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You Need to See These Case Studies Before They’re Gone

Have you ever intentionally ignored something only to find out that you’ve been a fool for doing so? This weekend I discovered what a fool I’ve been for ignoring a resource that could have…

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From Blog to Small Business: Tips for Taking Your Blog to a Whole New Level

A Guest Post By Deb Ng – Deb Ng is a freelance writer, professional blogger, social media consultant and founder of the Freelance Writing Jobs network of blogs. Four and a half years ago I start…

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What You Can Learn About Blogging Business Models from a Hip-Hop Artist Who Used to Hustle on the Corner Just to Put Food in His Daughter’s Mouth. An Ode To Biggie, Small Business and Making Money. It’s Juicy.

A Guest Post by Kelly Diels. First, Mom, I don’t even know what Mr. Smalls was selling on the corner but I’m pretty sure it is not smiled upon by the authorities and I have never ever tried it no…

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Amazon’s Black Friday Sale Starts – If You’re an Affiliate Today’s the Day to Promote

As a quick followup to my post a few days ago regarding how to make more money with the Amazon Affiliate Program this Christmas – today is a key day to be linking to Amazon as their Black Friday…

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Pay Attention to Foregrounds

Photo by acampm1 Here’s a little ‘question’ for you to ask next time you’re out and about with our digital cameras. Next time you’re taking a landscape or urban landsc…

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Review This Blog – Groovy Vegetarian

This week’s community blog review is of a blog by the name of Groovy Vegetarian (another ProBlogger.com member). The idea behind these reviews is that readers of ProBlogger read: the story of…

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Top 10 Popular DSLRS

The question I’m being asked on a daily basis at the moment is – ‘what camera should I buy?’ Obviously cameras are on many people’s wishlists this Christmas! I’m pl…

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How do I Photograph a Gymnastics Event? – DPS Community Workshop

Image by Raphael Goetter We used to do ‘DPS community workshops’ fairly regularly but it’s been a while – so lets recap on what they are. A reader asks a question about a phot…

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Stop Taking Pictures, Start Creating Images

A Guest Post by Matthew Dutile There’s one surefire way to start becoming a better photographer. Stop taking pictures. A picture is what you take when you accidentally mash your hands on the shutter…

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Do You Sell a Product or Service of Your Own from your Blog? [POLL]

Time for another reader poll – this one is on a topic that many bloggers are getting into – monetizing your blog by selling something of your own from it. Many bloggers make money by selli…

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How To Keep Your Batteries Charged While Traveling – Remote Location Edition

Copyright blmurch In my previous article How To Keep Your Batteries Charged While Traveling – City Edition I outlined the basics of what it takes to keep your batteries juiced up while traveling…

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4 More Tips for Photographing Children

My first post ever here was on being a Momarazzo and my tips for aspiring parent photographers (trying to invent a nickname for us). Parentgraphers? Photogrents? Still working on that….watch th…

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3 Ways to Make More Money with Amazon’s Affiliate Program This Christmas

Earlier in the year posted here on ProBlogger 11 lessons that I’d learned on the way to making over $100,000 with the Amazon Associates program (I wrote a followup post with 10 more tips too). I…

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Mastering the Zoom Effect

Photo by GoGoJingo If you want to have a little fun with your digital camera next time you go out with it, have a go at experimenting with the zoom effect. In essence the zoom effect is a picture w…

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The Insiders View of How I Launched My New Ebook

Updated: I’ve added a few quick updates on how the launch has gone at the bottom of this post. Over on my main blog – Digital Photography School – we have today launched our first ev…

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The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography – 25% OFF This Week Only

Today I’m really excited to announce the official launch of the first ever DPS downloadable ebook – The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography. Whether it be casual photography of family…

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What Photography Stocking Stuffers Would You Like?

Image by CarbonNYC One of the more popular threads in our forum over the last few weeks has been a question from one of our members – TheKingInYellow – who asked fellow members for suggest…

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7 Ways to Get Your Photos Seen

I wanted to talk a little about a different kind of exposure for your photography… the kind that results in more people seeing your work. I have had a lot of people ask how to get their photos seen…

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How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions on Your Blog

A Guest Post by David Cleland from TotalApps. In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo! It was technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was education. Despite it being a bit of blog s…

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Photoshop in a Weekend – Book Review

Adobe’s favourite son is often considered to be a powerful but daunting program yet many consider it to be an essential tool for photographers who take their efforts seriously. Photoshop in a Weeken…

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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (15-21 Nov ‘09)

In case you hadn’t heard, one of our forum admins is a new dad! Congrats Sime, Mum and Baby. Weekly Assignment Things got noisy for this week’s assignment which was Sound / Noise. We had a…

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Why Nobody Cares About Your Blog

A Guest Post by David Risley Except yours, of course. ;) However, there are a lot of bloggers who feel this way. You write. You write some more. You don’t feel as if you’re getting the tra…

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PORTRAITS: Weekend Photography Challenge

Image by JOHN CORVERA This weekend your photographic challenge is to take and share a portrait. Early next week we’ll be launching our first ever e-book here at DPS – ‘The Essential…

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 – Review

Note: Updated Review – The editor of this amazing Web site has kindly allowed me to revise my review of the Panasonic FZ35 camera. In hindsight, it needed a bit of a brush up! Some people, using…

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High Key Studio – What I Use and Why

