In this post Gary Cosby Jr. shares some great tips on shooting with available light. Shooting available light can be both liberating and enslaving. Sounds like a contradiction doesn’t it? In fact, shooting available light frees you from all the encumbrances of dragging strobe equipment around with its stands, modifiers, strobes and possibly even power [...]
Do you want to improve your portrait photography? Today I spent time digging through the Digital Photography School archives (there are now over 600 tutorials and articles) and noticed that we’ve covered the topic of Portrait Photography from a large variety of angles. I thought it would be useful to list some of the more [...]
One of the topics that we see a lot of posting about in our forums is Light Painting. This week – one of our Forum members – Sodaman420 – created a fantastic video tutorial on the topic of light painting. Great work Sodaman420! If you like the video – head over to it’s Mindbites page [...]
Today Yanik Chauvin from Image-Y shares how he uses EV Compensation. I’ve been using the EV (Exposure Value) button on my camera more than any of the other buttons so I thought I would share with you why and when I use it. Remember that I shoot with a Nikon so shutter speed and aperture [...]
image by padawan Today I want to get some discussion going around ‘best shots’ – and give you a chance to show yours off. What is the best photo you’ve ever taken? If it’s hosted somewhere online (like Flickr) please share a link to it. Why do you consider it to be your best shot? [...]
“What ISO is best for my pictures?” Changing the ISO setting on your camera changes the sensitivity to light of the image sensor inside of it. The lower number that you select the less sensitive the sensor is to light (and conversely the higher the number the more sensitive it becomes). This is useful when [...]
The following article on capturing fast moving images was submitted by wildlife photographer and author Joe McDonald from hoothollow.com. Learn more about Joe and his work at the end of this post. Some of my most successful and exciting images have involved high-speed flash photography of wildlife in action, and incorporated a lot of planning, [...]
Every month or two I like to create a list of helpful tutorials and resources from around the photographic web. This time I think you’ll agree that there’s been some wonderful tutorials written. I’ve included 17 from other sites – 5 from our archives (this time last year) and 3 great photoshop video tutorials. 17 [...]
Last week I asked some DPS readers who follow this blog via Twitter (our account is here) to share some of their photography tips with us. The catch was that they had to do it in 140 characters or less (the limit that Twitter allows per message). Here’s a collection of 20 of their photography [...]
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