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Best Travel Photography Tips of 2014

31 Dec

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Travel photography is one of the most popular topics here on dPS. Things often seem more interesting to photograph when we are away from home, travelling somewhere exciting or just new. Here are some of the highest rated travel photography articles on dPS in 2014. In no particular order:

  • The Only Three Lenses You Need for Travel Photography
  • The Worst Mistake a Travel Photographer Can Make
  • Off Camera Flash for Your Travel Photography
  • 20 More Photography Tips Every Travel Photographer Must Know
  • 6 Tips for Photographing People When Travelling
  • 7 Proven Ways to Come Home with Better Travel Photos
  • 10 Ways to Improve Your Travel Photography Portraits
  • 5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Travel Photos
  • Versatility – Your Guide to Shooting Great Travel Photography
  • 6 Tips for More Unique Travel Photos in Busy Tourist Locations
  • Travel Photography without the Travel – Going Local
  • Overcoming the Fear – Creating Better Travel Photography Portraits
  • How to Get the Most Out of a Travel Photography Location

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30. Dezember 2014

31 Dec

Das Bild des Tages von: Sabekr

Bäume im Nebel und zwei Vögel.

Fotolinks des Tages

1. Chaos Computer Club und der Fingerabdruck

Auf der Jahresfeier des Chaos Computer Clubs im Hamburg demonstrierte Jan Krissler, wie einfach es ist, den Fingerabdruck einer Person zu „faken“. Die Person war niemand geringeres als Ursula von der Leyen. Was das mit Fotografie zu tun hat? Möglich gemacht wurde der Hack unter anderem durch Fotos von der Hand der Verteidigungsministerin, die bei einer Pressekonferenz aufgenommen wurden. Krissler meinte, dass Politiker wahrscheinlich „nach dieser Vorstellung Handschuhe in der Öffentlichkeit tragen werden.“ Popular Science berichtet. → ansehen

+ Weiterführende Beobachtungen zum Hack sind bei Discovery News zu finden.

2. Jahresrückblick eines Magnum Fotografen

Für das folgende Interview und die begleitenden Bilder muss man sich Zeit nehmen: Der Magnum Fotograf Moises Saman steht dort Frage und Antwort zu schwierigen Themen, die viele Fotografen, die in Krisengebieten arbeiten beschäftigen. Saman geht unter anderem darauf ein, wie er einen Flugzeugabsturz im Irak überlebte, ob die Fotografie Veränderung unserer Gesellschaft bewirken kann und was er tut, um erlebtes Leid zu verarbeiten. → ansehen

3. Die Väter unserer Kinder

Zun Lee verbrachte seine Kindheit ohne Vater. Diese schmerzhafte Erfahrung verarbeitete er, in dem er Kinder mit ihren Vätern über lange Zeit begleitete und fotografierte. Auf Vimeo gibt es nun ein tiefgehendes und eindrückliches Video, das Lee sowohl bei der Arbeit, als auch über das Konzept sprechend zeigt. → ansehen

+ Für alle, die sich Lees Fotos nochmal in aller Ruhe ansehen wollen: Eine große Auswahl seiner Schwarzweiss-Aufnahmen hat das Emaho Magazine am Start.


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Post-Processing Tips of the Year 2014 on dPS

31 Dec

What to do with all those photos after you’ve taken them is the question. Do you do any post-processing? Are you a minimalist? Or maybe you like do to HDR?

Zvi Kons

By Zvi Kons

Whatever your tendency this year had some helpful post-processing articles. Here are a few of the most popular ones from the last year:

Lightroom

  • 6 of Lightroom’s Hidden Treasures
  • Useful Lightroom Plug-ins
  • How to do Noise Reduction in Lightroom
  • Photoshop Versus Lightroom Which is Right for You?
  • Lightroom How To – One Tip and One Trick
  • Seven Pieces of Advice for New Lightroom Users
  • Improve Your Images with the Lightroom Graduated Filter Tool
  • Save Tons of Editing Time with Lightroom Presets
  • How to Create a Vintage Look using Lightroom
  • Step by Step Portrait Processing in Lightroom
  • Lightroom 5 Tips – Hidden Gems
  • Mastering Color in Lightroom using the HSL Tab

Photoshop

  • >3 Easy Steps Using Photoshop to Making your Images POP
  • 5 Photoshop Tools to Take Your Images from Good to Great
  • How to Use LAB Color in Photoshop to Add Punch to Your Images
  • 6 Commonly Used and Confused Tools in Photoshop Explained
  • Ten Go-to Editing Tips for Using Photoshop
  • 4 Tips for Post Processing Efficiency in Photoshop
  • Understanding Masking in Photoshop
  • How to Watermarking Images With Photoshop and Lightroom
  • Two Quick and Easy Photoshop Head-Swapping Techniques
  • How to Use Levels in Photoshop Correct Color and Contrast
  • How to do Quick and Easy Curves Adjustments in Photoshop
  • 3 Creative Uses of the Drop Shadow in Photoshop
  • How to do Great Black and White Conversions Using Photoshop
  • 5 Creative Ways to Process Infrared Photographs in Photoshop
  • A Beginners Introduction to Using Layers

Other

  • Are You Guilty of these 5 Over-Processing Sins?
  • Luminosity Masks Versus HDR Software For Creating Natural Looking HDR Images
  • Better Star Trails Photographs with StarStaX
  • HDR Vertorama Photography – How to Create Mind-bending Images
  • Getting to Know Picasa – a Free Image Editor and Browser by Google

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Best Photography Tutorials for Beginners in 2014

30 Dec

Just getting started in photography? Or maybe you get a brand new camera or some photography toys for Christmas and want to get up to speed on how to use them?

