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Darren Rowse is the editor and founder of Digital Photography School.
He lives in Melbourne Australia and is also the editor of the ProBlogger Blog Tips. Follow him on Instagram on his 'darrenrowse' account, on Twitter at @digitalPS or on Google+.
Do you have a digital camera that you love? You could win a prize for telling us about it over at our Discussion Forum. We’d like to hear about your favorite camera over at the DPS Discussion Group where we’re asking Which Digital Camera? Post a mini review of your digital camera and go into [...]
When travelling we tend to put our names and addresses on our suitcases and bags, but how do you do it for your camera? You can obviously put them on your camera bag but what happens if you lose your camera or a memory card filled with precious images when your camera is not in [...]
From time to time I would like to start featuring case studies by photographers talking about an image or series of images that they’ve taken. My hope is that in doing so they’ll shed some light for the rest of us on how they work, what techniques they use, what lessons they’ve learned and what [...]
Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at different elements of exposure and how to move out of the ‘Auto’ mode on your digital camera. We’ve looked at Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO and have discovered what each of them is and what impact changing them will have on your images. Now that we’ve [...]
The following tip on RAW vs JPEG was submitted by Richard and Rebecca from Finn Productions (You can see their Flickr account here) . It came out of a discussion in our Flickr Group titled JPG or RAW. There is actually a lot of good discussion already in this thread so once you’ve read the [...]
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been writing a series of posts on elements that digital photographers need to learn about in order to get out of Auto mode and learn how to manually set the exposure of their shots. I’ve largely focussed upon three elements of the ‘exposure triangle‘ – ISO, Shutter Speed [...]
Photo by Childish David Over the weekend I realized that I’m a little obsessed with longer focal lengths. It happens easily enough – for me it all started with the purchase of a new lens. Up until two months ago the lens that you’d usually find on my camera was my Canon EF 17-40mm lens [...]
Photo by Indy Charlie There’s a lot of good advice out there on how to pose subjects for portrait photography but a Pro Photographer once shared a little tidbit that has stayed in my mind ever since and that helps me add variety to my portrait shots…. He told me to ‘Work it Baby!’ He [...]
Photo by webinteger After my last overseas trip I received emails from two fellow travelers from the tour group I shared two weeks with as I toured around Turkey. Both emails contained some of the ‘best’ photos that my two fellow travelers. Many of the photos that each of them took were in the same [...]
Most regular Digital Photography School readers are aware that a month ago I became a Dad. Our new son’s name is Xavier (you’ll get to know him over the course of this tutorial). I’ve previously written about the topic of photographing babies and children from the perspective of someone who has had his services engaged [...]