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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. Come on in, the water's fine. 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. Okay then, pick a place to jump in:

Better Photography Strobist Discussing Presetting Lightroom's 180+ Free Presets Collection in Presetting Lightroom Welcome one and all to the new Lightroom preset compilation of the Presetting Lightroom group. I have invested a number of days to ensure that this list of presets is accurate and reflects those presets previously offered in this group. In many cases, the original preset developer did not provide a before and after photo. Therefore, I used a number of my own photos that I thought best showed off the potential of each preset. In some cases links were changed to provide you with direct links back to the originator of the presets. I have included all those presets that were posted in this group. I would hope that in an effort to further promote this group that everyone will help in creating links back to this list on those forums and WEB sites that you frequent. Anyway, there's a lot of interesting presets here. Cheers, Markus Albumen (1860's Civil War era) Preset by vidular - Site: Awesome BW Preset by synaestheta - Site: synaestheta.deviantart.com This creates an effect just like it says.

Second Picture- Tutorials of 3D, Photoshop, Photography & Photography Composition Instant Shift thomas prior The Switchboards The Setup: When taking your own photos, you want lots of light - but not direct light. Direct light will cause harsh shadows, which you don’t want. DO NOT USE A FLASH! Flashes wash out colors and details – and even the entire photo if you are taking close up shots. For the background, trim a piece of white matte poster board and curve it inside the container. Here is a photo of the setup I use: The Camera: If you can, get and use a tripod. Know your camera and how it works. Shutter Speed: The length of time your film (or digital chip) is exposed to light. Aperture: The diameter of the opening that allows the light to enter the camera. Other features/settings you should be aware of: ISO/ASA (film speed): If you have the option to manually select a film speed on your camera, resist the temptation to choose 400. Macro Mode: This is the ability of your camera to focus very close to an object – sometimes within centimeters. A light meter comes in many different forms. Taking Your Pictures

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. 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. I recently talked about this on my blog, but on a good moon lit night, it’s fun to create the illusion of photographs being taken in daylight but with the added effects that come with slow shutter speeds. Share Your Slow Shutter Speed Shots Have you played with slow shutter speeds? Further Reading on Shutter Speed

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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.

Eric Kim Street Photography In lieu of the popularity of my last post about the “100 Things I Have Learned about Photography,” I decided to make a new list that pertains to street photography specifically. Also if you don’t know, I am currently writing a book titled: “Street Photography 101,” and the excerpts are being posted here. This new list is a homage to the Street Photography 101 book that I am writing. Note that there is some overlap of some of these points with the previous list that I wrote, but I thought it may be essential for new-readers to note. 1. 21. 41. 61. 80.