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After a while of shooting with the DJI Mavic Pro, I notice something weird, my footage was off. Whatever I did I could not get a clean sliding shot. Looking deep I realized many of my shots were a bit crooked. Turns out my gimbal was not calibrated. When you are taking photos or footage […]

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Happy holidays from the team at dPS! It’s Christmas day already in Australia where most of the management team is based, and we’d like to wish you the happiest of days from all of us.

Thank you for being a regular reader and fan of dPS and for helping to provide photography articles and tutorials for you and other photography enthusiasts. However you and your loved ones celebrate this holiday season, we hope you have a good one.

Cheers!

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If you’ve seen Inception, you’ll probably recognize the movie’s signature “bending” cityscapes. Of course, those cityscapes required quite a bit of computationalpower to render. But what if there was a place on earth that actually bends like the streets in the movie? Welcome to Seoul Toll Gate, a place where your dreams prevailand physics perish. […]

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Choosing prime or zoom lenses is mainly a matter of preference. And what to choose when youre shooting portraits? Many photographers would rather reach for primes, but modern zoom lenses can also give you sharp, high-quality images. In this video, Manny Ortiz discusses his choice when it comes to the lens for portrait photography. He […]

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Whenever I do an event that promotes my pet photography, there are always one or two potential clients that havereservations about booking due to their beloved furry family members unruly behavior. Whether it be a hyperactive puppy that does not yet know how to sit still or a feline that runs the roost, some owners believe their pets to be impossible to photograph!

But you see, this perspective comes from someone who lives with their critters. Those who specialize in pet... more

I would probably need an infinite number of counting beads to count how many times a photographer says they are trying to capture the master painters of old in their work. But one photographer embodies this style whilst infusing it with their own master touch more than any other. MeetGemmy Woud-Binnendijk, one of the sweetest […]

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Here are five quick tips for doing retouching in Photoshop that are essential to know. Learn them to do better retouching on your photos.

#1 – Load Luminosity as a Selection

In Photoshop you can use the luminosity of an image (the bright pixels) as selections. The easiest way to make a selection out of the bright pixels of a photo is by pressing Command+Option+2, (Windows: Ctrl+Alt+2).

If you cannot remember the keyboard shortcut, you can also load luminosity as a selection... more

Sick of struggling with Lightroom? Disappointed with one-click presets and want to know how to produce stunning, natural images in under 2 minutes read on!

Earlier this year we offered dPS readers an amazingly simple Lightroom Workflow by professional Aussie photographer Johny Spencer. It was one one of our most popular offers of the year.

As part of our dPS Christmas Deals, weve brought this amazing offer bundled with 2 of Johnys other awesome Lightroom resources: Mastering... more

Next in our ongoing Photographer Spotlight series we have Rafal Makiela. Rafal is a Polish underwater fashion and commercial advertising photographer, currently based in Dubai. His work has been featured by various newspapers, monthly magazines, advertising campaigns and editorials and he is currently a brand ambassador for Ikelite underwater camera housings. Q&A With Rafal Makiela […]

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There are so many Photoshop horror stories out there from badly done HDR and selective colour to terribly “smoothed” skin in portraits. But none of them goquite so far as this short Photoshop horror film from Crypt Monsters. It begins with a somewhat creepy photographer wrapping up a photoshoot with an attractive model who’s obviously […]

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