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Starting with this article, I, Rick Doble, will be writing regular new articles here at PIXIQ on the topic of Experimental Digital Photography -- since I am the author of the book of that name, the first book on that subject. Up until now my articles here at PIXIQ have been reprinted from this book -- but starting today almost all of the articles will be new ones.

Experimental digital photography is perhaps the most exciting field in photography today. No special equipment is required, you can use whatever digital camera you now own -- even your cell phone.

Today you can now express yourself in ways never dreamt of even a few years ago. And now digital makes it all possible because you can see right away what works and what doesn't.

The topics I am going to cover here are *photographic* techniques and not software processing. There are so many ways to transform the everyday ordinary world into a heightened extra-ordinary world with just a little understanding of how photography works.

Interest in this subject keeps growing as my book, Experimental Digital Photography, just went into its second printing after only eight months. In addition over 220 libraries in 39 states now carry a copy along with libraries in 4 foreign countries. And this book is for sale in 27 foreign countries and available in all of the world's continents (except Antarctica).

Here is what I will be covering in the next months: handholding your camera at moderately slow shutter speeds and extremely slow shutter speeds, light painting at night, self-portraits, judging your experimental photos at the time of the shoot, mixing on-camera flash with natural lighting at night, holding the camera far away from your eye to frame a shot, taking space-time photographs, taking advantage of chance and accident and how to sort through your work to find the best shots and much much more.