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From 2FA to shared Dropbox links, here’s how to better protect unpublished work, client folders, and previews throughout your photography workflow.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
Which quality and resolution settings should you use on your DSLR? Discover when you don’t need to use the maximum settings and how to make smarter choices.
Which DSLR is right for you? This guide explains why ergonomics, ease of use, and trying a camera in the store should weigh heavily in your decision.

How do portrait rights and copyright apply to photography? Learn what photographers and subjects may and may not do when portrait photos are published or used

The Pulitzer Prize is an American journalism award and the most prestigious distinction in news, the arts, and literature
Are scene modes useful for beginners but best forgotten once you advance—or should they be taken more seriously?
GIMP is a capable, free photo-editing package that is well worth installing and packed with features.
Get started quickly with your DSLR: begin shooting with your new digital SLR within minutes of arriving home, by Lars Polder
X-Ray photography: an accidental discovery. The story of German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923)
Paparazzo (plural: paparazzi): a gossip photographer who secretly documents the lives of famous actors and actresses for a curious public
Tips for photographing trees and forests, from equipment to locations. Learn what to pack and how to create strong images in difficult light.
Photographing trees and forests involves more than capturing beautiful greenery. Discover where to go, how to see differently, and what to pack.
Pieter Dhaeze explains how sensor dust occurs, when spots become visible, and what you can and cannot safely do yourself.
Buying a camera tripod or support? Learn what to consider and how to use tripods, monopods, dollies, and improvised supports effectively.
Ed van der Elsken (1925–1990) was one of the Netherlands’ most distinctive photographers, known for personal street and documentary work. By Cees Visser.
Six illustrated lessons show how the golden ratio, horizon placement, diagonal lines, viewpoint, depth, and color shape a photograph.
Find the right camera bag for you and your gear, with practical advice on size, comfort, protection, organization, and travel.
Frenchman Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre is regarded as one of photography’s inventors, thanks to the daguerreotype process.
Discover how close-up and macro photography can reveal nature in detail, with practical tips on equipment, focusing, and depth of field.

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As a photographer, you automatically own the copyright to your photographs. Learn what that means for use, permission, publication, and protection.
Pet photography tips to help you capture better pictures of your pet, from action shots and close-ups to zoo photography.