Engagement Portrait Posing Tips

A Guest Post by Travis Hill from The Perfect Pose

In recent years photojournalism has been all the rage. Just capture the day or moment as it happens. Honestly that is wonderful style of photography that many people enjoy. The problem is, everyone’s doing it. With so many new photographers in the market today, it’s imperial that we set ourselves apart from the crowd. With that being said lets ask ourselves honestly. How many times have our wedding clients not wanted ..read more

Streamline Your Workflow – Getting the Most out of LR

There are so many ways to use editing programs together. My most common method (which has become a habit) is to do general tweaking on a whole batch of photos in LR before heading over to PS to edit the final cuts one-by-one. What started as a pretty quick procedure turned into a long, drawn out night after night of editing sessions when I fell in love with certain actions and started feeling that I needed to ‘actionize’ every single ..read more

It’s Your Birthday – What Would You Ask For? [Hypothetical]

Image by Christophe Verdier

OK – hypothetical question time. Actually it’s not really hypothetical as its based upon something I go through every year when it’s my birthday (which was actually yesterday – hence this post).

Here is the question:

It’s your birthday coming up and everyone is asking you ‘what do you want?’

They all want to buy you something for your photography – so it has to be photography related (gear, books, accessories).

Your friends and family each have a different budget so ..read more

How I Use Inspiration Shots From Other Photographers

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How do you gather ideas for your photography? It would be impossible for anyone to say that they don’t gather inspiration and ideas from the imagery around them. I’d love to share with you the process with which I gather ideas for my sessions and how I use other photographers’ work to inspire my own.

I’ve always sung the praises of Flickr. I logon every day (even if only for a moment) to check what my contacts have uploaded and grab a ..read more

6 Tips for Writing an Artist’s Statement

A Guest Post by Chris Folsom.

Recent talks with a local shop have prompted one of my least favorite tasks… writing an artist’s statement. It is an incredibly difficult task to describe your own work without sounding arrogant or self-absorbed. Worse yet, if your images span a variety of subjects and styles (as mine often to), trying to sum up the collection in a paragraph or two may seem impossible.

Here are some tips I go by when writing an ..read more

The Dave Hill Look in Lightroom

Dave Hill is a genius. Period. I could look at his images all day long and his behind the scenes videos are strangely addictive. Naturally, thousands want to create his hyper-real, painterly, utterly hypnotising look on their images.

The first observation one can make about his method is the painstaking attention to lighting during the shoot. In the final product, the lighting and contrast make the images what they are. This can’t be done without interesting lighting.

Of course after being engrossed ..read more

Warning: 10 Deadly Post Processing Sins

First of all, I have to thank Darren, and this wonderful DPS community for supporting our family through the illness and death of our son. We are deeply and profoundly grateful to each of you. THANK YOU. Not really a way to segue from that. I won’t try.

This post is all in the name of good fun. These are over the top SNL esque examples. Please don’t be offended.

1. Don’t buy photoshop ..read more

Candids: Weekend Photography Challenge

Trocadéro scene # 10 – by Gregory Bastien

This weekend your challenge is to take and share with us a photo on the theme of ‘Candid‘.

Feel free to take the theme in any direction you like. You might want to attach a nice long lens and photograph your kids in the back yard playing under a sprinkler (it’s summer here in Australia), it might be taking your camera out on a busy street or a festival to do some candid street ..read more