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A Guest Post by Jeff Bartlett.
Let’s face the facts; lugging a tripod isn’t always a fun way to take pictures. Ignoring the obvious complaints, which include their size and weight, tripods are actually becoming banned in a number great shooting locations. Unfortunately, hand holding a camera in low light can be extremely difficult and [...]

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Prevent dSLR Camera Shake With These 3 Techniques

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Today Natalie Norton shares with us a series of 6 tips for photographing babies.

*Image Credit Nicole Hill.
Babies, babies everywhere! It seems like everyone around me is either pregnant or has a new born! I’m a total sucker for tiny people. I love the way they look, all pink and wrinkled. I love the way they [...]

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Baby Photography: Photographing Babies Without Losing your Mind

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Now that cameras such as this are nearly commonplace, the decision whether to buy a digicam that shoots HD movies as well as pretty big stills or a camcorder that shoots HD video and stills is a tricky one. Pricewise, it’s also a close race.

Now we have the Olympus SP-800UZ with an enormous 30x optical [...]

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Olympus SP-800UZ Review

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If you’ve ever wondered what the small icons in the Layer palette do, you might be surprised at how useful they can be. Here’s what the Lock Transparent Pixels icon does and how you can use it.

There are times when you are working with content on layers in Photoshop that the layers can do [...]

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Photoshop: Working with Locked Pixels

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This post is number ten of twenty one subjects that will help you focus when on your next journey and you wish to bring back a well rounded story of where you were.  If you’re just going on vacation and only want pictures of yourself by the pool sipping boat drinks, then you can [...]

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Travel Photography Subjects: Transportation

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Today portrait photographer Christina N Dickson shares tips on how to shoot engagement portraits. Christina’s work can be found at www.ChristinaNicholePhotography.com.
Shooting engagement portraits are perhaps some of the most enjoyable for photographers. Most often, they are taken before the whirlwind of wedding planning is fully underway, and the couple is still quite enamored with one [...]

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Engagement Portrait Shoots: 7 Professional Tips to take your Engagement Shoots to the Next Level

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This one hit our inbox 3 times today so I thought I’d share it here.
How to Photograph yourself with a self timer:
Step1: Choose a good background
Step 2: Set Self timer on your camera
Step 3: Smile

Step 4: Be Careful

Step 5: Call 911
What photography disaster have you had? Share them in comments below.
Thanks to Douwe who was [...]

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How [Not] to Take a Self Timer Portrait

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A Guest Post by Lithuanian Photographer Tadas Naujokaitis.
Birds are very interesting creatures, but it’s not so easy to photograph them. Wild birds usually don’t pose where you want and, moreover, it’s often difficult to get close enough to take quality pictures. But if you know some basics of bird photography, it becomes much easier to [...]

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An Introduction to Bird photography

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This post is number nine of twenty one subjects that will help you focus when on your next journey and you wish to bring back a well rounded story of where you were.  If you’re just going on vacation and only want pictures of yourself by the pool sipping boat drinks, then you can [...]

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Travel Photography Subjects: Poor

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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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