With the holidays upon many of us I suspect cameras are being pulled out of the cupboards for a lot of use around family events. One subject that I guess is many of our viewfinders more than any at this time of year are kids. Kids enter into the spirit of the holidays with much [...]
This week your photographic challenge is to take and share a photo that uses the technique of panning. We’ve written a tutorial previous on how to master the art of panning (also check out this one on panning too)so you may like to go read that one first – but the challenge essentially revolves around [...]
We’ve done this hypothetical exercise the last couple of years in the lead up to Christmas and it has been a lot of fun. So I t would do it again. Here’s how it works: I’m hereby giving each of your a hypothetical $2000 USD to spend on photography gear at Amazon. Very generous of [...]
With Thanksgiving later this week I wanted to take a moment out to thank you – the readers and community of dPS – for supporting our site and helping us grow. This last few days we’ve passed (and are approaching) a few exciting milestones that have made me pause to reflect upon what a wonderful [...]
Pin ItHelp! I’m taking portraits of someone with glasses and I keep getting crazy reflections showing up from my flash in their specs. Can you help me!?! This is a question we hear a lot at dPS so when our friends at AdoramaTV posted this video showing how to get ride of reflections in glasses [...]
Pin It“The times I’ve learned most about some aspect of photography have been those times where I’ve intentionally set out to learn something new and where I’ve forced myself into a situation that is foreign to me and made myself work out how to photograph it.” Someone recently asked me about how I learned photography. [...]
Pin ItEvery few months I take a look at what photography gear readers of the dPS community are buying at Amazon (according to the reports Amazon give us from our affiliate program*). Today I spent some time digging into the purchases of DSLR lenses and have compiled the following breakdown of best selling lenses. These [...]
Today while surfing on Flickr I came across this old classic photo from 1908. It was in the Library of Congress Flickr account in their ‘photographer in the picture‘ set and not only captures an Indianapolis street scene but also the photographer in the act of taking the shot – or at least his shadow. [...]
OK – this one’s a little quirky but I’ve met 3 photographers in the last week who’ve given their camera a name! The names were ‘Roxanne’, ‘Pip’ and ‘Brad’ (no idea why they ended up with those names). I’ve not come across anyone who did this before – so 3 in a week makes me [...]
Over the weekend I asked our Facebook page (please ‘like us and share it with your network) a quick question about what they wish they’d known when they first started out in photography. I gave them a 50 word limit an over the next 48 hours hundreds of great tips came in. Here are 21 [...]
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