Guest Post by Richard Harrington – Follow Richard on Twitter
When creating DVD sideshows of your photos, it’s important to remember that the size of your image will likely not match the constraints of a television screen. The DVD format supports ve…

Photographers are increasingly turning to new social media technologies to get word out about their businesses (Facebook pages, Twitter, Google+ and more are topics we’ve featured in the last year).
There’s certainly some wonderful potential to eng…

Copyright Scott Bourne 2011 – All Rights Reserved – Before Post-Processing
As some of you may know, I am a big fan of pre-visualizing your shots. If you can see it in your mind’s eye before you capture the image, you have a better chance of making a …

In a recent reader poll we asked readers how they focus their cameras with the hope of gaining some insight in whether our readers are relying upon Auto focus, manual focus or a little of both.
The results are in and it appears Auto Focus is well in vo…

Photoshop has a huge range of shortcut keys for speeding up your day. Here are my ten best shortcut keys that I suggest you add to your Photoshop toolkit:
1. Find the sizing handles

When you paste a layer or selection into a Photoshop image – if it …

NOTE: You may want to read my review of the Olympus 45mm f/1.8 Lens here and the Olympus PEN E-P3 here.
If you’ve been following along, you know I am a fan of the Olympus 4/3 cameras. The new version, the EP3 is actually one of my favorite cameras. …

Digital Photography School : Forum Weekly assignment
This week our theme was ‘Stressed’ and I have to say, some of the images were really very good!
There was a clear winner, as chosen by our forum moderators;
Erving with his image;
"Stressed…

Three months before its official release the photographic press caught its first sight of this new model. This was paralleled by close looks at two related models, near-identical in specs, but differing radically in appearance: welcome also to the Lite…

A Guest post by Angie Muldowney.
I love the poignancy of street photography; the way it can portray the world in an ironic, tragic, educational or funny way – often all at the same time! I would love to have the confidence to point my lens directly a…

Post & Photo by Joe Farace – Follow Joe on Twitter

The classic definition of macro photography is that the image projected onto the digital sensor (or film plane) should be the same size as the subject. In other words, an SLR at a 1:1 ratio, an…