Check out these cool shirts over at cafepress.com!

Think I’m gonna have to try out some of these effects!

Lighting is always a big thing, and if you’re on a limited budget it can be frustrating at time. There’s a great article over at DPS on DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks.

This guest post has been submitted by Martin Gommel (Flickr) from the blog KWERFELDEIN.There are many many thousands of photographers showing their work online – but those, which stand out with high quality against the masses are only a few in number.

To give you a list you can use as reference I collected 99 online photography portfolios, which I consider inspiring, refreshing and remarkable. I hope that you enjoy them.

Get the list over at DPS.

I’ve never heard of Lomo Photography, but it looks pretty cool… going to have to try this out!

From the first time I saw a photo that looked like this, I wanted to shoot one of my own. But, for the longest time I couldn’t figure it out how people took photos look like this. Then one day searching the web, I realized I needed a Lomo LC-A camera. This is a Russian made camera that was a knock off of another camera. It is poorly made and by Japanese camera standards, a bad picture taker too. As the legend goes, somewhere in the 1990’s a cult following developed and hasn’t stop since.

Photo from Frank Lazaro’s Lomo Photography Tutorial.

Read the rest of the article over on the DPS site.

Another great article over at DPS today by Jeffrey Bail… definitely going to have to try this out!

If you’re like me, you don’t want to spend money if you can do it yourself and yield the same results. One day I was at my local photography store I saw one of these “Pop-Up” light tents. It consisted of a collapsible white fabric box with a hole in the front and 3 lights – used for photographing small objects in photographic studios (like the shot of the chocolate reindeer to the left).

Read “How to Make a Inexpensive Light Tent” over at DPS.

Cool post over on DPS today, here’s the summary:

1. Shoot your subject at different focal lengths
2. Shoot your subject from different angles
3. Shoot using different formats
4. Avoid the Group Shot Blink
5. Use continuous exposure modes
6. Move your Subject around
7. Try Exposure Bracketing
8. Experiment with different ‘modes’
9. Play with your Flash
10. Tell a storyOne last tip: when it comes to shooting lots of images – take note of what you’re doing.

Read the rest of the post and the detailed comments on each point over at DPS!

After much debate and shopping around, my new Canon Digital Rebel XTi has arrived! 10MP of digital SLR goodness! I can’t wait to start playing with it and getting back into the swing of “real” photography.