This guest post on natural light portrait photography was submitted by Ed Verosky at About-Photography.com and author of the popular eBooks, “Taking Your Portraiture to the Next Level,” and “Taking Your Portraiture to the Next Level II.” Using natural light can produce some of the most pleasing portraits, but it’s not just the light we [...]
By Annie Tao It’s simple. Take photos of your baby — or if you’re a professional photographer, of your client’s baby — in whatever state they’re in. Serious, curious, grumpy, sleepy, silly or sad. For true lifestyle photography, shooting how people are naturally is what makes the photography truly editorial and photojournalistic. These are the [...]
A panoramic photo is capable of showing a 360° angle-of-view all around. Such an image is difficult to print and see as a whole due to its extreme aspect-ratio. One way to show everything at once is to transform the panorama into a wee planet. This creates an unusually interesting image that looks like a [...]
By Annie Tao. I was recently at a friend’s wedding and took photographs as a guest. I admit, there were times it was difficult to resist laying down in the aisle, climbing up on something, and pulling the bride and groom aside to get “the shot”. It went against my instincts as a photographer to [...]
A Guest post by Angie Muldowney. I love the poignancy of street photography; the way it can portray the world in an ironic, tragic, educational or funny way – often all at the same time! I would love to have the confidence to point my lens directly at someone and shoot, even from a distance [...]
You’ve probably seen the product photographs with a full colour background without any distracting elements in the scene. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could replicate this for shots of valuable possessions? With the amount of buying and selling that happens online, wouldn’t you like to have the edge by having some attractive, clear shots [...]
A Guest post by Nicholas Moeggenberg from moeglydesign.com. Many photographers attempt to sell their photos on stock sites or at galleries to make some money off of their work. However, photography contests are a great way to earn some easy cash from photos you’ve taken and you can do it with a few simple clicks. [...]
As part of our Kids Photography eBook launch – we asked author Rachel Devine to put together a series of blog posts here on dPS on the topic of ‘what I learned from shooting with film’. Those posts went up over the last week here on dPS and have been really popular with readers of [...]
A Guest Post by Ralph Velasco Getting successful images from a moving train can be quite tricky, and a real test of one’s patience and persistence. Recently, I had a chance to take what is considered one of the great train rides of the world, the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacifico, better known as El Chepe, [...]
A Guest Post by Deidra Wilson. A quick glance at the car thermometer lets you know that it is 115 degrees outside. You look to your left and outside the car window, the hot desert air is a swirling mess of blowing dust and sand. You’re in Death Valley and the light is epic. Every [...]
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