Digital Photography Revealed

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Digital photography is different from traditional photography because the digital pictures are stored in the form of pixels. If you’re not sure what pixel is, here is a brief definition of one:

“A pixel (also called a Picture Element) is a small graphical square which in combination with thousands of other pixels form a digital image”.

The more pixels in a digital image, the smoother and clearer it will appear.

This is also called the resolution and is probably one of the most important factors in deciding the overall quality of the picture. (more…)

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So you’ve taken photos with your digital camera and you think they look good.

What next?

Some people’s minds turn to selling their work and providing your photos are good, this canbe an excellent option.

Where to sell your digital photography?

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With the advances in electronics and computer technology, you can add really creative special effects to your digital photographs. In general, there are two ways of adding special effects in your photographs.

• While taking the photograph
• After taking the photograph

Most of the advanced digital cameras today offer many inbuilt special effect features like trimming, resizing, black and white effects, blur effect, layering, framing etc. There is a wide range of special effects that digital photography supports. Whether you can master them and still concentrate on taking the photo is a different matter entirely!
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Without any doubt, night pictures can be more appealing than others.

Old cameras tried their best to provide better night photography. But in real, it was the digital cameras that gave incredible vision, clarity, sharpness and light to the nightlife from the eye of a digital camera.

If done properly and efficiently, night photography can bring really fabulous pictures like sunset or sunrise. This short article will give you some useful tips for night photography using a digital cam. (more…)

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Metering is one of the most important aspects that should be considered when buying a digital camera.

Though most of the digital cameras come with a metering mode called “Center Weighted” standard, this is not always the best choice.

Center weighted metering takes the center of the focus of the camera and then calculates the best exposure for that picture. This is the most useful for portraits, but what if you weren’t taking portraits. Rather, you want to take a picture of scenery or even of the moon at night? (more…)

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It’s great fun taking digital photos but sometimes you need to learn how to do some digital photography enhancements so that you can take your photos to the next level.

Here are some quick and simple ideas for enhancing your digital photos:

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Just to confuse you, a green screen can also be blue in color. But either way, they serve the same purpose: to provide a bland background that you can easily substitute for other special effects.

Your choice of color will mainly depend on the color of the other things in your photo…  (more…)

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There are hundreds if not thousands of digital photography books to choose from.

All of them claim to be good. Naturally. They wouldn’t tell you they were rubbish, would they.

So what’s the best way to decide which digital photography book to buy?

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The moon isn’t as easy to photograph as you might like, even with today’s better cameras. 

Taking a digital photograph of the full moon means turning off the auto-exposure on your camera for a start, because the camera gets fooled by the relatively bright moon with the background of a dark sky. And that’s before we get into the complications of any light pollution from nearby civilization. 

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If you’re looking for somewhere to host your digital photography blog, here are some places you can look:  (more…)

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