Digital Photography Tips

Hi there.
Our series of photoshop tutorials has been extremely popular and they have been viewed tens of thousands of times on the last few weeks.
We are currently in the process of making some brand new photoshop tutorials….
We would like to ask you what you would like to learn in photoshop…
What would you like […]

We have added a new section to the (newly re-designed) web site on how to make money with your camera.
Just a couple of ebooks really but they both come highly recommend.
Sell Your Photos | How to make money with your camera
Make Money With Your Camera
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Well here it is at last…
Part 2 of the photshop enhancement tutorial.
Use of curves and levels combined with masks and adjustment layers… all good stuff!
Enjoy
Photoshop Tutorial - Photo touch up photo enhancement part 2

Just to wish you all a very Happy New Year.
May your 2008 be a good one and a creative one.
From us you can expect a major site redesign and more photoshop tutorials hopefully within the next few weeks.
All the best
Andy
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The latest of the photoshop tutorials is now online.This is a Curves TutorialCheck it out along with the other tutorials on the  photoshop tutorials page.

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Here’s the video tutorial I mentioned yesterday. digital backdrop creation using photoshop 7 and above.

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I’ve just created the latest photoshop tutorial… It’s on how to create a digital photographer’s muslin type background and lighting effects for those images that we’ve been extracting lately.
The video is not up on the website as yet but you can check it out on YouTube - Enjoy
YouTube - Photoshop Backdrop Creation Tutorial
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There seems to be nothing but great reviews for this well established model at the moment. Although only 6 Mega pixels it still gets top marks from most of amazons happy purchasers.

Amazon.com: Nikon D70S 6.1MP Digital SLR Camera Kit with 18-70mm Nikkor Lens: Camera & Photo
Technical Details * 6.1-megapixel […]

Well the first photoshop tutorial has been a great success and I have had many interesting and supportive comments. In the first day online it was viewed over 500 times.
I have received many supportive comments and a lot of requests for more material…
So I have now finished the second part of the background extraction tutorial […]

YouTube - Photoshop Background Extraction
As promised the first of our photoshop tutorials is now live.
You can watch the YouTube version here or if you prefer there is a higher quality version on the new Photoshop Tutorials page.
The video shows a simple but effective way of removing a subject from its background.
The next one will show […]

I’ve just been preparing a series of photoshop video tutorials. The first two are nearly complete and concentrate on background removal techniques - Basic and Advanced.I’ll let you all know when they are available.
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With the price of digital SLR cameras dropping, is there really a market for the new high end pro-sumer point and clicks?

Samsung Launches Next Generation of Award Winning NV Digital Cameras
“The NV8, NV15 and NV20 represent the next generation of Samsung’s award-winning NV series of digital cameras,”
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Brand new book by Stephen Shankland offers a different take on digital photography.
A different light on digital photography | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
A different light on digital photography
Posted by Stephen Shankland
If you want to learn about digital photography but have had your fill of redeye reduction tips and unsharp mask tutorials, […]

Digital Photography Secrets - Our Recommended Book of the month

Digital Photography Secrets

Don’t take another digital picture until you read this book!
Someone has finally gotten into the “secret files” of top photographers and is sharing the information for the first time ever!
“Finally! There’s a Fast, Easy, Affordable Way To Access Professional Picture-Taking Secrets […]

This is basically a sales site for the book 50 tips to great outdoor images. The first 6 tips however are free and there are some quite special images to accompany these great tips. 
50 TIPS TO GREAT OUTDOOR IMAGES
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Great Discussion on which format to use.This blog has a lot of subscribers who put forward some great points to bear in mind when choosing between the two formats.
RAW or JPEG - Which Do You Shoot In?
What image format do you shoot in - and why?
Some of you will have to answer JPEG […]

Here’s an interesting site…
Its a map of the British Isles. They are tying to get every square kilometer of the country photographed. Amateur photographers submit their photos of each grid square on the map.
Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square!
Welcome to Geograph British Isles
The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically […]

Photo contest of the day.
A winner every day… plus the monthly winners and 3 monthly winners receive prizes from various photographic companies… Sound good?
Why not give it a shot. Its free to enter…
Let us know if you manage to win and we’ll post your image here aswell.
Photo of the Day Page
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Here’s an interesting blog to take a look at. Lots of tips and tricks and it has quite a friendly community feel to it too.
Digital Photography School — Digital Photography Training for You
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Just found this quite complete photoshop tutorial portal for want of a better name…  check it out.
Free Online Photography Course | The Photoshop Blog | PhotoshopSupport.com
Jodie Coston’s Free Online Photography Course
Adobe Photoshop BlogWow. This is no ordinary tutorial website. Taught by freelance photographer Jodie Coston, the Morguefile site has archived a free online […]

