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Concert Photography: Choosing the Best Camera Settings

In this post Tom Di Maggio Photography shares 11 tips for taking band promotional photography. Talking about best camera settings for concert photography is not an easy task. The light changes all the time, people move, and contrary to studio photography it is not you who decide about how much light you use, where and [...]

Why Your Camera’s Meter gets Exposure Wrong

This is the second in a series of four articles about exposure by Andrew S Gibson – author of Understanding Exposure: Perfect Exposure on your EOS camera. You can read the first lesson, which explored the reasons for using program, aperture priority and shutter priority modes, here. It doesn’t matter how advanced your camera’s meter [...]

Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Groups of People

Previously in the posing guide series articles we looked at posing female subjects, posing male subjects, posing children and posing couples. It is now time for posing groups of people. There are usually three kinds of group shots. First are just formal shots with a large number of people. Second are more informal shots with [...]

The Winner of the $1000 Lens Giveaway is…

Over the last few weeks we’ve launched a brand new dPS eBook – Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s Most Powerful Tool. It has been our fastest selling eBook ever and we’re so excited by the feedback we keep getting about it. As part of the launch we’ve been running a competition to give away to [...]

Travel Photography Inspiration Project: Australia

First, let me apologize for the delay between posts. I was on a trip through India, Oman and the UAE for a month with little time to write. Second, AUSTRALIA! No other country is also its own continent, complete with the vast biodiversity and quirkiness that is Australia. No other country also get mixed up [...]

5 Tips for Shooting Landscapes with Greater Impact

Hands down, the number one question I get is how to make better landscape images. Many fall into the new-gear trap thinking that when I upgrade to some new DSLR then I’ll be able to take better pictures. They buy the gear and suddenly the wind drops from their sails and their images still lack [...]

Turning Pro Part I: Portfolio and Persistence

A few weeks ago I wrote 15 Tips About Turning Pro.  I thought it would be a good time to expand on some of those tips and add a few more. Today’s article is the first in that series. Hope you find these new suggestions useful. Part 1: Portfolio and Persistence There has never been an easier [...]

Interview with Underwater Photographer Elena Kalis [+12 Beautiful Underwater Images]

A photographer that I’ve been admiring the work of for some time now is Russian Born Underwater Photographer Elena Kalis. I first came across her playful (yet mesmerising) Alice in Wonderland series after someone featured it on Google+. Since then I’ve followed Elena on Google+ and have loved the imagery that she takes and have [...]

Guess How Many dPS Readers are On Instagram?: POLL RESULTS

Last month’s dPS poll centred on the topic of Instagram and asked readers whether they use the App which was recently acquired by Facebook. Close to 9000 readers responded and the results are in. Note: follow dPS editor – Darren Rowse – on Instagram at his darrenrowse account.

QR Codes for Photographers

QR codes can be a great marketing tool, even if you don’t know what one is I’m sure you will have seen one on your travels. QR means Quick Response Code and is a two dimensional barcode which is very similar to the standard barcode used on general products. This QR code can hold a [...]

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