Browsing all articles by Chas Elliott.

How to Shoot an Indoor Maternity Session

Fellow DPS photographer Natalie Norton wrote an article awhile back giving tips on shooting pregnant tummies outdoors. This article covers what you need to know when doing it inside with controlled lighting. I questioned whether an article about maternity photography would be useful to many readers, but in the end, most of the tips shared [...]

5 Tips for Travel Photography in China

More images of my trip to China can be viewed here. Tip 1: Be prepared for low light situations. Many of the places you go won’t be keen on having a high-powered strobe continuously blasting. Not only is it distracting for everyone around, it also reduces the number of over-priced postcards venues like to sell [...]

Learning the Secrets of Wedding Album Design

In this post professional wedding photographer Chas Elliott shares some tips on creating Wedding Albums. An introduction to wedding albums If you have been to a recent bridal show, you have witnessed the impressive growth of an entire industry revolving around wedding albums. Some brides are even choosing their photographer based on the quality of [...]

Darkening Backgrounds With Light in Portraits

Today Charles Clawson from blog.chaselliot.com shares some portrait tips on getting dark backgrounds… with light. Have you ever wondered how photographs get that background darkness that makes the person appear to be standing in front of some great abyss? Well, that effect isn’t as difficult as you might think and the trick seems counter intuitive. [...]

Getting Plugged in to Photoshop Plug-ins

Photoshop Plug-Ins are the topic of this post by Chas Elliot. I remember as a youngin’ I scraped together some cash and purchased my first bona fide copy of Photoshop when it was at a lowly version 3.0. In technology terms, this makes me sound ancient but I find comfort in the words of my [...]

Choosing a Lens for Wedding Photography – Stepping into Wedding Photography Part 2

Recently Charles Clawson from blog.chaselliot.com wrote a post here on DPS called Stepping into Wedding Photography. Today he follows this up by looking at how to choose the right lens for Wedding Photography. Charles is a Nikon guy so this is reflected in his recommendations for Wedding Photography lenses (although a lot of his advice [...]

Stepping in to Wedding Photography

Wedding photography is a topic that many of our readers are interested in learning more about. Today Charles Clawson from blog.chaselliot.com shares some tips on getting into Wedding Photography. Wedding Photography is unique among all other photography mediums. As a professional photographer you have free reign over an incredible event full of emotion, action and [...]

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