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Five Photo Ideas for Shooting Close to Home
A Guest Post by Wayne Turner from http://www.21steps2perfectphotos.com It’s Saturday morning, a beautiful day and your photography juices are flo...
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Prevent dSLR Camera Shake With These 3 Techniques
A Guest Post by Jeff Bartlett. Let’s face the facts; lugging a tripod isn’t always a fun way to take pictures. Ignoring the obvious complaints...
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Baby Photography: Photographing Babies Without Losing your Mind
Today Natalie Norton shares with us a series of 6 tips for photographing babies. *Image Credit Nicole Hill. Babies, babies everywhere! It seems li...
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Understanding Optical Slaves, Pt. 2
Editor's note: There are enough questions coming in via the comments that I am prepping a slave-related Q&A for later this week. If you have a ques...
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Olympus SP-800UZ Review
Now that cameras such as this are nearly commonplace, the decision whether to buy a digicam that shoots HD movies as well as pretty big stills or a...
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Cleaning Dalian harbor
The oil spill resulting from a pipeline explosion in the port city of Dalian on July 16th [see previous entry] is being cleaned up by a small army ...
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The Big Picture
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Photoshop: Working with Locked Pixels
If you’ve ever wondered what the small icons in the Layer palette do, you might be surprised at how useful they can be. Here’s what the Lock T...
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Travel Photography Subjects: Transportation
This post is number ten of twenty one subjects that will help you focus when on your next journey and you wish to bring back a well rounded story ...
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How to Shoot a Fancy Stop-Motion Commercial on the Cheap (-ish)
Have you seen the recent viral ad from Levi’s of a guy walking across America wearing Levi jeans? Pretty simple, but pretty cool. [Maybe t...
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Engagement Portrait Shoots: 7 Professional Tips to take your Engagement Shoots to the Next Level
Today portrait photographer Christina N Dickson shares tips on how to shoot engagement portraits. Christina’s work can be found at www.Chris...
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How [Not] to Take a Self Timer Portrait
This one hit our inbox 3 times today so I thought I’d share it here. How to Photograph yourself with a self timer: Step1: Choose a good backg...
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2010 Tour de France - part II
The 2010 Tour de France cycling race is now over, with Spain's Alberto Contador claiming his third win in Paris yesterday. Andy Schleck of Luxembou...
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An Introduction to Bird photography
A Guest Post by Lithuanian Photographer Tadas Naujokaitis. Birds are very interesting creatures, but it’s not so easy to photograph them. Wil...
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Understanding and Using Optical Slaves, Pt. 1
First off, this is a long-overdue post. It arguably could have been in Lighting 101. But this week (four-plus years later) we'll be looking at choo...
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Travel Photography Subjects: Poor
This post is number nine of twenty one subjects that will help you focus when on your next journey and you wish to bring back a well rounded story...
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What Percentage of Our Readers Use a DSLR as their Primary Camera? [Poll Results]
Over the last month or so we ran a poll here on dPS asking readers what type of camera they use as their primary digital camera. After just on 50,0...
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Tips for Using Your Camera in a Hostile Environment
A Guest post by Saul Molloy from Shotslot. I recently took my DSLR sailing for a week on a yacht off the West Coast of Scotland. Now my camera, tho...
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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (18-24 Jul ‘10)
Weekly Assignment This week our photography assignment took us into the heart of the home when we went In the Kitchen. The kitchen is so often the ...
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PHOTO WALK: Weekly Photography Challenge
Image by Drewski Mac This week your challenge is to take a ‘photo walk’ and share a favourite image or two from it. We’re doing i...
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Stormy skies
In the past several months, powerful storms have wreaked havoc in many places, torrential rains in central Europe and parts of China, tornadoes in ...
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8 Steps to Crafting Images in Lightroom
Lightroom has more tricks up its sleeve than simple photo fixes such as exposure and contrast. It’s possible to craft images inside Lightroom an...
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Photo of the Day: Gorilla Loose in Telluride Colorado
At its root, this blog is about photographs. So here’s one I snagged last night with my iPhone at sunset from the always-epic Telluride, Col...
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What makes a photographer a ‘professional’?
I get emails regularly from people asking the same question. What makes you a ‘professional’ photographer and how can I be one? Althou...
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Going Rogue with FlashBenders
I know what you are thinking -- this snoot looks a little familiar, perhaps?Well, it is -- and it isn't. Actually, better lemme explain.__________O...
