The 5 Best Rugged Cameras That Can Take A Beating
When you want to capture life around you, you don't want to be thinking about whether it's raining, what will happen if you lose your grip on the camera or any such disasters.
Camera FV-5 Review and Screenshot Tour: A Shutterbug's Android Dream
Pick the right camera app, and you end up with what's effectively a complete point-and-shoot camera replacement in your pocket.
6 Inspiring 365 Day Photography Projects For Your Creative Mojo
Any photography project done over a year seems epic. But let’s break it down to a single day and a single task – a single photo every day for only a year.
Ricoh Theta Review and Giveaway
If you're after a very easy way to take a 360-degree picture, you're pretty much out of luck. Unless, that is, you get the Ricoh Theta. Maybe.
Learning Photography? Join 8 Flickr Groups For Eye-Opening Lessons
Flickr has been a home for serious photographers, and you will find the best clustered around Flickr Groups. Flickr remains the old watering hole for great photographs and tips on how to take them.
10 Unique Flickr Groups You Should Look Into for Creative Inspiration
The ten uniquely beautiful Flickr Groups have one common denominator – they all are unique in the photos they showcase. if you are feeling creatively challenged, look them up. Don't let your camera collect dust.
How to Make Your Own Dashcam For Your Car or Bike
There are so many awesome uses for an old smartphone – but have you considered setting it up as a dashcam?
10 Amazing Nature & Wildlife Photographers That You Should Follow
Nature and wildlife photography entices all of us. But we know so little about the creative people behind them. Let's take a look at some of the best wildlife photographers you should follow.
7 Photography Websites Every Shutterbug Should Keep A Click Away
There is no better way to improve your photography than by keeping up with the latest on sites that are run by people who are just as passionate. These seven sites fit that description.
Nuts About Photography? 6 Tips To Use Google Maps With Your Camera
Google has probably done less for the mass effect of photography than Facebook (the acquisition of Instagram tipped the balance), but the contribution has been nothing short of the word “generous”. Google Maps has been a staple in our phones and on our computers, but are we really using it to give our photography some help with the groundwork? Let’s put Google Maps to some obvious and some not-so-obvious uses when we are lugging around our camera.
Never Forget Where You Parked Again With These 5 Android Apps
Now, where did I leave that car? If you've ever found yourself confounded by this annoying problem, you know what a drag it can be to start hunting around a vast parking lot, laden with bags (or a child!) trying to figure out where the heck that car was. The good news is that with a smartphone, it really doesn't have to be that way. There are quite a few Android apps promising to save your parking spot for you, but when I tested out some of the leading ones, I arrived at a surprising conclusion.
Super Zoom & Lens Tips for Your Smartphone
While our smartphones are equipped with better cameras than ever before, we're still stuck with the same digital zoom technology that's been around for years. That's because there's no fixing digital zoom - it's permanently broken, and has been all along. There are better ways of taking smartphone photos than to use digital zoom, avoiding blurry images and pixellated subjects. Today's article is all about getting more from your iPhone, Android or other smartphone lens.
Five Amazing Nokia Camera and Image Apps for Lumia Windows Phones
Since Microsoft and Nokia announced their joint venture back in 2011, there has been a general shift towards the Finnish company in the Windows Phone manufacturers’ market share. Nokia has been innovating and producing a series of superb apps for Windows Phone, exclusive to Lumia devices. Put simply, if you own a Windows Phone 8 device from Nokia, you should have these camera and image apps, which are all available free (for the full app or with trial) from the Windows Phone Store.
Turn Your iPhone into a Lytro Camera with FocusTwist
When the Lytro camera was announced it sounded like it was either the best thing since sliced bread, or too good to be true. If you can afford it, why wouldn't you want to own a camera that allows you refocus the image long after you've taken it? At $399 for the 8GB model, it's not necessarily something that all of us can afford. That's why we were pretty excited to find out about FocusTwist, the $1.99 iPhone app claims to be able to do what a $400 camera can do.
5 Ways to Avoid Blur with a Smartphone Camera
I think it's safe to assume most people take their smartphone cameras for granted, despite the leaps and bounds made in pocketable picture-taking technology. Unfortunately a lot of the time our smartphones produce overly blurry photos, but it doesn't necessarily have to be this way. A lot of the time blurry photos are the result of simple user error and sub-par stock software. With the right techniques and apps you can vastly improve the results provided by your smartphone's camera.
Not Just for Instagram: 10 Handy Uses For Your Smartphone Camera [Android]
Within only a few years, the smartphone has penetrated our lives and replaced other gadgets in a way that was never seen before. Likewise, smartphone cameras have become seriously useful. As the smartphone is slowly turning into an all-purpose tool, the camera adopts a large set of functions, which can be extremely handy in everyday life. Ready to find out the potential hidden within your smartphone camera?
Samsung Galaxy Camera Review and Giveaway
If you love your smartphone's camera, and want to take things up a notch, the Galaxy Camera is perfect for you. Running Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean), the Galaxy Camera is the exact opposite of what we're used to seeing today. Instead of a smartphone camera, it's a camera smartphone (without the actual phone capabilities). How does this work? Does it really have anything to offer that your plain old smartphone doesn't? We took the Samsung Galaxy camera for a test drive to find all that out. And as usual, one of you will get extremely lucky and win this $430 camera for free!
Canon PowerShot ELPH 320 HS Review and Giveaway
Taking pictures is a fantastic way of retaining memories through the years, and nowadays, technological advances have made it possible to take decent photos with your smartphone. However, if you take the trouble to use a digital camera, you'll often find that they have a lot more to offer. We've picked up the Canon PowerShot ELPH 320 HS as an affordable camera that people may want to get, and reviewed it. At the end of this review, you'll also have a chance to win a camera for yourself!
Got An Old Digital Camera? It Can Still Do Magical Things
I have two ageing digital SLR cameras, my first originally purchased Nikon D50 from 2005 and a Canon EOS-5D which I came across second-hand a few years ago. Despite being an entry-level camera that's getting close to its tenth birthday, the D50 is still very close to my heart being the first digital SLR I owned and learned on, as well as being the first camera with which I was able to make some money out of my photography.
Don't Let Your Camera Collect Dust: 10 Inspiring Ideas For Photography
Finding inspiration for your photography can sometimes be a challenge. We've already taken a look at five places you can go online to find inspiration for your photography, but there are also a few offline methods that can easily kickstart your photo-taking - with just a little bit of dedication on your part. There's no better way to keep yourself shooting on a regular basis than committing to taking one photo a day.