If you follow my posts, you’ll know that I have a studio. At the moment, I mostly do high-key sessions with children. High-key is something that many photographers try to imitate and sometimes f…

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Speech Recognition for Bloggers – The Ultimate Guide

Speech recognition technology has come a long way in the last few years – in this in depth, informative and inspiring video which Jon Morrow (Associate Editor of Copyblogger and Co-founder of Pa…

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10 Rules for Editing Digital Images

During the week one of our readers – wedding photographer Martin Whitton – shot me a list of his ‘10 rules for editing digital images’. I thought I’d share them today as…

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The Lenses We Would Have If We Could Have No Other Lenses [POLL RESULTS]

A few weeks back I asked a loaded question: If You Could Only Have One Lens, What Would It Be? I knew from the start that it’d be tough question for most, as it was for me. Picking one lens w…

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Review This Blog – Man vs Debt

Last month here on ProBlogger we ran a community review on a reader’s blog. I posted a link to a blog with some comments from the blogger and then opened it up for readers of ProBlogger to revie…

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How To Keep Your Batteries Charged While Traveling – City Edition

I’d like to take a moment to talk about power. Electric power that is. We all have a craving for it as it powers everything we do with digital photography. If you’re completely digi…

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Spot Fixing Images in Photoshop

Many of the images that you take particularly cityscapes, like most portraits, can do with some spot fixing. I’ve been traveling through Europe a lot lately and because it’s considered al…

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Warning: Watching This Video May Lead to Work! [But It\'ll Also Improve Your Blog]

What’s your blogging Vice? Most bloggers that I know have at least one – whether it be compulsively checking blog stats, constantly tweaking template designs, obsessing over plugins and w…

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Wedding Photography Equipment

This guest post on wedding photography equipment was submitted by F.C. from Camera Tech. Image by man's pic So you’re desperately keen to go into wedding photography — or maybe you’v…

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Where to Photograph in the Everglades

A guest post By Cliff Kolber from www.kolberphotography.com. The Florida Everglades and other wetlands cover thousands of square miles between the east and west coast of Florida. Everglades National…

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13 Ways I Get Back into Blogging after a Vacation

Yesterday was my first day back at blogging after a 10 day vacation with my family and on Twitter I commented that I was finding it a little hard to get my brain back into blogging mode. @Mikeachim re…

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White Seamless – Studio How-To

In a recent post, I referred to studio photography with a white background and bright lights as being ‘high-key’and got quite a bit of flack about it. While calling this style ‘…

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Email Marketing is Not Dead

While at Blog World Expo recently I recorded this video interview with Abby Johnson from Web Pro News. We covered a variety of topics including why email marketing is not dead – internet market…

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Your Final Chance to Get ProBlogger.com Membership for Just $1.95 – 3 Hours to Go

This is just a short last warning that we’re about to increase the price of our ProBlogger Community Forums. We posted a week ago that we’re doing this but wanted to give a final opportuni…

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Lightroom: What is it and When Should You Consider it?

There have been questions posted as comments recently asking about the role of Lightroom in a photographer’s workflow. Many posters who are not currently using Lightroom aren’t sure wheth…

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17 Amazing Wide Angle Images

Photo by wvs – 10mm Many digital photographers get a little obsessed by the ability that their zoom lenses give them to get in nice and close to their subjects. While there’s a lot to be…

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This Month’s Critique – You Make The Changes

For this month’s DPS Writer’s Critique, I thought I’d turn things around. It has been suggested before that there should be the opportunity for blog readers to not only voice thei…

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Does Your Blog Look Like NASCAR?

In this post, Jack Gamble from Babeled talks about ad placement and the risk of overdoing it. Are you responsible for a website that has so many ads that it looks like Dale Earnhardt Jr. should be dri…

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How to Achieve Perfect Butterfly Lighting

Butterfly Lighting is one of the most flattering and artistic ways of lighting the face. As it’s name would denote, Butterfly Lighting is created by the way in which you angle the light to fall…

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3 Lessons I Learned Building 4,000 Subscribers in 12 Months

A guest post from Glen ViperChill. I’ve read a lot of blogging success stories in my four-year blogging history. Sadly, they’ve always been about other people, rather than me. And, when I…

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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (8-14 Nov ‘09)

Weekly Assignment The Economy is on everyone’s mind at the moment, and our forums are no exception. This week we wanted you to show us photos that represented the troubled economy. Our winner th…

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My 3 Favorite Things about Flickr

I’ve been asked a few times why I’ve decided to use flickr as my image hosting site instead of some of the many other options available to me. If I’m going to be completely honest,…

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KITCHENS: Weekend Photography Challenge

Image by BrittneyBush Kitchens – we all have one (or at least should have access to something resembling one) – so lets make our kitchens the focus of this weekends photography challenge.…

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Why Stress Can Kill Your Success Or Help Your Blog Succeed Wildly

Today’s post by Rob McPhillips of Stress Management and Beyond. If you knew that your blog was vulnerable to hacking or some similar security breach, would you take the time to secure it? I ask,…

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50 Photo Projects – Book Reviews

Looking around for something to shoot with your camera? Feeling a bit shot-out? This book could be your salvation. For many, the problem with photography is that we rarely step out of our comfort zone…

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Lightroom 3 Print Improvements

With Lightroom 3 Beta having just been released, the first thing that most people will do – as I did – is to look and see if the features that you’ve always wanted in the program have be…

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