Canadian photojournalist – Ted Grant – is quoted as saying: “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” This quote often comes to mind when talking about portraiture and I thought it might make an interesting discussion starter. Do Ted’s [...]
This week – as a follow up to our article Composing with Curves – your challenge is to take and share an image on the theme of ‘Curves’. Read Composing with Curves, choose one of the types of curves mentioned (‘C Curves’, ‘Arches’, ‘S Curves’, ‘Circles’ or ‘Implied Curves’) and go out and try to [...]
This week your photographic challenge is to take and share a ‘headshot’ portrait. You’re welcome to photograph a friend, family member (adult or child), a stranger or even yourself – but we’re looking for something framed around head and shoulders but not much more than that. There’s no wrong or right way to take a [...]
Last week on dPS our reader poll asked readers if they’d ever done any kind of photography training (a class or course). The results from over 66,000 readers are in and interestingly over 60% of us have never done any formal training (whether it be online or offline). Those of you who have done some [...]
Last week I wrote a post exploring 3 stupidly simple reasons why most people’s photography doesn’t improve – the first reason being that they don’t take their camera with them. A lot of people agreed – so I thought it might be interesting to run a poll to see how many of us DO take [...]
What type of camera bad do you use and recommend? We have asked this question every couple of years so I’m interested to see how things have changed since last time was there are a lot of newer bags and brands coming onto the market. What camera bag do you use and recommend – and [...]
It’s the simple things in life that are often the best – so in this weeks photography challenge we’re expecting to see some great photos because the theme is ‘simplicity’. Feel free to take any approach to this assignment that you wish and to be as creative as you like! Once you’ve taken your ‘KITCHEN’ [...]
Kitchens – we all have one (or at least should have access to something resembling one) – so lets make our kitchens the focus of this weekends photography challenge. The task is simple – take the best possible shot that you can in your kitchen. Let your imagination run wild – you might snap a [...]
This week your photographic challenge is to take and share an image based on the theme of ‘Seasonal’. Recently we published a post on how to improve your photography of Flowers which may serve as inspiration for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere for this weeks challenge but for those of us down south [...]
In the last week on dPS we’ve posted a couple of tutorials that focus upon the ‘Sun’ in different ways with our posts Using the Sun as a Compositional Element and How to Use Sunset Light to Light Portraits. So – today I’m issuing you with a challenge that could allow you to practice those [...]
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