Paint your digital picture
Digital photography, once expensive and poor quality compared to film photography.
Now cameras costing under £60 are able to produce excellent quality with the ability to print just the pictures you want and maninpulate the photographs to how you want them. Many high street stores now offer digital printing from memory card or cd. You can also create on-line galleries and share your images with website like Photobox
To get the most from digital photography, you will require some sort of software for creating, re-touching, sorting, and organising your photographs. Packages such as Adobe Photoshop are the industry standard or it's lighter weight cousin Adobe Photoshop Elements. Another area of digital photography that has expanded enormously is the supply of stock photographs which may be used in various ways , maybe to enhance a website or to illustrate an artical in a magazine. Registering with a stock photography website such as Fotolia, alllows you upload your images and offer them for sale.
To get the most from digital photography, you will require some sort of software for creating, re-touching, sorting, and organising your photographs. Packages such as Adobe Photoshop are the industry standard or it's lighter weight cousin Adobe Photoshop Elements. Another area of digital photography that has expanded enormously is the supply of stock photographs which may be used in various ways , maybe to enhance a website or to illustrate an artical in a magazine. Registering with a stock photography website such as Fotolia, alllows you upload your images and offer them for sale.
The evolution of photography into digital photography has been quick, prices of digital cameras dropped fast the amount of pixels cameras could handle got better and better and storage got cheaper. Whether using a phone, compact and SLR the advances in digital photography allow you to capture excellent quality images.
If you want simple 'point and shoot' or want total contral of the image, there is a digital camera for you. The basic end offers fixed lens cameras, with good enough resolution to produce good 6" x 4" prints. The next band of cameras offer a zoom lens to get in closer and have more control over framing the image. The top end find the SLR with interchangable lenses, and an overwhelming array of features to help you get that perfect image.
As well as cameras, more and more people now rely on mobile phones with in-built cameras to capture their images, and with digital photography advancing so fast these type of cameras can match and sometimes far exceed the basic compact cameras.
If you want simple 'point and shoot' or want total contral of the image, there is a digital camera for you. The basic end offers fixed lens cameras, with good enough resolution to produce good 6" x 4" prints. The next band of cameras offer a zoom lens to get in closer and have more control over framing the image. The top end find the SLR with interchangable lenses, and an overwhelming array of features to help you get that perfect image.
As well as cameras, more and more people now rely on mobile phones with in-built cameras to capture their images, and with digital photography advancing so fast these type of cameras can match and sometimes far exceed the basic compact cameras.
By utilising a software package such as Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop elements many possibilities are available to you to manipulate your images to create many different effects.
compilation
A standard digital picture was taken, the car was cut-out and selected from the picture and placed onto a different layer in Adobe photoshop. A glow was added to the headlight and exhaust fumes added using the airbrush and various filters. The result a much more striking image.
Multiple Exposure
Two seperate pictures taken, with the model moved to a new position for the second exposure.Its a good idea to use a tripod for this.
Next the pictures are merged within Adobe Photoshop to create a single image. Many packages have facilities to create this kind of picture, Olympus Camedia, Adobe Photoshop etc.
Panoramic Pictures
A single picture made up with 2 or more photographs to expand the view and give a better representation of the view you are trying to capture. Here Adobe Photoshop has been used to stitch two or more images together to create the panorama.
Get in close
As digital photography does not use film, there is no wastage (apart from battery power), this allows you to capture more images and pick the best results. Many cameras offer a 'macro' close up mode allowing you to get close to smaller subjects and produce fascinating images.
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compilation
A standard digital picture was taken, the car was cut-out and selected from the picture and placed onto a different layer in Adobe photoshop. A glow was added to the headlight and exhaust fumes added using the airbrush and various filters. The result a much more striking image.
Multiple Exposure
Two seperate pictures taken, with the model moved to a new position for the second exposure.Its a good idea to use a tripod for this.
Next the pictures are merged within Adobe Photoshop to create a single image. Many packages have facilities to create this kind of picture, Olympus Camedia, Adobe Photoshop etc.
Panoramic Pictures
A single picture made up with 2 or more photographs to expand the view and give a better representation of the view you are trying to capture. Here Adobe Photoshop has been used to stitch two or more images together to create the panorama.
Get in close
As digital photography does not use film, there is no wastage (apart from battery power), this allows you to capture more images and pick the best results. Many cameras offer a 'macro' close up mode allowing you to get close to smaller subjects and produce fascinating images.
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