The holiday season is upon us, which means it’s the season for all manner of Christmas spectacle, including the hoard of revelers all dressed as Old Saint Nick who recently took over the streets of downtown Seattle.
The festivities provided an excellent opportunity to get out and shoot, which is exactly what we did with the Sony Cyber-shot RX1R II. Check out our updated sample gallery to see what this pocketable full-frame compact camera can do.
See our updated Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1R II real-world sample gallery
It’s that time of year where we at dPS kick off our annual 12 days of Christmas campaign!
This is the sixth time we’ve run this and this year we’ve got our biggest deals yet!
Here’s how it works.
Every day between now and Christmas we have put together a fantastic deal on some photography training products. We’ll set them live on this page (the first one goes up tomorrow).
In the coming 12 days you’ll see some of our own dPS eBooks at discounts we’ve never offered before as well as some deals from other photography sites that we’ve negotiated on your behalf.
Deals this year are as high as 94% off!
Each deal only lasts for 24 hours so you’ll need to be quick!
Get Notified of Each Deal
To get notified of each deal as soon as it goes live simply subscribe via email here:
(function($ ) {window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]=’EMAIL’;ftypes[0]=’email’;fnames[1]=’FNAME’;ftypes[1]=’text’;fnames[2]=’LNAME’;ftypes[2]=’text’;}(jQuery));var $ mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true);
Don’t worry we keep your email completely private and you can unsubscribe at any point if you find the deals are too many!
We’ll also be updating the deals here on the blog and on our Facebook page.
Our first deal goes out to those who are subscribed in the next 24 hours so keep an eye on your inbox and don’t forget you only get 24 hours to grab each one!
Ahhh, the Holidays. Millions of normally civilized people overextending their budgets and sometimes their left hooks in the pursuit of the perfect gift, stretching their culinary skills (and their smoke alarms) to their furthest heights, and begging and cajoling their extended families into family pictures, lots of them, so that they can forget the stressful, over-emotional, exhausting, sleep deprived knock Continue Reading
The post Home for the Holidays: Christmas Photography Tips appeared first on Photodoto.
It’s that time of year where we at dPS kick off our annual 12 days of Christmas campaign!
This is the fifth time we’ve run this and this year we’ve got our biggest deals yet!
Here’s how it works.
Every day between now and Christmas we have put together a fantastic deal on some photography training products.
In the coming 12 days you’ll see some of our own dPS eBooks at discounts we’ve never offered before as well as some deals from other photography sites that we’ve negotiated on your behalf.
Deals this year are as high as 88% off.
Each deal only lasts for 24 hours so you’ll need to be quick!
Get Notified of Each Deal
To get notified of each deal as soon as it goes live simply subscribe via email here:
Don’t worry we keep your email completely private and you can unsubscribe at any point if you find the deals are too many!
We’ll also be updating the deals here on the blog and on our Facebook page.
Our first deal goes out to those who are subscribed in the next 24 hours so keep an eye on your inbox and don’t forget you only get 24 hours to grab each one!
Christmas is around the corner. Holidays are a great opportunity to promote your photography brand as most people strive to capture those special moments with magic Xmas feeling running all through. So make a game plan, grab some tools, and go ahead to make the most out of this busy season. In today’s list we collected 5 online marketing tools Continue Reading
The post 5 Useful Tools to Run Your Holiday Promotions for Christmas 2014 appeared first on Photodoto.
A short tutorial for those who don’t have a graphic design degree, but wish to create a simple clean Christmas e-card from their images within the familiar surroundings of Photoshop. Don’t miss our our great collection of Christmas gift ideas for photographers! Before
The post Create a Festive Christmas e-Card Using Your Photo appeared first on Photodoto.
A short tutorial for those who don’t have a graphic design degree, but wish to create a simple clean Christmas e-card from their images within the familiar surroundings of Photoshop. Don’t miss our our great collection of Christmas gift ideas for photographers! Before
The post Create a Festive Christmas e-Card Using Your Photo appeared first on Photodoto.
Winter is coming. While for some of you this sentence is associated with the hordes of blue-eyed walking dead (got ya, the Game of Thrones fanatics!), for most photographers it’s a call to refresh their photo bags. If you’re having hard times deciding what lens to include on your wish list or what photo gadget would make your special someone Continue Reading
The post 25 Top Photographers Share Their Best Christmas Gifts and Wishlists appeared first on Photodoto.
It’s well into 2014 now but hopefully you still have some festive feelings stirring inside you, eager to create something! Today let’s look at Christmas lights in a different way, simply as blogs of light. Just think what you can do with those blogs using some fun ideas with long exposures like zooming and moving the camera.
For some tips on how they might have done this here’s some reading on the subject:
How it was Done – Zooming the Exposure
3 Tips for Creating Dramatic Images using Motion
Impressionist Photo Techniques
21 Abstract Images of Christmas Lights
By Dave Wilson
By Alex Dram
By Kevin Dooley
By Kevin Dooley
By Kevin Dooley
By James Marvin Phelps
By Kevin Dooley
By cobalt123
By tanakawho
By Jon Matthies
By Dave Wilson
By Scott Mohrman Photography
By Ricardo Wang
By Steve Crane
By cobalt123
By Thomas Quine
By Dave Wilson
By Daniel Pietzsch
By Mrs eNil
By Visual Artist Frank Bonilla
By Keoni Cabral
By inabeanpod
By Steve Corey
By Mo
The post 21 Abstract Images of Christmas Lights by Darlene Hildebrandt appeared first on Digital Photography School.
This week’s photography challenge is all about experimentation!
Try something new
Step out of the old comfort zone
Dare to be different
Dare to mess it up even!
I’m talking about creating abstract images, and there is no right or wrong. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and abstracts bring art down to its simplest forms: color, shape, and light. Couple tips for doing this:
use a tripod if you want steady images (if you want zig zaggy then hand hold and see what happens)
you’ll need long exposures, usually a few seconds long, to create light abstracts
try zooming
make it completely out of focus on purpose
try moving yourself and the camera around during the exposure
get out of your head that it has to be sharp and a focused, crisp subject and just let go and play!
By Joe Duty
By Chris Jagers
By inabeanpod
By Javier Alvarez
If you want to read about some techniques on how to get started, here’s a few ideas for you:
3 Tips for Creating Dramatic Images using Motion
15 Tips for Successful Fireworks Photography
Nightscapes: Photographing the City at Night
5 Impressionist Photo Techniques
12 ways to add randomness and creativity to your photos
Okay, your turn! Let’s see you have some fun with this.
Share your abstract light images!
Once you’ve taken your ‘abstract light’ shots we’d love to see them in comments below. Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them.
The post Weekly Photography Challenge – Christmas Light Abstracts by Darlene Hildebrandt appeared first on Digital Photography School.
