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Learn to shoot your DSLR like a rifle with tips from a US Army officer. Second Picture- Tutorials of 3D, Photoshop, Photography & Photography Composition. Welcome to Strobist. This website is about one thing: Learning how to use off-camera flash with your DSLR to take your photos to the next level. Or the next ten levels. If you are a complete beginner at lighting, you are in the right place. Strobist's Free Lighting 101 course starts from absolute zero, and is widely considered to be the best resource of its kind on the web. Over 4,000,000 photographers from all around the world have taken the plunge before you. You probably already have most of what you need to start creating kickass photos with your own small flash, and all of the information on this site is free. Already familiar with small-flash lighting gear and techniques?

And since lighting is not a destination but rather a journey, bookmark Strobist's front page for the occasional new dose of lighting-related learning and fun. Got questions? Join the over 100,000 people in the Strobist group on Flickr and fire away. You can post your successes there to show off, or your failures when you need help. Color Management 101. A Post By: Darren Rowse Color Management is a topic I get asked about a lot here at DPS so when I saw this video – an introduction to color management – I was over the moon – at last a tutorial to point readers to!

Episode 28, Intro to Color Management from Jim Talkington on Vimeo. There are lots of approaches to the topic of color management – I’d love to hear how you go about it in comments below. Thanks to Jim from ProPhotoLife for another great video tutorial. Slow Shutter Shoot-Out – 3 Slow Shutter Speed Techniques. A Post By: Chas Elliott Experimenting with Slow Shutter Speeds can be a lot of fun. Today Charles Clawson from blog.chaselliot.com sums up three types of slow shutter techniques and invites you show off your attempts at doing them.

There have been some great articles and interest lately on long exposures so I thought I would put together a hodgepodge of techniques and then turn it over to DPS readers to see what they can come up with. I’ve broken this slow shutter shoot-out into 3 categories. When you submit your photograph, do it under one of these styles. I’ve thrown in a few of my own as examples into the article just to give you an idea. 1. Digital Photography School Forum member Sodaman420 couldn’t have done a better job introducing the technique of Light Painting. 2. Blur isn’t always a bad thing, especially when it captures the movement occurring in a photo. 3. Share Your Slow Shutter Speed Shots Have you played with slow shutter speeds? Further Reading on Shutter Speed.