10 Beach Photography Tips

Here are 10 tips for when you head to the beach with your digital camera, brought to you by Digital Photography School.

I have the listed the points here but you'll have to visit the link to read the full article.

1. Look for focal points
2. Timing is important
3. Watch the Horizon
4. Head to the Beach When Others Avoid it
5. Exposure Bracketing
6. Spot Metering
7. Fill Flash
8. UV Filters
9. Polarizing Filters
10. Black and White


All good points except number 8. UV filters do nothing to improve photos in my opinion.

PhotoMapper Free Software Download

Free downloads of Copik's PhotoMapper are available now to download from their website.

Press Release:

Copiks Software Ltd's PhotoMapper is a program which will assist in organising your photographic memories by adding a geographic position to the EXIF-data that is already present in your files, so called geotagging.

The PhotoMapper is completely free to download and has no demo limitations.

Software to tag your photographs with geographical positions utilizing either GPS data or entering coordinates manually. Positions can be exported, and viewed, in Google Earth.

For more information and for a free download of the Copix software. please go to the Copiks website.

Fathers Day Gift Idea

From now through June 3rd, Kodak Gallery is offering customers 25% off of purchases of $25 or more on all merchandise!

Just in time for shoppers that have not yet purchased that gift for Dad.
Offer excludes prints.


Make sure you use this coupon code>> GOODOLDAD.

Save 25% on all Kodak Gallery merchandise!

Free Photoshop Plugins

Looking for free Photoshop Plugins?

There are lots of plugins that you can buy but TutorialBlog takes a look at the best of the free plugins you can download. Alot of these plugins are things that you can learn to do in Photoshop alone if you have the time, without installing any unnecessary software on top of the program. A nice list regardless.

Free Photoshop Plugins

Curved Space

Curved Space
Originally uploaded by RickBlythe.

Here's a photo I snapped today. Do you like it?

Learn High-Dynamic-Range Photography

Currently on the front page of website digg.com is a good article for photographers;

High-Dynamic-Range Photography: A Guide

"If you've seen a particularly eye-popping, out-of-this-world night photograph of a city skyline, or a particularly apocalyptic cloudscape with cartoonish color saturation making the rounds on blogs lately, there's a good chance it was made using high-dynamic-range imaging, or HDR software. And while these images may look like the work of a pro photographer, or at least a seasoned digital-imaging or special-effects expert, the tools to easily make your own amazing HDR images are widely (and in some cases freely) available."

Taking Great Digital Photos Every Time

If you want to really learn digital photography... if you have a digital camera but don't understand half of its features... if you are considering moving up from an old "film-style" camera to a digital camera but aren't quite sure what kind of camera to get... this may interest you.

You see, digital photography is not complicated once you know a few basics. In fact, it's way easier than "regular old photography". I stumbled across this website which produces a guide called Digital Photography Mastery.

Here's some of what's inside...

• All about going digital - the hows and whys of digital photography, and why it makes your photographs better. (page 6-10)

• Photography 101 - yes, this is the world's quickest & simplest "get up to speed" guide on taking great pictures. (page 12-14)

• Choosing a camera - If you don't have a camera yet, or you're thinking of getting a different one, this checklist will make your choice simple. (pages 14-17)

• Accessories you need - hey, don't let camera salesperson load you up with a bunch of junk you don't need. Here's what you do need - plain & simple. (page 18)

Read on... Digital Photography Mastery