What Percentage of Our Readers Use a DSLR as their Primary Camera? [Poll Results]
Over the last month or so we ran a poll here on dPS asking readers what type of camera they use as their primary digital camera.
After just on 50,000 responses the results are in – and they’re pretty conclusive – here at dPS people certainly like their DSLRs.
Of course dPS has a fairly ‘enthusiast’ type audience so I wouldn’t claim that this is an accurate reflection of the total percentage of DSLR users going around today – but it certainly shows a shift towards DSLRs in our community (and beyond).
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What Percentage of Our Readers Use a DSLR as their Primary Camera? [Poll Results]
PHOTO WALK: Weekly Photography Challenge
Image by Drewski Mac
This week your challenge is to take a ‘photo walk’ and share a favourite image or two from it.
We’re doing it this week as on Saturday is the world wide photowalk. You might like to join one of them (it’s pretty last minute but not too late) or just do your own alone or with a friend.
So grab your camera and…. take a walk. Where you walk is up to you – it might be around your neighborhood, it could be in the countryside or it could be around your house. It’s totally up to you.
Once you’ve taken your “Photo Walk” image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing site and either share a link to it below or embed it in the comments using the our new tool to do so. Please note it sometimes takes us a while to approve comments with images as there’s a moderation queue – particularly over the weekend.
If you tag your photo on Flickr, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag it as #DPSPHOTOWALK to help others find it. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.
Thanks to Morgan ‘Bell’ Davis for suggesting this theme to us on our Facebook Page. Make sure you ‘like’ us there to have your theme considered next week.
PS: don’t forget to check out some of the great photos shared last week in the YELLOW challenge.
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PHOTO WALK: Weekly Photography Challenge
Do you have a place that you just keep going back to with your camera?
Do you have a place that you just keep going back to with your camera?
As I think back over the years of my own photographic journey there have been a number of such places for me as I’ve lived in different places and have experimented with different types of photography.
- When I was quite young there was an overpass near my house where I used to go and shoot light trails
- Then there was the phase that I always went out to an airport near my house and used a telephoto lens to photograph planes
- Then I went through a phase where I would travel down the coast here in Australia along a road called the ‘Great Ocean Rd’ to photograph rock formations off the coast
- Lately it’s been more about my kids – so I guess the ‘place’ I’m using my camera more and more is in my home.
Where do you keep returning with your camera? If you’ve got a favorite picture of that place – share it in comments below.
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Do you have a place that you just keep going back to with your camera?
YELLOW: Weekly Photography Challenge
Image by MonkeyMagic1975
This week your photography challenge is to take an share a photo on the theme of YELLOW.
We’ve done these color themes before (Red, Blue and Green) and they’ve always been very popular and a lot of fun – so lets do it again.
I’m expecting lots of pictures of lemons, cheese, butter…. (maybe it’s time I took a break for lunch), sunny days, rubber ducks and sunflowers
Once you’ve taken your “YELLOW” image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing site and either share a link to it below or embed it in the comments using the our new tool to do so. Please note it sometimes takes us a while to approve comments with images as there’s a moderation queue – particularly over the weekend.
If you tag your photo on Flickr, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag it as #DPSYELLOW to help others find it. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.
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YELLOW: Weekly Photography Challenge
How are You Going with Your Photographic Goals for 2010?
At the start of 2010 we challenged our readers to think about what their photographic goals would be for 2010 (the article contained 30 suggested goals).
It’s now halfway through the year and so when Christen contacted us over the weekend to remind us of that post we thought it might be a good time to get everyone thinking about their photographic goals again – in two main ways:
- are you moving toward the photographic goals that you set at the start of the year?
- what goals do you have for the 2nd half of the year?
If you’re anything like me – goals tend to be something you are pretty general about. ‘I want to improve my photography’ – is a goal that I know many people make. But without getting a little more specific it can be a goal that is never really met.
So what are you going to do in the 2nd half of 2010 that will take you further forward in your photography? What concrete steps will you need to put in place to achieve those goals?
Share how you’re going and what you’re planning to do in the next 6 months in comments below and hopefully we can all keep each other a little more accountable.
PS: My personal goals for the 2nd half of the year:
Early next year I’m taking a trip to visit a not for profit organisations work in Tanzania. As a result I want to
- Improve my portrait/travel photography by sitting with a travel photographer friend and picking his brain, viewing some of his work and getting some tips.
- I want to buy a new camera before the trip – I’ve been looking to upgrade my Canon EOS 5D to a Mk II for a while but have been hoping they’d come out with a Mk III. Either way – I want a DSLR with video so I don’t have to take two devices. I’m also eyeing off the 85mm prime lens (as there will be a fair bit of low light shooting)…. mmmmm!
- I want to take my camera out with me more – I tend to use my camera mainly for family gatherings and with my kids and need to get back into the practice of having it with me everywhere (something I used to do but with a busy work and family life I’ve gotten out of the practice).
What are your goals for the rest of the year and how are you going with previously set ones?
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How are You Going with Your Photographic Goals for 2010?
STAT! Weekly Photography Challenge
Your challenge this weekend is to take and share a photo on the theme of STAT!
OK – this is a bizarre topic and the reason it was selected is odd too but it originated from this thread on our Facebook page and me using the word ‘STAT!’ in my call for themes for the week.
