Archive for the ‘Digital Camera Tips’ Category
How to Photograph Artwork–Tips from a Pro
Document Your Artwork — Photo Tips from Lori McNee
In past posts, I showed you how to create an artist’s portfolio — a photo book displaying your art. 
A book that can be printed, e-mailed or posted to a Web site, blog, Facebook or Twitter. In those posts, artist Tom Eddington had his fine wood sculptures professionally photographed and the finished book is spectacular. In this post, artist and blogger Lori McNee explains how to photograph your own artwork to get optimal results for a professional-looking representation of your work.
How to Photograph Your Artwork the Easy Way! Part 1
8 Tips for Taking Great Digital Photos of Wildflowers
If you love snapping nature photos, especially of beautiful and unusual wildflowers, you’ll pick up a few tips from this post. Written by a Photo Naturalist, the post is from the Digital Photography School site — and I’d recommend it. And, of course, the photos are fabulous! And don’t forget, you can find great ways to print and share those wildflower photos you take when you upload them to lifephoto.com.
8 Tips for Photographing Wildflowers
In this post, Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist discusses eight tips for photographing wildflowers.To get the softly diffused light in this photo, I waited for an overcast sky. (Photo by Steve Berardi)With spring on the horizon in some parts of the world, you may be thinking about photographing some beautiful wildflowers soon. So, here are 8 tips to get you started:
1. Use a tripod
Using a tripod will help you get sharper photos by ensuring your camera doesn?t move. But, the tripod helps in another way too: it forces you to be more careful about your composition.
When you handhold your camera, there?s a tendency to just snap away, but when you add the tripod, you?ll spend more time thinking about your composition and ensuring your camera is in a very precise position.
2. Wait for an overcast or cloudy day
Rule of Thirds guides you toward capturing the best photo
It’s not my rule, but I’ve heard it a hundred times since I first picked up a camera. If you haven’t heard about using this rule to capture the “true essence” of the photo, you can find out more from digital photography pro, Darren Rowse. I was looking through his blog, Digital Photography School, and ran across this post which I’d like to share with you. Just might help you snap better pictures!
Perhaps the most well know principle of photographic composition is the ‘Rule of Thirds‘.
The “Rule of Thirds” one of the first things that budding digital photographers learn about in classes on photography and rightly so as it is the basis for well balanced and interesting shots.
I will say right up front however that rules are meant to be broken and ignoring this one doesn’t mean your images are necessarily unbalanced or uninteresting. However a wise person once told me that if you intend to break a rule you should always learn it first to make sure your breaking of it is all the more effective!
What is the Rule of Thirds?
The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically) so that you have 9 parts. As follows.
Get your digital camera ready for holiday photos
These tips are just too good to pass up. Darren Rowse has offered up these great suggestions to help you get ready for holiday picture-taking. I’m passing them along to you and recommend reading all 16 of his tips! Then you’ll be ready to make some fun photo gifts or maybe even a 2009 Christmas photo memory book with all the great pictures you took!
Here’s a photo book made by a friend of mine after last year’s holiday season! You can do the same — easily! Then e-mail the same kind of photo sharing previewer to your family and friends — or put it out on Facebook or Twitter! So easy when you upload your photos to lifephoto.com.
16 Digital Photography Tips for Christmas
by Darren Rowse (from Digitalphotographyschool.com)
Christmas-PhotographyPhoto by mom drew nick
It’s just a few days until Christmas so I thought a quick tutorial on the topic of Christmas Photography might be appropriate. Hopefully this will give you some good Christmas photo ideas.
Here are 16 Christmas Photography tips and ideas to try that come to mind for digital camera owners wanting to capture the big day: continue reading
Some sound advice from Photography Bay about taking care of your camera.
I learned quite a bit from this post — especially #3. I do this all the time and now I learn it’s really bad for the camera battery! See what you can learn.
Written by Chris Gampat on December 1st, 2009 |
7 Things To Never Do With Your Camera
Readers, friends and family alike always ask questions about what they’re doing wrong with their camera that is making it not perform to their satisfaction. Some of these things are almost common-sensical with regards to electronics but others may not seem that easy to figure out. Here’s a couple of things to keep in mind so that the new camera you get for the holidays will last you a bit longer. continue reading
Here are some simple tips to help you and your camera take better outdoor photos this winter.
Pro Photographer T.J. Dinsmoor recently offered these tips on his pro photography blog.
Photography in The Winter: 5 Great Photo Tips
Posted by TJ Dinsmoor on Mon, Dec 07, 2009 @ 11:05 AMJust the thought of winter makes people cringe.
Who would ever want to go out in the snow and cold to take photos? Winter is a wonderful time for photography — especially if you and your camera are well prepared. Here are five tips to make photography in the cold more successful. continue reading
Wondering about:
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Flash settings on your digital camera?
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When to use the zoom lens?
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How to “frame” your picture before taking it?
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Which digital camera is best for “point and shoot?”
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How to clean your lens?
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Settings to use for photos of children or pets? continue reading
Digital Photos Are Easier to Organize Than Prints
Here’s a post by pro photographer T.J. Dinsmoor offering some tips on getting organized.
Organizing Your Digital Photos
Posted by TJ Dinsmoor on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 @ 10:00 AMIs your computer full of digital images scattered in different folders? continue reading
