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We Get by With a Little Help From Our Friends: 6 Tips to Building your Photography Network

The following post explores how to approach Photographers to help you improve your photography is by Natalie Norton from natalienortonphoto.com. Photo Credit: Nate and Jaclyn Kaiser, theimageisfound.com Let me tell you why I love DPS. I’m completely self taught. Everything I’ve learned about photography has been through independent initiative… that’s just a fancy way of [...]

Twilight Photography Tips

The following post on long exposure shots after sunset was written by Matthew G. Monroe from The Global Photographer. I’ve never been a huge fan of sunset photos… In fact — to be quite honest — the thought of just hanging around at the beach, along an observation deck, or even on a mountain top [...]

Frame Your Images

One way of adding interest to an image and to draw attention to the main point of interest that you’re attempting to highlight is to incorporate an internal frame into your composition. A frame serves numerous purposes: 1. It gives the image depth and helps to give the perception to viewers of it that they’re [...]

How to Hold a Digital Camera

Get Free Weekly Digital Camera Tips via Email One of the common problems that many new digital (and film) photographers have is ‘camera shake’ where images seem blurry – usually because the camera was not held still enough while the shutter was depressed. This is especially common in shots taken in low light situations where [...]

How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

The following tip on getting digital images to look like Lomo Images was submitted by DPS reader – Frank Lazaro. You can see his photography at his Flickr page and see some of his Lomo shots here NB: most of the shots in this post can be enlarged by clicking them. update: once you’ve read [...]

10 Ways to Add Variety to Your Digital Photography

Yesterday I wrote about how taking lots of shots can be one way to increase your chances of getting good results from your digital photography. However you don’t want to just end up with multiple shots of the same thing so here’s 10 techniques for adding diversity to your digital photography: 1. Shoot your subject [...]

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