This is a free to enter photography contest - with a $6,500 first prize.. and its says its open to all..
Give it a shot?…   Good Luck!
photo laureates enter photolaureates contest for amateur photographers and win cash prizes photolaureates.org
The mission of photography laureates is to promote photography and photographers through technical workshops, improvisation sessions […]

Thinking of becoming a professional photographer?
The article linked to here covers many aspects to help you make your desision.Beware though, I think they are really selling their online photography course.
The best photography course you can buy!
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Here is a great site which has a load of instructional tutorials / Lessons on many aspects of professional photography. Check out the entertaining idea below of promoting an 8 inch bmw
Basic Product Shot

The car above is a BMW 700 series sedan, but you can’t drive it because it’s
only 8 inches long! With […]

A great resource which takes some of the mystery out of flash photography. Everything from how the flash units actually work through guide numbers, distances and synchronization to what to look for when purchasing a flash unit.
Electronic Flash Information
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A great resource which takes some of the mystery out of flash photography. Everything from how the flash units actually work through guide numbers, distances and synchronization to what to look for when purchasing a flash unit.
Electronic Flash Information
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A selection of great little tips and tricks for bettering your holiday photography.
Fodors.com > Focus on Photography > Classic Vacation Shots
Shooting from the Air Shooting from the Land and Sea Signs Along the Way
Photographing Your Cruise Parades and Ceremonies Stage Shows and Events Zoos and Aquariums Fireworks Silly Pictures
Around the Campfire
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Our resident photography expert, Philip Bramhill has just been named the ‘Official Download Photographer’ for the infamous British rock festival held each year at Donnington.
After having worked the festival for the last 2 years and having the pleasure of photographing rock stars to the like of Lemmy and Motorhead, Slayer, Feeder and Black Sabbath, […]

Below is a link to shortcourses.com where they hold a fairly comprehensive list of short courses, most online and most free.
Some interesting tips can be picked up by scanning through the various sites. However, a lot of the tips ore repeats, some are of no use at all and of course there are some […]

Another question that we have been getting recently is how to get your photos looking like paintings.  There are many many different ways of doing this… You could use the painting filters from photoshop or one of many other techniques… Here is a good one.
A New Painterly Effect | Planet Photoshop
There are lots […]

Another interesting gallery site I just came across. There are some really great photos here, you should definitely take a look.
Computer Darkroom - Photo Galleries
Image
Photo Galleries
This page contains links to a series of galleries each of which comprise a range of images laid out in […]

Yet another great site I stumbled upon. This one is quite large and has many different sections.

On-Line Magazine for everything Photography from the Photoimaging Information Council. Read helpful photography tips and articles from the pros and celebrities, take surveys, and join in photo contests.
Master Photographers Tell You How | Take Great Pictures
Master Photographers […]

Things NOT to forget when you are about to photograph a wedding.
Essential wedding photography checklist for digital wedding photographers

So, you’ve been asked to photograph someone’s wedding. Congratulations! Do you have your wedding photography checklist ready?
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The art of composition summed up in 5 easy to swallow pieces.
Composition 101
Do you want to take better pictures? Sure you do.
In these days of instant gratification our Nikonians professionals have noticed that some of our members don’t want to wade through a pile of technical explanations. They just want good pictures — […]

Once you have effectively selected the hair as described in the previous article then you can go about changing the color as indicated in the article here:
From Brunette to Blond | Planet Photoshop
Changing hair color is often simply a matter of adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. However, when the hair needs substantial lightening, […]

We have had several people asking how to change hair color using photoshop. Well there are many ways to do this… I plan to elaborate a little upon this in the next post or two.
For now here is an excellent tutorial on how to select the hair and all of the flyaway hair too.
Once you […]

Saying Of The Day
A Picture might be worth a thousand words but it take up a thousand times more memory!!!
Philip

Tony Howell uses his website to show off some of his superb images and along the way he gives tips and advice including some tutorials and a load of images where he explains exactly how he created them.
Flower Photo Tips
Flower Photography Tips
Photographs of Flowers and how to take them
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Here’s a tip for Windows XP Users.
If you have large folders of Images and wish to rename them you can do this sequentially in the windows explorer.
Say you have put all your ‘Holiday 2006′ Photos in one folder so you now have 127 images in a folder that look something like this…
DSCN6336.JPGDSCN6339.JPGDSCN6344.JPGDSCN6345.JPGDSCN6346.JPGDSCN6347.JPGDSCN6356.JPGDSCN6358.JPGDSCN6336.JPG
etc…
To rename the files […]

How To Photograph Fireworks:
Photographers from the Smithsonian Institute share some of their knowledge on how to get the best results shooting fireworks.

