A Guest post by Jacob Shultz HDR photography – It has become a term synonymous with overly-saturated, cartoony looking photographs with large halos. This tutorial will explain the benefits of HDR photography, and how you can take your own high quality HDR photos which look amazingly realistic

A Guest post by Mary Andrade from Pam Photography. Recently while I was processing an image, my husband, Peter, asked “Why take a perfectly good photograph and add texture?” I paused, fair question. I use texturing as to create unique one of a kind images. Recognizing that in almost ever

If you’re passionate for a mirrorless, interchangeable lens digicam, this Micro Four Thirds model may be your opportunity. World’s smallest and lightest Digital Interchangeable Lens System Camera? Panasonic thinks so. The review camera was supplied with a 14mm near-pancake lens and an 8

Shift lenses allow the skewing of perspective as the camera sees it and are often accompanied with a tilt feature, as seen in the popular tilt-sift lenses. Shift helps with how lines converge or diverge in a scene by moving the lens elements to one side of camera body opening (as most shift lenses c

Snow! Some of us love to see the white stuff falling from the sky, as long as we don’t have to drive through traffic in it. Now imagine not only do the kids have the day off from school, but you don’t have to report to work! It’s time to go play in the….wait a second…

Are you a stickler for little details? Well, if you’re a photographer, you had better be. Discovering the rule of thirds is a big milestone for any photographer. Suddenly, you realize that all you ever did before was center your subject right smack dab in the middle of the frame, because that&

Sepia toned images appeal to a variety of people.  They have become popular enough to earn their own preset in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, where with one simple click on the mouse, the tone is rendered.  This tutorial is for those who don’t have Lightroom or Photoshop and wish, inste

A Guest Post by Rob Dweck. In my last post, I used Nik Color Efex Pro to make subtle changes that help draw the viewer’s eye to the main subject of the images. In many cases, subtle edits are all that are needed to bring a photo closer to your vision of the final result. There are other times

I know it’s not that important, but I feel this category of camera needs a name. How about MILC? Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera. Along with models from Olympus, Panasonic and Sony these radical MILCs have attracted many followers, willing to forgo a turret viewfinder so that the camer

Let me start off by saying that I don’t use textures all that often, but there are certainly times where I feel that an image could use just a little something extra. Textures are just another one of those things in digital photography that can be overused and overdone if you’re not care

I typically don’t edit my shots heavily, yet one that I brought back from Nepal demanded some help and was eye catching enough by itself to warrant an attempt. My hope is in walking through these steps, you might glean a an idea or two on a similar shot if you really like night photography.&n

There are very few programs out there that truly have the ability to take your photography to the next level. onOne Perfect Photo Suite is a true game changer when it comes to digital photography, and this review will hopefully open your eyes to a world of possibilities for your images. Perfect Phot

A Guest Post by Andrew Mills from Andrew Mills Photography. Many of us spend a small fortune on our camera equipment trying to get the best quality we can, yet so many of us miss out on an important step that can make a huge difference to our photos. That step is to calibrate your monitor. You can

A Guest Post by Rob Dweck. When planning this series of articles on plug-ins and actions, one of my considerations was what sequence to present them. Do I cover all of the plug-ins from one developer and then the next, or do I jump around from one to another. I settled on the latter for several re

Launched with little fanfare and then, according to Olympus, quickly gaining favour with the market, the Olympus E-5 DSLR should attract much attention down the track. Using the Four Thirds system, the E-5 is a little startling in its size and weight. When compared to the recently tested budget Nik

Today African Safari guide Vernon Swanepoel from safari-pics.blogspot.com shares with us some tips on how to photograph an African Safari. An African Safari may be a once in a lifetime experience and one that can be really fun for photographers. If you are planning a trip to Africa some time i

As an architectural photographer and frequent traveler, I often come across scenes where I’d like the architecture or view to be the main focus of the image, free of people or cars in the shot. In busy tourist destinations or anywhere particularly interesting, this can be very difficult. There

To my considerable delight, we now find ourselves surrounded by a multiplicity of options when facing a choice of camera, especially in the interchangeable lens division. You want it small? Go for the Micro Four Thirds models or Sony’s NEX duo or Samsung’s clever NX… and it appear

There was a lot of response to a post of mine titled How To Bring Back Boring, And Possibly Horrid, Travel Photos here on DPS.  It was a sarcastic stab at some problems I’ve had in the past with creating less than exciting travel photos.  Photos that bore my friends and family. 

In previous posts I’ve introduced the Pixel Bender add-in for Photoshop CS4 and CS5 and the Droste filter created by Tom Beddard. This post I’ll show you how to create the classic frame in a frame image effect using these tools. The critical part of this effect is getting the image ri