In this post Matt Bambert shares some ideas on usig your photos as gifts – his post is based upon his book 101 Quick and Easy Secrets for Using Your Photographs.
If you’ve got thousands of images sitting in hard drives around your house, you can put them to work for you by making gifts with [...]
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I recently took a trip to my cities zoo to do a test on a camera that I was reviewing and thought I’d share a few tips that I put into practice along the way.
Zoos are great locations to practice photography as they present us both with a great variety of subjects (both animals [...]
p>As a follow up to our Dogs Image Collection earlier in the week I thought it might be fun to run a weekend photography challenge that revolves around our pets.
This might exclude a few people that don’t have a pet (although perhaps you can be a little creative and photograph your pet rock, a sock [...]
Time for another poll – do you print your digital images? If so, approximately how many of them?
In comments below it might also be interesting to hear HOW you print them – ie do you get them done at a lab, do you print them at home on a printer etc?
Last month we asked DPS readers about the types of photography that they do. We chose 9 categories based upon a previous survey (we could have added a lot more but had to draw the line somewhere) and gave readers the opportunity to choose multiple categories for each type of photography that they do.
There have [...]
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Dogs Dogs Dogs. Earlier today a friend asked me for some ideas on how to photograph her Dog. I did point her to our How to Photograph Pets tutorial but also thought it might be useful to pull together a few Dog Photographs to give her a little extra inspiration. Here’s some of [...]
A few months back we published a collection of Forced Perspective images which was very popular with readers.
Forced perspective is defined as ‘a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.’ (Wikipedia)
This is far from a recently popular thing for photographers to do. Here’s [...]
Every now and again I have to stop and pinch myself as I think about where this site has come from since we began in April 2006.
I usually do it on milestone days when we hit some new mark in terms of traffic or subscriber numbers. Today is one of those days – we just [...]
Today I spent a couple of hours working through 3 great new ebooks by David duChemin.
The 3 e-books are only $5 (USD) each – yet they contain some really great information that I’m certainly many DPS readers will really find useful.
Lets take a look at each of them in turn:
1. TEN (10 Ways To Improve [...]
Do you have a Battery Grip accessory for your DSLR?
A couple of years ago I wrote about my experience of buying a battery grip for my DSLR – while it added bulk and weight to my camera – I did find it had some benefits.
However two years later I have to say that I don’t [...]
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