catnap - by NapaneeGal

“My brother-in-law is about to open a brand new pet store and he’s asked me to come in a few days before launch to photograph the store with the hope of using the images on his website. I’ve majored on photographing people previously but have never done anything like this. I intend to take a lot of shots of the pets/animals that he’s got but need to also try and capture the store itself – do you have any suggestions?” – Shane

The above question was submitted by dPS reader Shane and I thought it might make a good community workshop.

What advice would you give Shane as he gets ready to photograph his brother-in-law’s pet store?

Weekly Assignment

For our first week of Black and White April, our assignment was Black and White Nature. While we often look at (and think about) the bright, vibrant colours of nature, the challenge this week was to show how nature could be seen in another light, and instead look at the shapes, forms, and contrast created by using black and white. One of the challenges we faced was that not everything works well in black and white, but our winners this week all chose subjects that worked for one reason or another. Our winner this week was phillj‘s birds in flight. The movement captured was superb, and even with all the movement, the fact that they were birds …

Construction Worker - by wools

This weekend your challenge is to take and share a photo on the theme of ‘Work’.

Feel free to interpret the theme in any way. You might want to show your own work place (or someone else’s), photograph someone working, share your idea of what work is (or isn’t)… whatever you like.

Once you’ve taken your “WORK” image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing site and either share a link to it below or embed it in the comments using the our new tool to do so.

If you tag your photo on Flickr, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag it as #DPSWORK to help others find it. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that

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The results are in on our most recent poll – this one asking whether readers share the images that they take online. Lets first break the results into Yes vs No (with some fairly clear results).

Next we’ll look a little at the frequency of using online photo sharing – this one was a little more evenly split.

I’m yet to do some analysis of the comments left on the poll post to see what the breakdown of ways that people share their images online – if someone wants to do a summary/breakdown please feel free to do so and share it in comments below – however a quick scan of the 200+ comments seemed to indicate Flickr was the most popular option (no real surprises there) but that a lot

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Since I began writing here at DPS, I’ve been shooting out little lists of tips for photographing children. But each little point on those lists has so much potential for further exploration in and of itself and it would be a shame not to delve deeper. One such tip I’ve thrown out there is to: “Give them something to do”. To further investigate this idea, I now add: “How to get them to sit still for five seconds so you don’t have to shoot them on sport mode”. Kids are the fastest little creatures going and so getting them to chill out for just a second so you can take a picture can be neigh impossible.

I do this by giving them something to do. Something to hold, something to inspect and discover. A few …