I have to admit that in digital photography I personally have been a laggard. I have two traditional film cameras - a vintage manual focus Nikon and a Canon Rebel, which is a newer model equipped with auto focus. Up until recently, I've been heroically resisting the temptation of trying a digital camera, although each of my kids has had one for years now. But a few days ago, my father gave me one of his - a mid-priced Olympus - because he didn't like the menus. I've decided to give it a try and I was surprised I actually like it.
I take a lot of pictures so obviously the first thing I loved about it is that it had no film. I also got two large memory cards from my father along with the camera and I never run out of film. I no longer have to pay for developing photos that I don't even like. Actually, I don't develop photos at all. And now that I'm able to see them on the spot, I can delete the ones that turn out wrong and free up space for new ones. I take hundreds of pictures and this helps me improve my technique and get better results. I can still keep the things I liked about traditional photography as my camera lets me select film speed and worry about shutter speed/aperture combinations. This means that I can still use my photographic skills, which is a very good thing. I also love that I don't have to wait for days to see how the pictures turned out like.
Another thing I love about digital photos is the fact that you can edit them later. I haven't purchased Photoshop yet, though I plan to buy the Elements program soon. For now I just use Picasa, which is free, and my PhotoDeluxe application which came with the scanner. Even with these basic programs I can still change the photos to a great extent. I sometimes have problems with the exposure because I don't always notice backlighting. Luckily, poor exposure can be easily corrected afterwards, and the same thing you can do with red eyes or excessive tint. You can also adjust contrast, sharpen focus and warm up colors. Cropping is another tool I use very often. It helps me remove parts of the background or excess sky. I can even transform a landscape photo into a close-up if I remove a large part of it. You also have a lot of special effects. You can transform your photo into an oil painting, add filters, neon, glow - just set your imagination free.
When I'm all set, I can send those photos I really like to a processing service. With Picasa you have an option to send your photos to a processor over the Internet and you will get the printed photos into your mail. Or you can upload the pictures to a website, use them in a blog or email them to your friends. Having so much control over your photos is just great. If you haven't already switched to digital photography, you should think about it. It is a real blessing.
Tom Ang Digital Photography
Digital photography is the latest form of photography which is currently used all over the world and its gaining popularity day by day because of latest innovations and technologies that have been introduced in digital photography. It is far ahead and far more better than previous photographic plates or films that were previously used in photographic processing.
This form of photography is mainly utilizes digital technology and the images can easily be transferred to your laptops and can be displayed, stored,and even printed without any kind of involvement of old chemical process. Nowadays the digital camera that are available in the market are very much capable of taking excellent pictures alongside with sound and video recording facilities as well. With an excellent image quality it adds to the advantage of many professional photographers.
Modern day digital photography devices includes many sensors to read specific intensity of light and actively filter them through various color filters to get a complete and excellent quality of image for this reason CMOS sensors are used which are also popularly known as Active pixel sensor. Modern day digital camera comes with an inbuilt flash memory so storing images are not a big factor any more for the photographers.
The quality of digital images highly depends upon the pixel count of the camera apart from this lens quality, resolution, capture medium, capture format, and well processing also plays an important role in getting a excellent quality picture. There are wide ranges of cameras available in the market and the price difference is mainly based upon pixel count, resolution and some other important factors.
There's always been something new in the field of Digital photography and the Canon A720 is one of the latest Digital photography devices available in the market today it features 8.0 mega pixel and 6x zoom and comes with face detection mode and even has increased ISO range which extends to 1600 and also integrated with several important technologies to give you an excellent image quality.
Another latest Digital photography device is Olympus SP-560UZ which features 18x optical zoom along with 8.0 million pixel sensors and allows rapid continuous photo shoot and also houses shadow adjust technology for brighter images.
The Canon Power Shot SX100 is another very stylish 8.0 mega pixel digital camera featuring 10x optical zoom, 2.5” LCD display with 100% coverage and comes with 19 shooting modes.
Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 is one of the most advanced cameras available in the market and is integrated with advanced Dynamic Range optimizer functions and latest software's and sensors to enhance the quality of the image. The camera also features high resolution lens kit with high internal focusing and has a dual storage formula.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-L10 is a compact and a light weighted camera with many excellent features such as larger zoom ring, articulating screen, new smaller, lighter kit lens, latest control interface and many more to enhance the image quality.
The Fuji film Finepix F50fd is 12.0 mega pixel cameras with 2.7-inch TFT screen and 3.0x optical zoom and also feature aperture and shutter priority modes is one the latest innovations in the field of digital photography and digital photographic devices.
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