lovelifey: December 2016

Dec 26, 2016

[Photography] 15 of the Most Popular Landscape Photography Articles of 2016

Landscape photography is a popular genre for many photographers, especially beginners. But doing it well does have its challenges. Here are some of the most read articles on this topic from the past 12 months.

Get our Ultimate Guide to Landscapes free PDF

The dPS Ultimate Guide to Landscape Photography: This in-depth article by Anne McKinnell is available for you to download as a free PDF. Just head over to the article.

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10 Tips for Photographing Wide-Angle Landscapes by Anne McKinnell
8 Steps to Great Long Exposure Landscape Photography – by Tim Gilbreath
4 Mistakes Beginning Landscape Photographers Make – by Christian Hoiberg
5 Tips for Setting the Focus in Your Landscape Photography – by Jim Hamel
Lightroom Quick Post-Processing Tips for Landscape Photography – by Adam Welch
12 Tips to Help You Capture Stunning Landscape Photos – Kav Dadfar
How to Use Leading Lines Effectively in Landscape Photography by Prathap DK
6 Tips for Planning the Perfect Landscape Photo Shoot – by Luigi Trevisi
5 Good Reasons to Add People into Your Landscape Photography by Bruce Wunderlich
Wide Angle Versus Telephoto Lenses for Beautiful Landscape Photography – by Will Crites-Krumm
5 Tried and True Landscape Photography Tips used by the Pros by Nisha Ramroop
8 Tips to Avoid Crowds at Popular Landscape Locations by Christian Hoiberg
One Compositional Technique to Transform Your Landscape Photos – by Jim Hamel
Circular Polarizers Versus Graduated Neutral Density Filters for Landscape Photography by Suzi Pratt
Tips for Processing Winter Landscapes in Lightroom by David Shaw

You can also take a look at our ebook Living Landscapes if you want to go deeper – it’s just $9 this week only.

That should keep you busy until tomorrow. Watch for another “Best of 2016” round up.

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[Photography] dPS 2016 Holiday Schedule

I hope you’re knee deep in festivities and good food by now. With the holiday season in full swing, I just wanted to send you a quick note about what to expect here at dPS over the next week. The dPS team is taking a little down time so we can give our writers a break and time with their families too. This is what will:

By Sean MacEntee

From the next week – the best of dPS 2016

It’s time again for me to go through last year’s articles and find the best, most popular ones, for you. Starting off tomorrow with the hottest landscape articles, we’ll have a new topic each day, with several articles for you to read or review on each one.

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Starting off 2017

After all the parties are over, we’ll get back to our regular schedule of two articles a day on January 2nd (Australia time). For the first couple days you’ll see the wrap-up of the Best Of series, and just one post per day from us, then it’s back to business as usual.

So expect some good reading coming up. If you have some time you can catch up on a few articles you may have missed or focus on learning a new, specific technique.

Also remember to keep an eye out for our 12 Days of Christmas sale for some great photography deals.

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[Photography] Don’t Miss Out: These 12 Photography Deals Will Disappear With 2016

Over the last 12 days we’ve presented you with some amazing daily deals on photography training resources in our 7th 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. You can find them all here or listed below.

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: Save 50% on this Trade Photography Guide (it’s just $5)
Deal 2: Save 76% on this Mega Portrait Photography Bundle (course, eBooks and more)
Deal 3: Save 70% on our Lightroom Mastery Course (hottest deal of the 12 days)
Deal 4: Save 67% on our Lightroom Presets (transform your images in a click)
Deal 5: Save 60% on these Professional Photoshop Actions and Lightroom Presets
Deal 6: Save 60% on these Landscape Photography Courses (from two of our favorite photographers)
Deal 7: Save 85% on this Drag and Drop Lightroom Collage Tool (includes bonus)
Deal 8: Save 65% on this Camera Skills and Light Skills Training (satisfaction guaranteed)
Deal 9: Save 77% on this Portrait Photography Training (includes 4 exclusive bonuses)
Deal 10: Save 85% on our Our Photo Nuts Courses (PERFECT for beginners)
Deal 11: Save 60% on Black and White Photo Artistry Course (this was very popular)
Deal 12: All dPS eBooks – just $9 (there’s 23 to choose from)

All these will be available until midnight US Eastern time on 31st of December, after that they will be gone for ever (just like 2016) – so get to it and grab yours today!

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[Photography] Happy Holidays 2016 from the dPS Team

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Merry Christmas from the team at dPS! It’s Christmas day already in Australia where most of the team is based, and we’d like to wish you the happiest of days from all of us here at dPS.

Thank you for being a regular reader and fan of dPS and for helping us to be able to continue to provide photography education for you and other photography enthusiasts. However you celebrate this holiday season, we hope you have a good one.

Cheers!

By Jake Vince

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[Photography] All dPS eBooks – $9 Today Only

On the twelfth day of Christmas dPS gave to me …

It’s the last day of our 12 days of Christmas sale and for today only, you can get any of our photography ebooks for just $9.

Rather than pick a few to share, we thought we’d put EVERY single book on dPS for sale for just $9.

There are 23 titles to choose from

Topics include photographing portraits, landscapes, travel, kids and much more.

There’s also eBooks on special effects, black and white, flash photography and even natural light photography.

Check them all out here.

Even our $50 Going Pro eBook is just $9.

It’s a $9 eBook spectacular! There’s also no limits, grab as many as you like. But only in the next 24 hours.

Check them all out before time runs out.

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[Photography] Weekly Photography Challenge – Festive

Holiday time in many parts of the world is a time for festivities. I shared a few festive images earlier, have a look.

By Kenny Miller

Weekly Photography Challenge – Festive

What does festive look like for you? In your city? In your culture? Photograph that and share it with us this week for this challenge. Think about:

Decorations and lights
Food or special meals
Parties or events
Parades or fireworks
Family and friends

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By Jamie McCaffrey

By The Explorographer™

Share your images below:

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer, upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

Share in the dPS Facebook Group

You can also share your images on the dPS Facebook group as the challenge is posted there each week as well.

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[Photography] 24 Festive Holiday Images to Get You Into the Spirit

Christmas, Hanukkah, Fiesta of the Lady of Guadalupe, Day of the Virgin, and many other world holidays happen this month. Every religion and culture celebrate in their own unique way. Here in Nicaragua where I will be spending Christmas, they parade a statue of the Virgin Mary down a new street each night, complete with marching band and bombas (fireworks).