Best of dPS: Have You Read these 15 Popular Photography Tutorials Yet?

 

 

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Best of dPS: Have You Read these 15 Popular Photography Tutorials Yet?

via Digital Photography School by Darren Rowse on 8/19/12

2012 is half over and today I spent some time going through our stats here at dPS to identify what the hottest posts for the year have been so far.

We have over 3200 tutorials in our archives now so it is always interesting to see what's being viewed the most.

What follows is the most viewed 15 posts on dPS this year. While most are new posts on the site this year there are also a few that were written some time ago that remain popular (good advice never ages).

Here they are:

1. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Women

2. How to Tranfer Prints to Wood: an Awesome DIY Photography Project

3. 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits

4. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Men

5. Learning about Exposure: The Exposure Triangle

6. Maternity Photography – 7 Tips for Taking Great Shots

7. 11 Surefire Landscape Photography Tips

8. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Children

9. How to Make an Inexpensive Light Tent

10. A 15 Minute Exercise to Help You Improve Your Photography in 2012

11. Composing Dynamic Landscape Images

12. 21 Tips for Amateur Wedding Photographers

13. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Couples

14. 6 Portrait Lighting Patterns Every Photographer Should Know

15. 29 Shots of Dogs Sticking their Heads out of Car Windows [Humor]

Interestingly among the most viewed pages on dPS this past 6 months have been the information pages for our most recent two eBooks – both of which would have made the top 15 most viewed pages on the site and both of which sold more copies during their launches than we've sold on our previous range of eBooks.

If you've not checked them out yet do so at:

1. Natural Light: Mastering a Photographers Most Powerful Tool

2. Photo Nuts and Post: a Guide to Post Processing Your Images

Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

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Olympic Swimming 2012: Faster, Better, Stronger

 

 

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Olympic Swimming 2012: Faster, Better, Stronger

via Cool Infographics by Randy on 7/30/12

CREAX created this infographic for their June 2012 newsletter. Every day, they analyse tens of thousands of patents and look for clues of "the next breakthrough innovation" in all kinds of industries.  In their Olympic Swimming 2012: Faster, Better, Stronger infographic, they combined their knowledge of innovation with the upcoming olympics.  The infographic links the performances of swimmers with technology in swimming gear, pools and venues for the last 10 Olympics, and their predictions for the future.

At CREAX we are always fishing for the latest technological evolutions. Infected with Olympic fever, we wanted to investigate the link between technological evolutions and athletic performance. We had a closer look at swimming in the Olympic games since 1972. We took a deep dive into scientific literature, patents, Youtube movies and old school pictures of macho men in speedos and designed the Next Generation of Swim Equipment!

This design had a number of really cool data visualization styles that are nicely customized to the data they represent.  Just remember that the 2012 data is their suggestion, not the actual data from the current Olympics!

• I like that each visualization matches the timeline across the top for consistency, and the monument silhouettes are great for each location.
• The timeline of swimming pool lanes is great, as the overal width changed over the years.
• I liked the depth of the swimming pool as an inverted bar chart, but the small icons of Speedo swimsuits are totally unnecessary and detract from the data.
• Love the isotype hair styles
• I like actually seeing designs of the swim suit styles, and I guess the flags are for the gold medal winner for each Olympics?

Overall, a good design.  The text blocks are too small to be full-justified.  A copyright statement and the URL to the high-resolution original infographic should be included at the bottom.

Thanks to Frederik for sending in the link!

 

 

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