The context I used ’stat’ in was that I needed a theme idea FAST! It’s a term often used in medical settings that apparently comes from the Latin word ’statim’ which means ‘immediately’ or ‘urgent’.
You’re welcome to take any spin you like on the word but perhaps a photo that conveys some kind of urgency, immediacy or fast action (although you might want to interpret it as ’statistics’, ’status’ or ’status quo’ or something else as others in the facebook thread suggested).
Once you’ve taken your “STAT!” image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing site and either share a link to it below or embed it in the comments using the our new tool to do so. Please note it sometimes takes us a while to approve comments with images as there’s a moderation queue – particularly over the weekend.
If you tag your photo on Flickr, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag it as #DPSSTAT to help others find it. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.
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STAT! Weekly Photography Challenge
Wide Angle: Weekly Photography Challenge
This week your photography challenge is to take a share a picture with the widest focal length available to you.
Image by Adriano Agulló - Shot at 8mm
For some this will mean using their point and shoot at it’s widest setting, for others it’ll be fixing a zoom lens to your camera and using the widest focal length on it and for others it might mean attaching a wide angle prime lens or even a fisheye lens and shooting with that.
A few posts that might help you tackle the challenge include:
- Using Wide Angle Lens Distortion Creatively
- 17 Amazing Wide Angle Images
- 6 Winning Ways to Work Wide
- How to Get the Best Results from Ultra-Wide Lenses
- Wide, Wider, Widest – Wide Angle Photography
Your image can be of any subject matter – portraits, landscapes, sports, wildlife…. whatever you like.
Once you’ve taken your “Wide Angle” image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing site and either share a link to it below or embed it in the comments using the our new tool to do so. Please note it sometimes takes us a while to approve comments with images as there’s a moderation queue – particularly over the weekend.
If you tag your photo on Flickr, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag it as #DPSWIDE to help others find it. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.
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Wide Angle: Weekly Photography Challenge
How Photographically Old Are You?
I’m a year and a half old. At least, I’ve come to think of it as a rebirth ever since I picked up my first digital SLR a year and a half ago. My how things have changed…
Photography has an amazing ability to change the way in which we really see light. It’s color and luminosity, the way it plays against and wraps around a subject. Photography has changed the world for me, and I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that. It may not always happen immediately, but give it time and I guarantee photography will change everything about how you perceive the world. Many of you are forever changed. Some of you long time professionals have known this for decades.
When you begin to look at everything as if it may be a photograph, you realize that everything truly is. Every experience and area in our lives holds a portion of interest, wonder or perhaps terror, but something that grabs and affixes our attention if we simply look at it beyond the casualness with which we often meander through life. Take the time to stop and really look at something. Study it. Appreciate every detail. Learn to bring out what makes it unique and interesting.
Better yet, grab your friends, children or family. Head out on a photo journey with them and discover everything around you. Creatively capture and freeze that single expressive moment in time that this wonderful device known as a camera allows you to. Be inspired.
Share with our readers how photography has inspired and changed your life. How photographically old are you?
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How Photographically Old Are You?
WEATHER: Weekly Photography Challenge
This week when we asked our Facebook community to suggest a theme for our weekly photography challenge the theme of WEATHER was suggested by Heather Simpson and supported by quite a few others – so this week that’s your challenge, to take and share an image on that theme.
Image by Gregory Bastien
We all have weather but it’ll be interesting to see the different conditions we’re all facing at the moment. Here in Melbourne we just celebrated the Winter Solstice and many of you are in the height of Summer…. so lets get to it. Take an image that shows some aspect of the weather you’re currently living in whether it be rain, sun, hail, snow, storms, humidity….
Hopefully we’ll get some shots with real atmosphere – moody rainy days, brooding storm clouds, magestic lightening strikes, happy sunny days, peaceful snowy landscapes…. the sky is literally the limit!
Once you’ve taken your “Weather” image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing site and either share a link to it below or embed it in the comments using the our new tool to do so. Please note it sometimes takes us a while to approve comments with images as there’s a moderation queue – particularly over the weekend.
If you tag your photo on Flickr, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag it as #DPSWEATHER to help others find it. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.
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WEATHER: Weekly Photography Challenge
Behind Every Good Photographer There’s….. Weekly Photography Challenge
Image by Hamed Saber
Over on Facebook this week I started a thread that asked people to complete the sentence:
“Behind Every Good Photographer There’s…..“
The response to the thread was fantastic (well over 400 responses so far), there was both insightful and funny responses.
A number of readers asked if they could submit visual answers so I thought perhaps it’d make a good weekly assignment. So – finish that sentence, but with an image to show us.
What (or perhaps Who) is behind you as a photographer? Feel free to take your response in any direction, perhaps it is a person, perhaps it’s about your gear, perhaps it is some kind of resource, perhaps its some kind of principle that you can put into a picture.
If you’re lost on what to do – take a look at the answers on the facebook thread to get a little inspiration.
Once you’ve taken your image, upload it to your favourite photo sharing site and either share a link to it below or embed it in the comments using the our new tool to do so. Please also tell us what type of camera phone you were using!
If you tag your photo on Flickr, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag it as #DPSChallenge to help others find it. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.
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Behind Every Good Photographer There’s….. Weekly Photography Challenge