At first and last light, water isn t all that reflective, but during midday, the water becomes like a mirror. The more light the water reflects,…

A Happy Reader Shows Off Her Prize from DPS
Last month at DPS we held a competition for one lucky forum member to win a Nikon D60 DSLR. The competition was won by forum member BullDogMom. She had only just purchased a DSLR so I offered her the chance to pick another item from Amazon to the same value as the D60. She chose to [...]

Picasa for MacOsX Coming
According to TechCrunch a version of Picasa for Apple Macs will be coming along later: I managed to pick the Google employee with the least amount of media training and immediately put her on the spot. Her response: Picasa for Mac is under-development and will be launched later this year. This is great news, [...]

A Fresh Look at Depth of Field: Using foreground to achieve creative depth of field
The following post on depth of field was written by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton, of natalienortonphoto.com. We talk a lot around here at Digital Photography School about Depth of Field. I’m writing this based on the assumption that we all understand that in layman terms, “depth of field” is the portion of an image that is [...]

Another Victory in the UK War on Photography
Street photography is safe and legal in a public, outdoor space in the UK, right? Right? Um … check out this tale of brave and intelligent security guarding on Flickr Two security guards from the nearby shopping center THE MALL came running over, we were surrounded by six hostile and aggressive security guards. [...]

Urban Photography With Star Wars Characters
/Film has an article on some clever reality-Star Wars mashup photographs that look really cool, in an extremely geeky way! French photographer Cedric Delsaux has created a series of photos where he puts Star Wars characters and vehicles and transplants them into modern day urban locations. I quite like the idea of Jabba and Mr [...]

What Are the Most Popular Digital Cameras at DPS? [RESULTS]
Two weeks ago I asked DPS readers to tell us about their Digital Camera kits (and told them about mine). I ask this question every 6 or so months to try to get a picture of what cameras everyone is using. Following are a few observations on what you the DPS community has in your camera [...]

Your Photo: Our Critique
Bernard Siao shot this portrait of a man with the Canon 5D with an exposure of 1/80 at f/4.5 and ISO 400 at 105mm. It s…

Canon EOS 5D - MKII ?
I spotted whispers on Northlight-Images site that Canon’s EOS 5D DSLR is about to get an update. There are also specs posted on DP Review forums for a second generation 5D with the following changes: A gain to 15.3MP up from 12.8MP, a 2 stop hike in light sensitivity to 25600 ISO. The new snapper will also [...]

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