Hey guys… Happy new month! August was a good month, and The D-Photo has made a lot of new friends and has helped a lot of professional and aspiring photographers take their photography to the next level, and will definitely continue to do so! I did my best to provide you with as many useful posts to help take your photography, and mine, forward. I tried to spread the posts through multiple photography categories such as photography techniques, articles and tips, gear and equipment, and inspiration.

I hope you had fun with me as I did with you, and I hope you’ll have even more fun in the future. If you have any suggestions or ideas on articles, categories or anything that you think might make your experience on The D-Photo more pleasurable, I would definitely love to hear from you through the contact form on this site.

I kinda made a list of The D-Photo‘s best articles of August according to you guys, so take a look below I hope you’ll find some help and inspiration in here…

Night and low light photography

 

Night or low light photography refers to photographs taken outdoors between dusk and dawn.

Night / low light photographers generally have a choice between using artificial light or using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds or even minutes, in order to give the film or digital sensor enough time to capture a usable image, and to compensate for reciprocity failure…

 

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Hollywood glamor photography in Photoshop | Video tutorial

 

This is a cool video tutorial on how to create an old Hollywood glamor photography effect easily and smoothly in Photoshop I found by Ashley, An Adobe Certified Expert who teaches image correction and enhancement techniques, advanced selection skills, video integration and editing as well as web publishing from Australia.

Check it out and you will be able to apply that old Hollywood glowing glamor photography effect to your images in no time…

 

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Circular Polarizer Lens Filter: How, when, and inspiration

 

A circular polarizer lens filter, used both in color and black and white photography, filters out light polarized perpendicularly to the axis of the filter. This has three applications in photography: it reduces reflections from some surfaces, it can darken the sky and it saturates the image more by eliminating unwanted reflections.

The circular polarizer lens filter’s true essence comes into action in outdoor photography, and it’s available for a wide variety of cameras ranging from medium format to digital point and shoot cameras…

 

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Creative art photography of Nicolas Bouvier | Sparth

 

Nicolas Bouvier, widely known as Sparth on flickr, has been an active artistic director and concept designer in the gaming industry since 1996. Born in France, he now lives in Seattle, Washington, working for Microsoft.

Having had the privilege of traveling extensively at an early age to such places as far afield as the USA, Singapore, China, France and Europe, he was influenced greatly by the various cultures, and he enjoyed observing people and making notes of all these tiny details of life that he was witnessing. The varied influences are largely responsible for his multiple creative passions, which range from space, to buildings, to robotics and beyond…

 

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Inspiring HDR photography of Trey Ratcliff

 

As most of you might know, Trey Ratcliff (AKA Stuck in Customs) is best known for his amazing HDR photos. Trey’s work first became popular after he had his first HDR photo ever hung in the Smithsonian. After that, he was represented by Getty, been featured on the BBC and various other shows, and have had numerous showings around the world.

Trey is an attained photographer with many accomplishments that include…

 

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The New Canon EOS 60D DSLR Camera Review

 

With the new EOS 60D DSLR, Canon gives the photo enthusiast a powerful tool fostering creativity, with better image quality, more advanced features and automatic and in-camera technologies for ease-of-use.
It features an improved APS-C sized 18.0 Megapixel CMOS sensor for tremendous images, a new DIGIC 4 Image Processor for finer detail and excellent color reproduction, and improved ISO capabilities from 100 – 6400 (expandable to 12800) for uncompromised shooting even in the dimmest situations…

 

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Amazing portrait and fashion photographer Edina Csoboth

 

Here comes another great portfolio, and this time it’s Edina Csoboth’s.

Edina is a portrait and fashion photographer from Budapest, Hungary. Looking at her photos you can tell she’s into composing with light and color, and she’s damn good at it too!!

Her portraits are breath-taking and utterly beautiful, I get goose pumps just looking at them. Creative, brilliant, and inspiring… She sure has it all! …

 

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Art of portrait photography | Sanja Marusic

 

I stumbled upon the beautiful work of Sanja Marusic from Holland a while back, and I was utterly speechless. She doesn’t just do portrait photography, she summons the art in it.

