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  1. Beyond Snapshots: How to Take That Fancy DSLR Camera Off ?Auto? and Photograph Your Life like a Pro

    Beyond Snapshots: How to Take That Fancy DSLR Camera Off ?Auto? and Photograph Your Life like a Pro

    Here at dPS we have a wonderful array of talented writers, bloggers and photographers involved in creating our blog and eBooks. One of this team – Rachel Devine, author of our Kids Photography eBook – Click! – has just released her brand new book (a real? paper book) that I’m sure many of our...
  2. Carry Your Camera in Two Dimensions with the Cheese! Handbag

    Carry Your Camera in Two Dimensions with the Cheese! Handbag

    JumpFromPaper is a new line of unique handbags that uses thick outlines and bright colors to look like they popped right out of a cartoon. They look like they’re completely flat and 2D, but they actually have room for things like cameras, laptops, and your everyday accessories. The bag seen here...
  3. Post-Apocalyptic Photographs of Major Cities Around the World

    Post-Apocalyptic Photographs of Major Cities Around the World

    Silent World is a project by Paris-based artists Lucie & Simon that shows post-apocalyptic views of famous locations around the world. All but one or two of the people in each location are removed from the scene. Rather than use multiple exposures and compositing the images to remove moving...
  4. 9 Architectural Photography Tips

    9 Architectural Photography Tips

    Classical or contemporary; architectural photography can be as challenging as it is rewarding. Here are some pointers to help you get started? Ice Skating at Rockefeller Center - by Stuck in Customs 1. Be sensitive to the direction of light as this can increase contrast, shadows, textures and...
  5. Documenting the Human Condition: A Documentary on Street Photography

    Documenting the Human Condition: A Documentary on Street Photography

    Here’s an oldie but goodie: back in September 2009, photographer Chris Weeks released this documentary about street photography titled Documenting the Human Condition. It’s preachy at times and at times feels like a stealthy Leica advertisement, but should be interesting to you if you’re at all...
  6. Sony Unveils New Strategy, Tags Digital Imaging As One of Three Main ?Pillars?

    Sony Unveils New Strategy, Tags Digital Imaging As One of Three Main ?Pillars?

    A month after announcing massive losses of $2.9 billion, Sony is taking evasive action to rediscover itself and right its ship. The company announced a new corporate strategy today, devised by its new CEO Kazuo Hirai. Called “One Sony”, the initiative identifies digital imaging as one of the...
  7. TrekPak Camera Bag Insert Adjusts with Pins Rather Than Velcro

    TrekPak Camera Bag Insert Adjusts with Pins Rather Than Velcro

    TrekPak is a new padded camera bag insert that does away with the annoyances of velcro by introducing a new pin system for adjusting dividers: They’re starting with inserts for Pelican camera bags, but are planning to release generic inserts and inserts designed for other bags as well. The...
  8. 3 Top Photographers Have a 20-Minute Self-Portrait Shoot Out

    3 Top Photographers Have a 20-Minute Self-Portrait Shoot Out

    What would you do if you were given the task of creating a self-portrait within 20 minutes in front of an auditorium packed with people? That was the challenge given to photographers David Hobby, Martin Prihoda, and Gregory Heisler earlier this month at Gulf Photo Plus 2012 in Dubai. The video...
  9. Photographs of Decaying Food Highlight the Global Problem of Waste

    Photographs of Decaying Food Highlight the Global Problem of Waste

    According to the UN, one third of the world’s food goes to waste — mostly in industrialized nations — while 925 million people around the world are threatened by starvation. To draw attention to this startling fact, Vienna-based photographer Klaus Pichler has been working for the past nine...
  10. Sony A99 Reportedly Boasts a Staggering 102 Cross-type AF Points

    Sony A99 Reportedly Boasts a Staggering 102 Cross-type AF Points

    Sony is reportedly focusing on autofocus as one of the main battlegrounds it’ll wage war on in the DSLR market. According to sonyalpharumors, the company is working on a new A99 SLT camera that’s already being tested by photographers in the wild, and one of the main selling points of the camera...
  11. Emerging Talent:  Interview with 17-Year-Old Alex Stoddard on his 365 Project

