This week your photographic challenge is to take and share a photo on the theme of ‘Smile’. Feel free to interpret the theme as you wish – you might take a portrait of someone smiling or perhaps you’ll take a photo that makes those who view it smile. It’s totally up to you. Once you’ve [...]
Today I’d like to invite you to participate in a dPS reader workshop. We’ve done a few of these in the past and they’ve always been fun. In short we take a reader submitted question and throw it open for some discussion in the comments below. Todays question is from one of our regular readers [...]
In a recent dPS reader poll we asked our community about the post production software that they use most. The results are in (with over 22,000 responses) and here’s the state of play in the post production world of our readers. Lightroom is way out in front with Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements also [...]
We get a lot of questions here at dPS headquarters about lighting subjects. Just today someone emailed asking the difference between Rembrant Lighting and Split Lighting. In the following video Jay P. Margan demonstrates 5 different types of lighting: Rembrant Light Split Light Broad Light Butterfly Light Loop Light While Jay’s using some great studio [...]
Filters, batteries, sensor cleaning kits, camera straps… there are literally thousands of products out there for digital photographers to buy as accessories for their cameras. Following are the top 10 Digital Camera Accessories that our readers bought at Amazon in the last quarter: 1. Black Rapid Strap RS7 Black Fabric (Pictured Right) 2. Tiffen 52mm [...]
Dogs Dogs Dogs. Earlier today a friend asked me for some ideas on how to photograph her Dog. I did point her to our How to Photograph Pets tutorial but also thought it might be useful to pull together a few Dog Photographs to give her a little extra inspiration. Here’s some of what I [...]
Ever put time aside to get out with your camera and do some photography only to find that the weather turns and the heavens open – spoiling your outing? Don’t let the rain spoil your day – instead USE the rain – make it a feature of the images that you take. Rainy days can [...]
Do you have a place that you find yourself drawn to over and over again to take photos? It struck me last week as I was quickly scanning back through my last few months of shooting that there was a location that appeared over and over again. It’s a room of our home (with a [...]
What mode do you shoot most of your photos in? We’ve run this poll previously a couple of years back and I’ll be interested to hear whether the results have changed at all in that time. There’s no right or wrong and there’s no mode that you should feel embarrassed about – we’re all at [...]
Photo michah I recently took a trip to the zoo to do a test on a camera that I was reviewing and thought I’d share a few tips that I put into practice along the way. Zoos are great locations to practice photography as they present us both with a great variety of subjects (both [...]
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