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Update: see below for details on how you can win a DSLR, iMac or Photoshop and an iPad. I’m extremely excited today to be able to announce the launch of a much anticipated eBook – Photo Nuts and POST by Neil Creek. In January 2010 we released the first eBook in this series – Photo [...]
Our world is filled with patterns. They’re everywhere when you start looking for them and they can be a powerful element to think about when out and about with your camera. Below are 33 images that feature patterns of different kinds. Some are found in architecture and some in nature. Some of these patterns are [...]
Pin It One of the most effective pieces of lighting gear ever invented is available to almost every photographer in the world… unless you’re living in a cave (and even then you might have one). It’s the window. I hear many photographers asking about what lighting gear to purchase to light their portraits – but [...]
I’m Gonna Get You by Ragoem Ring flashes (or ring lights) provide some awesome light. They are very common with the fashion industry where they are used to create a glamorous look. However if you want to use one the lights they use on high-end fashion shots, be prepared to say good bye to a [...]
Today on dPS I’m excited to announce an eBook that is for parents, grandparents or anyone else with kids in their lives – an eBook that is all about helping you to take Gorgeous Photos of Kids. It’s called ‘Click!‘ and you can read all about it here. It’s currently 30% off for a limited [...]
Last week I was speaking with an amateur photographer who told me that he’s been struggling for photographic inspiration and ideas lately. He reflected that he felt like he’d become something of a lazy photographer and was in a bit of a rut – always photographing the same things in the same ways. I shared [...]
Pin It For a photographer, skills in family portraits are are essential and are usually the bread and butter for up and coming photographers. Looking at the history of photography, one of the first popular uses the camera was not for abstract art, or photographing the family pet, but for photographing people and their families. [...]
Outdoor Portraits present portrait photographers a variety of challenges and opportunities. Today James Pickett from America the Lost suggests 13 tips to help you with your outdoor portrait work. With my very first digital SLR there was a sigh of relief, everything was going to be so much easier now and I didn’t have to [...]
80% of dPS readers dream of ‘Going Pro’ as photographers.Today We’re releasing a new Kit to help you do just that! Over the last year at dPS I’ve noticed a big shift in the questions I’m asked as editor of dPS. In the early days the questions largely centred around photographic techniques – these days [...]
Today Joe Decker shares some tips on wide angle photography. One of the first lens purchases aspiring landscape photographers typically made is a wide or super-wide lens, anything (in full-frame 35mm terms) from 24mm on down, and with good reason, wides offer photographers the ability to capture the sweeping vistas of the natural landscape. But [...]