What Is The Best Walkabout Lens?

Cameras & Accessories

One question we get asked about all of the time is “what is the best walkabout lens?”.
This got us thinking about why the usual answer is a zoom lens with a large focal range and what other alternatives are out there.
What is a Walkabout Lens?
In order to be able to answer this question we must [...]

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Tips To Help You Focus Your DSLR

Tips & Tutorials
Focussing Your DSLR

Focusing is one of the most important aspects of photography. Without doing it correctly your pictures will not look good – there is no hiding a poorly focused photo, even with the help of photo shop.
As a general rule when taking photographs of people you should aim to focus on the subjects eyes. When using [...]

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Learn To Improve Your Indoor Photography

Tips & Tutorials
Indoor Photography

One common problem people face when they start using their brand new digital slr is that the quality of the pictures they are taking falls short of their expectations. The reason that this tends to happen is they tend to use their expensive digital slrs in exactly the same way as their compact point and [...]

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Understanding White Balance

Tips & Tutorials
White Balance

White balance has long been a problem that photographers have had to overcome. In the days of film cameras light was ‘normalized’ using filters to overcome the hues of tungsten or fluorescent lighting. Nowadays in the world of digital photography we do not need filters, we can simply change the white balance settings of [...]

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Low Light Portraits – A Guide

Tips & Tutorials
Low Light Portraits

If you are looking to make a dramatic impact with a portrait then so called low key lighting may be something you should try. This style of portraits focuses on using light sparingly, allowing much of the subject to be covered in shadow or fade into complete darkness. In addition the minimal light available seeks [...]

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5 Tips To Improve Your Portrait Photography

Tips & Tutorials
Improve Your Portrait Photography

If your portrait photographs are lacking that wow factor there are several easy techniques you can implement that should yield an instant improvement. When we take portraits it is very easy to simply place your subject in the middle of the frame, put the flash on and shoot.
Using the above method will often get you [...]

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Lowepro Slingshot 300aw Camera Bag Review

Cameras & Accessories
Lowepro 300 Camera Bag Review

The unique design of the Lowepro SlingShot 300 AW (and it’s younger brothers the 200 and 100) provides you with quick access to your dslr without the need to remove the bag from your body. The 300 AW aims to solve the age old problem with traditional camera bags which is that in order to [...]

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Canon EF-S 10-22mm Lens Review

Cameras & Accessories
Canon 10-22mm Lens Review

The Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens is currently Canon’s widest lens in its entire EF/EF-S lens line up. In the world of wide angle lenses to fit crop sensor cameras this is one of the most talked about and popular. The 10mm range is the equivalent of 16mm on taking into account your cropped [...]

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Canon EFS 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 Lens Review

Cameras & Accessories
Canon 18-200m Lens Review

A zoom lens with a big range is what many people are looking for when they upgrade from the kit lens they got with their SLR. As a result the Canon EF-S 18-200mm IS lens will be one that many people will consider when looking to upgrade.
Canon have pitched this lens firmly at the ‘all [...]

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Speedlight Battery Test

Cameras & Accessories
Speed Light Batteries

Once you start using your camera off flash regularly you will probably realize sooner or later that you are spending quite a lot on batteries. We recently started wondering what was the best kind of speedlight battery out there to get the most flashes for our buck. After a bit of research and some experimentation [...]

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