Choose the Right Image File Format For Your Needs
Posted December 31st, 2009When you are taking photos with a digital camera, be it a point and shoot or a 35mm SLR, the image you capture is stored to a memory card using a particular file format. Most digital cameras offer you the ability to store files in JPEG, TIFF or RAW format.
By far the most commonly used [...]
A Photographer’s Nude Nightmare
Posted December 30th, 2009A Photographer’s
Nude Nightmare
R. Dodge Woodson
Every year I try to bring in a fresh face, or two, for my stable of models. Very little of my recent work involves models. I specialize in wildlife, macro, and nature photography. But, every now and then, I get the urge to make magic with the human form as I [...]
Digital Macro Photography Tips
Posted December 28th, 2009There are several ways to see everyday objects, but to see it from different angles, has a new or unusual lighting conditions, something very special to be considered. Here, the fascination with digital macro photography you will see things and live very close and is considered by many people in authority as a form of [...]
UNDERWATER DIGITAL CAMERA: CAPTURING MOMENTS UNDERWATER
Posted December 27th, 2009An underwater digital camera is not just used to capture underwater memories; some professional marine photographers also use underwater digital cameras in their business. Even marine biologists and scientists use underwater digital cameras to capture marine life and thus be able to study the life and properties of the marine life. But I think it [...]
Make great Christmas gifts by using your camera
Posted December 26th, 2009Gifts are becoming more expensive year after year. You’re constantly looking for bargains and sales on smart phones, electronic toys, jewelry, clothing and accessories. By the time the Holidays are over, you are more in debt than before and the stress is creating havoc on your health. It’s great to be generous to your loved [...]
Selling Stock Photos: Tips for Getting Your Photos Approved at Stock Photo Agencies
Posted December 24th, 2009If you are interested in selling stock photos at agencies, one of the first hurdles you will face is getting the images you submit approved for sale by those agencies. Different agencies will have different criteria by which they judge your photos, of course, but here are a few tips to help get your photos [...]
Using your digital camera at Christmas
Posted December 23rd, 2009You’ll no doubt be entering the festive season with a series of dates booked in your diary for office parties, school pantos along with Christmas and New Year celebrations. Your digital camera is ideal for these social times, because you can show the pictures as soon as you take them and you can send them [...]
Digital Camera Terms and What They Mean
Posted December 22nd, 2009If you are thinking of or have already bought a new digital camera there are a number of terms that you may not be familiar with relating to your new purchase. With that in mind this article has listed out below many of the terms associated with digital cameras.
1. Automatic Mode – This setting automatically [...]
The Blue Angels and Stock Photography
Posted December 19th, 2009From my Sausalito studio I can catch glimpses of the Blue Angels as they make their practice runs for Fleet Week. Whenever they fly overhead I have this vague sense of guilt that I am not out there photographing them. Last year at this time I decided that I would figure out something I could [...]
Value Added Stock Photos and the Way Forward
Posted December 18th, 2009Value Added Stock Photography
Four months ago, after a couple of unexpected and rather invasive abdominal surgeries in the last year-and-a-half, I had a plastic surgeon perform an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) on me, to clean-up the scars and give me a new navel. Fun stuff! Anyway, the surgeon asked me to shoot a picture of one [...]