Finding frames for photos doesn’t always have to mean looking for the perfect frame to hang on your wall. If you’re looking for a way to push your compositions to the next level of visual interest, try finding frames for your subjects within your photos as well. In this post René Edde shares some tips [...]
Photo by svenwerk Regular readers of DPS will know of my love for shooting from down low to get an image that emphasizes the height of subjects. I love the way shooting from ground level creates wonderful foregrounds and puts a completely new perspective of familiar scenes. In addition to this it’s great for photographing [...]
You have promised yourself that your next portrait shoot would be “next level” for your abilities. You want a set of portraits that could be considered fine art, and perfect for gallery enlargements. You want to capture your subject well, but you also want to grow in your abilities as a creative photographer. Fortunately, fate [...]
Photo by Todd Klassy While repetition in the humdrum of daily life can at times be a little boring – capturing it in your photography can create an image with real impact. Life is filled with patterns – many of which we overlook due to the business of our days – however once you get [...]
Learning to see abstractly is one great way to add interest to your images. One of our forum members Andrew Raimist (see his blog here and flickr account here) submitted the following tutorial and images on the topic. Learn to see abstractly by looking for geometrical forms and compelling compositions despite the “subject matter”. A [...]
This post is by one of our forum members withlime. Learn more about her at her blog and Flickr Stream. When I first started shooting I became so captivated with what I saw in the center of my viewfinder I would just clicked away. Only to find, after sending hours in the darkroom, there was [...]
If you are new to working in Lightroom your first few weeks will be a steep learning curve. Here are my top 5 mistakes to be aware of and avoid when you’re starting out. I hope they’ll save you wasting time, getting frustrated and generally tearing your hair out. 1. Think – Navigate on the [...]
We had the announcement for the Olympus Tough 8000 a few weeks back, since then we have seen released the same sort of compacts from Canon and from Panasonic. Being naturally curious for “unbreakable stuff” I wanted to check one of them out and Olympus, as they were first out of the gate, got the [...]
Today DPS forum member Matt Soave from Soave Photography is sharing with us how he composed a sunset image perfectly so it showed up under a pier. Matt put a lot of energy into getting it just right – learn how he did it below. On May 2nd, 2008, I was able to turn an [...]
Photo by sharply_done When photographing a moving subject the generally acceptable compositional rule is to place the subject in the frame with space in front of it to give it room to move into (creating ‘active space‘). This is said to give the image more balance and provides the viewer of the image an answer [...]
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