Say Hello with a Photo!

Making your own digital photo cards and personalized holiday photo cards is a lot easier than you think. All you need is your favorite photo or photos to get started. Soon you will have your own customized set of digital photo cards to send off to your family and friends for graduation day, birthdays, holidays and more. Printable greeting cards are not only a great way to keep in contact with family and friends, but also to show off your digital photos. The best way to capture a moment is with... Read more »

7 Principles to Choosing the Best Wedding Photographer

A cheap camera is sufficient to record most of the important events in our lives. But once in a lifetime events such as weddings deserve the extra expense of filming it right. Yet look in the yellow pages and you can see there are plenty of choices available. Follow these seven principles in choosing a photographer and you probably won’t be disappointed with the results. 1. Availability. A wealthy couple may want to hire the best New York photographer to capture their California wedding. But... Read more »

Professional Photography Degrees Fit You For a Fabulous Career

All too often people have misconceptions about professional photographers. They often decide photographers are privileged, having access to people and events others just dream about. They may believe that photographers are always flying off to amazing destinations for photo shoots. They look at photographers and wonder how they scored such an easy job, just hauling around a camera and shooting pictures all day. It may be easy to look at photography as a profession and develop that misconception.... Read more »

Photoshop Basics

Photoshop can seem overpowering at first glance due to the program’s lack of simple tutorials and seemingly challenging interface. Cast your worries aside, because the basics of Photoshop are much easier than they might appear. Photoshop is basically made up of four areas: the menu bar, at the top, the toolbar just below it, the toolbox on the left and the palettes on the right. As you navigate through the program, you will find that the menu bar and toolbox always stay the same. This is because... Read more »

Photography Tips - Buying a digital camera

If you are considering if you want a camera, you should set yourself a price agreement before going online or visiting an electronics shop. Purchasing a digital camera is just like getting any other large item like a house. There are thousands of options and often you can get puzzled. Before you go buying a gigantic high-end SLR camera, think about the smaller, yet more effective camera. High-end cameras offer the best zoom, the most added features and more megapixels. When you have more megapixels... Read more »

Digital Camera Tips Are Great When Choosing a Camera

Digital cameras have been around a good while now, but there are still some real 35mm fans out there who have resisted the switch. While 35mm is still perfectly fine, it is hard to argue with some of the advantages of digital. Digital cameras allow you to immediately assess the pictures you capture, and with the software programs available on most computers, the possibilities for alteration and digital manipulation of photographs is practically limitless. There is a lot of confounding information,... Read more »

How The Digital Camera Revolution Helped The Amateur

In the past decade the good old 35 mm film camera have been rendered extinct by the digital camera and many companies, like Kodak have had to change or die. There are many reasons why the digital cameras have become so popular despite an initial high price tag. They are fun to use, because they produce a finished image seconds after the shutter button is pressed. Digital cameras are also extremely convenient and inexpensive to use because you do not need to worry about wasting film or polluting the... Read more »

New Digital SLR: What Now?

So, you’ve upgraded from that old point and shoot camera, and are wondering how you can use this beast of a camera to start taking better pictures. Unfortunately, simply shelling out the big bucks for an SLR won’t get you anywhere. You need to start learning how to use this bad boy and take the pictures you want. First of all, you need to realize what buying an SLR has done for you. You haven’t purchased a magical masterpiece picture making machine, you’ve purchased a rather... Read more »

12 Tips to Better Beginner Digital Photography

Digital cameras are cheaper than ever and just about everyone should have one. But here’s the thing, even though cameras are better than ever how many of you are actually getting the best use of your camera? And, how many of you still wish you could take better pictures? The nice thing is there are some really simple things you can do to improve your picture taking. Picture taking can be fun and should be fun. Here is a simple list of things you can do today to take better photographs. 1... Read more »

A Few Top Rated Digital Camera Prices

So, what’s your budget for a digital camera? That’s one of the first questions a salesman will ask, when they catch you skulking around their shop trying to inconspicuously check out their lineup of digital cameras. It’s a hard question for many consumers to answer, when you’ve never priced digital cameras before. Digital camera prices vary widely, depending primarily on quality and functionality. Asking what your want your camera to do for you and how you plan to use it... Read more »