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.
Do You Want to Win this Sexy Little Camera? All you have to do to win is register for our forum and start posting. Every post increases your chance to win! To celebrate passing 10,000 members in our forum I want to run a competition to say thanks to everyone who has joined up and [...]
Photo by carf “I’m heading to India next week and am looking forward to using my new DSLR. I’m particularly looking forward to photographing the people I come across but am a bit worried about whether I need to ask permission before photographing them in the street or other public places. Any suggestions?” – question [...]
I mentioned this book a couple of weeks ago in my Fun Digital Photography Christmas Gifts post but at that time it wasn’t officially launched. However it now has started shipping and I’m hearing some good reports on it. The book is The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2 – a book by Scott Kelby. Many [...]
In the latest Digital Photographer magazine (issue 60) there’s a helpful review of three 70-200mm f2.8 lenses. The beauty of this type of lens is that it gives you a fast lens, wide enough focal length to be useful in many everyday applications, yet the reach to really zoom in on your subject at the [...]
It’s time for another DPS Community Workshop (this is where a reader asks a question and we all attempt to answer it together). This week’s question comes out of a sad question and is one that I know the reader would appreciate your help on a lot. It comes from Mandy who writes: “My Grandmother [...]
1. You’ll begin to see the world Differently – with a camera in your pocket or bag you’ll find yourself looking for opportunities to use it and when you start looking at the world in that way you’ll start to see if differently. 2. You’ll take more pictures – it sounds obvious – and it [...]
This is just a short note to let readers who are subscribed to our weekly newsletter to know that we’re in the process of changing over from one newsletter service to another. This is due to continued problems with the last service. What follows in this email is very important – if you wish to [...]
With the CES trade show on in Las Vegas at the moment the week ahead looks like a busy one when it comes to the release of new models of digital cameras. This is the time of year that manufacturers release their new cameras and I know that many of you are in the market [...]
The following post on using tripods in your photography was submitted by DPS reader Martin Gommel from the blog KWERFELDEIN. “Press photographers hate tripods, sport photographers prefer to work with monopods – but naturphotography isn’t possible without a tripod. Snapshooting works without, but not photographing” – Fritz Pölking Tripods are bulky and heavy. For some [...]
Here’s a quick video with 10 (+1) tips for DSLR users from photographer Thomas Hawk. What would you add to his list?