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  • Best of dPS 2013 – Some of the Most Popular Articles of the Year

    To continue on our week of the Best of dPS, today we’ll look at some general topics. We’ve already looked at the Top Landscape articles from 2013, All About Gear, and yesterday we had the Portrait Tutorial Feast. So we’ve covered some of the specific topics that you love to read about. But what if you just want to brush up on some basic camera settings or composition?  Then, check out:

    The Best of dPS – the top photography articles in 2013 in no particular order:

    1. ISO Settings in Digital Photography
    2. Introduction to Aperture in Digital Photography
    3. Rule of Thirds
    4. Introduction to Shutter Speed in Digital Photography
    5. Learning about Exposure – The Exposure Triangle
    6. 21 Settings, Techniques and Rules All New Camera Owners Should Know
    7. Raw vs. JPG
    8. Photography Quotes
    9. Digital Photography Tips for Beginners
    10. How to Photograph…
    11. 5 Elements of Composition in Photography
    12. How to photograph sunrises and sunsets
    13. 5 Photography Bad Habits to Quit
    14. Long exposure photography
    15. Why You Should Use Your Lens’ Hood
    16. How to Avoid Camera Shake
    17. Aperture and Shutter Priority Modes
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    How to Avoid Camera Shake

    Did you have other favourites? Share them in the comments below.

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  • Portrait Tutorial Feast – Best of dPS 2013

    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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  • All about Gear [Best of dPS 2013]

    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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  • A Roundup of the Best Photography Scholarships

    Photography is not just a profession. It isn’t something that can be easily learned. It is, like any other art form, born out of a passion. However, passion can be an expensive thing. This is why most of us photographers find that a little help from other resources can make our careers reach newer heights. Of course, photography is a Continue Reading

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  • So you Want to Shoot Landscapes? [Top 12 dPS Landscape articles from 2013]

    Landscape photography is always a popular topic here on dPS. Who doesn’t a great mountain scenic image, or a shot of the rolling waves on the ocean?

    Image by Todd Sisson – author of our Living Landscape Photography eBook

    In this, the first of our “Best of 2013” series are 12 of the top landscape articles from 2013. In no particular order:

    1. 11 surefire tips for improving your landscape photography
    2. Composing dynamic landscape images
    3. Getting landscapes sharp: focus stacking
    4. Getting landscapes sharp using hyperfocal distance and aperture selection
    5. 4 rules of composition for landscape photography
    6. 4 essential ingredients for great landscape photographs
    7. 3 reasons to shoot vertical aspect landscapes and 6 tips on how to shoot them
    8. 3 steps to gorgeous landscape images
    9. How to shoot landscapes at sunset
    10. Tips for shooting landscapes with a telephoto lens
    11. Wide angle lenses and the landscape
    12. Include the foreground for dramatic landscapes

    For even more information on landscapes pick our popular ebook Living Landscapes.

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  • Best of Strobist: 2013 Edition

    The end of the year is a great time to take a moment to reflect on what you have learned and/or accomplished in the last 365 days. Traditionally on Strobist, we take the last few days to look back, to buy a little family time and plan for the next year's adventure.

    2014 holds some big changes for me. And because of the format and project changes coming up, this may well be the very last "Best of" post I'll ever write. So let's get on with it…

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  • All Our Great Photography Deals Available for One More Week

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    Over the last 12 days we’ve presented you with daily deals on some photography training products.

    The savings this year were bigger than we’ve ever done before and we’ve had some great feedback from readers thanking us for some great deals.

    However…. amidst the many ‘thank you’ messages that we’ve had there have also been quite a few emails and messages from readers who missed a deal that they really wanted.

    So, today we’re going to open up all deals featured over the last 12 days to give you one last chance!

    Click here to get access to all 12 deals again:

    So if there’s a deal you regret missing or you might have missed one of our emails or posts – you’re in luck!

    Here are just a few of the most popular deals (in no particular order)

    1. Natural Light eBook, just $ 7 (one of our most popular eBooks ever)
    2. Going Pro eBook – 60% off! (for those of you looking to make money from your photography)
    3. Portraits: Making The Shot $ 7 (released this year)
    4. Living Landscapes $ 7 or an Amazing Outdoor Photography Bundle (our best selling eBook ever)
    5. Save 75% on ‘The Art of Black and White Photography’ course (Udemy’s most popular Photography Course)
    6. Kelby Training $ 40 off an annual subscription (a year’s training for a few cents per day)
    7. $ 10 Day – 10 dPS eBooks, yours for just $ 10 each! (these went like hotcakes yesterday)

    … and there are still a whole lot of other deals with your name all over them!

    You can browse through all the deals using the little circle numbers at the top of all the deal pages (or clicking the boxes at the bottom of each page).

