There was a lot of response to a post of mine titled How To Bring Back Boring, And Possibly Horrid, Travel Photos here on DPS. It was a sarcastic stab at some problems I’ve had in the past with creating less than exciting travel photos. Photos that bore my friends and family. Some people liked [...]
Previously we discussed how sunny, rainy, snowy and overcast weather can affect your scene, now we will look at how other forms can help and hinder your photography… Cloudy Skies Many photographers are often thankfully for bright but cloudy skies, as that thin veil of cloud can diffuse the sun’s rays producing a perfect delicate [...]
We all do it, once in a while. I’ll even admit to it as I am currently paging through the last six years of travel photos. I have taken boring travel photos. Sometimes. Maybe you know you take boring photos and maybe you don’t. And maybe sometimes, like me, you look back and realize you [...]
Unlike other hobbies, photographers can go out in all weathers and make the best of a bad situation. Despite what some people may think, rain doesn’t necessarily have to put a dampener on proceedings and can actually lend itself to creating some emotive landscapes or enticing abstracts. Likewise – many non-photographers may praise the bright [...]
To keep in the mood of this post, I’m not going to include a picture, as is DPS’s custom. This post is about just that, not taking and posting photos. I do it a lot, more than most probably realize (no thanks in part to the fact that I have a Photo Of The Day [...]
Quick, what’s the difference between the light from your flash, the sun, those crazy, twisted light bulbs and the not so crazy twisted light bulbs? Easy answer: degrees Kelvin, or the color the lights give off. Not all light is equal and those who have done any amount of photography know how radically different light [...]
What goes through your mind in the moments as you raise your digital camera up to take a shot and before you press the shutter? If you’re like many digital photographers you’re not thinking about too much – you just want to capture the moment and then move on. However getting in the habit of [...]
The following post is from Australian photographer Neil Creek who will soon be teaching a class in portrait photography in Melbourne Australia, and is developing his blog as a resource for the passionate photographer. Welcome to the seventh lesson in Photography 101 – A Basic Course on the Camera. In this series, we cover all [...]
The following post is from Australian photographer Neil Creek who is part of the Fine Art Photoblog, and is developing his blog as a resource for the passionate photographer. Welcome to the fifth lesson in Photography 101 – A Basic Course on the Camera. In this series, we cover all the basics of camera design [...]
In this interview photographer Chase Jarvis is interviewed and gives a number of useful photography tips. Chase Jarvis’ 5 Tips for Exceptional Photographs from SilberStudios.Tv on Vimeo. 1. Look at the scene without the camera – you’ll see more. Look for points of interest and visualize the shot. 2. Fantasize about the shot – what [...]
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