Smithsonian Photographers Shoot Fireworks
As much fun as they are to watch, fireworks are equally as challenging to photograph. Working on the Mall gives the Smithsonian’s staff photographers on-going opportunities to capture these […]

Ever considered how this is undertaken?
Matt BenDaniel explains just how he achieves his astounding results and follows up with a link to his ‘Getting started in astrophotography’ page.
Astrophotography
Astrophotographyby Matt BenDaniel

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If you are a professional photographer or if you are thinking of getting into selling your work as stock photography then you  should definitely take a look at the site below. Take a look at the work of the other professionals to get an idea as to what you are up against. Also have a […]

I just found this website.
Ronnie Gaubert’s Galleries. You just have to check them out. He has done some OUTSTANDING images. I was astounded at the quality of his work.
Ronnie Gaubert’s Photo Galleries at pbase.com
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This article explains the simple but important technique of bracketing, even more popular in these digital times where wasting film isn’t an issue.
Bracket Your Important Photos - Digital Photography
Bracket Your Important Photos
SUMMARY: Explains bracketing, and how it can improve your overall digital camera picture taking.
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The proper use of light in photography is the single most important factor to be considered. Take a look at the article below.
Digital Photography Tips - Light Usage
The use of light in a photograph can be the deciding factor of whether that picture will be spectacular or terrible. When you use your […]

Another background extraction method is illustrated here on the Photoshop Nerds Blog.
Photoshop Nerds : Photoshop Tutorials » Blog Archive » Photo Background Extraction
The extract command
The Extract command in Photoshop enables you to isolate a foreground object from its background. Even objects with undefinable edges like hair can now be clipped from their backgrounds […]

I just had to let you in on this one… Dr Russell Brown Has put together a whole library of free and highly effective Photoshop tutorials. They’re all really good and I counted over 75 of them. There are also loads of free photoshop scripts.
Definitely worth checking out.
The Russell Brown Show
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Photoshop  subject extraction
How to extract your subject from the background to enable the use of digital background templates as mentioned in the previous post.
This tutorial concentrates especially on the hair, the most difficult part of subject extraction.
Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial - Extraction Tips | PhotoshopSupport.com
One of the most challenging montage […]

Digital Backdrops can be a great Idea… The company below is selling CDs and DVD loaded with them so you can make your own studio backgrounds to your photos.
Check out the quality of these, and then ask yourself if you could do any better yourself.
I believe that if you have the skill and imagination […]

A highly important and overlooked piece of maintenance that without it can bring you disappointing results.
Calibrate your monitor for better photo prints | DigicamGuides.com
Calibrate Your Monitor
Make the photos you see the photos you print
I can hear those folks in the back row saying “Do WHAT to my monitor?” It’s not as bad as […]

Ever wanted to take spectacular lightning shots like this one?
Chuck Doswell goes into detail on how to best capture the many different kinds of lightning to produce breath taking images like this one.

lightning photography
Lightning Photography
[Tips by Chuck Doswell]
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An effective Photoshop tutorial on how to get a good pencil drawing effect out of a photograph.
This technique is actually much better than a lot of the photoshop drawing filters .
Photoshop converts a Photo to a Pencil Sketch
Photo to Pencil Sketch [Editor’s Note: Folks, we regularly get two or more requests from […]

Sue Chastain shows you step by step how to remove the redeye effect in photoshop
Remove Red Eye in Photoshop (any Version)
It’s the perfect picture… except it’s been ruined by those unsightly, glowing red eyes from camera flash. It’s happened to us all; and fortunately, it’s fairly easy to correct. Follow these simple […]

Idiot proof Photo Backups.
Check out this new photo backup drive from Polaroid. It is just about as ‘plug-n-play’ as you can get… Plug it in and it starts to back up automatically all of the photos on your computer, even those in email attachments and it leaves the system files alone too.
There is a review […]

Old photo restoration… You’ve seen it done, you might have even tried it.Here are some tips on how to do it successfully
Garry Black Photography
Garry Black Photography
Photoshop Tips and Techniques
RESTORATION

Marblehead Nature Log
I stumbled upon this Blog where the owner has put up some of his nature photography.
There are some really spectacular images here… if you go to the site you need to scroll a little way down to get past the snapshots of the of the ramblers but once the nature photos start you […]

A great review of just some of the thousands of different digital photo frames available on the market today.
 
