We’ve written a number of times on using filters on DSLRs and each time we do there are a number of comments along the lines of ‘you don’t need them with digital photography because you can get the same effects in post production’. So it’s time for a little reader poll – do you use [...]
“I’ve been asked to represent a fashion website as their photographer at a fashion show next month in Australia and while I’ve done a lot of portrait style photography I’ve never covered an event like this. Do you or your readers have any advice for this aspiring fashion photographer?” – Alex This email hit my [...]
Readers of our community come from all parts of the globe so I thought it might be fun on this weekend to share some of our favorite locations for landscape photography. In comments below I’d love to hear you share: Your favorite Landscape Location A link (on Flickr or some other photo sharing site or [...]
This week’s reader poll picks up on some of the discussion we’ve had here recently about improving your photography by taking your camera with you everywhere you can. I’m interested to see if people do. Here’s the poll: Of course all of these answers won’t quite fit with everyone’s style and situation – so pick [...]
How would you photograph a funeral? Yesterday I received the following question email from Mandy, a DPS reader. I thought that together we’d probably answer it better than I would alone. “This week a close friend of our family passed away suddenly. His family know that I’m a keen (hobby) photographer and called last night [...]
Capital One’s popular tag line is, “What’s in your wallet?” and that got me thinking. And thinking has lead to this post. My question is simple and two fold. What’s on your background on your computer? Why is it there? I’ll start things off with the current background image on my travel laptop. And as [...]
Here is a question from Margaret, one of our readers: “I will be attending Obama’s inauguration and as an amateur photographer would love some suggestions for getting some shots to memorialize this.” I thought that this question might make a good one for readers to submit answers to. What tips would you give Margaret for [...]
“Help! – I need to take some photos of my kids on the weekend with my new DSLR to send to their Grandparents overseas for Christmas. My kids are 4 and 6 and I’m shooting with a Canon Xsi and 24-70mm f/2.8L lens. Any tips?” This email hit my inbox earlier today and I thought [...]
I get asked about photographing pregnant women quite often by readers so I thought it might make an interesting community discussion. Here’s the latest question on the topic that was submitted by Henry: “Can you help me to take some great photos of my wife who is 8 months pregnant? We’ve seen a lot of [...]
One of the areas of our forum that is increasingly popular is our Earning with Photography section. It seems like quite a few of our forum members have the dream of making money with their photography. Some area exploring wedding and portrait photography, others are playing with stock photography and others are exploring the world [...]
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