Digital technology has been a prevailing factor why people can now have the ease of access in almost anything they do. Many significant inventions were developed to make it easier for people to finish whatever their jobs require. One concrete proof of this remarkable breakthrough is the digital photography, which implies greater ease and comfort in taking pictures of any kind.
Because of the great features of digital photography, many people now are considering buying a digital camera. Why are there so many people turning to digital photos? It's simply because digital photos allows you to use your imagination. You can modify the look and feel of the image without much effort. You can change the background or add a text to the picture to make it more personalized. Whatever it is that you want for your photo, you can have it when it's digitally captured.
Now the question is how digital photography can fix the image quality of a certain photo. To ensure that your photo gets the best image quality, you need to check the setting of your digital camera before you press on that click button. If the image is already in your computer, you can check the screen of the computer to verify if it your snapshot is in the highest image quality.
Indeed digital photography has come a long way ever since the digital cameras and computers were developed. The birth of digital cameras has produced tremendous conveniences in the world of photography where everyone with digital cameras can take a picture and upload it to the computer and share it with friends.
What is digital enhancement? Digital enhancement is the answer to all image quality problems. It's the best way to improve your snapshot and make it look more attractive. With digital enhancement, you can easily increase the attractiveness of images by simply adjusting the brightness, contrast and sharpness of the image. You are also given the chance to enhance the color balance of the picture. Resizing the image and cropping it at the same time can also be done with ease.
Giving consideration to all these digital photography basics will bring you great options when it comes to taking pictures in its best form. Make the most of what digital technology has to offer. If you want to get quality pictures, you should utilize the digital editing and enhancement services that are available through some photo printers online. With these services at hand, picture-perfect shots are just within reach.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
When To Use Fill In Flash In Day Light
I found an excellent article on how to use fill in flash to take photo under bright sun light.
Here I reprinting the same for your reference.
If you have pictures where the foreground is too dark while the background seems to be correctly exposed, then using fill-in flash may be a technique worth learning about. Using fill-in flash, as the name implies, is to use flash to fill-in light where it is deficient. This is usually the situation when you are in the shadows and shooting through objects in the foreground that are acting as a frame.
In the photo above, I was standing in a shaded spot and using the foliage as a frame. Without fill-in flash to illuminate the foreground, the latter would be quite dark. Shutter speed: 1/180 sec., Aperture: F2.8, ISO 50 with fill-in flash. (Exposure compensation was -0.7EV but that was because I forgot to reset it for a previous picture.)
Here I reprinting the same for your reference.
If you have pictures where the foreground is too dark while the background seems to be correctly exposed, then using fill-in flash may be a technique worth learning about. Using fill-in flash, as the name implies, is to use flash to fill-in light where it is deficient. This is usually the situation when you are in the shadows and shooting through objects in the foreground that are acting as a frame.
In the photo above, I was standing in a shaded spot and using the foliage as a frame. Without fill-in flash to illuminate the foreground, the latter would be quite dark. Shutter speed: 1/180 sec., Aperture: F2.8, ISO 50 with fill-in flash. (Exposure compensation was -0.7EV but that was because I forgot to reset it for a previous picture.)Instead of the leaves, imagine a person stood in the foreground. Unless you wanted to silhouette the person (this can be quite effective in producing a dramatic picture), fill-in flash would throw in just enough light to illuminate the face.
A most pleasant effect can sometimes be achieved by photographing a person against the sun (or another strong light source). The light behind his or her head creates a halo around the edge of the hair. The face would be quite underexposed but for fill-in flash. Shooting against the sun also avoids your subject squinting in the sun.
To use fill-in flash, set your digital camera so that it is forced to fire the flash. Do not confuse with Night Shot scene mode which is similar but generally used at nightime for night portraits. In this case the flash fires to illuminate the foreground, while the shutter remains open a while longer to expose the background. You need to keep the camera steady until after the flash has fired and the shutter has closed.
Information source : Digital photography
Tips on making money through Stock Photography
Stock photography is one of the most popular areas of digital photography because it has opened the doors for even amateurs to make some money. Different stock photography websites have different requirements but the main thing is that you should know what to sell, to whom and how. This is something that you can learn through first hand experience or by downloading information and e-books related to camera dollars system from the internet. But here are 5 important tips for stock photography:
Only high quality pictures can sell, everything else is a waste to time.
As a photographer you need to always try and better yourself every time. You need to take some time out to learn new thing, experiment, understand the various aspects of digital photography, and above all read plenty of books. Try out new ways of making the subject look brighter or sharper or even dull. Always remember that it is tougher to sell abstract pictures, so stick to the normal pictures that people can relate to.
Fight rejection
Rejection is something that you will counter quote often as your picture might not be up to the standard of buyers. Don’t get disheartened because photography is itself an art of patience and perseverance, without either of them, you will be left far behind. Every failure should be treated like a wake-up call.
It is all about numbers
If you are trying to sell stock photography then you need to think not in ones and two but in hundreds. The more images you have in stock, the higher the probability of making money, more money. You should always keep working constantly towards adding more images to your portfolio. The bigger and better your portfolio is, the higher your chances are of making money.
Market your images
Marketing your images is an important aspect. The more people see your images, the more buyers you may get. In order to do so, you will need to sign up on multiple websites and upload your images in each of the websites. Ten is a good number to start with.
Add Keywords to your image
Yes! The SEO rule applies here too. You should take out time to add a relevant keyword to your image. The keyword is used by potential buyers to find photographs. So if a potential buyer is searching using French Landscape then they will find your images if you have used the same keyword.