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How To Find The North Star And Why You’d Want To
And before those of you in the Southern Hemisphere jump all over the title, with its clear Northern Hemisphere slant, don’t worry, I’ll...
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Christmas in July – 25% Discount on Any dPS eBook – This Week Only
The 25th July is approaching this weekend and at our place that day we’ve invited a group of friends over for a Christmas in July dinner. On ...
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Travel Photography Subjects: Rich
This post is number eight of twenty one subjects that will help you focus when on your next journey and you wish to bring back a well rounded stor...
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Oil spill in Dalian, China
Five days ago, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning...
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8 On-Camera Flash Tips: How To Get Better Lighting From Your On-Camera Flash
Image by Steve Hanna Ed Verosky is a professional photographer and author based in New York. In this article, Verosky offers up eight useful tips ...
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Making Of The Speedo Underwater Ad Campaign
Thought you’d get a kick out of this video taking the latest Speedo advertising campaign from ideation to creation. I wish it went a whole ...
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Photoshop CS6 – What’s on your wish list?
When you’ve been using a program like Photoshop for a length of time, you begin to develop a wish list of things you’d like to see in future v...
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7/TZ10 Review
The super zoom compacts roll on: now with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 (also known as the TZ10) Panasonic offers a 12x Leica optical zoom that puts ...
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POLL: Do you Watermark you Images Before Sharing them Online?
As mentioned in our previous post – with the increased use of of photo sharing sites on the web we’re seeing more and more photographer...
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Recent scenes from Iraq
Just over seven years since the start of the Iraq War, the scheduled withdrawal of American forces is now becoming more evident. Last year, America...
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Cheap, Powerful On-Axis Fill
Here's a quick little tip the next for the time you find yourself in need of a little impromptu on-axis fill and you do not have a ring light: Use ...
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Have you ever been a victim of photo piracy?
Back in February, I posted about watermarking and how I use this opportunity for advertising. I mentioned briefly the idea that if someone was goi...
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Do you have a place that you just keep going back to with your camera?
Do you have a place that you just keep going back to with your camera? As I think back over the years of my own photographic journey there have bee...
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Which Photos Should I Donate?
Indeed, today is my birthday! I’m celebrating with family and friends up at our cabin on the coast (snapshot here of yours truly at our fire...
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Sony Bloggie MHS-PM5 Review
Lift bow and arrow. Load arrow into bow. Take aim. Twang! And Sony hits another bulls-eye! As with the exceptional Sony DSC-HX5V movie/pano/burst ...
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File Archiving Strategy – the Bucket System
A Guest Post by Nick Rains. Using metadata correctly means that images can be fully catalogued and images can be retrieved at any time without nece...
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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (30 June – 14 July)
Weekly Assignment We finished off our “On the Go” assignment this week. It’s never ending, work on this, update that, meet this p...
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YELLOW: Weekly Photography Challenge
Image by MonkeyMagic1975 This week your photography challenge is to take an share a photo on the theme of YELLOW. We’ve done these color them...
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2010 Tour de France - part I
The first half of the 20-stage 2010 Tour de France cycling race is over, with the current overall leader being Andy Schleck of Luxembourg riding fo...
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creativeLIVE Presents David DuChemin AND Jasmine Star
Guess who’s on deck for the next 2 series of creativeLIVE weekend workshops? Two stellar folks: David DuChemin – Vision Driven Photograph...
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How to Prevent & Edit out Reflections on Glasses
Subjects who wear eye glasses can offer a unique difficulty for photographers. First, there’s the dilemma of whether they should wear them or...
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How to Shoot Light Trails
One of the first subjects that I remember trying to capture as a teenager with my first SLR camera (film) was light trails created by cars on a bus...
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Lastolite Triflash Sync: Triple Threat
Multi-speedlight brackets are a great way to gang up your small flashes when you need a little extra oomph, as in when trying to overpower the sun ...
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10 Landscape Composition Tips: Illustrated with Pictures from Eastern Washington
A Guest post by Amar Ramesh. Composition for a photograph is like a screenplay for a movie. If the picture isn’t composed well, it won’t strike...
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Travel Photography Subjects: Icons
This post is number seven of twenty one subjects that will help you focus when on your next journey and you wish to bring back a well rounded stor...
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The Festival of San Fermin, 2010
Today marks the final day of the Spanish festival of San Fermin, a nine-day festival held since 1591. Tens of thousands of foreign visitors descend...
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