If you’re a photography buff or even just like the odd click and shoot, you can always benefit from some tips from expert photographers. If experts need to continue learning from others in the field. BBC put together a masterclass edition on photography coincidentally called the BBC Photography Masterclass. They were put together back in 2006. They are in PDF format, so you can easily save them to your PC for offline use or...

I recently bought a new camera for my wife. We have a Sony H9 bridge camera, but it just doesn’t fit in her purse. She has a 5 megapixel Samsung camera phone that just doesn’t cut it. So I went on the hunt for something compact. Actually, ultra-compact in this case. I chose Pixmania as my start point because they offer a reasonable amount of information on each camera. But what do you do when get down to two or three...

I keep an eye on a Flickr photostream by Victor Walsh. He covers quite a variety of subjects with professionalism. He just posted this hack with some parts he bought from eBay. The total cost was €5. Simply put, he glued some stuff together and got a great result – a 10 Stop Filter. Here is the shot he accomplished with this hack with his own words. I finally got round to trying out my homemade 10...

Whether making your own lens hood to create custom bokeh, breathing like a sniper to get a blur-free photo, or angling your body to look the best in pictures, we shared some great photography hacks this year. Software and Photoshop tricks are great, but they’re a poor substitution for doing things in-camera. Over the last year we shared a variety of hacks for taking better photos, looking better in photos, and ways to get...