2 Must Have E-Books to Inspire You

At dPS we’re committed to helping our readers learn about different aspects of their craft. We do this primarily through the creation of tutorials here on our blog and via the occasional production of dPS e-books that explore topics on a deeper level than we can in a single blog post.

We’re not the only ones with this goal and love to promote others with a similar vision.

Recently we’ve been impressed by two new e-books that we think will help many ..read more

An Introduction to Smoke Photography

In this post Amar Ramesh introduces us to the mystical world of smoke photography.

After I got hooked to smoke photography, the one question that has been constantly running through my mind these past few months has been ‘What else can I do with smoke?’. Smoke, otherwise an unwanted by-product of combustion, is actually a great subject for photography.

The fact that the subject is not totally under your control is what makes smoke photography such a challenging job but at ..read more

Why This Photographer Is Better Than Me [My Photography Confession]

Image by karolajnat

Late last week I talked about how many of us need to pull back a little on ‘reading’ about photography and actually start ‘doing’ some more of it.

This struck home for me recently while at a George Michael concert here in Melbourne. OK – don’t mock, I was there with my wife, a big George fan…. I promise.

The concert was a stadium gig and we were a LONG way back in the crowd (yep… I was too cheap ..read more

Samsung SMX-C20UN Ultra Compact Camcorder

Samsung SMX-C20UN Ultra Compact Camcorder

The new Samsung SMX-C20UN ultra compact digital camcorder features a unique 25-degree active angle lens that allows you to shoot in complete comfort for extended periods of time. The Edit function of the Samsung C20 allows you to combine and divide files directly on the camcorder, enabling you to edit without transferring files to a PC. The Samsung SMX-C20UN also supports Superior Video Compression (H.264), so you can record more using less memory. The Samsung SMX-C20UN ..read more

Genius G-Shot HD501 Pocket HD Camcorder

Genius G-Shot HD501 Pocket HD Camcorder

Genius has announced a new pocket HD camcorder to its line by bringing you the G-Shot HD501. This weatherproof video camera is equipped with a 1-megapixel CMOS image sensor with autofocus, a 2.0-inch vivid LCD display, an SD card slot (up to 16GB), an MP3 player, an HDMI output and a rechargeable Li-ion battery. In terms of performance, it’s capable of capturing both 1280 x 720p HD video at 30fps (H.264 format) as well as ..read more

Samsung To Drop Two New Point-And-Shoot Cameras

Samsung To Drop Two New Point-And-Shoot Cameras

Samsung is set to drop two new point-and-shoot cameras for the mass market in the form of the ST5000 and ST5500. Both cameras are equipped with a 14.2-megapixel image sensor, a 7x optical zoom lens, a 3.5-inch touchscreen display (ST5000), a 3.7-inch AMOLED display (ST5500), Dual Image Stabilization, 17 automatic scene recognition, WiFi (ST5500), Bluetooth (ST5500), an HDMI output and 720p HD video recording at 30fps in H.264 format. The ST5000 will ship this ..read more

Rollei CL 350 Entry-level Digital Camera

Rollei CL 350 Entry-level Digital Camera

Rollei has launched the Compactline 350 (CL 350), a new entry level 12MP camera for beginners. The digicam features a 5x optical zoom (28mm wide-angle), a 2.7-inch display, 30 shooting modes, a memory card (up to 32GB) and HD video (720 x 1280) recording. Available in silver, violet, red, pink and an aluminum/titanium, the Rollei CL-350 will be available in April 2010 for €99.95 ($133). [dcviews]

10 Travel Photography Tips

Planning to trip or vacation? Here’s 10 handy travel photography tips to get you thinking about how to capture your time away.

P R A Y I N G madurai – by Claude Renault

10 Travel Photography Tips Travel photography by its very nature is inspirational and exciting – but it’s easy to get carried away when you prepare what to take with you. Whilst it would be fantastic to take all of your kit abroad practicalities such as baggage allowance and insurance ..read more

Have You Ever Taken a Photography Class?

One of the questions I get asked a lot via email and a regular question that is raised in our forum is around photography classes, courses, workshops and training.

What photography class should I do? How do I know if photography training is right for me? Should I do a photography course or just read a book? Do I need photography training to go Pro?

These questions (and more) arise so many times that I thought it’d make an interesting discussion here on the blog.

Have ..read more

A Beginner’s Guide to Vivid Shots that Pop

Someone asked me this on Twitter:

Q. I am interested in colors! I want to shoot vivid pics with personality

A. Excellent! First things first, though. To wrap our brains around producing photos with the wow factor, you have to get acquainted with (at least) basic post production (aka: ‘editing’) methods. You don’t take pictures that pop, you make pictures that pop! Capturing the image on your camera’s sensor is only the beginning. These are the things I would say you should consider to ..read more

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