[Photography] Best Travel Photography Tips of 2014

Travel photography is one of the most popular topics here on dPS. Things often seem more interesting to photograph when we are away from home, travelling somewhere exciting or just new. Here are some of the highest rated travel photography articles on dPS in 2014. In no particular order:

• The Only Three Lenses You Need for Travel Photography


• The Worst Mistake a Travel Photographer Can Make


• Off Camera Flash for Your Travel Photography


• 20 More Photography Tips Every Travel Photographer Must Know


• 6 Tips for Photographing People When Travelling


• 7 Proven Ways to Come Home with Better Travel Photos


• 10 Ways to Improve Your Travel Photography Portraits


• 5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Travel Photos


• Versatility – Your Guide to Shooting Great Travel Photography


• 6 Tips for More Unique Travel Photos in Busy Tourist Locations


• Travel Photography without the Travel – Going Local


• Overcoming the Fear – Creating Better Travel Photography Portraits


• How to Get the Most Out of a Travel Photography Location

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[Photography] Happy New Year from dPS – Welcome 2015

By Amodiovalerio Verde

This is the end – of another year that is. Was it a good one for you? We certainly hope so.

What are you plans for 2015? Will you ring it in with a bang? Do you make resolutions? The beginning of the year is always a good time to look back and reflect on what you’ve accomplished and makes plans for the coming 12 months.

We would like to wish you the happiest new year from all of us here as dPS!

Happy New Year 2015!

By Randy Tan [RnD.de.Portraits]

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[Photography] Post-Processing Tips of the Year 2014 on dPS

What to do with all those photos after you’ve taken them is the question. Do you do any post-processing? Are you a minimalist? Or maybe you like do to HDR?

By Zvi Kons

Whatever your tendency this year had some helpful post-processing articles. Here are a few of the most popular ones from the last year:

Lightroom

• 6 of Lightroom’s Hidden Treasures


• Useful Lightroom Plug-ins


• How to do Noise Reduction in Lightroom


• Photoshop Versus Lightroom Which is Right for You?


• Lightroom How To – One Tip and One Trick


• Seven Pieces of Advice for New Lightroom Users


• Improve Your Images with the Lightroom Graduated Filter Tool


• Save Tons of Editing Time with Lightroom Presets


• How to Create a Vintage Look using Lightroom


• Step by Step Portrait Processing in Lightroom


• Lightroom 5 Tips – Hidden Gems


• Mastering Color in Lightroom using the HSL Tab

Photoshop

• >3 Easy Steps Using Photoshop to Making your Images POP


• 5 Photoshop Tools to Take Your Images from Good to Great


• How to Use LAB Color in Photoshop to Add Punch to Your Images


• 6 Commonly Used and Confused Tools in Photoshop Explained


• Ten Go-to Editing Tips for Using Photoshop


• 4 Tips for Post Processing Efficiency in Photoshop


• Understanding Masking in Photoshop


• How to Watermarking Images With Photoshop and Lightroom


• Two Quick and Easy Photoshop Head-Swapping Techniques


• How to Use Levels in Photoshop Correct Color and Contrast


• How to do Quick and Easy Curves Adjustments in Photoshop


• 3 Creative Uses of the Drop Shadow in Photoshop


• How to do Great Black and White Conversions Using Photoshop


• 5 Creative Ways to Process Infrared Photographs in Photoshop


• A Beginners Introduction to Using Layers

Other

• Are You Guilty of these 5 Over-Processing Sins?


• Luminosity Masks Versus HDR Software For Creating Natural Looking HDR Images


• Better Star Trails Photographs with StarStaX


• HDR Vertorama Photography – How to Create Mind-bending Images


• Getting to Know Picasa – a Free Image Editor and Browser by Google

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[Photography] Don’t Miss Out: Soon These 12 Photography Training Deals Will Be Gone Forever

As 2014 races to an end – so too are our amazing 12 photography deals of Christmas.

In just on 48 hours (as the calendar ticks over into 2015 US Eastern Time) these fantastic deals will close forever.

Among them are some great savings to be had – up to 88% off resources that will help you make 2015 the year of great photos!

The Most Popular Deals of 2014

Each year we get readers ask for our recommendation on the best deals to pick up so as this all comes to an end we like to reveal the best selling deals so you can see what is hot!

Of course the best deal is what is right for you. All these deals come with 60 day money back guarantees so if you’re not quite sure if a deal is for you you can pick it up and then get your money back if you find it doesn’t meet your expectations.

It’s also worth saying that while the first 4 in the list stood out from the rest of the pack considerably – there wasn’t a great deal between the other 8 in the list!

1. 70% off the Photoshop Artistry Course – this was our biggest deal over on SnapnDeals when we ran it earlier in the year and again was clearly the hottest deal of the 12 days. Pick it up while you can at this never before seen price.


2. 88% off Hacking Photography’s Lightroom Presets Bundle – our biggest discount of the year and a no brainer if you’re a Lightroom user as it gets you 100 professionally designed Lightroom presets for just $10.


