p>This weekend your photographic challenge is to take and share a portrait.
Early next week we’ll be launching our first ever e-book here at DPS – ‘The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography’ and in anticipation of the launch and to get a little practice in – I thought it’d be fun to set the challenge to [...]
Photo by wvs – 10mm
Many digital photographers get a little obsessed by the ability that their zoom lenses give them to get in nice and close to their subjects.
While there’s a lot to be said for the power of zoom lenses (in fact many manufacturers are developing cameras with bigger and bigger lenses like [...]
Kitchens – we all have one (or at least should have access to something resembling one) – so lets make our kitchens the focus of this weekends photography challenge.
The task is simple – take the best possible shot that you can in your kitchen.
Let your imagination run wild – you might take a macro shot [...]
Many DPS readers are fans of photography author David duChemin and have bought his previously released ebooks.
As a result I’m sure many readers will be excited to hear that he’s just released another one in the last few days called ‘Chasing the Look: 10 Ways To Improve The Aesthetics of Your Photographs’.
It’s available now on [...]
Photo H@Ru
Earlier in the week I had the chance to sit down with a photographer whose specialty is photographing flowers. As I tend to do with pro photographers – picked his brain as we chatted and took as many notes as I could. Here’s what I gleaned from him and his flower photography experience:
By the [...]
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 [...]
Photo michah
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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