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By JakeandLindsay Sherbert

Over the past 12 months we’ve had some great articles geared towards the beginner or novice photographer. Here’s a little holiday reading for you to give you a good kick start:

  • Understanding Depth of Field for Beginners
  • 5 Beginner Tips for More Autofocus Success
  • How to Master Your DLSR in One Afternoon a Beginner’s Guide
  • Beginners Tips for Night Sky and Star Photography
  • Bird Photography Tips for Beginners
  • Nature and Wildlife Photography Tips for Beginners
  • A Beginners Guide to Seascape Photography
  • 5 Beginner Tips for Photographing Animals in the Wild
  • 5 Tips for Newbie Landscape Photographers
  • 10 Incredible Bird Photography Tips for Beginners
  • A Year of Photographic Lessons – Journey of a Novice Photographer
  • Step-by-step Guide to Long Exposure Photography
  • Understand Exposure in Under 10 Minutes
  • Camera Basics 101: The Exposure Triangle

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29. Dezember 2014

29 Dec

Das Bild des Tages von: Jonas Albrecht

© Jonas Albrecht

Fotolinks des Tages

1. Umetikettierte Nikon-Kameras aufgetaucht

Heise Foto berichtet, dass falsche Ware von Nikon im Netz aufgetaucht ist. Falsch in der Hinsicht, dass als D800 getarnte DSLRs im Umlauf sind, die tatsächlich das billigere Model D800E sind. Das Ärgerliche an der Sache ist, dass bei einem Hereinfall auf den Trick auch jegliche Garantie auf das Produkt entfällt. Ob dies zutrifft, kann überprüft werden und Heise Foto hat eine Anleitung dazu parat. → ansehen

2. Foto- und Video-Apps 2014

Da die Best-Of-Listen dieses Jahr merkbar von Fotobüchern dominiert wurden, bieten wir heute eine Alternative: 23 innovative Apps auf The Next Web. Auf fünf Bereiche (Shooting, Editing, Video, Viewers, Desktop) verteilt findet sich so manche Perle, die vielleicht im Trubel des Jahres unterging. Einziger Wermutstropfen: Android- und Windowsprogramme gibt es nahezu keine. → ansehen

+ Damit Android-Nutzer nicht leer ausgehen, verweisen wir auf diesen Artikel für Nutzer des grünen Männchens.
+ Und noch eine Liste mit Foto-Apps für Android (und iOS) gibt es auf Reviewed.

3. Das Jahr des Bulent Kilic

Wie im letzten Ausblick erwähnt, wurde Bulent Kilic zum Wire-Fotografen 2014 ernannt. Der in der Türkei lebende Fotojournalist wurde heute überraschenderweise ein erneut geehrt, denn auch The Guardian hat ihn als Fotografen des Jahres hervorgehoben und 16 seiner bewegenden Aufnahmen präsentiert. Kilic war vor allem bei den Protesten in der Ukraine und der Türkei vor Ort und hat repräsentative Momente festgehalten, die in Magazinen und Zeitungen um die Welt gingen. → ansehen

+ Wer sich nun fragt, was dran ist an dem Fotografen, der für AFP unterwegs ist, kann ihm auf Twitter folgen, dies scheint das Netzwerk seiner Wahl zu sein.


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Weird Science: Olympus BioScapes 2014 winners

29 Dec

Each year Olympus hosts an international competition for images captured through light microscopes. Entries come in from around 70 countries and number in the thousands, revealing the weird and wonderful microscopic world otherwise hidden from the human eye. See this year’s winning entries

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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28 December, 2014 – Fraser Island Australia – Anatomy Of A National Geographic Assignment

29 Dec

 

 

Growing up I had two magazines that I always looked forward to receiving in the mail and they were Life Magazine and National Geographic.  I always wanted to photograph for these magazines and travel the world.  Well, I have traveled the world but never had a chance to shoot for these magazines.  Today’s article is by Peter Essick and he has lived the dream.  He has done a number of assignments for National Geographic and shares one of those with us in his Fraser Island Australia – Anatomy Of A National Geographic Assignment story.  Peter shares what it is like to pitch an assignment and what it takes to shoot one.  Plus, he takes pretty darn nice images.


