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Be inspired by decisive moments on the streets to create better wedding photography.

If you are reading this article you musthave some interest instreet photography, or maybe you are starting as a professionalwedding photographer, but most likely you are interested in both fields. This will give you some ideas on how to draw inspiration from street photography that you can use in your wedding work.

A street photographer can be anyone going out to wander the streets of a... more

It’s the 7th and final day of our 2016 Summer Sale… and we’ve saved the biggest deal until last!

The good people over at PhotographyPla.net have made their Ultimate Photography Bundle, worth a whopping US$5,000+, available to dPS subscribers for just US$79.

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Switching from stills to video can bea pretty daunting task, even for experienced photographers. Adding motion to those images presents a whole slew of issues that you can’t anticipate without experience or advanced warning. In this in-depth video with filmmakersDave Brusca and Fernando Martinez,we are takenbehind the scenes on AdoramaTV’s film crew to get some [...]

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To help you compose more exciting and beautiful photographs, there are certain key composition techniques that you can use. Natural framing is one that is widely known, but needs careful and thoughtful application. Using framing can create extremely impressive and elegant images when done right. Here are some tips to help you.

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Do you have painted canvas backdrop, or other textile, that you use for portraits?

Why clamp it up to a crossbar (and crop the top) every time you use it, when for about $10 you can build a permanent wooden mounting bar that begs to be included in the frame?

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Focus and depth of field arethose kinds of topics that can quickly confuse newer photographers. When we’re just starting out, we think we know what it means, but our pictures are still blurred or everything’s too sharp and detailed and we don’t understand why. In this video from Wolfcrow, filmmaker Sareesh Sudhakaran walks us through [...]

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It’s been a long time coming for Sony shooters, but they now have an official fast standard lens available with the newly announced Sony Planar T* FE 50mm f/1.4 ZA. No longer do you need to mess around with metabones adapters and put up with limitedautofocus capabilities, at least, not if you want a 50mm [...]

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Creating portraits outdoors in harsh sunlight is a pain. It’s why people tell you to not go out and do it during a bright sunnyday, and to wait until golden hour. Personally, I love it, although I’m often doing it with flash or reflectors but it can be done without those, too. In his latest [...]

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Right now is the best time in the history of photography to get into ultra wide-angle lenses. In the last few years, lens designers have given us quality that is far better than ever – in fact, far better than we ever thought possible. Yet you may have been... more

If you’ve ever tried doing a facebook live session you know that using your phone’s onboard microphone really sucks. Here is how we solved this problem with a $15 cablefrom rode. Of course, we do assume that you have a microphone capable of producing great sound (we are usingRode’s Filmmaket kit). So it is not [...]

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