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Published: Thu, 07/03/08

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Digital Photography School Newsletter

Welcome this week's Digital Photography School newsletter.

Our newsletter is back to it's normal self and after a couple of lighter weeks being a Dad I'm pumped to be back at DPS with some great new tips and tutorials as well as a little challenge for your weekend.

Read on to find out more!

Darren Rowse

» New at the DPS BLOG

How to Photograph Fireworks Displays

4th of July is a time when many head outdoors for fireworks displays. But how do you photograph them? In this classic DPS post we gives some starting points if you're heading out this week with your camera to a fireworks display.

Get your Fireworks Photography Tips here

Summer Portraiture: Practical Technique

It's summer for many of you (I wish it was for me too) and so this tutorial on shooting in bright conditions will hopefully be of some use to you.

Read it here

The 1 Focal Length Weekend Challenge

Looking to get out of a photographic rut?

This weekend we're challenging you to a little project - shoot only with one focal length for the whole weekend!

Find out more about how you can participate (and more importantly why you should)

The Secret to Ultra-Sharp Photos

"Help - my images are not sharp" is something I hear a lot from readers.

In this post Jim shares some tips on how to get ultra sharp images.

Get them here

Digital Photography School on Twitter

It's always fun to play with a new technology so this week Digital Photography started using one of the fastest growing trends on the web - Twitter. Twitter is a 'micro blogging' site where we're sharing our latest posts, assignments, reader questions and more.

Learn more about DPS on Twitter and how you can get in on the fun.

What Was Your First Photography Experience?

In this reader question we ask you to go back to the first time you ever picked up a digital camera and tell us about it.

Looking forward to hearing your stories here.


New Nikon DSLR

New Nikon D700 DSLR and Speedlight Flashgun

This week Nikon announced some new gear that is going to have some of your mouth's watering.

At the top of their announcements was the Nikon D700 - a 12 megapixel professional level camera in a compact body.

 To go with it Nikon added a new speedlight flash to their range. Read about them here.


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This week's assignment:
A Sense of Scale