Every portrait, staged or candid, is so full of beauty and grace. Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re psychedelic, sometimes they’re thoughtful, but whatever be the case they are always wonderful! Her ideas are unique, her approach is creative, and she has an eye that every photographer would ever wish to have…

 

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Inspiring Photography of Andreas Schott

 

Andreas Schott, a 28 years old photographer who lives in the Black Forest, Germany.

Andreas has been into photography for about 3 years now. He has been able to explore a lot of great places around his hometown, which he wouldn’t have been able to if it wasn’t for his passion for photography. Every time Andreas finds a new place that he likes, he takes a break and just enjoys the moment, so photography is like a sort of relaxation for him.

Andreas is overwhelmed by the power of photography and how he can transport his own feelings and thoughts through his photos…

 

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How to Create a Panorama in Photoshop

 

This is a cool video by professional photographer and photography teacher Yanik Chauvin from Yanik’s Photo School demonstrating How to Create a Panorama in Photoshop in a simple, easy, and straight forward way. I’m sure you’ll find this very help as I did myself. Take a look…

 

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Inspiring photography of Shane Venem from California

 

50 year old Shane Venem has gotten back into photography after a long absence. He used to dabble in film photography as a hobby when he was around high school age.

About a year and a half ago Shane decided to buy a digital camera and try his hand at it again. Now, he’s quite hooked.

He’s lucky enough to live in a beautiful area of the California coast generally roaming the coast from Big Sur to San Francisco, but most of his photos are around Santa Cruz where he lives. There’s a nice area of unspoiled coast just north of Santa Cruz called Davenport where most of Shane’s shots are taken. ..

 

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Fashion portrait photographer Kris Krug shares his photography tips

 

Kris Krug, a photographer with a particular interest in fashion and portrait photography, speaking at a Gnomedex event and shares some useful and mind refreshing photography tips.

Kris Krug is a published photographer whose work has made it to National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Business Week, the Financial Times, USA Today, the LA Times, PBS, Ion Magazine, Wikipedia, Heads Magazine, The Victoria Times-Colonist, the Seattle Stranger, Westender, The Terminal City News and various other online and print publications.

 

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Inspiring black and white film photography of Takuya Imatoh

 

Takuya Imatoh is a film photographer from Japan. He has released two photobooks to this date: Daydream, and Scene of Silence.

Takuya shoots with a range of full frame, medium format, and Polaroid cameras such as Nikon New FM2, Pentax SP, Rolleiflex 3.5f Planar, Asahi pentax 6×7, Agfa Isolette apotar 85mm f4.5, and Polaroid spectra pro…

 

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Concert photo inspiration | Pearl Jam

 

OK, so here’s something new! For the past couple of weeks I’ve been listening to Black by Pearl Jam nonstop, and so I wanted to download a nice wallpaper of them. But as I was looking for photos I realized this could be incorporated into our inspiration fix. I mean who said we can’t be inspired and have fun at the same time?!! So there you go, today’s concert photo inspiration is gonna revolve around Pearl Jam. Most, if not all, of these amazing concert photos are taken by photographers Karen Loria and Anna Knowlden. Enjoy…

 

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Long exposure photography | Julius Tjintjelaar

 

Today we’re looking at some really excellent long exposure photography examples by Julius Tjintjelaar from Holland.

Although Julius shoots digital and has the availability of software not only to enhance his images but also to manipulate them, he only uses this software for minimal corrections and only using the tools that are also available in the darkroom like dodging and burning.

 

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Art fashion photography | Shinji Watanabe

 

Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Allure. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic locations or accessories.

Today we’re gonna take a closer look at Shinji Watanabe’s art fashion photography. Shinji is an art director from Tokyo, Japan.

To be honest with you I’m not really much into fashion photography, or any kind of staged photography for that matter, but the art fashion photography of Shinji Watanabe is something you really really gotta see. The guy will leave you utterly breathless.

 

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Inspiring photographic art work of Jef Cris Yaneza

 

A while back I noticed this Inspiring photographic art work on flickr while I was looking for bokeh images for an article I was preparing and I stumbled upon the photography of Jef Cris Yaneza from the Philippines. I instantly fell in love.

This guy has a certain touch to his photos ; the appealing colors, the brilliant bokehs, the true mood and essence you can feel in his work.

