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12 More of Our Best Photography Tutorials from 2012

28 Dec

From our post: a 15 minute exercise to help you improve your photos in 2012 (ideal for heading into 2013 too)

Today we continue our ‘best of 2012′ series with a look back on a mixed bag of tutorials and articles that were among our most popular in the year gone by.

  1. A 15 Minute Exercise To Help You Improve Your Photography in 2012
  2. Fun with Macro Photography
  3. 5 Tips To Transform Your Photography With Long Exposures
  4. Silhouette Photography Technique
  5. 6 Ways to Add Drama and Mystery to Your Images
  6. How to Use the Human Form to Give a Sense of Scale to Your Images [With Examples]
  7. 9 Architectural Photography Tips
  8. Want to Be a Professional Wedding Photographer? Here Are 10 Things You Should Know
  9. 15 Tips about Turning Pro
  10. Are You Practicing these 5 Natural Lighting Tips?
  11. 5 Tips for Controlling Natural Light
  12. How to Photograph a Funeral : 4 Tips I Hope you Never have to Use

Want a few more tutorials like this? Here are 11 of our best from 2011!

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5 Secrets of Great Timelapse Photography

27 Dec

Great timelapse photography is part art, part science, and a dash of high tech filmmaking. While the mechanics of shooting timelapse are relatively straightforward, learning the art may be a slower process. Many of the technical decisions of a timelapse will be dictated by balancing an array of variables such as the subject, location, the length of time of the Continue Reading

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Xj Photography S & J photoshoot

27 Dec

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DigitalCameraInfo.com previews the Nikon CoolPix P60, a new compact digital camera that offers manual controls as well as the conventional automatic ones.
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Nightclub Photography TV Ep. 7 (Part 1): Aperture Settings

26 Dec

www.nightclubphotography.tv – PART 1 Myles talks about aperture settings and how they affect nightclub photography. Myles is a San Diego based nightclub photographer and event photographer. Aside from photography, Myles is a seasoned business consultant and marketer who helps business owners and photographers get more clients and grow their businesses. Subscribe to NPTV! www.youtube.com Connect on Google + plus.google.com Stay connected with Myles on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow Myles on Twitter twitter.com San Diego Event Photography Pros 101 Market St. #435 San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 962-6263

This Photoshop CS5 tutorial explores how to brighten the eyes by using the Quick Mask tool and Smart Sharpen filter. Watch more at www.lynda.com This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter nine of the Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching course presented by lynda.com author Chris Orwig. The complete Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching has a total duration of 11 hours and 2 minutes, and explores the deep resources for portrait retouching available in this program, while inspiring photographers to do their creative best with everything from blemishes to backdrops. Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching table of contents: Welcome 1. Getting Started 2. Basic Color Correction 3. Color-Correcting Skin Tones 4. Reducing Blemishes and Cleaning Up in Adobe Camera Raw 5. Reducing Blemishes and Cleaning Up in Photoshop 6. Cleanup Project 7. Correcting Tone 8. Reducing and Removing Wrinkles 9. Enhancing Eyes 10. Enhancing Eyelashes and Eyebrows 11. Improving Lips 12. Enhancing Teeth 13. Improving Hair 14. Improving Makeup 15. Enhancing Skin 16. Softening Skin in Practice 17. Making Body Improvements 18. Structural Image Enhancements 19. Retouching Workflow: Project 1 20. Retouching Workflow: Project 2 Conclusion
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Scrims, Reflectors and Natural Light Photography! Lightenupandshoot.com

26 Dec

Sign up for free membership at lightenupandshoot.com We go over some different techniques to use with natural light in this video. Scrims, what aperture to use, reflectors, using your environment, our look away technique, location hunting, shadows, white balance and some headshot tips. Music by: Jeremy Buck and the Bang www.jeremybuck.com
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www.adorama.com Adorama Photography TV Presents the reDefine Show with Tamara Lackey. Join Tamara as she speaks to Photography Legend Bambi Cantrell about her journey from point & shoot photographer’s assistant to one of the most decorated photographers in the industry. Sharing her trials, errors, and takeaways from a longstanding career in shooting and education, Bambi offers some excellent advice to anyone looking to improve their craft and business. AdoramaTV features talented hosts including Mark Wallace, Gavin Hoey, Joe McNally, Joe DiMaggio, Tamara Lackey, Bryan Peterson, and Rich Harrington. Related Products Featured items from this episode bit.ly AdoramaTV related episodes bit.ly Canon EOS-1D X Digital SLR Camera www.adorama.com Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM Ultra-Fast Standard AutoFocus Lens www.adorama.com Tamara Lackey’s Capturing Life Through (Better) Photography, 100 Page Book www.adorama.com Workshop on DVD: Inside Contemporary Children’s Photography with Tamara Lackey www.adorama.com Kubota Artist Series Style Book and DVD Tutorial by Tamara Lackey www.adorama.com Tamara Lackey’s Capturing Life Through (Better) Photography Deluxe Kit with 90-Minute DVD www.adorama.com The Art Of Children’s Portrait, 128 Pages Softcover Book by Tamara Lackey www.adorama.com If you have questions, share them with us at: adotv@adorama.com

 

What Everybody Ought to Know About Landscape Photography [Best of dPS 2012]

26 Dec

Some of the most popular posts on dPS this year have been those covering the topic of Landscape photography.

