Digital Photo Academy Photo Tips are submitted by professional photographers who teach DPA classes in 20 cities around the country. Tailored for all photographers, hobbyists, scrapbookers, and photo enthusiasts, DPA Photo Tips will help you take better pictures. Each month DPA offers photography advice for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced skill levels in our monthly newsletter, as well as this permanent archive of photo tips online.
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 | Tips for better landscape photography with point-and-shoot cameras! Read Complete Article |  |  | Tips for better landscape photography with point-and-shoot cameras! Read Complete Article | |  | It doesn’t matter if one is a novice photographer, a serious amateur, or a working professional photographer, everyone who uses a camera will quickly learn that one of the hidden goals to being a successful photographer is to ALWAYS have a plan “B”.
Whether it’s a backup plan for dealing with faulty equipment, or to cover the change in weather, to models that don’t show up or are sick, or an entire event is changed to an earlier time, having a back up plan is vital to producing images that you can be happy to call your own. Read Complete Article | |  | Yes, it may seem simple enough, all you have to remember to do is " take the lens cap off". But Wait, maybe you don't want it to be so simple. Imagine what you can achieve if you're willing to shake things up a bit.
Try this:
With your camera on a tripod and the shutter set to B for bulb, you can easily obtain multiple exposures of fireworks.Read Complete Article | |  | In the world of journalism these are called "drive by shootings". Not to in any way belittle the actual horrible act of someone being shot, but to emphasize that sometimes in the world of journalism, what we photograph happens quickly, and without opportunity to prepare, and yes sometimes happens while in the car. Read Complete Article | |  | High desert was shot off of old Highway 8 on the California Mexico border. This rock is about 2 hours east of San Diego and visible from highway 8. Lots of interesting rock formations in all high desert areas. Read Complete Article | |  | Read Complete Article | |  | I frequently think of the camera as a sketchbook that allows me to practice compositional strategies and sharpen my awareness of how to organize space within the frame. When those moments in life that really matter occur — personally or professionally — I must have my camera ready, in addition to the lessons of how “studies” like these inform my approach to image composition. So when I happened upon this scene during a walk about on the grounds of the abandoned Delaware copper mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, I had to bring the Lumix L-1 up to it. Read Complete Article | |  | Photography is a lonely art. It is best practiced when you have time and light. But doesn’t it seem that it is only on vacation that we have time and light AND a mind that is more relaxed and open? Read Complete Article | |  | Nothing says open space quite like a landscape defined by little more than big sky and continuous ground. In this image, stratified layers of color transition through various shades of green, yellow and blue, delineating a compositional plane and horizon. We find a soothing calm in the rendering of earth and sky in minimal content and form, which is interrupted dramatically, however, by the comet-like trail of the cloud. Read Complete Article | |  | Patience is key! I set up this shot with the camera zoomed out and rested on a railing which was close enough and high enough to get this image straight on. Read Complete Article | |  | Sometimes breaking the rules can yield dramatic images. In this case, I chose an angle that provided extreme back-lighting of the subject. Read Complete Article | |
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