Jef is a CAD designer and photographer who descends from an artistic family of painters, and it sure looks he’s not doing so bad himself! …

 

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Photoshop tutorial: creating a dark blue sky for your photos

 

Sometimes you have this great landscape photo that all it needs is a hint of somewhat a more vivid, dark blue sky and it would be perfect. Good news is with Photoshop you can easily get that in a simple straight forward couple of steps, and this video by professional photographer and photography teacher Yanik Chauvin from Yanik’s Photo School will show you How to create your dark blue sky effect in Photoshop. Take a look…

 

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Inspiring photography | Greg Thow

 

Today we’re looking at the inspiring photography of 46 year old Greg Thow, who has pointed cameras at things for years as a Television Director… but two years ago decided to do so outside of work in the world of still photography.

Finally getting an SLR and some decent glass has allowed him to start “catching up” with the thousands of terrific online photographers… and keep learning and growing despite having the “photoshop skills no greater than that of a potted plant”…

Having the good fortune of living in God’s country (Colorado) doesn’t hurt either… no shortage of things to capture with a camera in the Centennial State…

 

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Inspiring photography of Jesse Swallow

 

For today I thought I’d let you in on the inspiring photography of Jesse Swallow from Melbourne, Australia.

Jesse’s photography style shows as this high-contrast, low-glamour, non-documentary depictions of city life body of work, trying to move away from representational architectural and street photography, and attempting to evoke the human experience of living in an urban environment.

Jesse has been into photography for around 3 years now, though he has always been an artist keeping busy with his sketches and other means to express his inner creativity…

 

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Sigma APO 70-200 mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Lens Review

 

Sigma makes available its brand new APO 70-200 mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM as the second generation of this large aperture telephoto zoom lens now incorporating Sigma’s Optical Stablization function (OS), their own anti-shake system which makes viewing a stabilized image in the viewfinder possible for Sony and Pentax users if chosen.

Two FLD glass elements, which have the performance equal to fluorite glass have also been added along with three SLD glass elements, all which provide excellent correction of color aberration.

In spite of the additions of all of these features, Sigma has managed to make the lens more compact than its predecessor, measuring only 7.8” in length…

 

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Andrea Kaise | Spain Photography

 

This good day our photography inspiration is gonna be from Spain with 18 year old photographer Andrea Kaise.

Andrea started getting into photography like 2 years ago. She had discovered the magic of analog photography and instantly fell in love. Although she now shoots both analog and digital, she still feels that analog just has this je ne sais quoi hint to it.

Andrea has never studied photography professionally, though she’d like to some day, she uses her intuition and inner vision which she sometimes feels is worth so much more.

 

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How to watermark photos | Video tutorial

 

This is a cool video by professional photographer and photography teacher Yanik Chauvin from Yanik’s Photo School demonstrating How to watermark photos in Photoshop with no fuss. I’m sure you’ll find this very help as I did myself. Take a look…

Feel free to share your examples with us by including a URL in the comments below after you have tried this …

 

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Photography lighting tips: Use a reflector

 

In photography and cinematography, a reflector is an improvised or specialized reflective surface used to redirect light towards a given subject or scene either to create a broader more diffused light source, or to control harsh shadows casted on your scene.

Reflectivity intensity usually depends on the reflector’s surface texture and color, and its positioning relative to your scene.

If positioned in front of a light source with the light source facing away from the subject or scene, reflectors create a broader more diffused light by bouncing it off softly illuminating the scene.

Here’s a short video posted by Tamron on youtube giving you some Photography lighting tips on how and why to use a reflector…

 

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Inspiring photography of Michael Reed

 

Michael Reed is an Australian based landscape photographer in Brisbane, Queensland. This allows easy travel to some of the best beaches in the world, namely the Gold and Sunshine Coasts which provide golden beaches, crystal clear water and never ending sunshine! Michael has been a keen photographer from a very early age, it is his passion for recent travel which has taken his photography to another level.

Rising at the crack of dawn to capture the first rays of sunlight, trekking for hours on end in dense jungle in northern Thailand is just an insight into the dedication Michael gives to capture that perfect image and display nature in all its glory.

Take a look at the inspiring photography of Michael Reed, and I’m sure you will be astonished…

 

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