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5 Tips for Building Your Photography Portfolio

In this tutorial Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton offers 5 tips to building your photography portfolio from the ground up. Image by kk+.
Recently I walked into a friend’s house and saw, framed prominently on her wall, an image I took back when I was building my portfolio. Though the family is absolutely lovely. . .the [...]

Post Processing Black and Whites

In this post Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton shares how she does her post processing on her black and white conversions.

Please ignore EVERYTHING in the images above other than the tones. I’d be much obliged.
xo,
Natalie
I got an email recently from a reader (of my personal blog) named Cindy. She shared a few beautifully composed [...]

Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Basic Daylight Exposure and Equivalent Exposure

In this post, Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton wraps up the 4th post in her series on manual camera settings – this one exploring Basic Daylight Exposure and Equivalent Exposure.
Don’t miss other installments.

Part I: Understanding Aperture
Part II: Understanding Shutter Speed
Part III: Understanding ISO

Wow! Is anyone else as excited as I am about the stuff we’ve been [...]

Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding ISO (a beginner’s guide)

This is the third installment in a series by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton on becoming confident with manual camera settings.
If you are new to photography, or don’t have a clean grasp of manual settings, I recommend that you go back and read the first two installments of this series: Understanding Aperture and Understanding Shutter Speed [...]

Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Shutter Speed (a beginner’s guide)

This post on Understanding Shutter Speed, written by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton is a follow up post to Moving Toward Manual: Understanding Aperture. The posts are being written as a beginner’s guide to gaining confidence in using manual camera settings.

Hello boys and girls, are we feeling confident that we’re understanding aperture and how it affects [...]

Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Aperture (a beginner’s guide)

In this tutorial Natalie Norton explores the topic of Aperture.
A few months back I wrote an article here at DPS that created a bit of a stir:
4 Reasons Not to Write Off Shooting in Automatic.
I expected to get a lot of naysayers scolding me up and down and all around. I did get a few [...]

Baby Time: Photographing Babies Without Losing your Mind

Today Natalie Norton shares with us a series of 6 tips for photographing babies. It’s an appropriate topic – because yesterday (15th June) my wife gave birth to our 2nd son and I’ve spent a lot of my time today taking his photo! I hope you enjoy these baby photography tips.

*Image Credit Nicole Hill.
Babies, babies [...]

A Fresh Look at Depth of Field: Using foreground to achieve creative depth of field

The following post on depth of field was written by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton, of natalienortonphoto.com.
We talk a lot around here at Digital Photography School about Depth of Field. I’m writing this based on the assumption that we all understand that in layman terms, “depth of field” is the portion of an image that is [...]

How to Find the Blog Service that’s Right for Your Photoblog

In this post Natalie Norton shares pieces from her interviews with 8 successful photographers where they shared all kinds of resources to help you find the blogging service that is right for your photoblog.
I’ve spent the week thinking over this article. . . it’s the final part of a 3 part series. We began with [...]

Building Your Blog: 10 things to consider when building your rockin’ photoblog

Natalie Norton recently authored a post entitled Blog Power: Why you should consider setting up a photoblog. This post is a follow up to that article. Here Natalie discusses 10 ways anyone can create a photoblog that will really shine!
Goodness me. Goodness me, oh my. The anticipation! I’ve been chomping at the bit over [...]