DPS: digital Photography School

It seems computers can do most anything with an image now a days. So why bother with all those cumbersome filters? The answer is that most of them are still superior to the techniques used with a computer. Plus, if the image is more accurate coming out of the camera, less time [...]

Are you up for a photographic challenge this weekend? Here’s My Challenge - Shoot at just one focal length for the next couple of days. I’m a Lazy Zoom User Most digital cameras sold today come with a zoom lens fitted to it as standard whether it be a DSLR sold with a kit lens or a point [...]

It’s now almost July, and just because the weather outside is frightfully bright (for those in the Northern Hemisphere) doesn’t mean that you have to cancel all of your portrait photography. But taking advantage of the clear skies doesn’t mean that you have to shoot in broad daylight either. If you want the best light for [...]

Just a short post to let those in the marked for some higher level DSLRs know that this week Nikon have announced some new gear including: Nikon D700 DSLR - this is a 12.1 megapixel full frame DSLR (pictured left) . It’s essentially the D3 internally inside a D300 body (so high specs in a compact [...]

The following post on The Secrets to Ultra-Sharp Photos is by San Francisco based photographer Jim M. Goldstein. Learn more about him at the end of this post. As previously noted the best photo tip I ever received had to do with sharpness and up until the time in which I received this tip I had [...]

Photo by hupaishi Do you want to know how to photograph fireworks? With 4th July just days away I thought I’d refresh this article in which I give 10 Fireworks Photography tips to help you get started. Fireworks Displays are something that evoke a lot of emotion in people as they are not only beautiful and spectacular [...]

Today Digital Photography School has made the leap into a new online medium - Twitter. For those of you who don’t know Twitter - it is a social site that enables people to share short messages with their followers. It’s known as ‘micro-blogging’ because you only get 140 characters to write your message. There are millions [...]

Weekly Assignment We framed our pictures this week using Natural Framing for the assignment. The goal was to use frames within the picture to help isolate the subject and draw your eye to it. There were a lot of great entries this week, but several of them really captured the idea of natural framing well by [...]

Photo by muha… This week’s reader question is - What Was Your First Photography Experience? Think back to the first time that you held a camera. What was the camera? What were you photographing? Was it film or digital? What lessons were you taught in the early days? Looking forward to reading your stories! PS: I’ll kick us off. My first [...]

You’ve seen it before. It’s not the photographer with the biggest camera or the most artistic eye that wins in the world of wedding photography. It’s the best-practiced business photographer. Smart businessmen or women know how to create their brand and or product, sell it, promote it - and all before 5pm (well, sometimes). For a [...]

Modern day Digital Cameras present photographers with an ever increasing array of Automatic and Semi Automatic shooting modes. Most of these center around different ways of exposing your shots - however many cameras also give options for different focusing modes (eg - auto, continuous focusing for moving subjects, single point focusing, multiple point focusing, face [...]

Note: File this one under ‘bizarre’, ’silly’ or ‘things to do on a boring rainy day’… Looking to take a portraits with a quirky twist? Try ‘jowling‘ (also sometimes known as slap n’ flap). Photo by rent-a-moose How do you do it? Get your subject to relax their facial muscles completely (to the point that they have no [...]

In this post photographer Natalie Norton explores 6 ways you can hand hold lenses at low apertures and low shutter speeds and still avoid blurry images caused by camera shake. I’m a mover and a shaker in general, and this is particularly true when I’m on a shoot. I’m twistin’ and turnin’, climbin’ and jumpin’ and [...]

Weekly Assignment We finished the Sharp assignment this week, and there were some very sharp entries. Both in focus and subject. It was very hard to pick a winner this week, as usual, but we thought that Andel’s needle, while kind of scary was a very nice example of something sharp, both in focus and subject. [...]