These are some of the basic tips and you can find many others using the camera dollars system e-book and find potential buyers who are willing to pay a good price for all your hard work!
Author, Aryan is a passionate photographer. He has been in professional photography for more than a decade and his works have been printed in premier Indian and international magazines.
Only high quality pictures can sell, everything else is a waste to time.
As a photographer you need to always try and better yourself every time. You need to take some time out to learn new thing, experiment, understand the various aspects of digital photography, and above all read plenty of books. Try out new ways of making the subject look brighter or sharper or even dull. Always remember that it is tougher to sell abstract pictures, so stick to the normal pictures that people can relate to.
Fight rejection
Rejection is something that you will counter quote often as your picture might not be up to the standard of buyers. Don’t get disheartened because photography is itself an art of patience and perseverance, without either of them, you will be left far behind. Every failure should be treated like a wake-up call.
It is all about numbers
If you are trying to sell stock photography then you need to think not in ones and two but in hundreds. The more images you have in stock, the higher the probability of making money, more money. You should always keep working constantly towards adding more images to your portfolio. The bigger and better your portfolio is, the higher your chances are of making money.
Market your images
Marketing your images is an important aspect. The more people see your images, the more buyers you may get. In order to do so, you will need to sign up on multiple websites and upload your images in each of the websites. Ten is a good number to start with.
Add Keywords to your image
Yes! The SEO rule applies here too. You should take out time to add a relevant keyword to your image. The keyword is used by potential buyers to find photographs. So if a potential buyer is searching using French Landscape then they will find your images if you have used the same keyword.
These are some of the basic tips and you can find many others using the camera dollars system e-book and find potential buyers who are willing to pay a good price for all your hard work!
Author, Aryan is a passionate photographer. He has been in professional photography for more than a decade and his works have been printed in premier Indian and international magazines.
Monday, September 1, 2008
digital photography imaging and animation
I found an excellent article on creating animated image in an article and publish the same in gather by Mr. Bill. I found this is an outstanding piece of work.
Here is Mr. Bill's original article.
Ok oK! ... but really ... one of these days y'all have to take magic as the answer ...
Nope, you still can't directly upload gif's on Gather. Not the way you typically upload images like JPGs or video using the tools Gather supplies onsite. You have to employ a little bit of magic in the form of HTML code editing in Gather's article publishing tool.
So ... how do you do it???
First you steal a chicken
... oops ...
that's how gypsies make authentic Hungarian Paprikash!
... which also involves a bit of magic ... (-;
I used three different image editing applications to create the GIF for the change:
*
* MS Photo Editor
* MS Paint
* Animator @ LunaPics
Please note, you do not have to use the same image editing applications. You can use your favourite image editing and/or drawing programs, and any animation software you have on your computer or use an online GIF animator to assemble the final image.
Image Creation:
First come up with a theme and select photos to express your theme.
Edit and size your photos. It is best to have all the images the same size. If you want to use a smaller image, edit it, and then open a blank new image in your photo editing application the same size as your other images. Then copy & paste and center the smaller image on the blank and save. Don't use very large images because your final image.gif will be a terribly huge file. The GIF processing is accumulative and adds all the bytes of all the images you use to create it plus some extra bytes to run the animation. I used images sized to the 550px Gather display width. My final image uses five photos and was just shy of 1 Mb total.
Add the captions. I created new blank images in MS Photo Editor slightly taller than my edited photos. Then copy & pasted my photos on the blanks so there would be a margin at the bottom for the captions. After saving the new images, I opened them in MS Paint and added the text for the captions.
Next I created my title page, again opening and saving a blank image in MS Photo Editor and sized the same as the other images. Then opened the image in Paint, added the background colour, title text, and then painted the accompanying scene. Then made the final panel following the same steps but with just text on white.
Here is Mr. Bill's original article.
Well ... would you believe ... magic ... (-;
Ok oK! ... but really ... one of these days y'all have to take magic as the answer ...
Nope, you still can't directly upload gif's on Gather. Not the way you typically upload images like JPGs or video using the tools Gather supplies onsite. You have to employ a little bit of magic in the form of HTML code editing in Gather's article publishing tool.
So ... how do you do it???
First you steal a chicken
... oops ...
that's how gypsies make authentic Hungarian Paprikash!
... which also involves a bit of magic ... (-;
I used three different image editing applications to create the GIF for the change:
*
* MS Photo Editor
* MS Paint
* Animator @ LunaPics
Please note, you do not have to use the same image editing applications. You can use your favourite image editing and/or drawing programs, and any animation software you have on your computer or use an online GIF animator to assemble the final image.
Image Creation:
First come up with a theme and select photos to express your theme.
Edit and size your photos. It is best to have all the images the same size. If you want to use a smaller image, edit it, and then open a blank new image in your photo editing application the same size as your other images. Then copy & paste and center the smaller image on the blank and save. Don't use very large images because your final image.gif will be a terribly huge file. The GIF processing is accumulative and adds all the bytes of all the images you use to create it plus some extra bytes to run the animation. I used images sized to the 550px Gather display width. My final image uses five photos and was just shy of 1 Mb total.
Add the captions. I created new blank images in MS Photo Editor slightly taller than my edited photos. Then copy & pasted my photos on the blanks so there would be a margin at the bottom for the captions. After saving the new images, I opened them in MS Paint and added the text for the captions.
Next I created my title page, again opening and saving a blank image in MS Photo Editor and sized the same as the other images. Then opened the image in Paint, added the background colour, title text, and then painted the accompanying scene. Then made the final panel following the same steps but with just text on white.
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