How to Make An Inexpensive Light Tent

Another great article over at DPS today by Jeffrey Bail… definitely going to have to try this out!

If you’re like me, you don’t want to spend money if you can do it yourself and yield the same results. One day I was at my local photography store I saw one of these “Pop-Up” light tents. It consisted of a collapsible white fabric box with a hole in the front and 3 lights – used for photographing small objects in photographic studios (like the shot of the chocolate reindeer to the left).

Read “How to Make a Inexpensive Light Tent” over at DPS.

10 Ways to Add Variety to Your Digital Photography

Cool post over on DPS today, here’s the summary:

  1. Shoot your subject at different focal lengths
  2. Shoot your subject from different angles
  3. Shoot using different formats
  4. Avoid the Group Shot Blink
  5. Use continuous exposure modes
  6. Move your Subject around
  7. Try Exposure Bracketing
  8. Experiment with different ‘modes’
  9. Play with your Flash
  10. Tell a story
  11. One last tip: when it comes to shooting lots of images – take note of what you’re doing.

Read the rest of the post and the detailed comments on each point over at DPS!