Getting the most from your digital wildlife images
Now-a-days you dont have to be a professional photographer to take great looking images. Using the latest technologies anyone can create images they would be proud to hang on the wall.
The latest digital cameras offer both high resolution and a wide selection of pre-programmed modes for nearly any situation. Many also offer good zooms that allow the user to get close to the action or scene. Not only do they offer all these features, but they do it while continuing to keep their easy point and shoot interface.
I, like most professionals, use a digital single reflex lens reflex, or SLR, camera. While it may sound complicated it really only offers more versatility and creative control, which, for most people, is overkill.
The digital SLR cameras have interchangeable lenses, offering the professional a very wide choice on how to frame the scene. They usually offer more options for control, like film speed and different quality settings, along with a higher resolution.
While the point and shoot cameras may not have the versatility, many of them offer the average user a much simpler way to get great shots. With very fast auto focusing, automatic exposure and various modes, most people can get the images they want with a simple click of the menu.
But of course, the best reason to shoot digital is the cost. With film you have to buy the roll of film and get it developed. Once developed, most people will end up with many images that they dont like and will end up throwing them away. With digital you can shoot as many images as the memory card will hold. You can also review the images on a small display screen. If you dont like them you can simple delete them and shoot another.
When you have all your images you can take them to one of the many local places that develop digital prints. You can then select only the ones you want to print, or place all of them on a CD. While per print digital may be more expensive, averaging around 30 cents per print, since you only print the ones you like there is no wasted prints.
Digital cameras offer a distinct advantage over film as it allows you to take a photograph, view it and if you dont like it delete it and retake another image, all in a short time. It also offers a way to take as many images as you want without costing any money, once you have a camera. Even the prints will be cheaper as you only print the images you like, not a whole roll of film, half of which may not be worth seeing.
Todays digital cameras offer a wide range of options and settings to allow anyone to take nice looking images. Computer photo editing software allows you to edit and enhance images, or even convert them into black and white or mixed media type images before printing.
But, as its so often stated by photographers, Its not the camera that makes the image. Knowing the basics of what makes an appealing image can greatly increase how your images look.
The latest digital cameras offer both high resolution and a wide selection of pre-programmed modes for nearly any situation. Many also offer good zooms that allow the user to get close to the action or scene. Not only do they offer all these features, but they do it while continuing to keep their easy point and shoot interface.
I, like most professionals, use a digital single reflex lens reflex, or SLR, camera. While it may sound complicated it really only offers more versatility and creative control, which, for most people, is overkill.
The digital SLR cameras have interchangeable lenses, offering the professional a very wide choice on how to frame the scene. They usually offer more options for control, like film speed and different quality settings, along with a higher resolution.
While the point and shoot cameras may not have the versatility, many of them offer the average user a much simpler way to get great shots. With very fast auto focusing, automatic exposure and various modes, most people can get the images they want with a simple click of the menu.
But of course, the best reason to shoot digital is the cost. With film you have to buy the roll of film and get it developed. Once developed, most people will end up with many images that they dont like and will end up throwing them away. With digital you can shoot as many images as the memory card will hold. You can also review the images on a small display screen. If you dont like them you can simple delete them and shoot another.
When you have all your images you can take them to one of the many local places that develop digital prints. You can then select only the ones you want to print, or place all of them on a CD. While per print digital may be more expensive, averaging around 30 cents per print, since you only print the ones you like there is no wasted prints.
Digital cameras offer a distinct advantage over film as it allows you to take a photograph, view it and if you dont like it delete it and retake another image, all in a short time. It also offers a way to take as many images as you want without costing any money, once you have a camera. Even the prints will be cheaper as you only print the images you like, not a whole roll of film, half of which may not be worth seeing.
Todays digital cameras offer a wide range of options and settings to allow anyone to take nice looking images. Computer photo editing software allows you to edit and enhance images, or even convert them into black and white or mixed media type images before printing.
But, as its so often stated by photographers, Its not the camera that makes the image. Knowing the basics of what makes an appealing image can greatly increase how your images look.
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