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How to Scout for Portrait Shooting Locations

A Guest Post on Scouting for locations by Kyle Miller from Photography Tips I remember driving around for hours on end through urban and industrial landscapes and to remote areas of the countryside that even the local farmers had forgotten about, all in search of prime and unique location photography spots. In the end I [...]

6 Strategies to Make Sure You Get Those Travel Photos Home

Congratulations. You have finally decided to make that big trip on your bucket list. It is natural to get excited in planning the details of the trip from booking the tickets to arranging for tours, excursions, special sites you want to see, hotels, transportation… the list can be exhausting. The one important thing that you, [...]

HDR for Black and White: A Step By Step Guide

By Joseph Eckert A few months ago, DPS published an article I wrote entitled “How to See in Black and White.” That article had a small bonus section at the end, in which I talked about how useful HDR can be to the monochrome photographer – a fact that is initially somewhat counterintuitive, since HDR [...]

10 Great Gifts For Photographers Under $20

It’s that time of year again – the time when most of us photographers find friends, family, and co-workers asking us what photo related gifts we’d like to receive. As much as we’d love to say, “Oh I wouldn’t mind a EOS-1D X or a Nikon D700,” the cold, hard reality is if we don’t [...]

Nightscapes: Photographing the City at Night

By Joseph Eckert The idea of taking photographs at night can be counterintuitive to the novice photographer. After all, photography is an art, a craft, a technology that is wholly built on light. Film or digital, it doesn’t matter: we need light to make a photograph—it is as simple as that. Night, of course, by [...]

10 Reasons to Turn off Your Autofocus

A Guest Post by Alistair Scott. When I started using a camera autofocus was something out of science fiction. I mean … it would never work in real life, would it? Apart from anything else, how could it know what you wanted to focus on? Now fiction has become fact, and pretty well every camera [...]

Lens Loop – A Review

A review of “Lens Loop” by Wulf, one of our excellent forum moderators! What is a Lens Loop? It is a replacement camera strap made the same kind of nylon webbing used for vehicle seatbelts with a sturdy clip-hook hanging off the bottom. It also comes with a metal hoop attached to a standard bolt [...]

Five Reasons to Love the Square Format

A Guest post by Andrew S Gibson – author of the new eBook – Square. Perhaps one of the unintended consequences of digital photography is that it has opened up areas of photography that were previously limited to people that had certain equipment. The square format is a good example – before digital you really [...]

Around the World with a Total Eclipse of the Moon

A Guest Post by Stephen Trainor Whatever you have planned for this weekend, cancel it now. Saturday Dec 10 2011 sees the last total eclipse of the moon until April 2014 – the last chance to photograph one of nature’s most attractive natural phenomena in over two years. In this article, we’ll take a brief [...]

How Not to Put Your Foot in It When Creating a Photo Portfolio [With 34 Examples of How to Do it Right]

A portfolio of your works is a very important thing that every photographer has to create. As a true photography geek (or a professional photographer) you probably never part with your camera and take many photos per day. Obviously, there are good and bad shots in your reserve. So what do you do with them? [...]

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