Photography Competitions are a wonderful way to improve your photography. While photography just for the sake of photography is a lot of fun sometimes a competition can help you raise the bar as a photographer as you know your image will be seen by a discerning group of judges and possibly even displayed along with [...]
DX, full-frame, APS-C, FX, crop factor, 24×36, image circle. Confused yet? Good. With the new Nikon D700 hitting store shelves and the Canon 5D MkII imminent, now is a good time to clear the air on the whole sensor size thing. Back in the film days, the rectangle that captured the image on a standard [...]
Those readers who subscribe to Digital Photography School via our RSS Feed or via our daily email updates will know that up until today we’ve only ever shown the title of new posts and very short excerpts in the feed and emails. One very common request that we’ve had from those of you subscribing in [...]
Have you ever made money with your images through MicroStock photography sites? Over in the Earning with Photography section of our forum we have quite a few members who are right into making money by selling their images from sites like: Shutterastock Dreamstime Crestock fotolia 123rf Stockxpert (There are lots more sites and services around) [...]
Here’s a video tutorial for a fun photography task that you can do this weekend (and get results like the image above). What you’ll need is: A camera that lets to choose long shutter speeds A tripod to keep the camera still An escalator (preferably one with some pretty lighting around it – think Casino’s, [...]
Recently I asked readers of DPS to share a link to their best ever shot and said I’d highlight some of them here on the blog – I didn’t quite know what a can of worms I was opening up. Around 500 images were submitted and today I spent a few hours viewing every single [...]
Today we’re talking Art Photography as Bob Nolin from Digital Image Magazine shares some tips on creating an oil painting effect from a photo. Imagine you had a magic paint brush, and when you painted with it on a blank canvas, it changed colors for you all by itself. You wouldn’t have to try to [...]
I am a professional architectural photographer working out of Denver, Colorado. I have photographed over 4500 homes and buildings, and I can claim Colorado’s highest producing Real Estate agents as dedicated customers. Photographing homes and buildings presents a unique set of challenges for a shooter. There are any number of variables that affect each project, [...]
You’re one in a million! Just over two years ago (back in April of 2006) I started a blog here at Digital Photography School with the hope of connecting with others with a passion for digital photography. I knew there were others out there who like me wanted to learn to use their cameras to [...]
Have you ever wanted to experiment with macro photography but didn’t have the budget to buy a dedicated macro lens? In this video Jim from ProPhotolife shows us a trick using two lenses that you might already have to achieve 1:1 magnification. quick video 4, extreme macro photography trick from Jim Talkington on Vimeo. As [...]
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