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Being a professional digital photographer is a dream many people have but most lack the ambition to do it. Still, you want to take the best digital pictures you can without forking over the cost of a photography degree. So, here are some tips to help you find the best digital photographer in you.
In my business I see a lot of snapshots taken by ordinary people. They aren’t professional photographers. The “Average Joe” is usually just trying to record a moment or subject, not win a prize in a photo contest for technical excellence. However, here is something very important to remember before taking that spare-of-the-moment picture. You won’t be able to take that exact image again.
Photography is a diversified field of creating a spectral variety of art. It is a specialization that deals with different experimentations with colors, however it is also a fact that only shades of black and white can also do wonders in this zone of creative art.
The final result of your photographic ventures is a roll of film, a handful of prints or box of slides. Other than your choice of lens, the film choice will have the biggest impact on the quality of the final results.
What happens when we select a certain ISO value in our digital camera? What is the best ISO setting for our particular camera? Can we change it light-heartedly or does it deserve a more careful consideration? Read on to learn how we can improve our photographs through the right selection of the ISO setting.
In this quick tip, I am going to show you how to extend the dynamic range of a single image by processing the shot several times in Photoshop. Understanding how to extend the dynamic range of an image using layer masks has been the bread and butter of my landscape photography.
High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR or HDRI) is a series of new photography technologies revolutionizing the quality of digital images. HDR is important because real world scenes contain light ranges usually exceeding 50,000:1 dynamic range.
An HDR image is of course only as good as the sequence of images captured to produce the final image. There are several considerations that have to be made, before capturing any images for HDR post-processing.
So you are about to purchase a digital camera, you are getting excited about the prospect of having that slick new camera in your hands and you are now off to the store to buy that digital camera you want, right? No, wrong.
They’ve gone crazy with the variety of scene modes that are being added to new cameras. Digital camera scene modes are a simple way for you to “tell” the camera what type of picture you are taking. The camera will then optimize the settings for that particular shot.