    If you have any trouble at all, or if there’s a deal you can’t find be sure to let us know – we don’t want you missing a deal!

    All these will be available until 31st of December, after that they will be gone for good so get to it and grab yours today!.

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  • Gone to the Beach

    Christmas has come and gone and being based in Australia – where Summer is in full swing – most of the dPS team are all feeling the call to the beach after what’s been a busy year!

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    My one and only chance to step on the beach when I was in Australia. Perhaps the rest of the dPS team is there now?!

    I know it might be hard to hear for some of us snowed in in the Northern Hemisphere but the sun is shining and the temperature is rising in Melbource and most Aussies take a couple of weeks off at this time of year. Me, I don’t get to see the beach until the end of January and I have to fly to Cuba to do that!

    But don’t fret – while we’re at the beach we’ve lined up some great content for you here on dPS so you can get your photographic ‘fix’.

    Here’s what will happen:

    1. Between Christmas and New Years – The dPS best of 2013 Series

    Over the next week we’ve lined up a bit of a look back on the year that has been. In 2013 we published over 500 tutorials here on dPS – too many to have really taken in. So over this next week we’ll be presenting some ‘best of’ posts where we’ll publish themed collections of our best stuff from the last year.

    Tomorrow we’ll kick it off with a collection of our hottest landscape photography posts written this year. Each day there will be a new theme.

    2. The First Couple Days of 2014 – Reduced Posting

    The 12 Apostles on the Australian coast, not the best images but nasty weather and limited time and this is what you get!

    The 12 Apostles on the Australian coast, not the best images but nasty weather and limited time and this is what you get!

    After the New Year we’ll be posting some great new content – but we’ll just post once a day until the 3rd, instead of our normal twice a day schedule.

    Also please note: over the next two weeks you may not see a newsletter from us – but we’ll make the following one a great one!

    All will be back to normal come January 3rd though! In fact it’ll be better than ever as we’ll hopefully be returned relaxed, healthy and rejuvenated.

    Happy New Year!

    Lastly – let me take this opportunity to you a very Happy New Year. I hope that 2013 has been a good one for you and would like to send you our best wishes for 2014!

    Keep shooting and keep reading, we appreciate you sticking around!

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  • 100 Magical Levitation Photography Examples to Inspire You

    People say that floating in the air or straightforward levitation is impossible. Everything is possible if you can use Photoshop! Of course, you can jump in the air and stay there until that pesky, old gravity tells you otherwise, but it’s not the way to impress your viewers. If you try to take a shot of a jumping person, it Continue Reading

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  • Day 12: Today Everything is $10!

    On the 12th day of Christmas dPS gave to me – $ 10 eBooks!

    You can pick up ANY dPS eBook not featured in the last 11 days as a single deal for just $ 10!

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    That’s right – you can pick up any of these 10 dPS eBooks today at 50-66% off:

    • Portraits – Lighting The Shot – Discover the Secrets of Beautiful Portrait Lighting
    • Click! – How to Take Gorgeous Photos of Your Kids
    • Transcending Travel – A guide to captivating travel photography
    • Photo Nuts and Bolts – Know your camera and take better photos
    • Photo Nuts and Shots – Tools and Techniques for Creative Photography
    • Photo Nuts and Gear – Know Your Gear and Take Better Photos
    • Photo Magic – Special Effects Photography Made Easy!
    • Captivating Color – A Guide to Dramatic Color Photography
    • iPhone Photography – How to Shoot, Edit and Share Great Photos with Your iPhone
    • The Art of Self Portraiture – How to take Eye Catching Self Portraits

    But Wait – There’s MORE $ 10 Deals from Ed Verosky and Andrew Gibson

    Not only can you grab dPS eBooks for $ 10 today – but we’ve also twisted the arms of a couple of our friends to come up with some $ 10 deals too!

    Firstly – Ed Verosky has put together two $ 10 bundles that are pretty special.

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    There’s a Portraits Pack and a Lighting Pack – both with 4 eBooks in them which effectively gets you $ 2.50 eBooks!

    Ed’s never offered his eBooks at this price before – thanks Ed for looking after dPS readers with this one!

    Get all the details on these deals from Ed here.

    Secondly Andrew Gibson who has already featured in the 12 days has also jumped on board with a three pack of his EOS eBooks for $ 10!

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    You can see all the details of Andrew’s deals here (at the bottom).

    Get Your eBooks Before These Deals are Gone

    With todays deal you will feel like a kid in a candy store. The only question is will you be able to stop at one? It’s going to be tough but don’t wait too long!

    Stay Tuned for One Last Christmas Surprise

    Whilst this our last deal, we do have one more surprise for you tomorrow. Keep an eye out for it in 24 hours time!

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