This is the third installment in a series by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton on becoming confident with manual camera settings. If you are new to photography, or don’t have a clean grasp of manual settings, I recommend that you go back and read the first two installments of this series: Und

In this post Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton shares how she does her post processing on her black and white conversions. Please ignore EVERYTHING in the images above other than the tones. I’d be much obliged. xo, Natalie I got an email recently from a reader (of my personal blog) named Cin

The following tutorial on constructing an Inexpensive Light Tent was Submitted by Jeffrey Bail. See Jeffrey’s Flickr Account here. Note: While this is a great DIY tutorial that thousands of our readers have used, Amazon has many inexpensive Light Tents here that will get you some great results

Creating star trail images is a fun technique that can deliver a wide range of results depending on location, foreground objects, and number of visible stars. While the technique can be relatively simple, proper setup and then proper post-processing are essential. To get started, let’s look a

In this post professional wedding photographer Chas Elliott shares some tips on creating Wedding Albums. An introduction to wedding albums If you have been to a recent bridal show, you have witnessed the impressive growth of an entire industry revolving around wedding albums. Some brides are even ch

Photojournalism is one of the most challenging, exciting types of photography. As a result, it is also the most competitive fields to break in to. So what do you need to start? Reliable Transportation This should be obvious, but it’s intentionally high in this list. All the skills and the best

This tutorial on Stacking Images shot without a Tripod was submitted by Andre Gunther from Andre Gunther Photography where he’s written other tutorials for photographers Using image transformation to stack pictures shot handheld without a tripod. High dynamic range scenes challenge vir

The following article on creating depth of field using photoshop was submitted by Emma Cake from Big Bouquet Photography. If you didn’t quite get your aperture settings right when you were out and about with your camera it’s possible to recreate a depth of field effect in Photoshop. Sim

In this post regular DPS forum member David Johnson. Catchlights – What are they and why are they important in Portrait Photography? A “catchlight’ is simply the highlight of a light source reflected off the surface of the eye. This highlight adds depth and dimension to the eye,

This post looking at Image Editing Software Alternatives was written by former wedding and portrait photographer Damien Franco from Your Photo Tips. Which image editing software program is right for you? Is it the one you use, or the one you’re thinking of purchasing? Maybe you use multiple pr

Today DPS Soave Photography is sharing with us how he composed a sunset image perfectly so it showed up under a pier. Matt put a lot of energy into getting it just right – learn how he did it below. On May 2nd, 2008, I was able to turn an everyday La Jolla, California, sunset into something un

I promised when I started this site that I’d do my best to keep it as untechnical and jargon free as possible. Having said this – today I want to use a term that I doubt many beginner digital photographers would be familiar with. Having said this it’s not a complicated concept and

The following tip has been submitted by Phillip Kirkham, a reader of DPS and avid wildlife photographer – see his own website (the source of all bird photos in this post). You can also read more about him at the end of his article. How to photograph birds Unfortunately, July and August are

The following post was submitted by Carl Ebrey from Carl Ebrey Photography. Following on from the recent JPEG vs RAW discussion, I offered to write a short article for the Digital Photography School on my RAW workflow. So, here it is. First of all, though, some background and disclaimers: I am a w

This post on enhancing contrast in digital photos was submitted by Leeroy Gribbon whose photoblog (www.decoy.co.nz) we recently featured here at DPS as Photoblog of the Week. I’m a sucker for good contrast in a photo. Since I mainly like to dabble in monochrome work, contrast for me is the g

Win an Olympus E-M10 Camera from Macphun! Every photo entrant receives a prize!!! Over the last several years here at dPS, we’ve run some very popular competitions. This week, we are very happy to bring you our latest photo contest, “Get Outside and Shoot” from Macphun, makers of

The wait is FINALLY over! The Grand Prize Winner of Macphun’s Get Outside and Shoot! Photo Contest is: A HUGE thank you to everyone who entered the recent Get Outside and Shoot! photo contest. The Grand Prize winner receives an Olympus E-M10! Weekly contest winners received their photo on ca

Intensify Pro is a Mac only image editing program from MacPhun. With apologies to Windows users (I really wish this software was available for PCs as well) let’s dive in and see what this software can do. One of the reasons that you buy plug-ins is to take advantage of the ways you

Macphun Software announces new program Macphun Software, a photography app developer with over 20 million users worldwide just recently released their latest photo editing software program, called Tonality. This is a program dedicated entirely to editing your photos in black and white, and it i

I hate digital noise. I’ve been a stickler about keeping it out of my images for years and have tried just about everything under the sun to aid in that process. So when Macphun offered to send over their new Noiseless Pro app I jumped at the opportunity (especially after seeing the promo vide