When I was young, I routinely carried a disposable film camera in my bag as my go-to device for capturing those fleeting moments. As I became more confident in my photography, these were replaced by a Minolta rangefinder and eventually that was superseded by a Nikon N6006. As th

The sensor inside your camera captures an enormous amount of data, and when we shoot JPEGs for stills or MPEG video files you are effectively trusting your camera to make decisions about light and colour. In most cases, your camera does a fine job at this. When you want to captu

Wave photography isn’t the first subject we think of when going to the beach to take photos. However, crashing waves can provide striking images. With the right lens and camera settings, you can photograph crashing waves and freeze the motion to capture images that are both d

It’s Christmas, and you’ve just unwrapped a brand new sparkling GoPro Hero10 Black, but what next? A quick run through the set-up, a charge of the battery and then you’re free to let your creativity run wild. When GoPro first launched it was aimed directly at e

If you’ve just bought a GoPro camera, or perhaps there’s one under the tree for you, and you’re wondering how to get started on your journey, we can help. Whether you have a GoPro Hero9 Black, GoPro Max, Hero8, Hero7, Hero6 or Hero5 Black, the process of setting u

Audio can be seen as a dark art to anyone new to video; what microphone should you use, what settings, and how do you clean up audio ready for use? What few photographers realise is that audio is more important than the visuals in many cases. You can often get away with short st

Canon introduced Eye detection or Eye AF with the Canon EOS R but it reaches a whole new level with the Canon EOS R6 and EOS R5 as it can be set to detect either human or animal eyes and it works with both stills and video. As our Canon EOS R 6 review explains, the Eye detection

As the days draw in, the sky clouds over and the temperature drops, it’s understandable to feel like the best days for photography this year are behind you. And it’s certainly true that cold weather can take its toll on your camera and lenses. But there are still great images to be

Stationary subjects are pretty easy to photograph. Simply compose the image, focus the lens, set your exposure and take the shot. Photographing moving subjects, however, adds new challenges to the equation. For a start, the composition keeps changing when your subject begins to

Lightning is one of the most dramatic natural phenomena you can photograph, but it also presents some difficult challenges. Not least of which is the physical danger that lightning poses. In this tutorial we’ll explain how to photograph lightning, but we want to make clear th

Shooting street photography means always being at the ready with your camera, which can be a real challenge when there are so many moving elements within your frame. In this tutorial I’ll explain which camera settings for street photography are essential starting points for getting

Traffic trails are a favourite subject of night photography enthusiasts the world over, but ask anyone who’s done it once and she’ll tell you it’s imperative you get your camera settings nailed down in advance of your shoot. Trying to change your camera settings in the dark is not o

A 50mm lens is one of the staples of many photographers’ kit bags, yet ’50mm’ means different things depending on your camera. Using a 50mm lens on a full-frame camera gives you a perspective similar to your own eyesight. Human eyes have an angle of view tha

While most of us would love to spend our days indulging in our photographic ambition, more often than not we find that time, especially daylight, gets away from us. One way to satisfy your shutter craving is to try nighttime photography. Take a look at our fundamental night photogra

You don’t have to live in a big city to see attractive Christmas lights, every little village seems to have at least one household that makes that extra effort each year and puts up some outdoor lights. They’re great photographic subjects and if you play your cards right you might g

Mark McNeill is a professional landscape and astrophotographer, during the lockdown he’s been able to continue to shoot images of star trails, galaxies and the moon from his back garden. In the video below, which was record via Zoom video conferencing, Mark explains how to

Like many photographers during the lockdown, landscape photographer, Kim Grant is using her daily exercise as an opportunity to capture a few images. We recently caught up with her via Zoom video conferencing to hear her top five tips for capturing better landscape photos. You c

At the age of 19, Hannah Couzens made the record books by becoming the youngest qualified member of The British Institute of Professional Photography. Since then she’s gone from strength to strength with her portrait photography business, photographing a huge range of clients

Rim lighting is a great way to add impact to an image. It’s useful for creating striking portraits, but it works well with still life and product shots too – especially when the subject is shiny and transparent. Gavin Hoey, an Olympus Ambassador and photography educa

The aspect ratio is arguably the first thing we notice about an image yet, for many of us, this is a camera setting we’re least likely to use. Many photographers decide upon an aspect ratio at the post-production stage, cropping an image to fit their desired shape. Sometim