Digital Photography Resources

And before those of you in the Southern Hemisphere jump all over the title, with its clear Northern Hemisphere slant, don’t worry, I’ll be talking about the Southern Cross (Crux) as well.  There just wasn’t room in the title to fit in all of that.
Let’s start off with the ‘why’ and then move to the [...]

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How To Find The North Star And Why You’d Want To

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Frequently, the purchase of a new camera also involves an outlay for another manual aside from the one supplied with the camera. Taking on a Leica means more than the mere acquisition of another camera … the history and sheer engineering tradition of this device means you also engage with a historic culture.
Leica M Digital [...]

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Leica M Digital Photography – Book Review

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I recently sold some early digital cameras on eBay and was startled to find there is an active market in the breed, so finding this book had appeared, I was already forewarned of the situation.
Camera collecting really came of age in the 1970s at a time when galloping technology was rapidly transforming traditional photography and [...]

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CAMERA: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital

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This one got to me instantly and powerfully: “not a book of pictures … (it) is a book of ideas.” As author Jim Krause calls it.
Measuring a pocket-book sized 23×15×2cm, it could fit into a mid-sized camera bag and would rapidly give you a jolt of fresh ideas when out and about with a camera.
In [...]

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Photo Idea Index: Things [Book Review]

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Probably one of the most desirable, yet challenging targets for photographers but also the least understood is wildlife photography.
It’s not all that difficult to shoot a simple record of birds and animals in the wild but to succeed in capturing creative, dynamic images … well, that’s another thing!
Author Edwardes admits that the advent of digital [...]

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100 Ways To Take Better Nature & Wildlife Photographs

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In this fourth edition, author Philip Andrews admits early on that “when I first saw the new digital technology in all its glory, 19 or 20 years ago, I was not all that impressed.”
What has projected digital capture into public and professional acceptance has been not only the rapid technical advances but the accelerating takeup [...]

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The New Digital Photography Manual [BOOK REVIEW]

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After shooting their fist card full of digital pictures many newbie digicam owners then muck around with the ‘look’ of the digital image with whatever software is at hand. The results are often horrendous …
Marilyn Sholin’s book, The Art of Digital Photo Painting, seeks to correct this situation by suggesting methods and techniques to [...]

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The Art of Digital Photo Painting [Book Review]

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Entering and hopefully winning contests was “all the go” when film camera clubs were all the go. Those were the days of clubs and societies that encouraged members to meet regularly, discuss new equipment and lavish attention on the art of photography.
Well, film groups may have nearly disappeared but contests — of the digital kind [...]

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Winning Digital Photo Contests [Book Review]

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Possibly the most photographed subject but likely to be the least understood in the photographer’s output is landscapes.
As author Frost candidly admits, his early efforts at landscape photography “left a lot to be desired” but a change in his home environment left him inspired by the unfamiliarity of new surroundings.”
The book’s early chapters deal with [...]

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Lee Frost’s Landscape Photography [Book Review]

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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 [...]

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2 Must Have E-Books to Inspire You

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