December DPA Photo Tips: Home for the Holidays
Photos by Allen Birnbach and Russ Burden, Denver DPA Instructors
Click here to learn about DPA Photo Tips offered in each newsletter, and on our website.
For more inspiration and lessons on technique for making great photographs this holiday season, visit our HOLIDAY TIPS section.
See our three tips below for Beginner, Intemediate, and Advanced photography skill levels.
Additionally, check out our 3-level curriculum descriptions to learn about improving your photographs using digital manipulation, in the DPA workshops.
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Beginner Photo Tip:
Holiday Memories
Photo & text by Russ Burden, Denver Instructor
No matter what seasonal holiday you celebrate, getting meaningful pictures for the family album is important. Documenting each yearly celebration provides a means to record the growth that you and your loved ones experience. Make a list of what makes the holiday season special to you and record those moments digitally.
My list includes special people, moments, and events. Use the following as a baseline resource from which you can create your own. Hopefully you'll come up with others I haven't included in that they are near and dear to your heart.
Click here to read more from Russ on capturing special memories this holiday season.
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Intermediate Photo Tip:
Kids in Snow
Photos & text by Russ Burden, Denver Instructor
Birthday parties, family get-togethers, parades, kids on Halloween, weddings, graduations, cutting down a Christmas tree - these are but a few of the many events that make photography fun and rewarding. These preserved moments make for wonderful additions to the family album.
Everyone has events that are special to them that make them run to a camera to capture the unfolding action. One of these for me is photographing my son when he's playing in the snow.
The following are some tips for capturing great shots of kids in snow.
Click here to read more from Russ on how to photograph your kids in the snow..
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Advanced Photo Tip: Photographing Christmas Lights
Photos & text by Allen Birnbach, Denver DPA Instructor
Photographing Christmas Light displays can be lots of fun.
There are lots of creative variations on a theme in play here, so go out and explore your neighborhood. Or, plan ahead for your next year's Holiday card by shooting your own display. Here's what you need to know...
Click here to read more from Allen on photographing holiday lights this season.
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December DPA Photo Assignment: Home for the Holidays
Photo by Chris Michaels, San Diego Instructor
Snapshooters, amateur photographers, photo enthusiasts and even professionals are encouraged to submit their best images of 'Home for the Holidays.'
Send us your best photographs from this holiday season: portraits, still life, night and action shots all qualify. What does 'home for the holidays' mean in your neighborhood? What inspires you?
Entries should be uploaded by January 10th, 2008. And remember, the winner who is selected will be part of the 12 Assignment images that will be on display in museums, galleries and studios around the country.
To enter or learn more, click on Assignments
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Instructor Profile:
Rick Wright Exhibits at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography
Photographs by Rick Wright, Philadelphia DPA Instructor
Loaded with intellectual whimsy, poetry and science, Rick Wright's Dada-esque photographs are hardly discernable as photographs. More reminiscent of drawings, Wright resourcefully pursues the extraordinary artfulness of the quotidian and often discarded, found object remnants of day to day. His work, somewhat obtuse, existential and strange, is laced with humor and contemplative complexity.
Click here to see Rick's photographs from the exhibition and read a review from the Montana Kaiman Newspaper.
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Featured Classroom:
Carousel Studios, Miami
by Frank Lovece
Life is a carousel, my friends, so come to the Carousel ... Studios, that is, where for 10 years, co-founders Tom Gonzalez and wife Mireille Chancy-Gonzalez have made their Miami venue a photographic sweet spot in the Big Orange.
The two had already been part of the Miami photo scene for 20 years, having founded the venerable WorldWide Foto, the city's photo-supply mecca. Carousel, located nearby, fills a 5,000-square-foot building in Miami's Design District. It's near Miami International Airport, scenic U.S. 1 and I-95 - and within walking distance of beautiful Magnolia Park and Biscayne Bay, if anybody in Miami walked.
Click here to read more about this inspiring workshop venue in Miami!
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December Student of the Month: Arthur Schwartz
Arthur Schwartz is our December Student of the Month.
Arthur, DPA Advanced Student from Boston, is a serious amateur photographer who has attended photography workshops around the world.
His introspective and photographs reminiscent of Edward Hopper caught the eye of Boston Instructor Frank Siteman, naming Arthur our December Student of the Month.
Click here to see more of Arthur's photographs
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DPA November Assignment Winner!
Joseph DeHaven, Advanced student in Phoenix, AZ, is the winner of our DPA November Assignment: Giving Thanks for the Perfect Landscape. His photograph of a "View from a lookout high on Mount Haleakala" takes us on a journey to another planet.
Congratulations Joseph!
Click here to see Joseph's winning photograph
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Camera Care for the Holidays
Los Angeles DPA Instructor Chuck Place gives advice on camera care while you travel this holiday season.
Whether you are staying at home for the holidays or visiting family or friends, these camera care tips will ensure that your equipment is in tip-top shape no matter the weather conditions!
Among travel photographers such as myself, camera maintenance falls into two categories, daily and location specific prep. Daily maintenance during a shoot is the usual: battery check, blow or brush dust off the sensor, wipe down the body to keep it clean, clean the lenses and filters etc. I perform these chores each day, no matter what the conditions...
Click here for more information on camera care
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