Barry J. Brady
DP School (dPS)
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Tips for Abstract Macro Photography
Can't find anything to photograph? Try getting in really close and doing some abstract macro photography. Once you look close you'll see lots of subjects.. → Read More
How to Use Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop to Make Your Landscape Images Pop
Follow along these step by step instructions to take your landscape images from blah to wow using Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop for processing. → Read More
More Ways to Create Better Images Without Buying More Gear
In this continuation of a past dPS article the author gives you 5 more tips on how to make better images that to not involve buying any new gear. → Read More
3 Quick Photoshop Edits You Need to Know
If you like to spend as little time as possible processing your images - read these 3 quick Photoshop edits to help you speed through it. → Read More
Use Photoshop to Correct Perspective Distortion of Buildings in Your Images
Follow these steps to learn how to use Photoshop to help correct perspective distortion of architecture and buildings in your images. → Read More
Is HDR dead? Some dPS Writer's Thoughts on this Controversial Topic
HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography has been around for quite a few years now. It is a technique that allows you as a photographer to use bracketed images, to capture as much of the dynamic range in a given scene as possible. Dynamic range is the measurable difference between the brightest highlights, and darkest shadows, in … → Read More
How to Hone Your Observation Skills to See What is Around You
We as humans have incredible eyesight, but sometimes we lack vision. What do I mean by that? While we can physically see the world ... → Read More
6 Advanced Composition Techniques to Improve Your Photos
When you think of composition in photography, what is the first idea that pops into your head? Let me guess – the rule of thirds? Likely that was true for many of you who reading this, why do you think that is? The rule of thirds is probably the most widely known, and well used … → Read More
8 Common Landscape Photography Mistakes
As photographers, we know that there are literally hundreds of small things that need to be done in each scene, that add up to the final magnificent shot. Sometimes when we get behind the camera, and the light becomes amazing, it’s very easy to forget one or two things, and the result is that the … → Read More
5 Reasons To Shoot Your Landscape Images in RAW
Here are 5 Reasons Why You Should Shoot Your Landscape Images in RAW → Read More
5 Tips to Take Your Landscape Photography from Good to Great
Landscape photography is one of the most favoured genres of photography. It also happens to be the one genre that is not easy to master. The reason is simple, to become really good at landscape photography, you need to spend hours trying to master it. Most photographers are not able to dedicate that amount of … → Read More
5 Ways to Change Your Composition For Better Photos
If there is one thing in photography that every photographer can work on, it’s composition. Like many of the other techniques in photography, your composition will improve the more you practice. Very often, photographers seem to go to their comfort zone of the rule of thirds. I personally like the rule of thirds as a … → Read More
Getting Started with Abstract Macro Photography
A quick guide n getting started with Abstract Macro Photography → Read More
How to Shoot Panoramic Photos
A quick tutorial on how to shoot better panoramic images → Read More
Finding the Best Quality of Light During the Day
Light is the main ingredient in any photograph. Without light, you cannot make an image. Photography is all about drawing or painting with light. One book I read on the subject said that light IS the subject in photography, in many ways, this is true. Light is a difficult phenomenon to quantify. Most of the time, we don’t really think about light in our day to day lives. As a photographer… → Read More
Review of Autopano Giga
A review of the photo stitching software known as Autopano Giga. → Read More
6 Ways to Use Shutter Speed Creatively
Use your cameras shutter speed creatively to make some unusual images. → Read More
Using Graduated Neutral Density filters for Landscape Photography
How to use ND Grads to get the best landscape and seascape images. → Read More
A Practical Review of the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens
You will hear this from many photographers – “invest in your lenses”. Camera bodies will come and go, but a good lens can last a very long time. This was the advice that I first received when I started taking my photography seriously. Initially, I thought it was a bit hyped. I bought a cheap 70-300mm lens and used it at the first wedding I shot. I thought the images were fantastic until I bought… → Read More
A Beginners Guide to Seascape Photography
Seascapes are often seen as a subset of landscape photography. This is true, but I feel that seascapes have their own specific techniques that need to be thought about when you are shooting a scene. The typical sea scene could be a warm sandy beach, blue sky and some palm trees. That is generally the … → Read More