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The Art of Digital Photography
The Art of Digital Photography We are living in a world that is forever changing because of our technology. Cell phones, computers, microchips in everything, and mobility are the sign of the times. Even the arts are constantly changing due to technology. Just consider this, we have gone from drawing with charcoal, to painting with [...]
Digital Fashion Photography
Digital Fashion Photography Digital photography has made it possible for just about everyone to capture perfect moments in their lives easier and better than ever before. With the improvements of shutter speed, resolution, and ISO, make photography easier and more convenient for beginning and professional photographers alike to capture good images. Additionally, image editing software, [...]
10 Digital Photography Tips
You have probably heard people say something like, the better the camera – the better the pictures. The reality is, great images can be made using any camera
Learn About Picture Perfect Photographic Prints and Digital Enhancements
Digital enhancements provides the opportunity to modify your photographs to be the best image it possibly can be. You can make the enhancements your self using imaging editing software like Photoshop, or the services of a digital photography company.
Image Editing in the Cloud
Now that broadband internet connection are virtually everywhere many websites have come along that allow you to upload and edit your images in the cloud.
Removing Red Eye
A common problem with flash photography is that demonic look people get with what we call the Red Eye Effect. It happens when we take a picture with a flash in low light.
Six Steps Toward Learning Digital Photography
By following these six principles of photograph your skills will improve quickly and dramatically. In just a few hours you’ll be hearing compliments from your friends about your great pictures.
Digital Camera Focus Modes
Although the least expensive and simplest point and shoot cameras only offer one mode, auto-focus, or a fixed focus, most digital SLR cameras offer three or more modes of focus. These are typically called manual focus, auto focus, and continuous auto focus. This article will briefly discuss all three.
Tips for Still Life Photography
People who are new to photography can learn to use light and shadow at a slower pace with still life subject instead of trying to pose children or the family pet.
Learning About Color Cast and White Balance
A lot of people are not aware how a light source impacts their photographs until they see the final print. Then they wonder what makes it look so different from the scene they remember capturing.
That’s because light has a temperature measured in degrees Kelvin. And different light temperatures create a color cast on our photographs.
Photography’s History
Even though digital photography is here and we are using less and less film, lighting and other techniques started in the 1820′s. Niepce and Daguerre were the first to use modern photography. They made a chemical compound out of silver and chalk on a glass plate that would darken when it was exposed to light, creating a negative image of the scene. [...]
3 Things to Learn About Digital Macro Photography
People have always enjoyed looking at things from unusual perspectives. Often we will find something new in a familiar object when we see it from a different point of view, or focus on a portion of the subject instead of the whole thing. That may be part of the reason both photographers and their viewers are fascinated by digital macro photography
Learn about Straightening and Cropping
Cropping and straightening use to be done during the printing process before digital photography came along. The photographer would adjust the enlarger, magnifying the image enough to put the unwanted element off the printing paper, or move the easel holding the printing paper in a way that horizontal and vertical lines would be parallel to the paper’s edges.
Learn About Dodging and Burning
Dodging and burning are options in a quality photo editor. But these are methods of manipulating a photograph invented many years ago by photographers in their darkrooms.
A History of Faking Photographs
People started to manipulate photographs nearly as soon as the first camera produced the first photograph.
Learn to Control Contrast and Brightness
Seldom does an entire photograph need to have its contrast and brightness corrected. Usually there are just some areas that need to be corrected. Such brightening the shadows to see the detail, like the face of a person who is backlit by the Sun. With film in a darkroom this was called dodging and burning.
Photo Editing Software for Free Online
As beginning photographers we may find that the software that comes with our cameras is enough. But as or skills grow we will want to learn how to better edit our photography in post production. There are a few programs that you can buy for less than $100, like Photoshop Elements. However, there is a fairly wide selection of editors out there that are available for free as freeware or open source. Here is a round up of a few of the better program that are available for free.
Learn the Differences Between Digital and Optical Zoom
You will find many cameras offer the option of digital and optical zoom. It can be confusing for the average person shopping for a digital camera until they learn the difference between digital and optical zoom.
Selective Focus, or The Blurring of The Background
By manipulating the depth of field using the proper combination of aperture, shutter speed, and focal length, you can capture an image where the subject really stands out by causing the background to be out of focus. This is called selective focus.
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Learn Ten Tips for Better Photography
Learn Ten Tips for Better Photography Capturing a good photograph is a lot easier than people think. It does not require an expensive camera or a lot of experience. Just take the time to learn these ten photographic tips and apply them to your own photography. Oh, you have to have fun and practice too. [...]
Learn the Type of Digital Files
There are a great many digital file types to choose from. What is the best file type for you?
Learn About Megapixels
If you believe advertisers, the number of megapixels is the deciding factor of the camera’s power. Just like with a computer’s memory or hard drive, “the more, the better”. The marketers would almost have you believe all the other camera features are not nearly as important. [...]
Learn To Photograph Your Friends Candidly
Candid photography is more about capturing the moment instead of the more traditional planned and posed sitting. Many news articles and human interest stories you see in magazines and your local newspaper are candid shots. Making a candid photograph is not as easy as it looks. [...]
Learn How To Photograph Babies
Nothing will make a parent as proud as showing pictures of their cute new baby. We all enjoy viewing photographs of babies as well. So if you have a little one, keep your camera handy and share those baby pictures. The more photos you have the more fun it will be showing to your friends and family. Learn hot to make better photographs of your precious little one by following these tips.
Learn How To Choose Memory
Does the size of your memory card matter? No, not to your camera, but maybe it does to you. It might be the difference between running out of memory and capturing that photograph you really want.
Cat Photography Tips
Cats are a wonderful subject to photography. With patients you can photograph your cat in a variety of fun, funny, and interesting poses. That is, once you know how. Here are some tips to capturing your feline friends at their best and most adorable. [...]
DSLR Basics, Getting Digital
Both professional and hobbyist photographers who want sharper and clearer photographs. People who don’t mind traveling with a larger camera in order to capture better images would do well with a DSLR.
7 Tips to Perfect Pictures
7 Tips to Perfect Pictures It use to be a photographer had to take several photographs of their subject or scene and have the images developed to see the quality of the pictures. It was an exercise in trail and error. But now, many photographers have switched over from film SLRs and point-and-shoot models. Now, [...]
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Photochopping, not “Photoshopping”
Generally speaking, photochopping is about producing a visual joke, or parady. You might change a label, or add an element that’s out of place, to a picture. Even deforming a familiar scene, making it different but still identifiable. [...]
New Way of Making Photographs with Digital Photography
It may not seem like you would use the same skills you would use with film photography, but you do. Digital photography shortens your learning curve with the instant feedback from the LCD while you are on site photographing, compared to waiting to get you pictures back from a lab. Digital photography has evolved and gives us a new photographic experience. [...]
Digital Workflow in Six Steps
Back in the days before digital photography you had to develop your film and photographs in a darkroom. Like an assembly line, each image went through a series of steps for developing the film, or transparencies, to the final printed image. You won’t use a darkroom with digital photography, but you do want to keep that assembly line idea in mind and process each image you capture through the same steps. That process is called “workflow”. [...]
Learn Which Is Best In The World Of Photography, Digital Or Film
In the past there simply was not a choice except to use film. All that was available were film cameras and you learned to develop your own film or took to a lab for processing. Now there is a choice and many people wonder which is better, digital or film. Here are some of the pros and cons of these technologies. [...]
Learning to Choose Your Subject In Photography
Photography is art and requires a certain kind of eye to capture the right image. What kind of subject will you photograph?
