October 31, 2009
Nearly all digital cameras these days come with an LCD screen allowing users to instantly review photos as they are taken. This one feature has drastically changed and improved how we take photos. However, an equally useful feature on digital cameras is what is called Live View technology, a feature that allows you to not [...]
October 24, 2009
Just because some cameras are called point-and-shoot doesn’t mean that they’re literally supposed to be used that way. With the advent of digital photography, point-and-shoot and compact cameras include basic and advance features designed to help make the cameras easier to use, while also helping you improve the quality of images taken. The following tips [...]
October 20, 2009
If you’re a serious shutterbug, there are few places on the Internet better than Flickr for sharing photos and discussing all aspects of digital photography. Flickr offers both free and paid subscriptions, and after you open your account and start building your own photostream, you’ll want to sign up for several of the tens of [...]
October 19, 2009
The digital camera is another great example of a technology we take for granted. Because we had film-based cameras for so long, the idea of capturing an image isn’t that miraculous to us any more. So, with the natural progression of technology making picture taking more and more instant, we all seemed to just kind of [...]
October 15, 2009
The most widely used method for photographers and artists to protect their work online is by using the watermark. Basically, a transparent yet fully visible image laid over the original image to signify that the image is not to be copied or used for free or without permission. This will work for most people, but [...]
September 3, 2009
Photography is a hobby that millions of people partake in every day. For many people, including me, it started out when they were a kid snapping pretend photos with their dad’s empty camera. Now, with digital SLRs readily available and even the world’s first ever 3D camera now on the scene, the hobby (and indeed [...]
August 11, 2009
Some of my best digital photos are usually too large to share on the web via email, Facebook, or on my blog. Full high resolution photos need to be shared in a smaller sized low-resolution “˜preview’. I wished there were a better way to share my large images on Flickr easily. Guess what ““ the new [...]
August 9, 2009
You know the feeling that comes to us all one fine day. You open your pictures folder and see a graphical stew of pictures which you have never bothered to rename and arrange. In this cluttered mix, you can’t tell between the snap you took of your birthday party last year or this year. During [...]
August 7, 2009
Up-scaling, upsizing or digitally increasing the size of a picture is perhaps less of a requirement than the opposite i.e. cropping. The basic nature of a photo makes any change in its natural dimensions an ill advised task. As any guy who has dabbled with graphic tools will tell you, enlarging a raster or bitmapped [...]
July 29, 2009
Flickr isn’t a dating agency, and if you’re looking for the love of your life we have better advice, but it’s a great place to find people who care about the same things, at least photographically. Step 1 ““ Show off your best No one is ever going to know what sorts of photos you [...]
