Being a photographer, you put a lot of time and energy into your work, so you probably want to protect it anyway you can. This may mean taking special care of your photographic equipment, developing your images in the proper environment, and maybe even applying a copyright to make sure that their integrity is not compromised. But there’s another kind of protection that you may not have considered yet, and it’s just as important. As a photographer, public liability can help you take care of the financial side of your business by making sure that you don’t lose all of your money because o

Social media for photographers For a while now, I have watched emerging and established photographers tentatively dip their toes into the world of social media. Do I need a blog, a Facebook page or should I really have a twitter account? The list of connections and networks really can be quite daunting and of course, potentially unmanageable. Then there are the statistics, the number of likes, friends, tweets, comments…well you get the picture. I have spent the last few months on a mission, reading and finding resources about the use of social media, very specifically keeping in mind its use

I am following the blog of photographer Martin Middlebrook, currently based in Kabul. Martin has upped sticks from his regular life, including friends and family in the UK, to experience, document and raise awareness of life in Afghanistan. I can’t even imagine visiting this country much less photographing there, but reading Martin’s blog I am entranced and captivated and already have experienced a sense of the country and the people, and importantly, Martin’s journey, through his writing and photography. As a developing photographer, my key priority at the moment is taking better pictur

With today's 24/7 internet life there is an abundance of information ready at your finger tips for budding and pro photographers alike. Here we have put together a selection of the most active photography forums where you can join up and help out other photographers and learn new techniques yourself. It's amazing what you can pick up with forums and you may just meet some nice online photo buddies in the process! ePhotozinehttp://www.ephotozine.com/forumsThis is a very active photography forum with a large amount of members (their record stats for members online at one time is 4074!). Together

Ten of the pioneering photos of snowflake crystals that American farmer Wilson Bentley began taking more than a century ago are to be sold in New York. Wilson A Bentley (1865-1931) is thought to be the first photographer to capture images of single snowflakes on camera. He made thousands of the jewel-like prints, and came to the conclusion that no two snowflakes were the same. This concept caught the public imagination and he published other articles in magazines, including National Geographic, Nature (Journal), Popular Science and the Scientific American. His photographs have been reques

Fujifilm has announced the release of Wunderbars, billed as “a revolutionary framing system for canvas prints”. Wunderbars offers a new way to create canvas prints - quickly, easily and without the need for specialist tools, Fujifilm says. Each frame has a sprung pin mechanism which automatically stretches the canvas and ensures it remains under constant tension. Wunderbars’ constant tension stretcher bars are even easier to construct than normal stretched canvas prints. Wunderbars are precision machined so there is no need to measure the frame to get it square or  hit the frame with

Toshiba, one of the leading innovators in NAND flash memory technologies has announced the launch of the world’s first 64GB SDXC Memory Card. The new card is compliant with the new SD Memory Standard, Ver. 3.00. Toshiba also extended its industry leadership in memory card solutions by unveiling 32GB and 16GB SDHC Memory Cards compliant with the world’s fastest data transfer rate. The new SDXC and SDHC Memory Cards are the world’s first compliant with the SD Memory Card Standard Version 3.00, UHS104, which brings a new level of ultra-fast read and write speeds to NAND flash base

Japan's Fujifilm is planning to add a new dimension to photography this year: the third dimension. The camera hopes to succeed where other 3D image technologies have failed in the past. In the battle to differentiate its products in the competitive digital camera market, the Japanese camera maker has been developing a model that features two identical lenses and image sensors. It snaps almost-identical images that are blended together by a custom chip to produce a 3D image, it said. The system has been dubbed Real 3D by FujiFilm and can be used for both still images and movies. There

In December a specially designed 1.4 billion pixel (gigapixel) camera began scanning the night sky to protect humanity from possible Earth-bound asteroids and comets. The Pan-STARRS cameras, built with chips designed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, is part of a prototype telescope installed in an observatory on Maui's Haleakala Mountain. Its high resolution will improve scientists' ability to detect asteroids and comets by a factor of five. "This is a truly giant instrument," University of Hawaii astronomer John Tonry told the MIT News Service. "We get an image that is 38,000 by 38,000 pixels

Nearly two years after the introduction of the D80, Nikon has announced its successor, the D90. This new DSLR camera inherits its older brother's outer dimensions, power source, 11-point AF module and most of its external controls, but adds a newly developed 12 megapixel CMOS sensor, EXPEED image processor, and a bigger, much higher-resolution rear LCD screen. The D90 also features a slightly improved viewfinder coverage, 3D focus tracking, ultrasonic sensor cleaning, 50% faster burst shooting, a larger buffer, Active D-lighting, in-camera raw development, an expanded ISO sensitivity range