My favorite is this Philips model with interchangeable mats…  its one of the few that don’t look just like a computer screen.
Take a look at the review at the site linked below.

Digital Picture Frames
Displaying […]

SLRtoday.com Has a series of interesting articles.. most are written by professionals for professionals. This one is great, it explains in depth the process needed for resizing and enhancing, Stuff that seems so simple but reading the article you will soon discover that there is a right way and definitely a WRONG way to do […]

Here’s one to bookmark…Family photography tips galore… and it looks like they’re all free too.
Family photography tips for taking perfect family photography pictures
Family Photography Tips
the PROS use
Family photography tips include everything from snapping off 20 baby pictures to posing everyone at your family reunion.
Photographs of our family are the most valuable memories we […]

A Collection of three interactive webpages where you can supposedly simulate certain photographic situations and see the expected results. Worth a look at if only for entertainment value. Beginners may get some insights from this but most will be obvious.
Exposure - a beginner’s guide to photography.
SIM-CAM - For learning about photographic exposure […]

This is a great little site with some stunning flash photos, and whats more, there are details on how they were achieved.
Digital Photography Lighting Tips, Tricks & Ideas
Here’s one of the photos…  and how it was done.

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Take a look at this great software for stitching together panoramic photos.At their site you can download a free trial version of the software to try it out before buying.
The demo image contains 57 photographs (aligned) and then the output result is shown….  and just as the sales page states, not a stitch or seam […]

The information below is a small selection taken from ‘Photo Tips 101′ at decorphoto.com
There is a pile of basic information and though based around traditional photography can easilly be applied to digital photography too.
Photography instruction,photography techniques,Photo Tips 101
Lenses
There are 4 types of lenses to talk about:

    Wide Angle
    Normal 
    Telephoto 
    Zoom

All lenses are […]

One of the biggest mysteries of digital editing is the correct use of the levels curve. This can drastically enhance any photo with just a few minor adjustments.
Check out this tutorial on photoshop curves and whilst you are there you could get to see the rest of the wonderful tutorials on offer at the website.
Photoshop […]

Get back to the basics with the ‘Color spectrum Photography’ online tutorial.
Great information on  photography basics …  then whilst there you can also take a look at the rest of this great site. 
Back to Basics by CSP
If you are a professional photographer, chances are you already know the principals of photography and practice […]

Kerry Drager shares his knowledge with us on the subject of photographing in the snow…
BetterPhoto Photography Articles - Snow Photography: Big Bear Lake Skiing, Aspen Snowboarding, Etc.
Photographing in Snow - Exposure Challenge
Your camera’s exposure meter sees the world in middle or neutral gray tones. And if you are pointing your camera at white […]

Enforced Greed

Part of an exhibition by our resident expert Philip Bramhill.
Check out some of the other weird and wonderful photographs on his website’s ‘Surreal Photography‘ page.

Stay tuned for news of the up coming Audio Visual Photography course and interviews.

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Learn how to take advantage of your powerful lenses without having to resort to digital manipulation.
This professional tutorial contains sections on the following:
What is focal length:An in depth yet straightforward look into how the focal length of a lens affects your photos and how it is achieved with todays compact cameras with powerful zoom and […]

Take a look at the tips offered at the site below. Some of the contest entries are exceptional. Well worth looking at.
Better Photo Tips | Photography Tips
“Better Photo Tips” has one goal in mind: photographers
helping photographers. Regardless of the media you choose; we
invite you to “share the wonders” of photography.
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Here is a link to some free beginner photography tutorials.
Once you are at the site there a few more you might want to take a look at too.
The importance of light is a particularly good one however.
The importance of light

As photography is dependant on the reaction of the chemicals on the film to light, it […]

A comprehensive explication of some of the more technical digital  (and non-digital) photography terminology.
Digital camera and photography terms
Glossary
Non-technical explanation of common digital photography terms
Barrel distortion: Image distortion produced when the position of the camera lens is at its widest angle. Lines you expect to appear perpendicular are not. It is most noticeable when […]

Nathaniel West takes a look at photography in schools today as we find ourselves well into the reign of digital photography.

Demise of the darkroom

Digital photography closes door on film development in high schools
By NATHANIEL WEST, Staff Writer
nwest@jg-tc.com
Gone are the days when yearbook classrooms smelled of film developing chemicals.
With the advent of digital photography, high […]