Browsing all articles by Darren Rowse.

How to Control Aperture and Shutter Speed on an Entry Level Point and Shoot Digital Camera

Darren, thanks for your recent articles on aperture and shutter speed, they were really interesting. My problem is that I have a point and shoot camera that doesn’t have the ability to change aperture and shutter speed manually. I would especially like to have more control of aperture and depth of field – is there [...]

How NOT to Tip Your Family Over with Digital Photography on a Vacation

Photo lucy96734
If you’re anything like me, you love your digital photography and look forward to any opportunity to get out and about with your digital camera.
Vacations present you with wonderful opportunities for photography with lots of new sights, plenty of time to craft your shots and a more relaxed vibe which often unlocks creativity.
The [...]

Is Underexposing or Overexposing Better?

Photo by Jim Skea
A reader sent me an email this week telling me that they were having a few issues with exposure levels in their shots. Their LCD screen was small which didn’t help with analysing shots and they were consistently getting back to their PC to find that they’d overexposed shots.
While it’s difficult to [...]

Photographing Signs – Travel Photography Tip

Photo by spidrwegian
Here’s a quick tip to add a new dimension to your travel photography.

Look for and Photograph Signs
Last time we took an overseas trip (we travelled mainly through Turkey) I set myself the task of photographing the ‘little things’ that we saw along the way.
My hope was that in photographing ordinary, everyday aspects [...]

Win a Prize by Telling us about Your Digital Camera

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 the draw [...]

Put Your Contact Details in Your Camera

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 the [...]

Photographing Jordan – A Digital Photography Case Study

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 [...]

Aperture and Shutter Priority Modes

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 looked [...]

RAW vs. JPEG

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 [...]

Introduction to Aperture in Digital Photography

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 [...]