5 Top Tips for Lightroom Develop Presets

5 Top Tips for Lightroom Develop Presets: "Develop Presets are powerful Lightroom tools. You can use them to quick start your editing in Lightroom and to apply creative fixes to your images. You can create your own presets and you can download them from the web. Here are my top five tips for harnessing the power of Develop Presets."

Be Aware Of The Light Source Hitting Your Screen

Be Aware Of The Light Source Hitting Your Screen: "Many people do not give much thought to the light hitting their monitor while editing photos. Yet it is critically important if color accuracy is important in the least. Let me show you the importance with a few shots."

How to Capture Motion Blur in Photography

How to Capture Motion Blur in Photography: "Capturing movement in images is something that many photographers only think to do when they are photographing sports or other fast moving subjects."

Beautiful Black and White Photography - Smashing Magazine

Beautiful Black and White Photography - Smashing Magazine: "If you’ve been following Smashing Magazine for a while, you know that almost all posts from the Monday Inspiration series are pretty colorful and eye-catching. This post is an exception. Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white designs the ability to stand out depends only on its ability to communicate rather than on its appealing visual presentation."

Tilt-shift photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tilt-shift photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "'Tilt-shift photography' refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene. Sometimes the term is used when the shallow depth of field is simulated with digital postprocessing; the name may derive from the tilt-shift lens normally required when the effect is produced optically."

Celebration Of High-Speed Photography - Smashing Magazine

Celebration Of High-Speed Photography - Smashing Magazine: "A digital camera, some fast-moving subject, and a bit of knowledge about how to take the best pictures of moving subjects will launch you on the road to some of the most interesting photographs you’ve ever taken. Although some blurring can be effective in communicating a sense of high-speed motion, some photographers want the subject to be frozen in time to get some pretty special photographic effects."

Black and White Photography Tips – PictureCorrect

Black and White Photography Tips – PictureCorrect: "It is often believed that good photos are ones with beautiful colors. However, there are other forms of photography such as black and white, monochromatic, infrared etc. There is much more than simple shining colors in pictures. Photography is the recording of light regardless of color and outcome. Black and white has been popular since the early days where cameras would only take these images and were unable to interpret colors."

Nikon Coolpix S9100 Review

Nikon Coolpix S9100 Review: "I make no apologies for reviewing this humble compact digicam – the Nikon Coolpix S9100 – in amongst the heavy hitting DSLRs and maxi-zoom models. Why?"

How do YOU get Portrait Subjects to Relax?

How do YOU get Portrait Subjects to Relax?: "This is a question I’m often asked and its one that there are many answers to – so I thought it might be a fun discussion question for the wider dPS community."

How to Clone People in Photographs Using GIMP

How to Clone People in Photographs Using GIMP: "Most modern high end photo editing and manipulation programs have a tool, or set of them, along with some techniques that allow users to create what looks like multiple instances of the same person in a single defined space, hence the name cloning. GIMP, the free, open source program allows users to do the same, without having to lay down a penny, and it’s not that difficult."