Anyone with the right camera equipment, and the necessary skills can set up a home business, marketing photography. You need only to convert a room of your house into an office, and then you can work immediately.
With modern technology in the form of SLR digital cameras, you do not even need the room for a […]
Babies can be the most challenging and rewarding portraits to take, but can also be the most frustrating.
Babies tend to sleep, eat and cry a lot and won’t pose in front of the camera but don’t let that put you off photographing them. Creating the perfect baby portrait, when done right, will certainly be […]
Traditionally a photographer could control the outcome of his photos in the dark room by using a variety of films, chemicals, papers and processes. Now all of this can be done on the computer or in some cases on the digital camera all with photo editing programs.
The advantages of editing digital photos is that costs […]
Most of the major technological breakthroughs in consumer electronics have been part of a larger breakthrough: converting analog information into digital information. The digital camera is one of the most remarkable instances of this shift and as the market for digital cameras grows so does the demand for camera accessories.
In the year 2000 digital cameras […]
From a little spark, may burst a mighty flame.
—Italian Poet Dante (1265-1351)
Inspired to create your own child portrait? It’s very possible, with a little enthusiasm
and creativity, to create something very special. Children hold such wonderful
qualities, a simple innocence and a profound simplicity, beauty and awe about
them.
Children are, in touch with, and […]
You probably know the yellow “National Geographic” magazine. If you browse through its colorful pages you can see that many of the pictures are taken in the low, warm light of mornings and late afternoons or evenings.
The photographers of National Geographic are among the best we have. You can easily mimic this practice and create […]
Last week we went on a hike up one of the local trails in Lake Tahoe. I left the SLR at home and brought my compact digital camera along. Half way up the mountain we encountered a bear. I got the camera out and captured a couple of photos before he ran off into the […]
Camera digital technology: do you have to understand it to utilize it? Probably not, especially if you’re using a consumer digital camera - a point-and-shoot - and you just want to get that holiday trip recorded for posterity…
On the other hand, it is quite useful to have a good grip on camera digital technology to […]
In Part I of this article, I talked about the fact that many digital SLR cameras are quite similar in features and price.
It’s challenging to evaluate them all and find the best one. In fact, it’s a lot like comparing apples to apples.
But faced with a pile of apples at the supermarket you can […]
In the 1950’s and 1960’s Polaroid’s instant cameras were all the rage. You could shoot a picture and have the finished print in a minute or so. The quality wasn’t that great, but hey, you had your pictures now! Today with digital cameras and high-tech photo printers, we have quality instant photos virtually indistinguishable from […]