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Photo Trekking: A Traveling Photographer’s Guide to Capturing Moments Around the World [Book Review]
Perhaps one of the best features of the widespread availability of digital cameras is the ability to capture our vacations and trips across the glo...
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Scenes from Kenya
Kenya remains one of Africa's most developed countries, but has been dealt several setbacks in the past few years. Political and tribal conflicts, ...
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31 Stunning Black and White Subject Study Photos on Imagekind
Black and White photography is among one of the most striking forms. Photos sans color require an enhanced use of lighting, shadows, and subject fo...
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How to Pop Color Selectively Using Channel Mixers and Layer Masks in Photoshop
By Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions: Photoshop Actions and Training There are literally dozens of ways to saturate your colors in Photoshop. For this p...
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Win a Bokeh Kit: Competition
Today we’re giving away 6 great little kits to help you create some stunning Bokeh effects from Bokeh Masters Kit. Thanks to Udi Tirosh (foll...
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8 Tips for Photographing Wildflowers
In this post, Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist discusses eight tips for photographing wildflowers. To get the softly diffused light in this photo...
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Deconstruct This Photo 2.0
Deconstructing the work of others has been--and continues to be--one of the most influential things in my technical development as an artist. I’...
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6 Tips for Writing an Artist’s Statement
A Guest Post by Chris Folsom. Recent talks with a local shop have prompted one of my least favorite tasks… writing an artist’s statement. It i...
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Chile, nine days later
Nine days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed hundreds of people in south-central Chile, relief efforts were beginning to reach those in need,...
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Maternity Photography – Studio or Location?
“Everyone loves someone who’s pregnant” -Knocked Up When you do maternity sessions, are you more likely to do them in a controlle...
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Speedlights at Twenty Paces
Wrapping up in Dubai and getting ready to head over to Muscat in Oman for some much-anticipated R&R.Those of you who follow Strobist on Twitter kne...
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Giotto’s Vitruvian tripod, true genius
Now, whilst I’ve not tried one of these new Giotto’s Vitruvian tripods, they certainly look quite good – what’s your opinio...
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Leica S2 – First Impression Review
This Review of the Leica S2 is a guest Post by Justin de Deney from Camera Advice. Invitation to Leica A Lamborghini speeds by as I cross Berkley ...
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The Dave Hill Look in Lightroom
Dave Hill is a genius. Period. I could look at his images all day long and his behind the scenes videos are strangely addictive. Naturally, thousan...
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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (28 Feb – 6 Mar ‘10)
Weekly Assignment As February has come to an end, so has our series of food assignments. Our last food assignment was focused on Beverages. Whether...
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SMILE: Weekend Photography Challenge
La verità dello sguardo, l'ipocrisia del sorriso - by pensatore Istintivo! This weekend’s photography challenge is something that we should ...
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NYC and Las Vegas from above, at night
Photographer Jason Hawkes, a frequent contributor to the Big Picture blog, returns today, sharing with us some of his latest images of American cit...
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So You Want to Enter the Photography Business?
The photographic industry is one of the most challenging, difficult, and competitive for start up businesses. The statistics prove it. Take this 3...
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Join Over a Quarter of a Million Photography Enthusiasts and Improve Your Photography Today
One of the most popular parts of dPS is our weekly newsletter. Each Thursday/Friday (depending where in the world you are) we send it off to 276,50...
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Shooting for Stock Photography Sites
Love them or hate them image libraries are a great way of generating an extra revenue stream, and because the websites don’t discriminate against...
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The Best Photo + Video Locations in the World
In the era before blogs really hit the mainstream, it was very unpopular in photography circles to share thoughts, techniques and insights about th...
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Using Aperture 3’s Places
A Guest Post by Chris Folsom. One of the great new features of Aperture 3 (get an upgrade from previous versions here) is the ability to add locati...
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JUMP: New Forum Assignment
This week’s Assignment theme is JUMP. It reminded me of this image that always made me chuckle. While perhaps not technically perfect it sure...
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QOTD: Do You Co-op Gear?
I am gonna turn it around to you guys with a question today: Is anyone participating in a formal (or informal) gear co-op program?It seems like a l...
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Camera Bag Recommendations: What’s Yours?
We ran this question/discussion just on two years ago now but a lot of new camera bags are now on the market so it’s time to do it again. Wha...
