Photography Blogs & Tutorials

If you are interested in going out and getting some high quality landscape photographs, heres a comprehensive list of items you will either want to consider, or must have, in order to increase your chances of getting some keepers:

#1 – The Internet

Whenever I start to plan a photo shoot to a particular location, I usually begin by googling the area. If its a relatively well-known location, you will probably find some very interesting, and comprehensive, websites made by... more (link is external)

I would like to bring up an issue of principle which is connected to photographing people and portraits. One that each photographer has a different opinion and personal way about doing: Do I, as a documentary photographer, need to approach and ask the permission of my subject of photography to take their photograph, or do [...]

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I have been writing for DIYP for over a year now, and I can’t believe I haven’t written an article on how to create milk splash shots. It is, after all, one of my favorite things to do (and it is amazingly easy). So, here it is. This will be a two part article. In [...]

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Over the last week at dPS our writing team have focused their efforts on creating a great series of tutorials on the topic of posing subjects for portraits. They’ve covered 8 fantastic topics that have had some great feedback.

In case you’ve missed any I’ve listed them below but am also including 8 more portrait posing tutorials below from our archives.

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Note: I have no affiliation with either program.

TPE is probably the best known ephemeris application used by photographers. There is, however, a new kid on the block, PlanIt! for photographers.

While TPE does a good job of being a basic ephemeris, it ends there.

Shortcomings or challenges with TPE

Like all good photographers, you’re planning a future shot of the moon rise. You... more (link is external)

Photography is probably one of the greatest tools for preserving history. While present generations stand at a perilous place with all of our memories sitting on hard drives and SD cards, we are thankful for those who had to take the time to develop each shot into a physical medium. Writings and paintings can only [...]

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To a group of southern California photographers, the holy grail of photography is getting a shot of an airplane perfectly placed in the centerof the full moon as the plane travels by. The group is made up a diverse group of photographers–both amatuer and professional. Nick Ut, the legendary photographer behind “Napalm Girl”, is one [...]

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At its heart, filmmaking has always been about telling a story. It doesn’t matter if it’s a 30-second commercial, a short documentaryfor the local festival, or a blockbuster hit, the purposeis to communicate some form of narrative to the audience(perhaps with the exception of blockbuster hits…they’re simply about money). The problem sometimes lies in knowing [...]

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Terry White is an Adobe Photoshop (link is external) expert and in this video he answers the 10 things that Photoshop (particularly for Photoshop CC) beginners want to know how to do including:

  1. How to touch up a photo; how to make people look better
  2. Layers and adjustment layers (link is external); what are they and how to use them
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When Lensrentals.com first got the firstCanon 5Ds and 5D sr cameras in stock, Aaron and I immediately started screaming that we wanted to take one apart. It turns out we received enough 5Ds cameras to let us have a day with one to do just that. Of course, we don’t expect to find out anything [...]

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