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5 Tips for Building Your Photography Portfolio

In this tutorial Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton offers 5 tips to building your photography portfolio from the ground up. Image by kk+. Recently I walked into a friend’s house and saw, framed prominently on her wall, an image I took back when I was building my portfolio. Though the family is absolutely lovely. . .the [...]

Post Processing Black and Whites

In this post Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton shares how she does her post processing on her black and white conversions. Please ignore EVERYTHING in the images above other than the tones. I’d be much obliged. xo, Natalie I got an email recently from a reader (of my personal blog) named Cindy. She shared a few [...]

Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Basic Daylight Exposure and Equivalent Exposure

In this post, Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton wraps up the 4th post in her series on manual camera settings – this one exploring Basic Daylight Exposure and Equivalent Exposure. Don’t miss other installments. Part I: Understanding Aperture Part II: Understanding Shutter Speed Part III: Understanding ISO Wow! Is anyone else as excited as I am [...]

Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding ISO (a beginner’s guide)

This is the third installment in a series by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton on becoming confident with manual camera settings. If you are new to photography, or don’t have a clean grasp of manual settings, I recommend that you go back and read the first two installments of this series: Understanding Aperture and Understanding Shutter [...]

Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Shutter Speed (a beginner’s guide)

This post on Understanding Shutter Speed, written by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton is a follow up post to Moving Toward Manual: Understanding Aperture. The posts are being written as a beginner’s guide to gaining confidence in using manual camera settings. Hello boys and girls, are we feeling confident that we’re understanding aperture and how it [...]

Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Aperture (a beginner’s guide)

In this tutorial Natalie Norton explores the topic of Aperture. A few months back I wrote an article here at DPS that created a bit of a stir: 4 Reasons Not to Write Off Shooting in Automatic. I expected to get a lot of naysayers scolding me up and down and all around. I did [...]

How to Find the Blog Service that’s Right for Your Photoblog

In this post Natalie Norton shares pieces from her interviews with 8 successful photographers where they shared all kinds of resources to help you find the blogging service that is right for your photoblog. I’ve spent the week thinking over this article. . . it’s the final part of a 3 part series. We began [...]

Building Your Blog: 10 things to consider when building your rockin’ photoblog

Natalie Norton recently authored a post entitled Blog Power: Why you should consider setting up a photoblog. This post is a follow up to that article. Here Natalie discusses 10 ways anyone can create a photoblog that will really shine! Goodness me. Goodness me, oh my. The anticipation! I’ve been chomping at the bit over [...]

Blog Power – Why You Should Consider Setting up a Photoblog

In this article Natalie Norton discusses how creating a personal photography weblog can help you hone your skills as a photographer. The image to the left is the header of my personal photo blog. The general idea of a blog gives me the giggles. If I think about it in a certain way, it seems [...]

We Get by With a Little Help From Our Friends: 6 Tips to Building your Photography Network

The following post explores how to approach Photographers to help you improve your photography is by Natalie Norton from natalienortonphoto.com. Photo Credit: Nate and Jaclyn Kaiser, theimageisfound.com Let me tell you why I love DPS. I’m completely self taught. Everything I’ve learned about photography has been through independent initiative… that’s just a fancy way of [...]

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