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Black And White Photography – What Subjects Are Best?

This post was written by Amy Renfrey from the Digital Photography Success and Landscape Photography ebooks who is filling in for me here at DPS this week.

What Subjects are Good for Black And White Photography?

Start with raw, natural materials, like rocks, metal to give you an understanding of form and texture.
Pay close attention to form, [...]

Framing Your Shots – Photography Composition Technique

Photo by mnadi
We often put the photos we take into frames as a way of displaying and drawing attention to our favorite photos – but there is another type of framing that you can do as you’re taking your shots that can be just as effective doing just the same thing!

Framing is the technique of [...]

Factors to Consider When Shopping for a DSLR Lens

In my last post I introduced you to the basic types of DSLR lenses that are on the market as a starting point for answering the question of ‘which DSLR lens to buy?’.

Today I want to turn to a number of other factors that you’ll want to keep in mind when making the decision. Each [...]

Black and White Digital Photography – In Camera or Post Production?

Digital Camera manufacturers are increasingly adding ‘in camera editing’ features and modes to the cameras that they release that allow digital photographers to do all kinds of tasks that they would previously have done from their computer. These include in camera cropping, the addition of frames to shots and being able to shoot in different [...]

Photographing Urban Landscapes

Photo by Chatty Cathy
I love cities. While I enjoy getting out into the wide open spaces of the countryside I am also a big fan of the hustle and bustle of inner city life. It’s not for everyone but I find that such areas are so interesting to spend time in – both on a [...]

Create Active Space In Your Photography

Image by Mute*
A number of weeks ago I wrote a tip on the portrait photography composition technique of Giving Your Subject Space to Look Into. A similar tip for action photography is to give moving subjects space to ‘move into’.

Some call the space in front of a moving subject the ‘active space‘ in a photograph. [...]

Telling Stories With Photos

Image by Tim Gruber
A picture is worth a thousand words – or so the saying goes.

Please note – at the end of this post there is an assignment that relates to it that we’ll be doing together this week in our Digital Photography Flickr Group. I hope you’ll enjoy it.
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Patience and Photography

Image by Sara Heinrichs
“Good things come to those who wait”
This old proverb was one that I heard a lot of growing up – it was a favorite saying around our house and one that I think has had a fairly significant impact upon me in numerous aspects of my life – not the least [...]

Digital Photography School Flickr Group

I’ve had a number of emails from readers of Digital Photography School this week with some great suggestions on how we could improve this site.

One of the suggestions that came up on numerous occasions was that readers wanted a place to post their pictures and talk about their photography. Some also wanted a place to [...]