Photography Articles & News
Online Photo Sharing: Not Just for Family and Vacation Photos
You may have joined the photo-sharing craze to share your family vacation photos, but have you thought about other uses for photo sharing?
Weddings, From a Photographers Point of View
Your wedding day is without a doubt one of the happiest and stressful days of you life. The happy part comes naturally but how can you cut down on the stress? Well from a photographers standpoint, seeing that he is with you from the beginning of the day till the end, and sees you before and after the wedding, I would like to offer some tips and secrets to make it more happy than stressful.
Crooked Horizons in Your Photos? – Here is a Five Minute Digital Fix
Remember the good old photography days? Film camera in hand, you would see that perfect landscape, seascape or sunset and shoot off several shots. Perhaps a couple of weeks later, once you had returned home and finally finished that 24 or 36 exposure film, it was off to the photo-lab to get the film processed. You eagerly open the packet of photographs, looking for that superb seascape you took, knowing that it would almost certainly be taken up by National ...
Getting Your Photos Ready for Sharing
One of the main reasons people buy digital cameras is so they can share their photos with others. Even if you are just going to print your photos for yourself, you will want them to look their best. Here are some tips on getting your images ready for sharing or printing.
A Photographer's Guide to Buying Binoculars
I held my first pair of binoculars more than 33 years ago when Uncle Sam “invited” me to join the U.S. Army. I was at a God-forsaken place in Southeast Asia called Firebase Elliot. The government-issued binoculars in those days were the jumbo variety and weighed about six pounds. They were just one more piece of gear to carry with the 70 pounds I already packed on my back. I quickly developed an outright aversion to binoculars.
Digital Photography: The RAW vs JPG Debate
If you use a digital camera (I use a Canon EOS Digital Rebel/300D myself) and that camera is an SLR, then it most likely can record images in RAW format. In general, you should record your images at the highest resolution possible. If you only have a small memory card and are worried that you can only record a few RAW images on it, then it's time to buy a bigger card! [They don't cost much these days]. You can always shrink an image after it's taken but you can't enlarge a ...