Browsing all articles by Darren Rowse.

Dust and Dance: Behind the Scenes of a Beautiful Image

Photographer Thomas David recently published a beautiful series of images on Flickr by the title of Dust and Dance where he shot a dancer in action – with the action enhanced with Dust spraying off her. Here’s an example (used with permission). He also created this short behind the scenes video that shows how it [...]

Landscapes: Weekly Photography Challenge

After our post earlier in the week by the title of 5 Tips for Shooting Landscapes with Greater Impact – your challenge this week is to take and share a landscape photo. Feel free to take landscapes in what ever setting you are in – you might be shooting in a rural area, shooting seascapes, [...]

The 5 F’s of Street Photography

In this video John Free shares – in a fairly direct way – his 5 F’s of Street Photography. The F’s: Finding Figuring Framing Focusing Firing John’s framing of the video is certainly confronting – but have a listen and let us know what you think?

The Winner of the $1000 Lens Giveaway is…

Over the last few weeks we’ve launched a brand new dPS eBook – Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s Most Powerful Tool. It has been our fastest selling eBook ever and we’re so excited by the feedback we keep getting about it. As part of the launch we’ve been running a competition to give away to [...]

Interview with Underwater Photographer Elena Kalis [+12 Beautiful Underwater Images]

A photographer that I’ve been admiring the work of for some time now is Russian Born Underwater Photographer Elena Kalis. I first came across her playful (yet mesmerising) Alice in Wonderland series after someone featured it on Google+. Since then I’ve followed Elena on Google+ and have loved the imagery that she takes and have [...]

Guess How Many dPS Readers are On Instagram?: POLL RESULTS

Last month’s dPS poll centred on the topic of Instagram and asked readers whether they use the App which was recently acquired by Facebook. Close to 9000 readers responded and the results are in. Note: follow dPS editor – Darren Rowse – on Instagram at his darrenrowse account.

Classic Lighting: Weekly Photography Challenge

Your challenge this weekend is to practice a classic lighting pattern. Yesterday we published a post here on dPS highlighting 6 Portrait Lighting Patterns which got a lot of positive feedback. So today I thought it might be good to challenge readers to choose one and to go away and practice it. Theory is good [...]

Spectral Instruments 112 Megapixel Digital Camera

Check out this amazing camera – it has a 112 megapixel sensor that literally dwarfs any sensor you or I have in our cameras! It’s also a black and white only camera – but I’m betting it leaves the Leica M Monochrom for dead in terms of quality and price! Want to see it made? [...]

Unlock the Secrets of Using Natural Light: Interview with Mitchell Kanashkevich

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been launching a new dPS eBook – Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s Most Powerful Tool. The response has been fabulous and we’ve seen it selling faster than any other eBook we’ve produced so far. With one week to go to save 25% on the price of Natural Light [...]

How to Photograph Babies: 9 Tutorials

There must be a baby boom going on at the moment because today my inbox was hit by 5 separate emails from parents of new born babies wanting advice on how to photograph them. I turned to our archives for some links to send them and found these 9 ‘how to photograph babies’ tutorials and [...]

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