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Earlier this month Nikon announced a free battery grip offer for the Nikon D610, D750 and D810 cameras initially set to last until the end of the month. As a result of the earthquakes in Kumamoto, this has been cut short, with the offer now expiring on May 14th. A couple of days ago, all [...]

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Santa Claus has you spoiled this year by offering you the studio of your dreams? A kit of flashes, a backdropsupport and even more rolls of paper? It only remains to push the furniture in your living room out of the way to turn it into studio worthy of the name! A single point hurts [...]

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It’s clear that thePentax K-1 is out to impress and if the sharpness increase with itsPixel Shift technology weren’t enough for you already, the dynamic range boost it provides will definitely do the trick. DPReview have had the K-1 for a little while now, running it through a battery of tests, and in the current [...]

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Now, this is why we cannot have nice things. While I am not enjoying saying this, it looks like photographers are slowly earning the bad cred that authorities are giving them. After shuttering a 126 old statuefor a selfie, it is now revealed that the fire on The Big Cypress Monroe Station last month was [...]

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There is one thing in photography that seems to be universally loved – reflections. They arent always easy to get, especially if water is involved. The wind only has to be blowing slightly to create ripples in the water, and you will lose the chance of a reflection.

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Making a good or nice photo is so easy nowadays but how to be consistent when making series of photographs? Is it hard to do a full featured project using only one lens? As my photographic career is fully focused on image sequencing, and mostly in form of time lapse, I always find some hassle [...]

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Win one of THREE lenses from Tamron! Enter the Sunshine photography contest today.

Win one of the following:

  • A Tamron 28-300mm Di VC PZD lens
  • A Tamron SP 90mm F/2.8 Di VC USD lens
  • A Tamron SP 70-300mm Di VC USD 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.

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We just posted aboutFelix’s Sandtroopers projectyesterday, butis it too soon to post another Star Wars miniature related project? We don’t think so,so here’s a behind the scenes look into photographerMatthew Callahan’s essay, Galactic Warfighters. As a US Marine, Matthew serves as a combat correspondent, giving him special insight into war photography that many of us [...]

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Photography styles are always down topersonal taste, in my opinion. I respect that; people have different preferences, and in the same veinphotographers can’t please everybody. This also applies to black and white photos, which will be the focus of this article.I have clients who absolutely do not like black and white images, and clients who want a full set of black and white conversions. Personally I give my clients at least 95% color photos and the rest are inblack and white.

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It is time for a mega contest and a mega giveaway. We want to give you aWacom Intuos Pro and everything in our texture store (about $2500 worth). But we are not just giving this away. We are going to hold a little challenge. Do you know our CC-BY sampler package? It is a package [...]

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