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How to Improve Your Digital Photography Technique

How to Improve Your Digital Photography Technique

Photography is something that you need to take time and learn. Everybody and anybody can take casual photographs. But if you want to take quality shots, good digital photography technique is needed.

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What’s Wrong With This Picture? Improve Your Mountain Photographs

What’s Wrong With This Picture? Improve Your Mountain Photographs

Why is it so difficult to capture mountain images like the ones we see in those lavishly-produced coffee table books? Is it just down to equipment, or is the photographer simply better at it than we are?

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Take Better Digital Photos By Understanding Your Camera’s ISO Settings

Take Better Digital Photos By Understanding Your Camera’s ISO Settings

What does ISO stand for, you ask? ISO stands for International Standards Organization, which refers to the group that set the standards for film speed. Luckily, this doesn’t have anything to do with what you need to know about ISO.

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Those JPEG Files – What are They?

Those JPEG Files – What are They?

Digital photos are computer files. They are stored either on the camera memory or on a computer hard disk. Like any other computer file digital photos are saved in well known formats. One of those standard formats is known as JPEG.

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Composition in Landscape Photography – Pleasing the Viewer’s Eye

Composition in Landscape Photography – Pleasing the Viewer’s Eye

Beautiful subjects and technical ability are not enough to make a good picture. Photographers must properly compose the photo, too. Composition should be pleasing and harmonious; it should help driving the viewer’s eye through our picture as we desire.

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A Look at the Different Types of Landscape Photography Today

A Look at the Different Types of Landscape Photography Today

To my mind there are two distinctly different types of landscape photography around. That of the natural landscape photography, and that of the urban landscape photography. Both have their pros and both have their cons, and it’s really up to the photographer and their sense of imagination to get across to us a grand scene.

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Coping with Large Digital Photographic Files

Coping with Large Digital Photographic Files

Most serious photographers will shoot images and store them in a RAW format that keeps all the information that the camera sensor received and does not perform compression on the image as jpg processing does. This however rapidly uses up memory.

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The Megapixels Reality

The Megapixels Reality

The number of megapixels is just one parameter in determining the quality of a digital camera. More megapixels is not necessarily better. Before checking out the number of megapixels or any other digital camera feature you should take a moment to determine the digital camera projected usage.

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Low Light Photography – One Long vs. Many Short

Low Light Photography – One Long vs. Many Short

The method of summing up several pictures of the same scene is conceptually simple. Just take as many photographs as necessary so that when summing them up, the scene will be lighted correctly.

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The Need for Speed

The Need for Speed

Speed. It doesn’t kill, but without it a wildlife photographer might as well be dead. When shooting wildlife, you must be quick on the draw or you won’t get the shot.

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