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Here is an amazing fact, at least for us: Photographers have bought more than7,000 Image Manipulation packages from us. Thanks!!! One of the more frequent requests we get on our support mail is “do you guys have a gift card option“? We did not have a good answer for this one. Now we do. Here. [...]

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Don’t let the land in landscape photography fool you–a great landscape photo relies just as much on the sky. Boring gray skies make for boring landscape photos. But capturing a dramatic sky in camera is trickier than it seems. With the sky lighter than the land, the camera will typically overexpose the sky, turning a brilliant blue into a vague and unexciting gray.

But, with a little fine tuning, it is possible to capture a sky that is the cherry-on-top of a great scene on... more

Last week, Apple announced that you can now transfer images directly to your iPhone, a feature that was once reserved only for iPads. Today, that ability gets a little bit sweeter with a brand new update to Adobes Lightroom for iOS. Lightroom for iOS version 2.1 brings along a handful of new features that will [...]

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Alienbees are known to be solid and reasonably priced studio flashes, offering great value for your money. Perhaps in attempt to give photographer Rebecca Britt more than she paid for, her one month-old Alienbees B400 decided it will double as a smoke machine. As Resource Magazine points out, these flashes are awesome but their build [...]

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Win a Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD Macro All-In-One Zoom Lens OR a Tamron 18-200MM F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC All-In-One Zoom Lens!

Over the last few years here at dPS, weve run very some very popular competitions with our partners to give away to lucky dPS readers some of their great photographic products.

We are lucky enough to be able to do it again this week. For this competition, Tamron is giving away TWO lenses.

Win one of two Tamron lenses

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Some people are naturally relaxed for a camera, but most feel at least a little intimidated. This depends largely on past experiences. Women especially tend to be more self-conscious, which can cause forced smiles and tense expressions. As a portrait photographer, there are many things you can do when photographing women, to help your client relax so you capture her true essence and personality.

Be prepared ahead of time

One of the most important things is to arrive prepared: if... more

If you thought that the Sony A7S was weather proof think again. It obviously can’t cope even with the simplest of Lava streams. PhotographerAmanda Stevenswas demoing some products atSamy’s Camera inPasadena CA. She spotted this bitten-to-death camera. [luckily, this is not her camera]. As part of the store’s effort to convince customers to purchase an [...]

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If you are unfamiliar with the work of Benjamin von Wong (previously), you have probably not read DIYP in the last few years. Ben creates epic, inspiring, larger than life art and now he released a set of video tutorialsexplaininghow he works. But I am going too fast, let me take it from the start. [...]

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It’s time for our 4th Deal of our 12 Deals of Christmas and this one is for those of you looking to improve your Landscape Photography – and you have a choice!

Firstly you could pick up our Living Landscape Photography eBook by Todd and Sarah Sisson for $10 USD.

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If youve been looking to get a new protective filter for your newest lens, you can go ahead and stop looking now. Sigma has unveiled the WR (Water Repellant) Ceramic Protector, a lineup of protective lens filters claimed to be the worlds first highly shock-resistant and scratch-resistant clear glass ceramic protective filter. Said to be [...]

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