Best of October on The D-Photo

Hey guys! October is over and before we embark on a whole new month, I just wanna take this chance to thank you all for keeping this site going. It is what it is because of you all! The D-Photo is now 7 months old, and October has been the best month of its short life. Your visits, comments, tweets, and everything you do has been and still is a great help, a source of inspiration, and it’s what keeps me going so do keep them coming.

All the emails, requests, suggestions, and contributions you’ve sent in or made to this website are highly appreciated. I read every email I get, and I make sure to do my best to make your experience and mine here the best possible. If there’s anyone out there that I haven’t yet replied to their email, please be sure that I will get back to you ASAP. I have a long queue of emails and suggestions, but be sure that I read them all.

Thank you so very much my friends. Love you all =)


Inspiring travel & landscape photography from PAk DocK

 


Inspiring travel & landscape photography from PAk DocK

PAk DocK is a traveler. He goes to places you never knew existed. He meets people and blends with them. He experiences the good and the bad, the high and the low, and he comes back and shares that with the ones who are able to admire and comprehend, who are able to travel thorugh time and space and be present in those creative, sencere, and heartfelt moments to particiapte as if they were actually there…

 



Creative photography ideas from landscape photographer Dave Henderson


Creative photography ideas from landscape photographer Dave Henderson

Dave Henderson got into photography around 6 years back as a hobby, and soon this hobby turned into an obsession. Dave enjoys the learning process and the inspiration he gets in all areas of the craft. He usually shoots with a Sigma 12-24mm wide angle lens, for he likes the effect it produces and the results it gets him….

 



Beautiful people & street photography from Rafa Elías

 


Beautiful people & street photography from Rafa Elías

Rafa Elías from Spain, is a photographer with a unique sense of purpose, time, and place. His photos shine with originality, expressive emotions, and thought provoking compositions. They’re simple, yet sensational in a way that you can practically feel the emotion of time and space as if you were right there. Rafa doesn’t take photos, he controls them. He controls his subjects. He brilliantly imposes his intents, and creates images with a high level of intrigue and personality…

 



Absolutely beautiful photography of Andrew / Cuba Gallery!

 


Absolutely beautiful photography of Andrew / Cuba Gallery!

Andrew is a New Zealand Graphic Designer living in Auckland. His design career has lead to a special interest in photography. The majority of Andrew’s work is done in New Zealand and Australia, however his love for photography has taken him to the USA, Japan, Europe and the Pacific Islands. His work is heavily influenced by his design background in the graphic use of color, light and composition. …

 



Beautiful black and white street photography of Julien Legrand


Beautiful black and white street photography of Julien Legrand

Born in 1979, Julien Legrand began working with images as a graphic designer. Then, little by little, photography came to him naturally. Now he spends a lot of time roaming the streets, camera in hand, taking pictures of what people don’t often notice.

What interests Julien in street photography is the unscripted nature of everyday life, often more poetic than it appears when seen in a different way. He has always been drawn to black and white for its out of time feeling, and distilled essence…

 



Photo light leak effect in Photoshop | Video tutorial

 


Photo light leak effect in Photoshop | Video tutorial

I’ve already introduced you to camera light leaks, and how some people use them for creative photo effects while others consider them a problem and try to fix it. For the ones that do like to give a cool retro vintage effect to their photos, camera light leaks can easily be simulated through photo editing software such as Adobe Photoshop , and this is what we will learn to do in this post with the help of a very cool video tutorial created by Cameron Rad who was nice enough to allow me to share his video on my site with you guys…

 



Black and white long exposure photography inspiration from Mike Malling


Black and white long exposure photography inspiration from Mike Malling

Mike Malling is mainly interested in black and white long exposure photography. He would rather perfect his exposure and composition on location, than having to edit and fix back in Photoshop. He knows his camera and lens inside out, which gives him the benefit of focusing all his attention on his subjects. He is a perfectionist when it comes to his photography. His photos are often minimalist, and therefore he makes sure they are as good as can be….

 



Unique people photography of Chrissie white

 


Unique people photography of  Chrissie white

Born in 1993, Chrissie white currently lives in Seattle, Washington and is an accomplished freelance photographer between going to school and completing personal projects. She shoots both film and digital, drawing from her surroundings and the people she photographs.

Chrissie works towards creating images that are relevant to her clients, while still adding a creative element that makes them stand out…

 



Beautiful landscape photography of Helga Kvam

 


Beautiful landscape photography of Helga Kvam

Born in Akureyri, Iceland in 1972, Helga Kvam is a multi-awarded photographer, both in Iceland and internationally. Her works have been published in books and magazines world-wide and she has clients both in Iceland and abroad. She has taken part in many exhibitions, both solo and group exhibitions….

 



Jaw-dropping landscape photography of Kane Gledhill

 


Jaw-dropping landscape photography of Kane Gledhill

Born in New Zealand & based in Brisbane QLD for the past 6 years, Kane Gledhill specializes in landscape, nature and wedding photography. He has been a keen photographer for over 15 years, first picking up a camera whilst still in school to cover the yearly sporting events.

While at school, Kane also worked part-time in a local camera store for a well known New Zealand wedding photographer – Steven Jones…

 



Stunning long exposure landscape photography of Mark Southgate


Stunning long exposure landscape photography of Mark Southgate

Mark Southgate teaches Art and Design in a secondary school in Gateshead, UK. He used to be a freelance book illustrator and have written and / or illustrated 15 or so children’s books.

Mark Has not really done much photography since his student days back in the 80s, but is really enjoying it as a hobby now. It gets him out and about in the county side, and he can mix it with a bit of water colour painting…

 



Stunning architecture & landscape photography of Salvador del Saz


Stunning architecture & landscape photography of Salvador del Saz

Salvador del Saz has been into photography ever since he was a teenager. His first camera was a Yashica Electro 35 GSN that he still keeps with him as a little treasure. Later, Salvador bought two reflex cameras: an Olympus OM10, and a Pentax P30N. Several compacts cameras followed these ones. Although he went on taking photos, his interest in photography began to languish. However, in 2004 he borrowed a compact digital camera Nikon for a trip to Germany from his brother, and his interest in photography reborn from its ashes. Now, Salvador is really happy taking photos and sharing them with people out there, thanks to the community of people drawn together by Filckr…

 



Magnificent landscape photography of Antony Spencer

 


Magnificent landscape photography of  Antony Spencer

Antony Spencer has been doing landscape photography for about 5 years. He was completely addicted the first moment everything came together and he made his first decent image.

Antony is slowly working towards making this a full time venture, although he knows there is still a very long way to go.

He has recently fallen in love with Arctic Norway, and can’t wait for the several trips out there that he has planned this winter…

 



Create a fashionable cinematic photo effect in Photoshop

 


Create a fashionable cinematic photo effect in Photoshop

Today we’re gonna look at how to create a fashionable cinematic photo effect using Adobe Photoshop. Note that if you’re using some other photo-editing software such as elements or GIMP, the process is exactly the same…

 

 


 

6 Comments

  1. Love you too Diana and love your wonderful site. An amazing resource for great inspiration as always <3

  2. The D-Photo has quickly grown to become one resource of knowledge and inspiration for all photographers as well as one of my daily visited websites. I salute you on this wonderful site and I look forward everyday to the next post. Keep up the lovely great work

  3. thank you so much for the sweet words guys. we’re just getting started here and hopefully this will be a long fascinating ride with you and me on board side to side =)

    • Congrats on the success. This is truly an awesome site full of so much valuable advice and incredible inspiration. I look forward to your posts everyday. keep up the great work!

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