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50 Photoshop & Lightroom Photo Editing Tutorials to Enhance Your Images

04 Jan

Photoshop and Lightroom are awesome tools for photographers, professionals and amateurs alike. While Lightroom is considered the most comprehensive tool to do some basic image editing, such as fixing exposure, white balance, and contrast, Photoshop is often chosen by photographers for further creative processing. Without a doubt, Photoshop is a powerful program with huge possibilities. However, once you really dig Continue Reading

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The Best Photography DIY Tips & Tutorials

17 Aug

When it comes to your passion, there is nothing like a good trick. Being resourceful can bring you so much satisfaction, and don’t mind all the extra learning involved! You may think that photographers take their time to research equipment, patiently saving money from all their commissioned work (haha) and finally invest $ 80 on the new flash modifier in the market. The reality is that, Continue Reading

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Macro Photography Tips – Video Tutorials

06 Apr

This time of year is a great time to get out and find some macro photography subjects. So I dug around and found a few videos to help get you started if you want to try it.

Macro Photography by Matt Granger

First up is a lesson by Matt Granger as he teaches Tina (a new photographer) how to do macro photography. Follow along with her and try it yourself as they go through using a long zoom lens, hand held, natural light, adding flash, and using a tripod.

Getting sharper images

The second video is from Alessandro Zocchi he gives you a few tips to help you get sharper macro images.

Focus stacking

Lastly Peter Bargh covers a more advanced technique, focus stacking, which involves taking multiple shots focused at different points, and merging them later.

You can find the software he mentioned here:

  • Combine ZM
  • Helicon Focus

You can also use Phototoshop if you have it. Read: How to Focus-Stack Macro Images using Photoshop for more on that technique.  Check It’s a Small World – the World of Macro Photography if you need some subject ideas.

Have fun!

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3 Video Tutorials – How to Use On-Camera Flash

18 Jan

This week I have found some great videos to help you to understand how to use on-camera flash to your advantage. Flash can be confusing to understand and using on-camera flash incorrectly can make unflattering light, or worse yet ruin your photos completely. Have a watch of these tutorials on flash and see if you can pick up some helpful tips:

Video #1 Ed Vorosky – On-camera fill flash basics

Ed Vorosky covers some of the basics you will need to get a grasp on using flash on-camera. He goes over some of the settings to look for on your flash, different lighting situations, and which camera shooting mode to use. There’s a helpful demonstration of using Flash Exposure Compensation and how it affects your photo as well.

Video #2 Tony Northrup – Bounce Flash Basics

In this second video tutorial Tony Northrup goes into a little more detail using on-camera flash indoors and bouncing it for various different looks. He shows the results using just ambient light, flash straight on, and bounced off both the ceiling and side walls. You can see how just a small adjustment with your flash can completely change the look of your image or portrait.

Video #3 Mark Wallace – On-camera flash basics

In this last video Mark Wallace covers some of the basic flash settings for both Canon and Nikon flashes, then he goes outside to demonstrate how to control the exposure on the background (ambient) using both systems. Then he goes back indoors and shows several options for using the flash on-camera in that environment including bounce flash techniques.

Do you have any anxiety around using flash? Or are you a pro? Share any questions and comments you have below.

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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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10 Hot Photography Tutorials: October 2014

30 Oct

Who else is slightly freaked out by the fact that we’re about to move into November? Where did the year go!

Anyway – it’s time to look back on the hottest tutorials for October.

This past month saw a few of our posts go a little viral. Here are the top 5!

1. 10 Common Mistakes Made by New Photographers

A post by Jame Mahaer that many of us can relate to and that many new photographers found helpful!

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2. 3 Simple Ways to Create Stunning Eyes in Your Portrait Photography

Gina Milicia did it again with this helpful tutorial on giving a little extra attention to your portrait subjects eyes in post production.

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3. 3. Cheat Sheet: Getting Control over Your Camera in Manual Mode

dPS readers love infographics – here’s the hottest one for this past month!

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4. Five Ways to Improve Your Eye for Composition

Andrew Gibson hit the mark with many dPS readers with this post with 5 simple suggestions on improving your composition.

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5. How to Find and Use Hyperfocal Distance for Sharp Backgrounds

Jim Hamel gives us the low down on finding and using Hyperlocal distance!

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5 More From This Time Last Year

In the last 12 months we’ve had a LOT of new readers to dPS who have missed some of our older tutorials. So for you – here’s our top 5 most read posts from last year!