From the post ‘Composing Dynamic Landscape Images’ by Todd Sisson

So as part of our ‘best of 2012′ series I thought I’d look back on the hottest landscape tutorials for the year gone by.

Here they are – in no particular order.

  1. Composing Dynamic Landscape Images
  2. 5 Tips for Shooting Landscapes with Greater Impact
  3. Seascape Photography Tips
  4. 10 Tips for Landscape Photographers
  5. 8 Tips for Long Exposure Photography
  6. Aspect Ratios in Landscape Photography
  7. Tips for Great HDR Sunsets
  8. 15 Tips for Low Light Landscape Photography
  9. How to Photograph Reflections in Water
  10. 4 Tips for Shooting Drop Dead Gorgeous Waterfalls

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Bokeh Photography Tutorial

25 Dec

photoextremist.com This photography bokeh tutorial will show you how to take a picture with a defocused background using a DSLR camera and shallow depth of field.

 

20 Amazing Photography Deals and a $1200 Prize: Open for 1 Week Only

25 Dec

Screen Shot 2012 12 24 at 1 50 50 PMOn the 12th Day of Christmas dPS gave to me – one last chance to get all previous deals PLUS the chance to win $ 1200 in photographic gear!

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been launching a series of great daily photography deals to dPS readers. The savings this year were bigger than we’ve ever had before and we’ve had some really encouraging feedback from our readers – thanks so much for participating in the fun this year.

As our final deal we’re opening all of the deals in this years campaign back up so that those of you who may have missed one have one final chance.

And because it is Christmas Eve (and in some parts of the world is already Christmas Day) and many of our readers are away for a few days we’ve decided to leave all of these deals open until the calander clicks over to 2013 (Eastern US time).

Not only that – we’ve also convinced 9 of last years partners to reopen their deals for one last time too as a bonus.

We’re also excited to share with you a prize that’s up for grabs to anyone who has snapped up one of more of the deals (more on that below).

So if you head to the 12 Days of Christmas page you’ll now see a whopping 2 deals are open!

Here’s what you can get your hands on as a last minute Christmas gift for a loved one (or yourself)!

Note: we’re hearing from a lot of readers that they’re giving our eBooks as gifts by downloading them onto USB sticks and wrapping the USB sticks up as the present – loaded up with some great photography education.

This Years Deals

  • Day 1 – 50% off Click – How to Take Gorgeous Photos of Your Kids – perfect for those of you with kids in your lives
  • Day 2: 30% off Phil Steele’s Flash Portrait Course – this one was hugely popular!
  • Day 3: 33% off the Photographer’s Workflow – eBook, presets, smart collections and videos to help you improve how you manage your photos.
  • Day 4: 65% off our iPhone Photography eBook – if you have an iPhone this $ 7 deal will pay off big time!
  • Day 5: 38% off Neil Creek’s ‘Night Photography’ Video Course – the fastest selling course on Udemy ever!
  • Day 6: 55% off our ‘Natural Light’ eBook – this $ 9 deal was the #1 deal of this year and almost knocked over our servers!
  • Day 7: 43% off Your own Unique Photography Website and ONline store from PhotoMerchant – a great way to start off the new year
  • Day 8: Any Ed Verosky eBook for just $ 4.98 – 6 EBooks to choose from and as always, very popular this year.
  • Day 9: 25% off Trey Ratcliff’s ‘The Art of Photography’ Course – 4 video modules to help you improve your photography.
  • Day 10: James Brandon’s ‘Tack Sharp’ eBook for just $ 5.97 – a small investment that will have a big impact upon one of the most important aspects of photography.
  • Day 11: 73% off our Perfect Portrait Pack – the biggest discount of the week on a bundle of 3 of our most popular eBooks

Last Years Bonus Deals

And don’t forget we’ve also re-opened 9 of last years deals too. There are some really great deals in this lot!