3. Landscape Photography eBooks for $10 – our best selling Landscape Photography eBooks normally retail for $30… in this deal they are yours for $10 or both for $19 with a bonus.


4. Portrait eBooks for $7! – this deal gets you any of our 4 Portraits eBooks for $7 or you can pick them all up with a bonus for $21


5. $10 eBook Day – no surprises here, we put 10 great dPS eBooks up for just $10 each. Also hot in this day was our Photo Nuts bundle (4 great eBooks for $25).


6. Ed Verosky’s Macro eBook for $7 (or his library at 78% off) – Ed’s eBooks are always very popular – this year was no different to previous times we’ve featured them.


7. Natural Light for $7 – this best selling eBook is gorgeous and sold like crazy when we set it live on day 5!


8. Essential Guide to Black and White Photography – one of our newest eBooks at a price never before seen.


9. 60% off our Going Pro eBook – if you’ve ever dreamt of making money from your photography this one is for you.


10. Save $40 on Gavin Gough’s Post Lightroom Tutorials – perfect if you want to brush up on your Lightroom post processing skills.


11. Save $60 on KelbyOne 12 month Membership – get 365 days of amazing photography training for just 55 cents per day.


12. Save 50% on Lighting on Location Course – while it is at the bottom of the list this course is one of our favorites. Written by our own editor and PACKED with some of the most practical and actionable information on Lighting Portraits – a bargain at this price.

These deals all end at midnight US Eastern time 31 December (as we see in 2015) so act now to pick up yours!

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[Photography] Best Photography Tutorials for Beginners in 2014

Just getting started in photography? Or maybe you get a brand new camera or some photography toys for Christmas and want to get up to speed on how to use them?

By JakeandLindsay Sherbert

Over the past 12 months we’ve had some great articles geared towards the beginner or novice photographer. Here’s a little holiday reading for you to give you a good kick start:

• Understanding Depth of Field for Beginners


• 5 Beginner Tips for More Autofocus Success


• How to Master Your DLSR in One Afternoon a Beginner’s Guide


• Beginners Tips for Night Sky and Star Photography


• Bird Photography Tips for Beginners


• Nature and Wildlife Photography Tips for Beginners


• A Beginners Guide to Seascape Photography


• 5 Beginner Tips for Photographing Animals in the Wild


• 5 Tips for Newbie Landscape Photographers


• 10 Incredible Bird Photography Tips for Beginners


• A Year of Photographic Lessons – Journey of a Novice Photographer


• Step-by-step Guide to Long Exposure Photography


• Understand Exposure in Under 10 Minutes


• Camera Basics 101: The Exposure Triangle

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[[Optical Component]] Optical code reader

An apparatus for presentation reading of optical information with removable reader includes an optical information reader and a cradle or stand having a seat for seating the reader facing a predetermined optical information reading zone. The reader has an illuminator and the stand has an illuminator. A processor is configured to...



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[[Optical Component]] Multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor

Provided is a multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor that can achieve downsizing and weight reduction. The multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor includes a case body which is formed to have open ends and has the same cross-sectional shape in a longitudinal direction of the multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor; end members which are attached...



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[[Optical Component]] Integration of optical components in integrated circuits

Methodologies enabling integration of optical components in ICs and a resulting device are disclosed. Embodiments include: providing a first substrate layer of an IC separated from a second substrate level by an insulator layer; providing a transistor on the second substrate layer; and providing an optical component on the first substrate...



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[[Optical Component]] System for vibrating optical components using an airflow device

A system for vibrating optical components using an airflow device is provided. The system includes: one or more elongated fibers, each of the one or more elongated fibers comprising a respective diameter; one or more optical components for at least one of conveying coherent light and interacting with the coherent light;...



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[[Optical Component]] Integrated optical coherence tomography systems and methods

Disclosed herein are optical integration technologies, designs, systems and methods directed toward Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and other interferometric optical sensor, ranging, and imaging systems wherein such systems, methods and structures employ tunable optical sources, coherent detection and other structures on a single or multichip monolithic integration. In contrast to contemporary,...



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[[Optical Component]] Integrated optical system and components utilizing tunable optical sources and coherent detection and phased array for imaging, ranging, sensing, communications and other applications

In another embodiment the system uses an optical photonic phased array. The phase array can be a static phased array to eliminate or augment the lens that couples light to and from a sample of interest or can be static and use a spectrally dispersive antenna and a tunable source to...



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[[Optical Component]] System and method for generating optical output from an electronic device

An optical processing system for an electronic device is provided. The optical processing system includes a digital component for generating digital signals based on received signals from the electronic device. The optical processing system further includes an optical component for generating optical signals based on the digital signals. The optical processing...



