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Published: Thu, 08/07/08

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Welcome this week's Digital Photography School newsletter.

There's been a bit of excitement around DPS this week as we celebrated our first month with 1 million readers!

Thanks for  your readership of DPS and enjoy this update.

Darren Rowse

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Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Aperture (a beginner's guide)

Do you want to learn how to get out of Auto mode and gain more control over your camera?

If so - this new series of posts from Natalie is for you. It's aimed at the beginner and puts into plain English some basic principles of exposure.

In this post she starts with Aperture.

Prime vs Zoom Lenses - Which are Best?

As DSLRs come down in price I'm finding more and more readers are doing the upgrade and are asking questions about what type of lenses are best.

In this post we take a look at Prime and Zoom lenses and look t some reasons why you might consider each option. Check it out here.

Portrait Photography's Power Posing - Part II: The Poses

In this post Christina continues to look at different elements of 'power posing.

She shares with readers 3 classic poses (standing tall, casual seated and the wall chill) and how to achieve them.
 
She then shares some other tips on learning how to pose subjects.

Read her tutorial on power posing here

An Introduction to Architectural Photography

In this post a professional architectural photographer shares some great tips for those of you wanting to improve the shots that you take of buildings.

He looks at equipment, technical tips and gives a few other general tips on how to perfect the task. Read it here.

How to Do Extreme Macro Photography Without a Dedicated Lens [VIDEO]

Have you ever wanted to experiment with macro photography but didn't have the budget to buy a dedicated macro lens?

This video shows us a trick using two lenses that you might already have to achieve 1:1 magnification. Watch it here.



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