One of our favourite photographers – Chase Jarvis – this week released a cool new book and iPhone application called ‘The Best Camera’.
You can see the book listed on Amazon at The Best Camera: Is the One That’s With You and can see the iPhone App here at iTunes.
The concept is simple and pretty obvious [...]
This weekend’s photography challenge is all about PASSION!
Image by Carlo Nicora
Your task is to take a photo on the theme of passion. It could be a photo of something or someone that you’re passionate about. It could be of a moment of passion (lets keep it family friendly :-)) or it come be some kind [...]
Here’s what Digital SLRs, Point and Shoot Digital Cameras, Lenses, Accessories and Books have been bought by DPS readers over the last three months (July-September in 2009) in their shopping at Amazon.
Popular DSLRS
The winner in the popular DSLR class was fairly clear – the Canon EOS Rebel T1i which took over from last survey’s winner [...]
This poll will only be relevant to those of you who actually use the viewfinder of your digital camera (or those who have cameras WITH viewfinders as not all do these days) – but it comes from a conversation I had at a party a couple of weeks back with a group of friends (yes [...]
p>This week’s weekend photography challenge is simple – it all revolves around RED.
I’ve set myself this kind of challenge a number of times over the year – nominate a colour and then go crazy looking for and photographing objects of that colour.
I started doing it after coming into contact with a photographer who had an [...]
“Darren, it’s Fall here and the colours in the leaves in our town are wonderful. How can I capture their vibrancy? Every time I shoot them I end up with muddy and dull images!” – question by Grant
I love Autumn photography – you’re right the golden and red leaves on a background of lush green [...]
One of the most popular parts of our forum area is the Critique section where members are invited to share an image that they’ve taken and ask for Critique. There are areas dedicated to Portraits, Landscapes, Macro, Animals/Wildlife (and more).
Once an image has been submitted other readers are then invited to share constructive feedback including [...]
Regular DPS readers will know of Photojojo – another photography website who regularly produce great photography projects and who have a great online photography store with some cool products.
We love the Photojojo team and when they told us that they’d put together a book of some of their best photography projects we got pretty excited.
I’ve [...]
Photo by shawhouse
Here’s a surprising little tip that a pro once shared with me when thinking about contrast in images. It’s not really conventional but it works!
When setting up an image to shoot you can assess the contrast levels in a scene and see how the camera will ’see’ it by squinting.
More specifically – close [...]
One of our readers (Ron) shot me a link today to a piece in Wired Magazine that listed 10 Pet Photography Peeves We’d Throw Down a Black Hole.
The list is of course unique to the peeves of the author (I’ll list them below) – but Ron suggested it might make an interesting question to pose [...]
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