    Emerging Talent: Interview with 17-Year-Old Alex Stoddard on his 365 Project

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, we’ve all heard of the 365 day projects – where a photographer takes a photo of something in their life every day for a year. (You might also have been living under a rock if you missed my new “Emerging Talent” series announcement…). With 365 projects –...
  12. Nadav Kander Discusses His Approach to Portraiture

    Nadav Kander Discusses His Approach to Portraiture

    Here’s a video in which renowned portrait photographer Nadav Kander discusses his approach to photography and portraiture. One thing that’s interesting about Kander’s method is that he tries not to connect with his subjects prior to photographing them: He does, however, make it a point to get...
  13. Double Exposure of a Giant in Chicago

    Double Exposure of a Giant in Chicago

    Photographer Tim Chao created this beautiful photo of a dark figure standing over the Chicago skyline by shooting a double exposure. It’s titled “Metamorphosis”, was shot with a Nikon FM on Kodak TX 400, and is part of a double exposure project titled “Worlds Within“. (via Photojojo) Image...
  14. Giant Mirrors Placed in Landscapes

    Giant Mirrors Placed in Landscapes

    For her project titled Mirrors, Swedish photographer Ilar Gunilla Persson photographed various landscapes with giant mirrors placed in them. The mirrors give the scenes an surreal and artificial look, but all the shots were captured on film. Mirrors [Ilar Gunilla Persson] Image credits...
  15. 55-Hour Exposure of a Tiny Patch of Sky Reveals 200,000 Galaxies

    55-Hour Exposure of a Tiny Patch of Sky Reveals 200,000 Galaxies

    This photo is what you get when you point a massive 4.1 meter telescope (VISTA in Chile) at an unremarkable patch of night sky and capture six thousand separate exposures that provide an effective “shutter speed” of 55 hours. It’s an image that contains more than 200,000 individual galaxies...
  16. 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Female Subjects

    21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Female Subjects

    A Guest Post by Kaspars Grinvalds from Posing App. If you ever run out of ideas, get stuck in creativity or simply need some guidance when shooting female subjects, you may use following posing samples as a ?posing cheat sheet?. Many pro photographers use such a technique when preparing for and...
  17. Do You Have Enough Talent In Your Tank to be a Photographer?

    Do You Have Enough Talent In Your Tank to be a Photographer?

    A Guest Post by Michael Adams Your mom says you have talent. Your friends think you?re amazing. Your photos get lots of likes. You even had a show at the local coffee shop although you didn?t sell one 5×7. At some point, you wonder if you have what it takes. Do you have enough talent? Do you...
  18. Rock Photographer: Guitar Hero Meets Pokemon Snap

    Rock Photographer: Guitar Hero Meets Pokemon Snap

    Rock Photographer is a new iPhone game that can be described as “Guitar Hero for photography” or “Pokemon Snap for adults”. Each level in the game presents real footage of “bands” in action, and the player’s job is to use their iPhone as a camera: The app was created as a collaboration between...
  19. Household Objects with Visual Branding Completely Removed

    Household Objects with Visual Branding Completely Removed

    Brand Spirit is a new photo project by NYC-based branding strategist Andrew Miller, who writes, See if you can identify each of the objects despite their lack of branding. Brand Spirit (via Photojojo) Image credits: Photographs by Andrew Miller
  20. Use Your Coffee Cup to Predict Whether Rain Will Ruin Your Outdoor Shoot

    Use Your Coffee Cup to Predict Whether Rain Will Ruin Your Outdoor Shoot

    Did you know that your morning cup of coffee can help you predict rain? It’s a trick used by backpackers that can come in handy you’re shooting outdoors without Internet: pour a cup of coffee and carefully watch the bubbles. If they quickly move to the edge of the cup, you can expect clear skies...
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