Polarising filter: what does it do and when should you use it?
Discover how a polarising filter reduces reflections, enhances colours and improves landscape photos, with practical tips and pitfalls.
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Practical tips, techniques and clear explanations about cameras, light, composition and editing — always with the newest article first.
Discover how a polarising filter reduces reflections, enhances colours and improves landscape photos, with practical tips and pitfalls.
Should photographers choose a niche or remain versatile? Ektor Tsolodimos explores the benefits, risks and opportunities of both approaches.
Which lens do you need as a beginner? Learn what focal length, aperture, zoom, and prime lenses mean—and choose the lens that fits you.

Get more from your iPhone camera with five useful settings for macro, composition, lens correction, and more predictable shooting.
From 2FA to shared Dropbox links, here’s how to better protect unpublished work, client folders, and previews throughout your photography workflow.
The EU is tightening AI transparency. What should photographers label now, and how can they communicate clearly in publishing, editorial work, and competitions?
How to photograph a solar eclipse, with practical tips on preparation, filters, smartphones, and telephoto lenses.
When should you choose RAW on your phone, and when is HEIC or JPEG smarter? Practical guidance for iPhone, Android, and mobile editing.
Which photography app is right for you? Ten excellent camera, RAW, editing, and planning apps for better smartphone photos in 2026.
Many smartphones start at around 24mm. Here’s why a 35mm mode or crop can produce calmer street, travel, and portrait photos.
Lightroom Classic 15.4 helps with duplicates and culling. Here’s how to clean up your catalog without losing good photos.
Which lens is right for landscape photography? Learn when to choose wide angle, telephoto, prime, or zoom—and what to consider.
Considering moving from a smartphone to a camera? Learn when the switch makes sense and how to choose a camera that fits the way you photograph.
Learn how exposure rules like the Sunny 16 rule help you transition from auto mode to M mode. Simple explanation for modern cameras.
Want to print photos in high quality? Read how color profiles, resolution (dpi), sharpening and paper choice determine the end result.
Discover the best LED lights for photography and video in 2025, from compact on-camera LEDs to bright, portable and affordable COB lights.
How to capture speed and emotion in sports photography with preparation, timing, equipment and the right camera settings.
Buying a photo printer? Learn what to consider and choose the right model for printing high-quality photos at home.
The five best Fujifilm film simulations for portraits—and how to choose the one that best matches the look you want.
How do you capture the perfect photo of someone blowing out the candles on a birthday cake? Tips for a mid-range mirrorless camera and a smartphone.
Tips for taking perfect photos with natural light. Whatever the conditions, natural light offers endless possibilities.
Daylight studio tips for professional portraits with soft, natural light instead of harsh shadows or unnatural color casts.
Tips for creating a portfolio website for a professional photographer.
When do you use a fisheye lens? Ten fun and interesting applications for a fisheye lens.
Ten practical food photography tips for beginners from culinary photographer Sid Ali.
Ten practical travel photography tips for aspiring photographers from travel photographer Richard Bernabe.
Ten practical tips for aspiring family photographers, from working with families to making choices that result in more natural, compelling photos.
Tips for enhancing the autumn colors in your photography, both before shooting and during post-processing in Photoshop
Learn how to create dreamy photos with long exposures, ND filters, movement, and soft effects—without relying entirely on post-processing.
Which profile photo works on LinkedIn? Avoid seven common mistakes and improve your professional presence online.
Practical tips for photographing flocks of birds with order, contrast, movement, silhouettes, and layered compositions.
How can you photograph your flower or vegetable garden at its best? Tips for photographing your garden.
Green screen photography is a useful image-editing technique for quickly and accurately separating a subject from the background.
Six practical tips for photographers who are just getting started with sports photography
Albert Dros shares practical astrophotography tips for photographing the Milky Way, meteor showers and a supermoon with the Sony 24mm F1.4 GM.
Creating a photo book is timeless. Today, there are countless extra options to choose from to make your photo book unique.
The new LandscapePro 3 software now uses artificial intelligence.
A canvas print is an affordable, personal way to add character to your interior—from your own photograph to a work of art on the wall.
Unfamiliar locations add an extra challenge to photography, but off-the-grid destinations offer opportunities to create unique images.
Landscape and cityscape photographer Albert Dros shared his process while photographing in Amsterdam in an online feature.
Google and MIT developers created software that edits a photo before it is taken
Tips for winter sports photography: capturing the best moments can be challenging. How do you take beautiful snow photographs?
My Photography Toolbox is a fun game for anyone who takes photos regularly and wants to improve their skills.
Want to take better professional portraits? Discover 7 practical tips for profile photos, coaching, presence, and relaxed portrait photography.
Planning a city break and hoping to return with beautiful photographs? These city-photography tips will help you prepare.
Photography tips from famous photographers on Instagram: the best advice for beginners from Instagram photographers who made it.
Planning to exhibit your photographs? Explore the distinctive qualities of forex, aluminum, Dibond, and acrylic glass.
The story of award-winning nature photographer Marsel van Oosten
Practical tips for photographing deer, wild boar, badgers, and other large mammals, covering behavior, camouflage, wind direction, and gear.
Learn how to use Photoshop's Ruler tool to straighten a crooked horizon or slanted lines quickly and easily.
Learn how to add a watermark to photos in Photoshop and automate the process with Actions without distracting from your image.
How Kodak engineer Steve Sasson built the first digital camera in 1975, laying the foundation for modern digital photography.
Learn how white balance works and how to set it for better color. Tips for daylight, artificial light, Kelvin, and custom white balance.
Kodak has recycled disposable cameras for 19 years and has now reused 1.5 billion of them. Here is how its unique single-use camera recycling process works.
How do you use flash in nature photography? Practical tips for birds, macro, and close-up photography, including the Better Beamer and diffusers.
How do you use super-telephoto lenses? Practical tips on wide maximum apertures, stabilization and teleconverters.
Want to photograph birds in your own garden? Read practical tips on feeding stations, backgrounds, lenses and camera settings.
Learn what a histogram shows and how to use it to determine the right exposure in this practical guide.

Learn how to choose aperture and shutter speed in M mode for creative exposure, and when it offers an advantage over automatic modes.
Most SLR cameras offer spot metering. How can you use it to take better photos?
Modern DSLR cameras can deliver excellent image quality. Which lens will help you get the most out of them?

Photoshop has become commonplace. Half the Netherlands says without hesitation, ‘We’ll just Photoshop that in.’ It sounds pretty cool—a piece of cake.
An overview of macro accessories such as extension tubes, close-up lenses, and bellows. What do you need to photograph subjects at extremely close range?

Still-life specialist Feddo van Gogh explains how digital photography and image editing radically changed his creative process and workflow.
Which photograph had stayed with documentary photographer Robert Knoth when this interview was published? Discover why this particular image resonated with him.
Join us in the field for practical bird photography. Learn about observation, camouflage, composition, patience, and photographing birds in the wild.
Which camera and lens should you use for bird photography? Explore practical tips on autofocus, telephoto lenses, exposure, tripods, and teleconverters.
Creating shadows in Photoshop: You can, of course, easily create a standard shadow in Photoshop.
Lars Polder explains how an external flash provides more light and control, with softer bounced light and more flexible lighting than a built-in flash.
Want to take better bird photographs? Discover practical tips on composition, behavior, observation, viewpoints, and equipment.
What does color management really offer photographers? This article cuts through the jargon and explains when it is useful—and when it is not.
Digital SLR cameras offer several AF options. What are they, and when should you use them?