominate every picture you take. Removing dust from a sensor is a delicate process, but easy enough to do, as long as you’re careful and have the right kit.

Whilst the challenge of planning and shooting a video may seem like a mountain that’s almost too difficult to climb by deploying a few simple tips and rules the whole process can be easily simplified. Steve Fairclough explains many of the key factors and rules to apply to plan and e

GoPro has done something remarkable with the launch of the GoPro Hero7 Black. The camera has restored faith in the troubled action camera manufacturer, and see’s the company refocusing on its core users. Other manufacturers should take note, by focusing in on what they do best

Boosting the RAM and CPU in the old Mac Pro 5,1 has already made a huge difference to the overall speed of the machine. Compare the speed of it now with that of a few weeks ago and there’s just no comparison. While the CPU and RAM have certainly given it a boost, it’s

Setting accurate exposure for video requires patience, planning and precision. To help you to understand exactly what’s required we explain some of the key exposure factors you’ll need to consider when shooting your videos… What you’ll learn The importance of ISO values for video H

For a photographer there are few bigger buzzes than seeing their pictures in print. Some of the world’s most successful photographers still get that feeling of excitement when they see images published in magazines, papers or even online, but how should you go about getting your pic

In the last few articles, I’ve looked at upgrading the classic Mac Pro. The effect of the update has been impressive with a slight boost in power from the CPU and a huge acceleration in speed with the swap to SATA SSD and PCIe NVMe.   But, this journey didn’t start out

The Osmo Pocket has redefined compact cameras with the palm-sized design offing advance mechanical image stabilisation and high-resolution video capture. When the Osmo arrives its set to the default 1080p at 30fps, which is great for general use and keeps the file size nice and ligh

The quiet winter months are the perfect time for wedding photographers to trial new kit ready for coming season. With that in mind, we spoke to Robert Pugh, a professional wedding photographer and Sony ambassador, to find out how he sets-up his cameras. Robert shoots weddings with t

Of all the upgrades to your old Mac Pro, this is the cheapest and fastest ways to give your old tower a power boost. Adding USB-C PCIe card is as simple as slotting in a PCIe USB-c card between the Graphics and PCIe NVMe drive, and should take you no more than five minutes. The diff

The smoothing effect of a gimbal on your video is incredible, quite literally transforming amateurish shaky handheld footage into pro-quality reel. However, there can be an issue, a slight knock or miscalibration and your gimbal can start, at it’s worst, to act erratically or

What you’ll learn How to attract your initial clients How to build a healthy client base How to keep existing clients Top tips for young photographers looking for clients What you’ll need People skills to attract clients Networking skills to gain new clients A pro-spec camera kit

You’ve been out taken a card’s worth of images come home and downloaded them to your computer, but what next? There’s the obvious sorting and organising of files, ensuring that you can find them again in the future, and of course, selecting the best to print. But t