Spring is just around the corner (well, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere – our friends in Australia will be coming up on wintertime in a couple of months!). With spring comes wildflowers. I live in the desert of Arizona and we’re about to reach our peak wildflower season. Here ...
In this tutorial, we’ll take you through one example of how you can re-create a logo in Illustrator based on a photo.
Today we’re giving away 6 great little kits to help you create some stunning Bokeh effects from Bokeh Masters Kit. Thanks to Udi Tirosh (follow him on Twitter here) for this offer. Here he is to introduce the concept behind the kits and to introduce the competition. The Challenge A while back DPS had an article about ...
If you’ve ever looked into Lightroom’s Presets folder (Lightroom Preferences > Presets area) you’ll see there are actually a lot of different areas in Lightroom that have
By Gail Bunning of Gail Anne Photography Becoming a professional photographer has been one of the most difficult, most challenging and most rewarding paths in my life. I always knew that I wanted to take photos. Even as a child I had this fascination with how film and that little box worked. How it saw images different then my eye but more like my heart. I blossomed into a “photographer̶...
One of the greatest things about photography is that anything can provide inspiration. It all depends on you – what your eyes see and what you love and long to share. Common things that inspire people to pull out a camera include beaches, sunsets or sunrises, trees, and flowers. What inspires you? A Wordless Wednesday contribution
My good friend, and D-Town TV co-host Matt Kloskowski has been working on a portfolio site for his photography, and when he came in and showed it to me last week, I was just like, “Dude—that’s the portfolio site everybody wants!” He had been keeping his eye out for a while for an easily up-datable, flexible,
This week I sat down with David Ziser to discuss a handful of topics including how to choose the right aperture for a particular shot, determining the depth of field for a particular shot, when ...
As photographers, it’s always nice to develop some sort of niche, so to speak. Some people love portrait work and are exceptionally good at it. Others discover they have a knack for capturing beautiful moments at weddings. If you think about your own photos you might find a certain type occurs more frequently than any
There is a debate about whether a makeup artist is a necessity or frivolity at a photo shoot. I know you can do amazing things with Photoshop, but c’mon people – no makeup artist?! Has the world gone insane? As a former professional makeup artist, I will tell you exactlywhy you need a ‘MUA’ and how ...
