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7 Deadly Mistakes You Might Be Making On Your Photography Website

Do you know that your photography website can actually be damaging your business? Google tells us that there are almost one million photography websites on the web right now. This is bad news for you. The good news is that most of these websites suck. Photographers keep making the same mistakes over and over again, [...]

Photographing Kids in Noon Day Sun [Behind the Shot]

In this post Rachel Devine (author of the new dPS Kids Photography eBook) shares the back story behind this picture of her daughter – shot in noon sun. It is rare that I get any significant amount of time alone with either one of my twins. I love getting to know them as individuals. Most [...]

How to go Beyond the Regular Composition Advice for Getting the Best Shots of your Kids

A Guest post by Rachel Devine – author of Click! How to Take Beautiful Photos of Your Kids. If you search for advice on how to take better pictures of children there are certain gems that are sure to appear on any list of tips. “Get on their level” and “Get Closer”, are the two [...]

Learn to Think and Compose Like a Painter

A Guest Post by Nick Fleming Many years ago I met a well known English artist while I was travelling through Northern India. We happened to be staying at the same hotel, one of those rather agreeable converted palaces. Each day he went out with his watercolours, easel,  portable chair and sizable sketch books, as [...]

10 Things I Learnt from Daily Shooting

A Guest Post by David Powell from Shoot Tokyo  Here are a few lessons I have learnt from daily shooting… I hope you enjoy. 1. “Do or Do Not…. There is no Try” A lot of people shoot daily as they are lucky enough to have a career in photography. Others embark on a 365 [...]

How to Beat the Midday Sun!

A Guest Post by Tam Steele Daly We’ve all heard the saying, even in photography, that the only people out in the midday sun are – Mad dogs, Englishmen and Wedding photographers! Well after years of following that train of thought I decided to play around with the idea of not being beaten, by the [...]

Night Photography Tips

Over the last year I’ve become more and more enamored with night photography and the depth of colours offered by it. Today I’d like to share a few things I’ve learned with you and hear your thoughts on this diverse and fascinating style of photography. What are our tools in night photography? Tripod. While not [...]

How To: HDR Photography

HDR Photography has been around since the days of film, but has become extremely popular in recent years. High Dynamic Range, or HDR, is essentially a way of processing photos that allows for a wider and deeper range of colors. This type of processing makes an image appear much closer to what the human eye [...]

Photographing The Great Ocean Road: Victoria, Australia

A Guest Post by Cliff Kolber – Photography by Cliff Kolber and Doris Kolber Australia is an amazing country and continent. It has some of the most diverse and spectacular scenery in the world with the desolate outback, iconic red deserts, deep canyons, rugged coastlines, lush rainforests and the Great Barrier Reef. Part of this [...]

When to Ditch the Day-Job and Follow Your Dreams

We have been planning for this moment for over a year and a half. On June 17th of this year, I said goodbye to my colleagues and well-paying job to follow our dreams to do wedding and portrait photography full-time. We finally replaced our entire household income with income from our photography business. Most people [...]

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