My Camera and I: Weekly Photography Challenge
Your challenge this weekend is to take and share a photo of you with your camera. Yep – it’s self portrait time – but we want to not only see you (or part of you – you can have some anonymity if you prefer) but also your prize and joy – your camera (whatever it might [...]
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Your Favorite Subject: Weekend Photography Challenge
This week your photographic challenge is to photograph your ‘favorite subject’ and share the image with us. Most photographers that I talk to have a subject that they just keep coming back to – whether it be a person, a landscape location, pet or some other kind of subject matter (I have one friend who just [...]
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How Would You Approach Photographing a Model?
This question arrived in our inbox from a regular reader – Sammy – and I thought it might make an interesting community workshop where you, the readers of dPS, have a go at giving some good tips on how to approach the situation of working with a model for the first time. Dear dPS. I have [...]
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What Mistakes do you Make most in your Photography?
Over at the dPS Facebook page (please do connect with us there) earlier today I asked the following question: What mistake do you most commonly make or what problem do you most commonly come up against in your photography? The responses have been great so I thought I’d open it up for discussion here on the blog. [...]
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IMPERFECTION: Weekly Photography Challenge
This week your photographic challenge is to take and share a photo with the them of ‘Imperfection’. I is for.... (Image by Abe and Linna Novy) Feel free to interpret the topic in any way that you wish! Perhaps the photo itself with be imperfect, perhaps it’s a picture of something that isn’t quite perfect (or that [...]
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Motion Blur: Weekly Photography Challenge
Image by Norma Desmond As a followup to our post this week on Motion Blur – I thought it might be a good this week for our challenge to be on that topic. As a result – your challenge is to take a picture that has motion blur in it. You might like to tackle one of [...]
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What is Your Post Production Workflow?
One of the questions I get asked a lot by readers is for a suggested workflow for the post processing of images in Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture (insert your favourite post production software here). I thought it might make an interesting discussion to invite readers to describe their own workflow for processing images. For some I suspect it’ll be pretty [...]
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FOOD: Weekly Photography Challenge
Your challenge this week is to take a photograph (and share it) on the theme of Food. It should be something we can all do on some level as we all do eat so most days there should be some opportunity to capture that activity! If you’re looking for some inspiration check out some of our [...]
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Close to Home: Weekly Photography Challenge
This week your challenge is to take and share an image on the theme of ‘close to home’. This bounces off our post earlier today – 5 Photo Ideas for Shooting Close to Home – but you could also interpret it any way that you want and do something a little more abstract on the theme [...]
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What Percentage of Our Readers Use a DSLR as their Primary Camera? [Poll Results]
Over the last month or so we ran a poll here on dPS asking readers what type of camera they use as their primary digital camera. After just on 50,000 responses the results are in – and they’re pretty conclusive – here at dPS people certainly like their DSLRs. Of course dPS has a fairly ‘enthusiast’ type [...]
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What Percentage of Our Readers Use a DSLR as their Primary Camera? [Poll Results]
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PHOTO WALK: Weekly Photography Challenge
Image by Drewski Mac This week your challenge is to take a ‘photo walk’ and share a favourite image or two from it. We’re doing it this week as on Saturday is the world wide photowalk. You might like to join one of them (it’s pretty last minute but not too late) or just do your own [...]
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Do you have a place that you just keep going back to with your camera?
Do you have a place that you just keep going back to with your camera? As I think back over the years of my own photographic journey there have been a number of such places for me as I’ve lived in different places and have experimented with different types of photography. When I was quite young there [...]
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Do you have a place that you just keep going back to with your camera?
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YELLOW: Weekly Photography Challenge
Image by MonkeyMagic1975 This week your photography challenge is to take an share a photo on the theme of YELLOW. We’ve done these color themes before (Red, Blue and Green) and they’ve always been very popular and a lot of fun – so lets do it again. I’m expecting lots of pictures of lemons, cheese, butter…. (maybe it’s [...]
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How are You Going with Your Photographic Goals for 2010?
At the start of 2010 we challenged our readers to think about what their photographic goals would be for 2010 (the article contained 30 suggested goals). It’s now halfway through the year and so when Christen contacted us over the weekend to remind us of that post we thought it might be a good time to [...]
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STAT! Weekly Photography Challenge
Your challenge this weekend is to take and share a photo on the theme of STAT! OK – this is a bizarre topic and the reason it was selected is odd too but it originated from this thread on our Facebook page and me using the word ‘STAT!’ in my call for themes for the week. The [...]
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