Browsing all articles by Darren Rowse.
Darren Rowse is the editor and founder of Digital Photography School.
He lives in Melbourne Australia and is also the editor of the ProBlogger Blog Tips and TwiTip Twitter Tips blogs.
Today is Blog Action Day – a day where thousands of bloggers around the world focus upon and highlight issues around one topic – poverty. Here is our contribution – a collection of images taken to highlight poverty from around our globe. Click the images to be taken to the Flickr pages of the photographer [...]
Today we have a guest post by Samantha Oulavong (founder of LOVE – Lens Of Vision & Expression) who shares some of her inspiring story of using photography to make difference in the lives of underprivileged children. While this post might not be one of our normal ‘how to’ tutorials I think it’s an amazing [...]
Today while sorting through some old boxes I found a photo album filled with the first ever photos that I took as a young budding photographer. I was around nine years old when I first started using our family’s film point and shoot camera and I still remember my Dad’s ‘training’ on how to use [...]
Today I came across this video on Youtube of a photographer – John Chiara. The video takes 7 or so minutes and gives you an insight into the mind and process of a fairly unorthodox photographer using an extremely unorthodox camera. While it’s a film process and not digital I think there are some good [...]
Last week marked a special occasion in the life of Digital Photography School – a group of 70 of us met up in person for the first time for the first ever DPS photowalk! Image by Robert Scoble While it only lasted a hour and a half it was a fun evening as we wandered [...]
Last Friday DPS had its first ever photowalk in Las Vegas. I’ll share some shots from those who attended next week – but one of the ways that the walk challenged those who attended was that they were taking shots at dusk with the end of the walk happening in fairly dark conditions (or as [...]
Over the next month Digital Photography School is running it’s first ever photography competition where DPS members are invited to submit their best portrait image. You can enter HERE Entries close on 31 October. Prizes We have three great prizes with a total prize value of close to $1000. First prize is a choice of [...]
In this post Nathan Pask takes a look at a technique to get HDR Style Images Using Layers in Photoshop. There currently seems to be a lot of interest in HDR or similar processes. What is HDR? Essentially, it’s about collecting a series of shots taken on a tripod at different exposures and allowing über [...]
I’m really excited today to announce that I have joined the advisory board of Photrade (picture is by Renee Blodgett and is Andrew Paradies, CEO of Photrade (left) and myself). You can read the press release here – but in short, Photrade is a company that excites me on numerous fronts and crosses two of [...]
One of the areas of our forum that is increasingly popular is our Earning with Photography section. It seems like quite a few of our forum members have the dream of making money with their photography. Some area exploring wedding and portrait photography, others are playing with stock photography and others are exploring the world [...]