Category Archives: digital photography basics

Who Do You Have a Photography Crush On?

Is there a photographer who you’ve secretly admired form afar? Someone whose work never fails to inspire you? A Photographer who you’d love to meet and pick the brains or even spend the day with on a shoot of in the hope that some of their genius might rub off on you? They might be … Continue reading

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (4-10 Oct ‘09)

Weekly Assignment This week we wanted you to show us your Collections. We were surprised with the varied things that people collected, but our winners this week pulled off photographing their collections in a way that really made them stand out. Our winner this week was eBomb’s collection of Chuck Taylors. The shot was quirky … Continue reading

Photograph the Light not the Land

Image by Today is a good day Here is a quick quote that caught my attention today when talking to a friend who is a landscape photography enthusiast. He said: “Photograph the light not the land.” His theory is that it’s the light not the actual subjects in a scene that can make or break … Continue reading

21 Impressive Tree Images

Image by G a r r y There’s something about trees that gets to me. I’m not sure exactly what it is but something about their shape, majesty, intricacy and symbolism draws me to them as photographic subjects. Today I spent a couple of hours surfing through Flickr, particularly looking for Tree images (some OF … Continue reading

Photoshop CS3 – Adding a Neutral Density Gradient Filter

In this post Laura Charon from Beyond Megapixels shares a process for adding a Neutral Density Gradient Filter to an image using PHotoshop CS3. A key piece of equipment in a photographer’s gear is a neutral density gradient filter. This is a filter that affixes to the camera’s lens. One half of the filter is … Continue reading

How to Create Lightroom Presets

One of the cool things about Lightroom is its ability to store develop settings as Presets so you can use them again later to edit other images. In addition to creating and saving your own presets, you can also download presets from the web and use them in Lightroom. In this post, I’ll show you … Continue reading