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 when you use it. When it comes to camera settings for concert photography, there must be as many different points of view on camera settings as there are concert photographers. In this article I’ll show you what works for me. I’ll try to give you pointers so that can have a starting point and find what works for you. I am in no way trying to say that these are the only or best settings ever.

To be successful at photographing a live performance you need …

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 is, or which metering mode you use, all camera meters work the same way – by measuring reflected light. If you understand this, you will see why your camera may get the exposure wrong, and how to put it right when it does.

If exposure were easy, your camera would have just one exposure mode, and it would get the exposure correct 95% or more of the time.

The truth is that arriving at the optimum exposure isn’t always simple. …

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 a group of friends. And finally, photographing a group or family members. In this order, let’s look at some sample poses and posing ideas.

1. When working with a large group of people you won’t be able to control each individual’s pose or expression. This is fine as long as you pay attention to the overall composition. Imagine the whole group to be a single object. Principally, make sure that all people in the group are visible.

2. When …

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 one lucky buyer of the eBook $1000 USD of lenses. That competition ended a few minutes ago (at midnight US Eastern time) and I’ve just drawn the winner at random and shot them an email to let them know of their win.

The winner is Jade Read.

I’m not sure where Jade is from just yet but we’ll be liaising with her to get her lenses to the value of $1000USD in the coming days.

Thanks to everyone who picked up a

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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 in people’s minds with Austria, either.

This is the sixth country we are covering in the reader fueled DPS Travel Photography Inspiration Project.

If you would like to be involved in the next country’s post, drop me a line here.

Pastel beauty with moon, Pilbara, West Australia by Andrea Westwood

The rising moon at the setting

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