Getting dust on your sensor can ruin your pictures, or entail hours of retouching. Matt looks at how manufacturers aim to solve the problem at the source by implementing dust…
X-Archive
The patience of a wildlife photographer
Mark Hancox snaps osprey snatching rainbow trout from water after 7 hour wait…
Darker side of citizen journalism?
Amateur Paparazzi sites offer candid celebrity close-ups
First touch of the iPad
As the first models go on sale, I get my hands on one of the first Apple iPads in San Francisco, California
Image Tagging – Introduction
As you begin to shoot more images, it becomes harder to seek out and find that killer shot you know you’ve taken, but can’t locate. This is when good tagging…
Shutter Speeds – Introduction
The relationship between shutter speed and aperture is fundamental to photography. The latter primarily controls depth of field, while the former can transform an image...
New Photoshop CS5 features?
A sideways look at what to expect
Perspective on perspective
If you use wide-angle lenses mostly for getting more in the picture then you’re missing out on a different perspective – one that prioritises perspective itself over angle-of-view.
Travel Tips – Introduction
With the publication of a book featuring the winning images from the Travel Photographer of the Year 2009 contest, what better time could there be to see what tips and…
Lumix G1 AF accuracy
Does the latest move towards sub-miniature (Micro Four Thirds) cameras suggest a lowering of lens and focusing standards? Not if my experience with Panasonic's Lumix G1 body and its matching…
Pentax Kameraman
New Pentax dolls add the 'why?' factor to photography
Sony’s Live View
Sony's Live View system is the most effective currently available. Matt explains what makes it different.
Noise reduction explained
Most digital cameras feature built-in noise reduction strategies, as Matt explains in his noise reduction guide...
Lens Coatings
Why are lens coatings important? Matt reveals all in his guide to lens coatings...
Face detection / face recognition explained
By being able to detect a face in the scene, the camera can concentrate its autofocus on that person's face to ensure it is the primary subject in focus within…
Google Street View: Entire UK now live
Google Street View now encompasses the whole of the UK… does this make it the ultimate photographic project?
Why vary the aperture?
Picture-taking has become such an automated process that it is sometimes useful to pause and think about the reasons why we do certain things, such as stopping-down a lens to…
WDC Investigates: Printing – Introduction
WDC looks at the fundamentals of digital photo printing, and inkjet technology in particular
A day with a Street Photography master
WYNC radio catches up with Magnum Photographer Bruce Gilden on the streets of New York
PMA 2010 – Monday 22nd
The show gets busy and Joby choose pedal power