Recovering lost or deleted files – Backing Up & Saving Your Images: Part 4

This post is the final part in our Backing Up and Saving Your Images series. See previous posts on Backing up and Saving Your Images – External Hard Drives – Online Storage Sites and Software Solutions.

That crushing, sickening and agonising feeling of realising your memory card has corrupted or for whatever reason you’ve lost some of your most important or sentimental images, can stay with you for some time. It’s that combination of frustration and disappointment that takes its toll; ..read more

Backing Up & Saving Your Images: Part 3 Online Storage Sites & Software Solutions

Storing your images on a safe and sturdy external hard drive is one of the easiest and cheapest options available to photographers, however this shouldn’t be considered as the only option open to you. In recent years there has been a steady growth of online photo storage sites that specifically hold your images securely and privately. Consequently a growing number of photographers, particular professionals, are using these sites as their all important fail-safe; if the computer crashes and the external ..read more

Trek-Tech TrekPod GO! Pro Tripod [REVIEW]

I was first approached by the folks at Trek-Tech, a local Pacific Northwest company, when I started my People, Places & Patterns Project. I was interested in sponsors but I’m very picky about who and what I endorse. I’m not going to tout product X as being great if I’d never use it or if it in fact stinks. So I asked them to ship me a product to test on my trips to Africa and Nepal, stating that ..read more

How to Prevent & Edit out Reflections on Glasses

Subjects who wear eye glasses can offer a unique difficulty for photographers. First, there’s the dilemma of whether they should wear them or not (will they not feel & look like themselves without them? Are they hiding fabulous eyes behind those glasses?) And then there’s the problem of glare and reflection. An attentive photographer will pay attention to this factor, but it does cause issues and where a photo might be perfectly composed and lit, but a little glare in ..read more

Toshiba H30 Compact HD Camcorder Review

Toshiba H30 Compact HD Camcorder Review

CrunchGear has reviewed the new Toshiba H30 compact HD camcorder that provides a 10 megapixels sensor, a 5x optical zoom, a 10x digital zoom, an SD card storage and a touchscreen LCD display. The Toshiba H30 comes in a very compact form factor and produces a much better image quality than pocket cameras. Recorded videos are stored on flash memory, but the H30 includes just 128MB on board, of which only about 96MB is usable, ..read more

5 Tips for Being a Stylist too

This black & white dress with a big pattern and lots of texture looked great in B&W

As a photographer, I’ve found it useful to start thinking like a stylist. Putting on your stylist hat is an important part of your session, especially when you have a vision in mind for the final product. So many clients who bring their children and families to me for sessions benefit greatly from my help in helping them decide what to wear and bring ..read more

Canon related news: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

?Canon related news indexhttp://www.dpreview.com/news/related.asp?keyword=Canon Thu, 06 May 2010 02:00:24 GMThttp://www.dpreview.com/http://a.img-dpreview.com/resources/images/dprlogo_white_free.gifhttp://www.dpreview.com/news/related.asp?keyword=Canon Tue, 04 May 2010 09:18:07 GMT/news/1004/10041500canon7dfirmware.asp /news/1004/10041500canon7dfirmware.aspTue, 04 May 2010 09:18:07 GMT/news/1004/10041302canon5dIhouse.asp /news/1004/10041302canon5dIhouse.aspTue, 04 May 2010 09:18:07 GMT/news/1004/10040803canons90review.asp /news/1004/10040803canons90review.aspTue, 04 May 2010 09:18:07 GMT/news/1004/10040701canoncpsrelaunch.asp /news/1004/10040701canoncpsrelaunch.aspTue, 04 May 2010 09:18:07 GMT/news/1004/10040102canon550dreview.asp /news/1004/10040102canon550dreview.aspFri, 19 Mar 2010 16:18:00 GMT/news/1003/10031904canon70200mmshortage.asp ..read more

Actuations & Shutter Count – Someday our Cameras Will Die

If you’ve ever sold a camera on Ebay before, you’ll be familiar with the term “actuations”. Prospective buyers will often write and ask you how many actuations your camera has on it’s meter and you may think “what on earth?!” Actuations (or shutter count) is the amount of photos your camera has taken. And this is an important number because your camera has a life expectancy, just like your car.

Yes, I did say that: Your camera has a life expectancy. ..read more

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (4-10 Apr ‘10)

Weekly Assignment

Whether it’s Spring or Fall where you are, this week we finished our Spring / Fall assignment. We wanted you to show us what spring or fall was like by you. Some of the photos were very literal, while others portrayed the ideas of the season.

Our winner this week was the most literal shot in the thread by i speak in math. It may be a little corny, it may be very literal, but we ..read more

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

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