Weekly Assignment

The Economy is on everyone’s mind at the moment, and our forums are no exception. This week we wanted you to show us photos that represented the troubled economy. Our winner this week was bmjesus’s dropping coins. The depth of field in this shot was very effective with a strong focus on the coins, and the movement of the coins was nicely captured. One of the things that stood out in this shot was the human aspect of it and the sense of despair that it conveyed. Our first runner up was BryanC’s Beaten Dollar. This photo was one that stood out not necessarily because of the photo, but because of the idea and the post-processing that brought that idea …

I’ve been asked a few times why I’ve decided to use flickr as my image hosting site instead of some of the many other options available to me.  If I’m going to be completely honest, it’s that it was the only one I’d heard of when I got my account back in 2005.

But let’s forget about that for a second, and instead concentrate one why I stay at flickr.  It’s because of all these additional things I can do at flickr other than just host my images.  Keep in mind, this is written from a die-hard flickr user’s perspective, and I don’t have experience with any other photo-sharing site, so other sites might have these things, too (let us know in the comments!).

Edit Your Photos

Did you know you can edit your photos on the flickr site?  They have partnered with …

Image by BrittneyBush

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 take a macro shot of something in your kitchen, you might take a shot out of your kitchen window, you may choose to sit a portrait subject in your kitchen, you could set up a still life shot on your kitchen table, you might try your hand at some food photography….. anything goes.

Note: We’re looking for ‘new’ shots – this is a challenge rather than a look through your archives for a

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Looking around for something to shoot with your camera? Feeling a bit shot-out? This book could be your salvation.

For many, the problem with photography is that we rarely step out of our comfort zone, rarely take risks and all too often shoot the same subjects over and over again.

Lee Frost’s book should fix those glums as he sets out a plan of 50 projects that should push you out in the fresh air of creativity. Perhaps your equipment is at fault … too few or too many cameras. In this vein Frost spells out his own ventures into varied camera usage by pushing into pinhole photography and even using a flat bed scanner for large format photography.

His take on architectural photography is a blast; likewise, his attack on motion blur shooting

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Many DPS readers are fans of photography author David duChemin and have bought his previously released ebooks.

As a result I’m sure many readers will be excited to hear that he’s just released another one in the last few days called ‘Chasing the Look: 10 Ways To Improve The Aesthetics of Your Photographs’.

It’s available now on in David’s Bookstore (it’s the top one) for his regularly insanely cheap price of $5!

The title of ‘10 Ways To Improve The Aesthetics of Your Photographs’ pretty much sums up what the ebook is about but David describes what it sets out to achieve like this:

“CHASING THE LOOK is about making intentional choices about the use of our gear and the settings on our cameras based on their affect on the aesthetic of the

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