Digital Photography

When most people think of what a photographer does, they just think about taking pictures. A photographer has many more responsibilities. He must pose subjects, create suitable lighting, know how to work with many different types of equipment, develop photographs, and choose the best shots for framing and other purposes.
Photographers should be able to make [...]

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The word composition evolves from the base word “compose” meaning “to create” and is vitally important to the world of photography. Anyone can snap a picture. Just point and click. And you get what you get.
But a real photographer learns how to compose a photograph. In other words, the photographer by skill or instinct creates [...]

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I have to say that The Adipositivity Project is one of the most amazing things I have come across on the web in a long time. For anyone that is plus size and into photography, art, modeling, and body/size acceptance this is something for you to feast your eyes on. Since I live and breathe [...]

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One of the most challenging aspects of being a commercial photographer is taking quality photographs of children. While children make excellent subject matter for photographs, they can be difficult to capture for the photographer because of their short attention span and a natural tendency to act up in front of strangers.

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It seems like there is a war being fought, the culprit is film and pixels. Both are unwilling to give up. Film has been a forerunner for decades and is unwilling to give up. But it is surrounded and is very close to defeat. With its loyalists slowly loosing out because of lack of ammunition [...]

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Many people realize that photography lends a hand to history making when they are able to view pictures that were taken by photographers on the battlefields during the Civil War. Some of the photographs were groups of men and the various weapons of choice that were used during the heat of battle. The photography taken [...]

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Cartography, the process of producing maps is an ancient practice. In antithesis, the practice of photography is a relatively new concept. Putting the two together to produce vertical aerial photography is one of the latest ways of producing a true image of the earth’s surface. We take a look at the applications of such technology [...]

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In a previous article of mine I mentioned the fact that personal photographs do not sell. That is photographs of weddings and family occasions or some other family or friends event; even when they are well taken.
This begs the questions of what type of photograph sells? Research is very necessary, but it is not the [...]

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There are many forms of art and unbelievably, photography is one of them. Some critics may argue that because the finished product has not been produced by hand then it should not be considered an art. Stop and think about it, capturing a moment within a frame on a piece of equipment and knowing exactly [...]

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Photography is both about knowing how to use a camera and also knowing how to make decisions. Today’s media projects images that can be difficult to understand, and learning photography can help you to understand what you’re being showed every day on television, on the internet, and in movies. Photography is a good way to [...]

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