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Portrait Tutorial Feast – Best of dPS 2013

29 Dec

Just a reminder that this week we are looking back at some of the best articles on dPS in 2013. So far we’ve looked at:

  • Top 12 landscape articles
  • All about gear top 14

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Now it’s time to move to portraits. Hopefully you’ll have some time with family and friends this holiday season, and had a feast or two. Well here’s another one for you, I present the Portrait Tutorial Feast! In no particular order:

The top 17 most popular portrait tutorials of 2013

  1. 10 Ways to take stunning portraits
  2. 6 Portrait lighting patterns every photographer should know
  3. 13 tips for improving outdoor portraits
  4. Family portrait dos and don’ts
  5. 10 techniques for amazing portraits
  6. How to take portraits – 19 portrait photography tutorials
  7. More Portrait Tips
  8. 8 Posing Guides to Inspire Your Portraiture
  9. Clothing for Portraits – How to Tell your Subjects What to Wear
  10. 5 Fail Proof Portrait Poses
  11. 10 Tips for Creating Great Family Portraits
  12. 10 Ways to Direct a Portrait Shoot like a Pro
  13. One Light Portraits: Simple Elegance
  14. How to Achieve Blurred Backgrounds in Portraits
  15. 5 Classic Lighting Positions for Portrait Photography
  16. Stunning Portraits: Manipulating White Balance
  17. Discover the Secrets of Beautiful Portrait Lighting – a dPS ebook

 

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Secret Slums: Ramshackle Rooftop Villages of Hong Kong

29 Dec

[ By WebUrbanist in Global & Travel & Places. ]

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These hidden shanty towns, often invisible from the streets below, sprawl like surrealist suburbs across the roofs of one of the most densely-populated and expensive cities in the world.

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The book Portraits From Above meticulously documents a series of such informal micro-villages in Hong Kong with photographs, detailed diagrams and stories of life inside these illicit rooftop communities.

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While the dwellings are unconventional in shape, the book’s drawings are almost deceptively refined, capturing the chaos in clean black-on-white architectural lines.

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Ad hoc architecture at its strangest, these structures are not governed by building codes or compliance issues. Found materials from sheet metal and scrap wood to discarded plastic and broken brick shape home walls and the narrow halls between homes.

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Naturally, one downside of such unplanned habitats are the series of power and waste management issues that go with the territory.

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Despite living on the fringes – or perhaps because their shared connection – there are strong social ties between rooftop dwellers, and they were welcoming to the authors of this book, Stefan Canham and Rufina Wu, who sought to learn more about how people live in such offbeat accommodations. In many ways, too, these mini-cities are like smaller expressions of larger-scale phenomenon like the nearby but now-demolished Kowloon Walled City.

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28. Dezember 2013

28 Dec

Ein Beitrag von: Jimmy Kong

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Recommended Reading: Make Use Of Instagram

28 Dec

Instagram has been the source of a lot of debate and even the butt of jokes with in the photography community. I’ve written an article in Digital Photo Pro magazine discussing the potential Instagram offers to photographers of all levels.  Check out the article, Make Use of Instagram and I invite you to follow me on Instagram.

Also if you’ve missed my other Digital Photo Pro articles you can find them here:

  • Move Forward With Social Media
  • Search Engine Optimization 
  • Social Media & ­­­­­Copyright
  • Social-Media Marketing Essentials
  • Creative Commons
  • PLUS Coalition Standardized Licensing Codes
  • How I Evaluate Terms of Service for Social Media Web Sites – Google+ (my blog)
  • Evaluating Terms of Service Documents: Resources (my blog)

More of my articles on Social Media for Photographers

Copyright Jim M. Goldstein, All Rights Reserved

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What The Duck #1449

28 Dec

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We’ve come to the end of another week here at dpreview, and as our thoughts drift to weekend shooting opportunities, it’s time to take things a little less seriously. Aaron Johnson’s comic strip ‘What the Duck’ is just the thing, taking a gently satirical look through the lens of a photographically inclined waterfowl. You can find it published here (and in our newsletter) every week; we hope you enjoy it, and your weekend.

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China als fotografische Herausforderung

28 Dec

Ein Beitrag von: Paulina Metzscher

China ist kurios – ein Land der Andersartigkeit. Wo Lichter tanzen und alles in Bewegung ist, ein Ort, an dem nichts ruht. Die Straßen sind ein einziger Tumult, Menschenmassen drängen sich aneinander. Man spürt, wie China atmet, es pulsiert. Inmitten dieser fremden Welt befand ich mich für einen Monat mit meiner Freundin, reiste vom Süden in den Norden, die Reise an sich das Ziel.

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© Paulina Metzscher

Fremde ist eine Empfindung, in der man sich gleichermaßen glücksberauscht und verloren fühlen kann. Nicht selten aber fand ich pure Faszination in ihr.
Denn auch in der Ferne konnte ich mich auf ein Stückchen Vertrautheit berufen: Meine Kamera als ständigen Begleiter. So fing ich an, zu dokumentieren. Erst nur Orte, an denen wir uns befanden und dann immer mehr auch Menschen und ihre Umgebung.

Schnell legte ich, beflügelt durch Begegnungen, meine anfängliche Scheu ab, Menschen im Reich der Mitte zu portraitieren: Eine Einladung auf eine Tasse Tee oder ein kleiner Junge, der immer wieder voller Freude meine Kamera ausprobieren wollte. Fotografieren wurde damit noch viel mehr als es das sonst war, zu einer Begegnung.

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© Paulina Metzscher

Ehe ich mich versah, fand ich mich in einem für mich ganz neuen, bisher noch unbekanntem Bereich wieder: Der Straßenfotografie. Und was ich entdeckte, eröffnete neue Dimensionen. Erneut erlaubte mir das Fotografieren, zu reflektieren, mich mitzuteilen und den unglaublichen Schwall der Eindrücke von neuartigen Umgebungen, Menschen und einer andersartigen Kultur zu verarbeiten.

