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The Benefits of Digital Images over Film
Using a digital camera offers many benefits that you simply don’t get with film. Digital cameras and the pictures they create have a lot of advantages in how you take the pictures, edit them, and share [more…]
The Advantages to Film Cameras over Digital Cameras
A couple of downside issues about digital photography exist. Digital photography’s negative aspects may or may not outweigh its benefits for you. To help you decide whether digital photography is right [more…]
Working with Digitally Captured Images
In the early days of digital cameras, downloading images was a complex process that involved connecting your camera to your computer with a special cable and then using a software program to download the [more…]
File Format Guide for Your Digital Photos
When you take and store a digital image you need to choose a file type, or format. Here are the popular choices when you choose a format for your digital photo: [more…]
Resolution in Digital Photos
The number of pixels (picture elements) in your digital photo is managed by resolution. If you don't have enough pixels per inch (ppi) in your image it will appear blurry. Here is the minimum pixel count [more…]
Format of a Digital Photo
Format is the way your camera records and stores the data that make-up a digital photo. Camera Raw, or a high-quality JPEG formats, which usually come standard on digital cameras, are your best bet for [more…]
The ISO Setting on Your Digital Camera
The ISO (International Standards Organization) setting on your digital camera controls how sensitive the image sensor is to light. The higher the ISO the less light you need to capture a photo. Beware: [more…]
Exposure Modes on Your Digital Camera
Most digital cameras offer you a choice of exposure modes. Here are common symbols on a digital camera menu or mode dial that represent exposure modes: [more…]
Digital Photography For Dummies Cheat Sheet
To take quality photos on a digital camera you need the correct resolution, format, and ISO setting. Most digital cameras display common symbols for exposure modes and offer basic file formats for creating [more…]
Portrait Photography Settings in a Nutshell
Portrait photography isn’t rocket science, but there is a definite methodology to taking great portraits. When in doubt, here are some settings that you can use for taking great portraits; just add a photogenic [more…]
Digital Photography After-Shoot Checklist
There are certain things you should do after every photo shoot, especially if you’ve changed any camera settings. Here’s a checklist you can keep in your camera bag: [more…]
Photoshop Elements Reference
Photoshop Elements can seem rather daunting the first few times you use it. If you’re a newbie to Elements, or you just like nearby reference material, print out this Cheat Sheet and park it by your computer [more…]
Digital Portrait Photography For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Digital portrait photography is not rocket science. Capturing a person’s likeness and essence in the same photograph may sound like a daunting task, but it really isn’t if you practice often and use the [more…]
Choose a Perspective for Your Nature Photo
Many landscape and nature photographers take all their pictures from an upright position, but you’ll capture more interesting photographs if you choose a unique vantage point from which to photograph a [more…]
Develop Your Own Photography Style
When you use your digital camera often, the technology of the camera, including the settings and lenses, becomes second nature, and you can start working on developing a photography style of your own. [more…]
Convey a Mood in a Nature Photograph
You can convey a mood with every digital photograph you take. Perhaps your goal is to create pictures that express the beauty of the area in which you live. Your photographs can show a calm, peaceful feeling [more…]
Practice Makes Perfect in Digital Photography
Your camera does you absolutely no good if you keep it snug and secure in its case. The only way you gain your chops as a photographer is to take the advice of the Nike ads and “Just do it.” Take your [more…]
Practice Digital Photography by Going Light
When you want to learn how to use a specific piece of camera gear, such as a new lens, or master a specific photography technique, try going commando. When you go commando, or travel light, you take just [more…]
Go on a Nature Photo Walkabout
The next time you feel the inspiration to go out and take some pictures, consider going on a photo walkabout. When you go on a photo walkabout, you park your vehicle in a central area and start walking [more…]
Practice Photography with Self-Assignments
Review your photography from time to time to get an idea of your strengths and weaknesses. As you learn new skills, your photography becomes better; when you think you’re perfect, you’ve reached a plateau [more…]
Take Great Nature Photographs
When you photograph a beautiful place, your goal should be for someone to say, “I wish I was there.” In a great nature photograph, your goal isn’t to send the image to someone and say, “I was here.” [more…]
Study the Work of the Masters of Photography
One of the best ways to learn digital photography is to look at photographs. Study the photographs of the acknowledged masters in your genre of photography. [more…]
Study the Work of Your Photographer Peers
You can get inspiration and ideas by studying the photography of your peers, in addition to studying the masters. There are lots of great websites that have photographs from photographers of varying skill [more…]
Learn Photography in an Online Community
Online communities are great places to learn photography and get feedback from other photographers. Join an active community like Flickr or SmugMug.
The photography bug is easy to catch. You take a couple [more…]
Digital Photography and Exposure
The first step to understanding digital photography is to understand exposure. The holy trinity — as some photographers refer to it — of exposure are shutter speed, aperture size, and the sensitivity of [more…]
