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 DPA March Tips: Spring!
Photo by Anthony Shreck, Boston DPA Instructor, image shot with a Lensbaby
See our tips below for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced photography skill levels for snapping shots of green!
Click here to see the March Photo Assignment and tips on the DPA website.
And check out our 5-level curriculum descriptions to learn about improving your photographs using technique, composition, and digital manipulation in the DPA workshops.
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Beginner Photo Tip:
Wildflowers
Photos & text by Chuck Place, Seattle DPA Instructor
DPA Seattle Instructor Chuck Place offers helpful tips on capturing Spring ladnscapes.
"Spring wildflowers are a welcome sight in Southern California. Not only are they beautiful, but it means we have received enough rain during the past winter so that drought is not an issue. The mountains behind Santa Barbara often develop great carpets of purple lupine in late March after a wet winter...."
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Intermediate Photo Tip:
A New Angle
Photo & text by Rick Wright
Philly DPA Instructor Rick Wright
gives a unique spin on photographing flowers.
"For those of us in colder climates like Philadelphia, winters grays still linger. If you haven't warmed up yet either, consider looking inside for colorful Spring photographs...."
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Advanced Photo Tip:
Background Soft Focus
Photos by Alex Lippisch, Cleveland DPA Instructor
"To achieve a soft focus on the background, I needed to use a very wide lens aperture which in this case was f3.5..."
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DPA Announces Themed Advanced Workshops: Tulips!
Wolfgang Kaehler will be launching another concept on the other side of the country, Tulips! On April 18th &19th join Wolfgang Kaehler in shooting the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. For the last 20 years Kaehler has been navigating the globe with his camera including 200 nations if you include destinations that are no longer be found on the map. In fact, students will have the option of a 2 day class for $200 or a 1 day class for $150 CLICK HERE to register!
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Advanced Workshop:
From Spanish Vogue to Digital Photo Academy in Miami
On March 14th Instructor Michael Thoennes taught DPA Advanced Students the ins and outs of shooting portraits in both natural and studio lighting conditions. Students experienced the essence of a professional fashion shoot including a make up artist and stylist, along with an array of professional lighting equipment and photo accesories.
Click Here to see more of the photos from the Miami model shoot!
Upset you missed out on the shoot this time around? Click here for Advanced Shoots in your area!
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March DPA Assignment
Photo by Frank Siteman, Boston DPA Instructor
Spring! is our march Assignment: whether it is a still life, images of nature, a portrait or your pet, share your photos of Spring!
Entries should be uploaded by April 17th, 2009.
And remember, the winner will be a part of the 12 Assignment images that will be on display in museums, galleries and studios around the country in February 2010!
Click here to enter or learn more
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Instructor Profile:
Robin Hill
Photos and text by Robin Hill,
Miami DPA Instructor
Robin Hill, DPA Miami Instructor, specializes in Architecture, Design and Fine Art photograhy. Hill' has been featured in the Guggenheim, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, The Municipal Art Society, and Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale.
Click here to see more of Robin Hill's images!
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Photo by Rafael Jimenz
Rafael Jimenez, DPA New York ADV Student, takes us on a tour of the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.
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DPA February Assignment Winner:
Bill Brown
Photo by Bill Brown
DPA Instructor Joel Silverman recently selected the winner, for February's "Snapping Green" Assignment.
DPA Instructor Joel Silverman recently selected the winner, for February's "Snapping Green" Assignment.
Congratulations to Bill Brown, Intermediate student, from Philadelphia!
"Bill Brown's "Breakfast in the Field" photograph satisfies the "snapping green" assignment perfectly and is the winner of the March contest. Reminiscent of one of Claude Monet's lovely, impressionistic garden paintings, the lovely early morning scene of a field of flowers illustrates three of the points I teach in the DPA Composition class about what makes a great photograph:
(1) Perfect light makes a perfect photograph. The beautiful quality of dawn light proves why the early bird gets the worm.
(2) Shallow depth of field can really make a photograph interesting. Usually used more for portraits than landscapes, this is a great example of "breaking a rule" to stunning effect.
(3) Monochromatic fields of color, with no contrasting color, mean no distractions to break the beautiful mood of this painterly photograph.
Click here to view Bill's image!
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DPA Student Gallery
Monthly Winners - You Too Can Win $100!
Photo by Darryl Fong
DPA is pleased to announce the February 2009 Student Gallery Winners!
Congratulations to Darryl Fong and Abe Sassoon!
Don't fret if you didn't win this time around; all entries from March 26, 2009 and forward are eligible to win in future months.
All winners will have their images printed in PcPhoto magazine! So go online and upload your best images to the Student Gallery today!
Click here to read full news and see both winning images
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What's Happening at DPA Headquarters:
PMA
This Month the Digital Photo Academy team headed off to Las Vegas for the annual Photographic Manufacturers Association Convention.
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Panasonic Announces:
FS- & LS-Series LUMIX in Miami
Panasonic announced the DMC-FS25 as its newest addition to the LUMIX FS-Series of digital cameras. The 12.1 megapixel DMC-FS25 features a 5x optical zoom and a 29mm wide-angle LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens, a 3.0-inch intelligent LCD and is the top-of-the-line FS-Series model.
The LUMIX FS models, a stylish sister-line of the highly-acclaimed LUMIX FX-Series, combine easy operation with a sleek look, enabling both beginner and advanced users to take beautiful digital photos with a camera that slips in a pocket.
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Contact the Digital Photo Academy
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© Joe Robbins
Houston DPA Instructor
© Steve Dunwell
Boston DPA Instructor
The Digital Photo Academy's digital photo workshops are offered monthly in 20 major cities across the country, and in three skill levels:
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
© Kathy Tarantola
Boston DPA Instructor
Our mission is to help digital camera owners at every skill level learn how to better use their cameras and optimize their digital photography experience, no matter what company manufactures their camera.
© Tony Schreck
Minneapolis DPA Instructor
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Quick Links
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Jenn's Journeys!
Click on the link herein to view Jenn Warren's mutli-media show, Life Is Water.
The piece is about the tragedy of 1.5 million people in the world, mostly children, who die as a result of unsafe water. PSI has provided 125,000,000 liters of safe water in Southern Sudan in the year 2008.
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Click here to watch a video of the exhibition a the Griffin Museum!
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