on dp+ as a "company" notification - please disregard

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The new Facebook set-up allows you to create Lists where you can subdivide friends and put a label according to level of relationship. There are major relationships that require approval from the party you included on your list like Family, Company and School and there are also regular lists, a sort of classification list for the personal use of the one owning the account like close friends, acquaintance, restricted and your own sorting labels.

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One of our dp+ members listed herself as an employee of Digital Photography Plus. dp+ administrators didn't mind it at first because we thought it was just a way for that member to organize her stuff so we let things be. When Facebook presented the advantage of making a List in its new set-up, dp+ admin thought of creating one for digital photography plus. Upon encoding the name, it was disallowed because the name was already being used in the list.

So one of the administrators just added the names of the members of the group to that list only to find out that this is a mistake since the list registers as a company making the members its employee. dp+ apologize for this error. dp+ is a group/organization, it is not a company or a business entity. If any of the members received a notification to this effect, please disregard message. Thank you all for your understanding.

dp+ 2nd monthsary

September 17, 2011,  Digital Photography PLUS Facebook group just got 2 months old since July 17, 2011. Happy monthsary everyone!

dp+ group milestones at 2:

1. dp+ group site already has 261 members

2. 257 Likes on our official fb page

3. 53 members on dp+ blogsite.

3. the addition of a photo gallery administrator for dp+ official page - Hieronymus Rosales

photo by Hieronymus Rosales of Hieronymus Rosales
for Digital Photography Plus

To all members, thank you very much for all your support! Please also be reminded that every member can suggest people to the group. Here's to more members and unleashing creative photography genius in each one. Cheers to all!

new dp+ photo gallery administrator

photo by Hieronymus Rosales for Digital Photography Plus

Digital Photography Plus is proud to announce that Hieronymus Rosales aka Wong Raven Rosales is now the administrator of Digital Photography Plus photo gallery. He will be the one in charge of scheduling and creating a photo gallery for each member of the group. 


Welcome to the dp+ family, Hieronymus!

dp+ photo galleries

dp+ photo galleries are photo albums created for dp+ members on our official page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Digital-Photography-PLUS/242285489128553) and this site. It is a means of showcasing a particular members representative works sorted in an album or in a page for easy viewing of a particular photographer's work.

A photo gallery is created for members who are:

1. connected to dp+ official page. It means that they followed this link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Digital-Photography-PLUS/242285489128553 and clicked the Like button

2. approved members of Digital Photography Plus group on this link: http://www.facebook.com/groups/164854913587122/?ap=1

3. registered members of dp+ blogsite with this link: ttp://dpplus.blogspot.com/

4. Connected members should also have at least 5 contributed photos to the group.


It is on a first photo posted, first to be exhibited on a photo gallery basis. A photo gallery administrators will post the works of members in an album to showcase their uniqueness and abilities to create a powerful body of works.


Thank you all for your marvelous contributions!

definition of a professional photographer

photo by Lourdes Inosanto of Lourdes Inosanto for Digital Photography Plus

By definition, what is a professional photographer? Are there parameters that delineates a pro from say an enthusiast or an amateur photographer? Are there certain rudimentary skills that you need to possess before you get considered as one.


Here's a little bit of trivia. Hope there aren't any violent reactions, hahaha.. just a thought provoking piece to talk about - so what is a professional photographer by definition?


Simple - it is someone who is a photographer by profession. It means he or she earns a living through photography. So if you take photos as a hobby, no matter how good you are, you remain an enthusiast. Those, on the other hand, who take pictures in the park no matter how amateurish can be considered a professional photographer. Happy shooting! :)

digital camera's full frame and non-full frame proportion

This is a must to know if you are a photographer who plans to shoot for magazines using a digital camera (an editorial photographer), or if you are a magazine art or photo director, or a magazine editor - what the full frame and non-full frame digital camera proportions are in connection with your magazine size. This is especially important if you are one of those photographers who prefer to be in control of how much your photos should be cropped. For editors, art and photo directors you need to know in advance whether or not a photographer's camera is full frame or not, to calculate the space for your masthead for cover photos so that you will know how much of the photo you can tightly crop without sacrificing the photo composition.

Here are the proportions:

photo by Edmund Chan
Canon 5D mk2 - full frame

photo by Warlen Hipulan Rodriguez

Canon 1100D

The size of a full frame digital camera is 3 inches longer in length in proportion to the usual magazine size of 8 1/2 X 11 inches. So if you are using a full-frame camera and you are shooting for the cover of an 8 1/2 X 11" sized magazine, aside from the provisional space you will allot for the masthead, you should allow space for the cropping of additional 3 more inches on its length.

But if you are shooting for National Geographic, no need to make provision for a 3-inch space for cropping. National Geographic takes the actual proportion of full frame cameras, all you need to allot space for is the masthead.

Non-full frame cameras, on the other hand, are the exact proportion of an 8 1/2 X 11 inches magazine. Here you can control the cropping of your photos and preserve the dignity of your composition.

These same proportions are in effect when you have your photos printed in a vertical orientation, too. In the pre-digital days when people use mostly film cameras, notice that when you enlarge a photo to fill the usual 8 1/2 X 11-inch photo paper, some of the areas are automatically cropped either on top or at the bottom in a vertical orientation just like a full frame digital camera. This is because full frame cameras adopted the proportion of a film camera. So if we want to preserve the cropping of our photos when we have it printed the best thing to do is print it with either a white or black border. Notice that after the photos were printed with border, the left and right-side borders of the prints are thicker than the borders on its top and bottom side in a vertical orientation, clearly demonstrating  the difference in proportion.