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Most Popular Gear Articles of 2014

28 Dec

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Photographers love our stuff, let’s admit it. We geek out on gadgets and gizmos. We want the latest and greatest thing, lens, camera. We can’t always afford what we want but it’s fun to browse. Here are some of the top gear related posts on dPS over the last 12 months:

Cameras

  • 10 Reasons Why a Pro is Using a Mirrorless Camera for Personal and Paid Jobs
  • How to Clean Your Camera Sensor in 3 Easy Steps
  • The Secret to Capturing the Best Image Quality with Your Digital Camera
  • Updating your Camera’s Firmware – What is it and Why it’s Important
  • Review Comparison of the Canon EOS 70D vs Canon 700D / Rebel T5i
  • Review: Comparison Canon 5D MarkIII vs the Canon 6D
  • Sony A6000 Mirrorless Camera Review and Example Images

Lenses

popular lenses

  • Old Glass: How to Use Old Film Lenses with New DSLR Cameras
  • The Only Three Lenses You Need for Travel Photography
  • Why Prime Lenses are Better Than Zooms
  • 5 Easy Steps to Choose the Perfect Prime Lens for You
  • No Telephoto Lens No Problem – Tips on Shooting for the Crop
  • Ready to Upgrade Your Kit Lens? Tips for Which Lens to Invest in Next
  • How to Choose the Perfect Portrait Lens
  • A Concise Guide to Choosing a New Lens
  • Lens Review Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD
  • Creating Swirly Bokeh with the Helios 44-2 lens
  • Writer’s Favorite Lens – the Tamron 18-270mm
  • Writer’s Favorite Lens – the 50mm f/1.4 Lens

Other

  • Phottix Mitros+ Review – the Best Flash System You Have Never Heard of
  • Light Blaster [ For Special Effects Lighting ] a Review
  • Bounce Flash Secrets – Bouncing Your Way to Better Photography
  • 5 Ways to Create Better Images Without Buying More Gear
  • Two Videos on How to Take Care of Your Camera Gear
  • How to Buy Used Camera Gear
  • My Portrait Gear Essentials
  • Essential Gear for the Landscape Photographer

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The Hottest Landscape Photography Articles on dPS in 2014

27 Dec

Landscape photography is always a popular topic here on dPS and we had some really great articles on that topic over the last year. Now is your time to read up, bookmark them, refresh your knowledge, or get inspired to get out shooting some landscapes.

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A final image after being processed in Photoshop

In no particular order, here are some of the most popular landscape photography articles from 2014:

  • How to Get Super Sharp Landscape Photography Images
  • 10 Most Common Mistakes in Landscape Photography – and How to Overcome Them
  • 3 Tips to Take Better Landscape Photos Regardless of the Weather
  • 5 Steps to Help you Take Better Landscape Photos
  • Some Punchy Black and White Landscape Photos to Oooo and Aaah Over
  • Landscape Photography and Hyperfocal Distance
  • 5 Tips for Better Long Exposure Landscape Photography
  • Better Landscape Photography Tips and Video Tutorials
  • How to Create Amazing Urban Landscape and Street Photography Images
  • How to do Dreamy Landscape Photography with a Neutral Density Filter
  • 5 Tips for Newbie Landscape Photographers
  • The Power of Post-processing for Landscape Photography
  • and a dPS ebook for good measure: A Guide to Landscape Photography Workflow and Post-Processing

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Don’t Miss Out: These 12 Photography Deals Will Disappear With 2014

25 Dec

Over the last 12 days we’ve presented you with some amazing daily deals on photography training resources in our 5th annual 12 days of Christmas.

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The savings this year were our biggest yet and we had a lot of really positive feedback from readers who picked up some fantastic deals.

As in previous years we did get a few sad messages from readers who missed deals along the way asking if there was any way to get them.

As a result – today we’re opening all 12 deals back up again for one last chance.

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

  • Deal 1: Over 50% off Ed Verosky’s Introduction to Close Up & Macro Photography (or bundle all Ed’s books and save 78%)
  • Deal 2: 65% off David J. Nightingale’s Essential Guide to Black & White Photography (newly published in 2014)
  • Deal 3: $ 40 off post-production Lightroom video tutorials with Gavin Gough (or bundle it for more savings)
  • Deal 4: dPS Portraits titles $ 7 each… (or all 4 for an amazing $ 21!)
  • Deal 5: Save 65% on Natural Light by Mitchell Kanashkevich (one of our most popular eBooks ever)
  • Deal 6: $ 60 off KelbyOne online photography training (a year’s training for a few cents per day)
  • Deal 7: Going Pro dPS eBook kit – 60% off (always a top seller)
  • Deal 8: 70% off Photoshop Artistry: Fine Art Grunge Composition course (the was the most popular deal of the 12 days)
  • Deal 9: 100 professional Lightroom presets – over 88% off! (our biggest discount of the lot and a big seller this year)
  • Deal 10: 50% off Portrait Lighting on Location course (created by our own Managing Editor)
  • Deal 11: $ 10 Landscape photography ebooks – Save 66% (newly published in 2014)
  • Deal 12: All dPS eBooks $ 10! (these sold like hotcakes yesterday)

All these will be available until midnight US Eastern time on 31st of December, after that they will be gone for ever – so get to it and grab yours today!

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