1. The 3 Biggest Kid Photography Mistakes

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2. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Women – Part I

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3. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Men

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4. How to Photograph Dramatic Clouds at Sunset

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5. Reflectors: Your Secret Weapon for Amazing Portrait Photography

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25 Helpful & Free Lightroom Tutorials to Post-Process Like a Pro

03 Sep

Adobe Lightroom is one of the most popular options for photo editing and with great reason. Thanks to a number of various Lightroom features, photographers may decrease the time spent processing and increase efficiency. Moreover, one of the greatest time-saving features of Lightroom is the ability to save your actions, which means creating presets. In this article, I’d like to share Continue Reading

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Travel Photography Tips – Video Tutorials

30 Jun

Summer is here in the northern hemisphere and you may be heading out on vacation soon. So today I have a couple videos for you with some travel photography tips.

First up is an interview by This Week in Photo podcast host Frederick Van Johnson with our own dPS writer Ralph Velasco.  They talk about tips on how to scout locations, being prepared, getting out early, avoiding crowds, gear, approaching and photographing people, and more.

See more of Ralph’s images and tips in his dPS articles below:

  • How to Capture the Essence of a Place – Travel Photography Tips
  • 18 Tips for Shooting from a Train
  • The Only Tip You’ll Need for Creating a More Interesting and Well-Rounded Set of Images of Any Destination or Subject

In this second video Justin Weiler from DSLR Traveller shows you his Top 10 DSLR Traveler Tips including: what equipment to bring, vary your shots, shoot  more than you think you’ll need, cut before you share your images, get in some shots yourself, do research, meet the locals, and have a good time.

Do you have any additional travel tips you’d like to share? Please do so in the comments below.

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2 Night Photography Video Tutorials

26 May
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This week’s collection of amazing images I shared a bunch of night photography, specifically those of the night starry sky, and hopefully you’re already thinking about how to shoot for this week’s photography challenge starry night photography.

So I went and found a couple of video tutorials to help you out on this mission.

First, this one by Adorama TV hosted by Mark Wallace. He walks through all the equipment he’s using, camera settings and it even includes a background serenade by some local coyotes.

In this second video host Jim Harmer shows you how to photograph the starry night sky and the Milky Way including a little tip about how to get foreground objects sharp in your final image.

I hope you enjoyed those. Please remember to hop over to the weekly challenge and show us your night photos there!

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dPS is 8 Years Old [And Here are Our Most Popular Tutorials Ever]

24 May
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Image by Ryan Pendleton

Last month dPS passed it’s 8th birthday. While we usually have a little celebration at dPS HQ on such milestones we were so busy that week that not a single one of us noticed!

So today I took a few minutes to reflect on the journey since our first post on 17 April 2006 – and what a ride it has been.

When I hit publish on that first post I did so in the hope of helping a few of my family and friends improve their photography by writing down the tips that I found myself regularly telling them about how to use their cameras better.

I had no idea that 8 years later the site would have published over 4500 tutorials, 19 photography eBooks, have a staff of writers, editors, designers, developers, producers, customer support and marketers running it and would have been visited by over 275 million people!

Thanks so much to our wonderful community for sticking with us for another year here at dPS and a huge thanks to the dPS team for all your hard work!

This past year we’ve seen a complete overhaul of our design and the addition to our team on numerous fronts. We hope you continue to enjoy what we do and are excited about the year ahead – we have some special stuff planned!

While we’re in a mood to reminisce I thought I’d take a look back at the most tutorials we’ve published and I’ve compiled a list of our most popular 15 tutorials for those of you who might have joined us recently (or for those who want to look back).

Many of these are from the early days but are still very relevant for today. Each tutorial has been read by over 1,000,000 readers (and up to 4,000,000).

Enjoy!

  1. 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits
  2. Introduction to ISO Settings in Digital Photography
  3. How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
  4. Learning about Exposure – The Exposure Triangle
  5. Wedding Photography – 21 Tips for Amateur Wedding Photographers
  6. Rule of Thirds
  7. How to Make An Inexpensive Light Tent – DIY
  8. Long Exposure Photography: 15 Stunning Examples
  9. Introduction to Aperture in Digital Photography
  10. Introduction to Shutter Speed in Digital Photography
  11. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Women
  12. 21 Settings, Techniques and Rules All New Camera Owners Should Know
  13. 11 Surefire Landscape Photography Tips
  14. How to Photograph Fireworks Displays
  15. DIY Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers

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