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[Photography] Most Popular Gear Articles of 2014

Photographers love our stuff, let’s admit it. We geek out on gadgets and gizmos. We want the latest and greatest thing, lens, camera. We can’t always afford what we want but it’s fun to browse. Here are some of the top gear related posts on dPS over the last 12 months:

Cameras

• 10 Reasons Why a Pro is Using a Mirrorless Camera for Personal and Paid Jobs


• How to Clean Your Camera Sensor in 3 Easy Steps


• The Secret to Capturing the Best Image Quality with Your Digital Camera


• Updating your Camera’s Firmware – What is it and Why it’s Important


• Review Comparison of the Canon EOS 70D vs Canon 700D / Rebel T5i


• Review: Comparison Canon 5D MarkIII vs the Canon 6D


• Sony A6000 Mirrorless Camera Review and Example Images

Lenses

• Old Glass: How to Use Old Film Lenses with New DSLR Cameras


• The Only Three Lenses You Need for Travel Photography


• Why Prime Lenses are Better Than Zooms


• 5 Easy Steps to Choose the Perfect Prime Lens for You


• No Telephoto Lens No Problem – Tips on Shooting for the Crop


• Ready to Upgrade Your Kit Lens? Tips for Which Lens to Invest in Next


• How to Choose the Perfect Portrait Lens


• A Concise Guide to Choosing a New Lens


• Lens Review Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD


• Creating Swirly Bokeh with the Helios 44-2 lens


• Writer’s Favorite Lens – the Tamron 18-270mm


• Writer’s Favorite Lens – the 50mm f/1.4 Lens

Other

• Phottix Mitros+ Review – the Best Flash System You Have Never Heard of


• Light Blaster [ For Special Effects Lighting ] a Review


• Bounce Flash Secrets – Bouncing Your Way to Better Photography


• 5 Ways to Create Better Images Without Buying More Gear


• Two Videos on How to Take Care of Your Camera Gear


• How to Buy Used Camera Gear


• My Portrait Gear Essentials


• Essential Gear for the Landscape Photographer

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[Photography] The Hottest Landscape Photography Articles on dPS in 2014

Landscape photography is always a popular topic here on dPS and we had some really great articles on that topic over the last year. Now is your time to read up, bookmark them, refresh your knowledge, or get inspired to get out shooting some landscapes.

A final image after being processed in Photoshop

In no particular order, here are some of the most popular landscape photography articles from 2014:

• How to Get Super Sharp Landscape Photography Images


• 10 Most Common Mistakes in Landscape Photography – and How to Overcome Them


• 3 Tips to Take Better Landscape Photos Regardless of the Weather


• 5 Steps to Help you Take Better Landscape Photos


• Some Punchy Black and White Landscape Photos to Oooo and Aaah Over


• Landscape Photography and Hyperfocal Distance


• 5 Tips for Better Long Exposure Landscape Photography


• Better Landscape Photography Tips and Video Tutorials


• How to Create Amazing Urban Landscape and Street Photography Images


• How to do Dreamy Landscape Photography with a Neutral Density Filter


• 5 Tips for Newbie Landscape Photographers


• The Power of Post-processing for Landscape Photography


• and a dPS ebook for good measure: A Guide to Landscape Photography Workflow and Post-Processing

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[Photography] Don’t Miss Out: These 12 Photography Deals Will Disappear With 2014

Over the last 12 days we’ve presented you with some amazing daily deals on photography training resources in our 5th annual 12 days of Christmas.

The savings this year were our biggest yet and we had a lot of really positive feedback from readers who picked up some fantastic deals.

As in previous years we did get a few sad messages from readers who missed deals along the way asking if there was any way to get them.

As a result – today we’re opening all 12 deals back up again for one last chance.

So if there’s a deal you regret missing or you might have missed one of our emails – you’re in luck. Here they are!

• Deal 1: Over 50% off Ed Verosky’s Introduction to Close Up & Macro Photography (or bundle all Ed’s books and save 78%)


• Deal 2: 65% off David J. Nightingale’s Essential Guide to Black & White Photography (newly published in 2014)


• Deal 3: $40 off post-production Lightroom video tutorials with Gavin Gough (or bundle it for more savings)


• Deal 4: dPS Portraits titles $7 each… (or all 4 for an amazing $21!)


• Deal 5: Save 65% on Natural Light by Mitchell Kanashkevich (one of our most popular eBooks ever)


• Deal 6: $60 off KelbyOne online photography training (a year’s training for a few cents per day)


• Deal 7: Going Pro dPS eBook kit – 60% off (always a top seller)


• Deal 8: 70% off Photoshop Artistry: Fine Art Grunge Composition course (the was the most popular deal of the 12 days)


• Deal 9: 100 professional Lightroom presets – over 88% off! (our biggest discount of the lot and a big seller this year)


• Deal 10: 50% off Portrait Lighting on Location course (created by our own Managing Editor)


• Deal 11: $10 Landscape photography ebooks – Save 66% (newly published in 2014)


• Deal 12: All dPS eBooks $10! (these sold like hotcakes yesterday)

All these will be available until midnight US Eastern time on 31st of December, after that they will be gone for ever – so get to it and grab yours today!

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