I have an image of a blueberry shot on the end of a spoon with my macro lens. It has a very narrow depth of field (DOF).  Only the front of the blueberry is in focus. The rest has a lovely soft blur. The first comment when I posted it on Facebook was ‘it would look better if it were all

So in my last article, we looked at how you can get to shoot live music. Hopefully, some of you will have used that article as the motivation to actually get out there and shoot. Great! If you haven’t, what are you waiting for? This time, I want to write based on a comment I received about ho

The so-called ‘rules of composition’ aren’t so much rules as guiding principles. Why? Because not every compositional tool works for every image. Art is subjective, and what works well for one image may not work so well for another. That being said, good photography invo

In this video by Gavin Hoey from Adorama, he discusses ways of keeping colors consistent throughout your photography process. Keeping Colors Consistent in 3 Easy Steps Using these 3 quick steps in your photography workflow will make your process much easier and save you time. 1. Begin wit

Whenever a photo is taken with a digital camera, data relating to that photo gets stored with the image in what’s known as the Exchange image file format (Exif). Knowing how to use that Exif data can help you gain insight into the camera settings of both your own and other people’s photo

If like me, you live in the southern hemisphere, you’ll be well amongst the season of spring. Although this can mean the onset of the dreaded hay fever season, it’s a great time of the year for photographers to capture an amazing diversity of flowers that bloom in the warmer months

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This week on dPS we’re featuring some of the top articles in different categories that were published on the site over 2018. We’ve already shown you the dPS Top All-Round Photography Tips of 2018, and The dPS Top Camera Gear Tips of 2018. This one is all about the best post-process

The history of women photographers dates back to the beginnings of photography itself. Yet while names like Ansel Adams and Man Ray have floated to the top of the photographic vernacular, the contribution of women in photography has been diluted or erased from history altogether. In this, photo

For many photographers, photographing mixed lighting scenarios can be painful. At weddings, for example, several lighting sources provide constantly changing colors such as DJ lighting, candles, fairy lights and up-lighters in the venue. It’s not too dissimilar in your home. Say you have your

This week’s photography challenge topic is REFLECTIONS! Marc-Olivier Jodoin   Your photos can include anything that have reflections. It can be reflections in water, puddles, windows, glass, steel, or anything that is reflective. They can be color, black and white, long exposures, night,

Can you guess one of the most important elements in photography? No, it is not gear, or subject or even location. Yes, all of those are important, but not critical. The most important element in photography is light. And light can quite literally make or break an image. It took me a long time to und

Real estate photography throws many challenges your way, just like any type of photography. You deal with perspective issues and light and shadow extremes that confound even the best cameras. You also need to be critically aware of your surroundings and probably have very limited time to d

Shooting in low light conditions can result in beautiful photographs. But it also presents plenty of technical challenges for you as a photographer to overcome. The main issues with doing low light photography are: You may not be able to use a shutter speed fast enough to hand hold your camera wit

Time-lapse photography is a different way to show the world around you. They are videos which are made up of a serious of still images and combined to look like a movie. The frame-by-frame gives a sped-up view of the world. People find them interesting to look at and if done well they are fascinatin

Over the years, HDR Photography has become synonymous with over-saturated, over-processed, and unrealistic images. Some hear the term HDR and never give it a second thought because of their perception of what it is. Add to that, all the camera dynamic range improvements and many say that HDR has lo

Fast-paced movement across the court or rink, cheering crowds, the thrill of the win (or agony of defeat). These are the myriad of elements waiting to be captured by your camera when you photograph a sports event. Whether you’re taking pictures at the home arena of your favorite pro team or sn

In this article, learn about some of the disadvantages of shooting JPGs. It’s easy to see issues when they are in plain sight, but it’s much more difficult to see things when they are hidden. This situation applies to photographic images containing deep shadows and bright highlights. Whe

Cleaning out my bookshelf the other day, I rediscovered a bunch of old photography books I bought from a second-hand store some time ago. Leafing through the pages and taking in that unmistakable “old book smell”, it got me thinking about the value of reading older books as opposed to sh

Astrophotography has become increasingly popular in recent years, with good reason. There’s something about the night sky, stars, and The Milky Way that are fascinating to us. They remind us of how small we are and how huge the universe we live in really is. Photographing them can make for som