  • Bonus 1: 48% Saving on our Photo Nuts Series – these 3 eBooks will give you control over your camera and give you a processing workflow to create some amazing images.
  • Bonus 2: 40% off any Photography Concentrate eBook – 4 great eBooks to choose from!
  • Bonus 3: 2 Special Savings from Photojojo – a camera bag insert and digital time lapse camera
  • Bonus 4: 55% off our Travel and Color Photography eBooks – two popular eBooks by Mitchell Kavanavich
  • Bonus 5: 30% off Trey Radcliff’s HDR Video Tutorial – there is over 11 hours of step by step video instruction in this course!
  • Bonus 6: 20% off any Topaz Labs Post Processing Software – loads of software to choose from – or get it all for a further 20% off.
  • Bonus 7: Save 30% on the 2012 Craft and Vision eBook Collection – 15 eBooks for a crazy price of just $ 45. That’s a years worth of education for just $ 3 each!
  • Bonus 8: 55% off our Portraits eBook pack – 2 portrait eBooks for a great saving… (note: see Deal 11 above to get our Kids eBook added for just $ 2).
  • Bonus 9: 50% off our Going Pro eBook – thinking about making money from your photography? Grab this one.

Bonus Competition – every purchase puts you in the draw to win….

Every purchase made gives you one entry into the draw to win a photographic prize to the value of $ 1200 USD.

You know what your kit need the most – so we thought we’d let you choose. You can put it towards a new DSLR, a new Lens (or two), a Flash, an Apple computer, Photoshop or anything else (based upon recommended retail price on Amazon, Apple or B&H Photo).

To enter – simply pick up one of the deals featured on the 12 Deals page. Pick up two and you’ve got two entries in the draw (each purchase gives you another entry in the draw).

If you’ve already picked up a deal or two – you’re already in the draw with one entry for each purchase.

This competition is open to all international reader – if you win we’ll get you your prize wherever you are.

So head over to the 12 Days of Christmas Page and pick up yourself some great photographic deals!

Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

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How to Select the Best Camera Bags – Photography Lessons by Berger Bros Camera

25 Dec

berger-bros.com How do you select the best camera bag for your needs? Yvonne Berger, one of the photography instructors at Berger Bros Camera in Amityville and Syosset Long Island, explains What kind and how many camera bags you will need. Should you have one camera bag or more than one? There answer is that you should have many because there are many different occasions where you will need to have just a small bag for limited camera equipment, while on other occasions you will need a larger bag to carry a lot of different pieces of camera equipment and gadgets. If you’re just going out on a day trip type of shoot you might need one camera and one lens. In that instance Top Loader would be the best choice because it’s small and compact. If, however, you have a lot of equipment, or maybe you’re traveling with a laptop you might need something like a Think Tank bag because it has a lot of different dividers and can hold a lot of different kinds of equipment. If you’re hiking and planning on taking nature photographs and you need to have your arms free then a back pack is an excellent choice. For more information on camera bags go to www.Berger-Bros.com

How to attach and use the shoulder strap with the Think Tank Speed Belt Packs. The Speed Demon, Speed Freak and Speed Racer each include a padded shoulder strap for carrying the pack as a shoulder bag instead of a belt pack. The strap can also be worn with the belt to give additional support while carrying heavy equipment. For more information about the belt packs and other Think Tank Photo products, please click on one of the following links: Think Tank Belt Packs: www.thinktankphoto.com Think Tank Photo homepage: www.thinktankphoto.com

 
 

How to Choose the Right Tripod – Photography Lessons by Berger Bros Camera

24 Dec

www.Berger-Bros.com – Tripods provide great stability for your camera which will help prevent taking blurry photos. In addition, they give you the opportunity to get yourself into your photos. Yvonne Berger, an instructor with Berger Bros Camera in Amityville and Syosset Long Island, New York explains how to choose the right tripod. So, how to you choose the right tripod? The easiest answer is to choose the tripod that you will actually use. There are many different factors that go into buying a tripod and you really can’t buy a tripod just by looking at a picture. You should go into your camera store and physically hold the tripod so you can see and feel how it works. Things to Look For When Buying a Tripod: 1. What is it made of? 2. What are you using your tripod for? 3. What type of camera are you putting on the tripod? There are two different types of tripod legs to choose from: 1. A clip leg 2. A twist leg There are two types of tripod heads: 1. Ball Head 2. Hand Tilt Head Some tripods have what is known as a quick release plate which will enable you to quickly remove your camera from the tripod if the photography need arises. Carrying your tripod can sometimes be a pain. That’s why you need to have a bad for your tripod. The thing to remember is that you always want you tripod there when you need it. So, make sure carrying your tripod is not a problem that will keep you from using it. Tripods available at Berger Bros… Giottos Gitzo GorillaPod Manfrotto/Bogen Call