So hatte ich ein Stückchen Vertrautheit mit in die Ferne genommen und das schaffte Raum für die neuen Eindrücke. Oftmals wünschte ich mir, mehr als nur ein Augenpaar zu haben, um die Fülle an Eindrücken, die unentwegt auf mich einströmte, wirklich in mich aufsaugen zu können.

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© Paulina Metzscher

Wenn ich jetzt die Fotografien betrachte, die auf meiner Reise entstanden sind, sehe ich Menschen, die inne halten und eigentlich so gegensätzlich erscheinen zu dem, was mir in China begegnet ist: Nichts schien jemals zum Stillstand zu kommen. China – bunt, laut und schnell – findet sich nicht wirklich in meinen Fotografien wieder.

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© Paulina Metzscher

Die Inhalte bleiben dieselben, die mich auch sonst anziehen: Sehnsucht, Stille, Leere, Einsamkeit, Emotionen und Mystik. So sehr es mich selbst erstaunt, habe ich auf dieser Reise festgestellt, dass auch in neuen Umgebungen und unter anderen Umständen, ja sogar in einem neuen Bereich der Fotografie, diese Inhalte an mir zu haften scheinen bleiben.

Doch ich weiß auch, dass es genau das ist, wonach in China gesucht habe. Und ich glaube, ich bin fündig geworden. Fündig, nicht nur bei Menschen, sondern auch in den großartigen Landschaften Chinas, die mir flüchtige Momenten des Innehaltens und ruhige Augenblicke inmitten des Lärms und der Bewegung versprachen.

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© Paulina Metzscher

Durch die Linse meiner Kamera konnte ich mich in die kleinen Wunder des Alltags stehlen und an ihnen teilhaben. Dort ein kleines Mädchen, sehnsuchtsvoll aus dem Zugfenster schauend, hier eine alte Frau, in sich gekehrt auf der Straße, ein Wolkenmeer über den Bergen, ein Opa mit seiner Enkelin, gedankenverloren, Nebelschwaden in den Wäldern, Menschen, die innehalten, träumend in die Welt schauen, manchmal verloren wirkend, einsam.

© Paulina Metzscher

© Paulina Metzscher

Aus der Masse sind plötzlich Individuen geworden und das gefällt mir, denn auf diese Art und Weise ist es leichter zu erinnern. Und die Reise, plötzlich bestimmt von Gelegenheiten und Menschen, die uns begegneten und einen Blick in ihre Welt erhaschen ließen.

Menschen, die für mich, sobald ich Bilder mit ihnen verbinde, nicht mehr fremd erscheinen, sondern Teil meiner Erinnerung, meiner Fotografien wurden. Und so versuchte ich, mir in der Fremde einen Raum für Vertrautes zu schaffen und auf meine Art und Weise das Reich der Mitte zu erkunden.


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In photos: The beauty of bees

28 Dec

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Biologist Sam Droege of the USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Program has turned the work of documenting bee species into an art form. His rare and extremely detailed look at these insects provides an online reference catalog to help researchers identity native bee species across North America. See gallery

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DPReview Videos: tutorials, product overviews, interviews and more

28 Dec

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We don’t just write news stories and product reviews here on DPReview.com, we also create videos. As well as samples the cameras we review, we also produce ‘hands-on’ video previews and overviews of many of the current hottest products on the market. In addition to these, we’ve recently started adding a series of video tutorials designed to help you make informed decisions about which camera, lens, or type of product might be best for you. Click through to browse our growing library of videos. 

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Beer Bath: Underground Brewery Converted to Thermal Spa

28 Dec

[ By Steph in Boutique & Art Hotels & Global. ]

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Lounge in large wooden vats that once contained gallons upon gallons of beer, gazing up at the original stone arches in subterranean vaulted chambers. The Hürlimann Brewery in Zurich, built in 1836, has been transformed into a hotel and thermal spa with naturally heated water from a nearby spring.

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Guests don’t actually bathe in beer here (there are other places to do that) but they get to enjoy the next best thing in spacious hot tubs made from the reclaimed barrels. The clean lines of wood and steel in the new construction contrast with, yet complement the aged stone architecture of the original facility.

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Enclosed tiled rooms offer large pools in which to lay on your back and float, and the places to soak extend all the way up to the hotel’s rooftop, with heated pools looking out onto the city of Zurich.

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All about Gear [Best of dPS 2013]

28 Dec

Everyone loves to talk about it. No one wants to admit it. So let’s geek out for a minute and look at some of the top articles and reviews on cameras and gear from 2013 as our summer series continues.

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Top 16 articles about gear in no particular order:

  1. 5 Pieces of Photography Gear to Consider as Your First Upgrade
  2. Achieving a ‘Big’ Look with little Gear | Using What You Have
  3. Portrait Gear Essentials – by dPS eBook author Gina Milicia
  4. Keeping Your Gear Safe While Shooting In The Rain
  5. How To Keep Camera Gear Safe While Traveling
  6. Surf Photography for Beginners – Equipment, Techniques and Tips
  7. Refurbished Camera Equipment: As Good as New if not Better
  8. 5 Kinds of Photography Equipment That Waste Your Money
  9. How to Buy a Digital Camera – A 9 Step Guide
  10. How to Choose a DSLR Camera
  11. Digital Camera Modes
  12. Should you buy a DSLR or Point and Shoot Digital Camera?
  13. How to Hold a Camera
  14. Full Frame Sensor vs Crop Sensor – Which is Right For You?
  15. Why a 50mm lens is your new best friend
  16. a dPS ebook, Photo Nuts and Gear

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