How to Choose the Right ISO for your Digital Photography

“What ISO is best for my pictures?”


Changing the ISO setting on your camera changes the sensitivity to light of the image sensor inside of it.


The lower number that you select the less sensitive the sensor is to light (and conversely the higher the number the more sensitive it becomes).


This is useful when you’re shooting in [...]

10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits

How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor?
Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules - but it hit me as I was surfing on [...]

10 More Tips for Stunning Portrait Photography

Yesterday I shared 10 Ways to take Stunning Portrait Photography. We covered everything from altering your perspective as a photographer, to experimenting with lighting, to shooting candidly.
Today I want to continue on the same train of thought with 10 more tips for adding a little spice to your portraits.
11. Frame Your Subject
Framing is a [...]

Understanding Shutter Speed - a Book Review

This week a package containing Bryan Peterson’s new book - Understanding Shutter Speed arrived in my letter box from Amazon.


When I first saw it listed in the new release section I was a little skeptical that a book soley focussing upon one aspect of photography (shutter speed) was a book that I’d learn much from [...]

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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums

Weekly Assignment
We finished the Sense of Scale assignment this past week, and saw many interesting ways to play with the perception of size using different angles and perspectives. It was incredibly hard for us to agree on a winner this week (really, it was a 3 way tie at first, and then one vote tipped [...]

20 Photography Tips from Our Twitter Followers

Last week I asked some DPS readers who follow this blog via Twitter (our account is here) to share some of their photography tips with us.


The catch was that they had to do it in 140 characters or less (the limit that Twitter allows per message). Here’s a collection of 20 of their photography tips:


“I [...]