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Published: Thu, 08/14/08

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Digital Photography School Newsletter

Welcome this week's Digital Photography School newsletter where we've done our best thing week to help you to continue to improve your digital photography.

I hope you enjoy this week's update below.

Darren Rowse
Digital Photography School

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Understanding Shutter Speed

In this tutorial Natalie continues her series of posts on understanding the basics of Exposure and getting out of 'Auto' mode on your digital camera.

Learn about Shutter Speed here

How to Shoot Light Trails

In this classic DPS tutorial we show you some great 'light trail' shots and talk you through how to take them.

Learn more about Shooting Light Trails

Travel Photography Equipment - What To Pack?

You're about to leave for that overseas trip where you know you'll have some amazing photographic opportunities - but you've got limited space, can't carry too much weight and you're afraid of leaving something at home that you'll regret!

What do you pack?

In this post Christina shares some tips on what photography gear to pack when traveling.

Dymo DiscPainter Review

Ever wanted to print images on disks? I wanted to do this last year when giving some images for Christmas to family members as gifts but ended up giving up because I couldn't find the right printer. In this review one of our forum moderators, Sime, reviews an option I wish I'd had back then.

Read the review of the Dymo DiscPainter

Art Photography - How to Create an Oil Painting from a Photo with Corel Painter

How do you get your image looking like a painting? 

There are many ways to achieve it but in this post we take a look at how to do it with Corel Painter.

Where To Rent A Lens Online

If you've ever wanted to have a lens for a special occasion but didn't have the budget to buy one then renting a lens could be worth considering. In this post we review a number of US based lens rental services and readers suggest others from around the world that they've tried in comments. If you're looking to rent a lens or have used a service to do so we'd love to hear from you.

Read about Lens Rental


Want to Start a Blog?
This is a little off topic but I get asked for advice about how to start a blog by readers quite often.

Blogging has been an amazing experience for me on many levels. I've been using them six years now and over that time have built a few blogs up into a full time job.

If you're interested in blogging (for fun or profit) a good friend of mine, Yaro Starak, has put together a very useful free series of videos for beginners on the topic of blogging. You can see the tutorials at:

Become a Blogger

Yaro does also offer some great training and coaching courses also (paid) but these videos are free and well worth a watch if you'd like to give blogging a go. Enjoy!



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