Samantha Decker (see her Flickr Account here)shows us how she merged two photos together to get a better photographic memory of her trip to France. I recently took a trip to Europe with my parents, and throughout the whole trip, we only got one picture of all three of us, because I didn’t like the [...]
I love it when readers email in their home studio DIY setups. Here’s one that Brian Scott sent in with a description on how he did it. It’s pretty basic stuff that most of us could achieve but it’s interesting to see what our readers are doing with these sorts of setups – if you’ve [...]
Here’s a quick tip on using the ‘zoom effect’ from one of our great forum members ‘morts‘ (also check out his Flickr Stream and Photography blog). It’s quick, it’s dirty and it’s REALLY REALLY EASY. Frame your shot how you want it to appear Set exposure to something greater than 0.5s Mash shutter butan Twist [...]
In this post Csilla Csoke from Tips4Photography.com shares some tips on photographing Industrial Deserts. Do you know the places where the industry has ruined the nature? The whole area is filled with factories, such as oil refinery, metal production, recycling and power plants? These places are the industrial deserts of our time. The most industrial [...]
The following post on Metering Modes was submitted by Trudy – a regular DPS reader. Early last year when I bought my digital camera the sales assistant told me that it had different ‘metering modes’. At the time I was too embarrassed to ask what that means and bought the camera without knowing. It took [...]
Today food blogger Danny Jauregui of Food Bloggers Unite! gives us a great tutorial for neutralizing color casts in images. Click to enlarge most images in this tutorial. Neutralizing a color cast can be one of the most difficult jobs in post-production. The problem I most often have is realizing that my image has a [...]
Today Erin Dyker shares some of the benefits of using fast lenses when photographing Children. A fast lens is one that lets a lot of light in (ie. has a large maximum aperture). The larger the aperture, (the smaller the f number), the shorter the shutter speeds required to make the exposure. (see our previous [...]
Over in our forum one of our great members – i speak in math (Eric Noeske) shared the following tutorial on light painting in post production. See more of Eric’s work at Picasa and mephotog.com. Have you ever wondered how some photographers get perfectly lit shots but have light painting that needs a lot of [...]
Today Darcy Pattison, gives those of us looking to get into Geotagging images an introduction to the topic. Geotagging is a process of adding tags to a photograph to locate it on the globe. This is generally done by adding the longitude and latitude to the EXIF (Exchangable Image File Format) metadata of the digital [...]
Over in our forum area professional photographer Jim Bryant has shared the following tutorial on sports photography. I thought it contained some great tips for those starting out in photographing sports so wanted to promote it here on the blog. The world of photojournalism requires a newspaper staffer or freelancer to be able to cover [...]
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