A much requested feature from our readers is the ability to show images IN comments. Previously readers had to leave a link to their photo sharing site page but now you also have the option to embed an image into a comment. You can see this feature in action in the comments section of our [...]
Photo by Isaac Bauman
When shooting outdoor action shots like mountain biking or skate boarding one great tool to keep in mind as you experiment is your flash.
While an outdoor setting might not conjure images of brightly lit scenes in your mind the flip side of bright sunlight is that you can also end up with [...]
Photo by Maharepa
With Halloween just a couple of weeks away I thought it was time to update our Halloween Photography Tips article with some new information and photos.
Photography Tips to Keep in Mind for Halloween
There are plenty of subjects around to photograph at Halloween ranging from the traditional jack-o-lantern through to people in costume, to [...]
Last night I was looking back over a lot of the images that I’d taken of my kids and realised that while I use a zoom lens (a 24-105mm f/4) for a lot of my every day shooting that many of the images I take were around the 80-85mm focal length.
It’s an odd one because [...]
Photo by bikeracer
Capturing movement in images is something that many photographers only think to do when they are photographing sports or other fast moving subjects.
While there is an obvious opportunity in sports photography to emphasize the movement of participants – almost every type of photography can benefit from the emphasis of movement in a shot [...]
It’s time for another weekend photography challenge. This weekend the theme of the challenge is ‘environment’.
Feel free to interpret it as you wish – you might want to try to take a picture that makes a point about environmental issues, you may just like to shoot your own environment (the place you live) or you [...]
A couple of months ago here at DPS we ran a post with 10 photography quotes from famous photographers that photographers should know.
Below I’ll share more photography quotes worth knowing but first – one of our readers (Ryan Coleman) put together the 10 quotes into a more visual form:
10 Photography Quotes that You Should Know
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The Digital Camera has a number of natural predators – things that in just a few seconds could snuff out it’s life and render you camera-less. Learn to identify your camera’s predators and take a few simple precautions and exercise a little care and you can keep your camera operating at it’s potential for years [...]
The following was left as a comment on a previous post by one of our readers – Angelino Pan y Vino (no link given). I thought it was a great story and one that might encourage readers who might feel they have lower quality cameras and gear.
“Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying [...]
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Here is a quick quote that caught my attention today when talking to a friend who is a landscape photography enthusiast.
He said:
“Photograph the light not the land.”
His theory is that it’s the light not the actual subjects in a scene that can make or break a landscape image.
While [...]
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