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Holi 2010
Last Monday (March 1st), people in India and other countries with large Hindu populations celebrated Holi, the Festival of Colors. A welcoming of S...
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Warning: 10 Deady Post Processing Sins
First of all, I have to thank Darren, and this wonderful DPS community for supporting our family through the illness and death of our son. We are ...
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15 Stunning Images Using Blur to Portray Movement
Photo by Mr Bones - No exposure settings supplied Today, as a followup to our post earlier in the week A Beginners Guide to Capturing Motion in You...
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Chile, three days later
Three days after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck the South American nation of Chile, the massive extent of the damage is becomi...
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Arrange Files Your Way in Lightroom
Often when you’re working in Lightroom you will want the images to be sorted in the order that you want to see them, not in as order such as capt...
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Making Old Spice Sausage with Wieden + Kennedy
Ok, I promised a follow up to Friday's funny video post about making sausage. If you missed it, my point was largely that shooting ads and making c...
Via Chase Jarvis
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Vancouver 2010, part 2 of 2
Seventeen days after it began, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are now complete. A total of 258 medals were awarded, with the United States, ...
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My experience with a micro-4/3rds camera – (Panasonic GF1 Review)
If you’ve been able to get your hands on one of these, consider yourself lucky. After driving to most every electronic store I knew of an...
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Five Things Music Can Teach Us About Lighting
In 1986 I walked into the photo department at The Gainesville (FL) Sun for the first time. I was 21, and it was like walking into heaven. Several w...
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How to Take Photos of a TV Without the Squigglies
If you’ve ever taken a photo with a TV in it, you might notice just how hard it can be. The picture can seem squiggly or, as in this photo, n...
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How to (Legally) Become a Professional Photographer
A Guest Post by Scott Bideau from capturedbyscott.com Image by Roberto Carlos Pecino A common question asked by an amateur photographer looking to ...
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Taking Stock of Your Own Photography
A Guest Post by SusanG from Camelot Photography Forum. We talk about things like Workflow and Task Management. Yet, how much time do we dedicate to...
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People Got A Lotta Nerve
When I heard about the recent Sea World incident, I immediately thought of the song "People Got A Lotta Nerve" from Neko Case's brilliant album, Mi...
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Earthquake in Chile
At 3:34 am local time, today, February 27th, a devastating magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. A...
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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (21-27 Feb ‘10)
Weekly Assignment We finished another food photography assignment this week, and the subject was Main Dishes. We wanted you to show us how tasty th...
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Below the Horizon – Discover How to Take Beautiful Images When the Sun Goes Down
David DuChemin and his team have done it again with a brand new E-Book – Below the Horizon. This one is written by photographer Dave Delnea b...
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Building Sets, Making Sausage and Making Fake Snow
There's the fancy part of photoshoots that, frankly, gets too much press. Because real photoshoots and films are made in the trenches. Might be an...
Via Chase Jarvis
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SILHOUETTES: Weekend Photography Challenge
Image by Luza This weekend your challenge is to take and share a Silhouette Image. Silhouettes are something that scare a lot of photographers but ...
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Afghanistan, February, 2010
In southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province, Thousands of American, Afghan and British troops entered Marja in the biggest offensive of the war, wit...
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How To Make Your Own Postcards: Cheap!
I’m Benjamin and am a hitchhiking photographer. In my travels I quickly realized a need to make my own postcards for my friends and family. ...
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24 Hours To Go in Our Monthly Forum Competition
This is just a short note to remind all readers that our current forum competition ends in 24 hours time! The competition has been running all mon...
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Travel, Light
I have logged a lot of air miles over the last few years, and am getting ready to pile on a few more en route to Dubai and India this week.On of th...
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Know Your Rights – A follow-up & a very disturbing video
Are you a photographer hell-bent on striking terror into your community? One of my very first posts here on DPS was called “I’m a Photo...
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Poser: Achieve Perfect Portrait Expression
We’ve all heard it from clients before. “I don’t like formally posed pictures of myself. I always look so stiff. Can we get pictu...
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R.I.P. CR Johnson
Just got off the phone with some good friends at Freeskier and Snowboard Magazines and learned some painful news. The news of the sudden death of ...
Via Chase Jarvis
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