July 09, 2007
In This Issue
- How to take night photos
- Where to store your digital photos
- A good way to organize your digital photos
- Tips for shooting great photos
- Tip for today: Our greatest weakness
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1. How to take night photos
Do you like to take photos at night? I know I do. There's something magical about them - pictures of the moonlight sky and dazzling neon lights convey a special something that daytime photos can't.
When I started out taking digital photos at night, boy, did I have problems! The issue is that many digital cameras do not perform very well under low-light conditions. To take good night photos, there are some tricks you need to remember ...
2. Where to store your digital photos
Do you have a ton of photos in your collection? Perhaps you’ve been taking many photos over the holiday season or during your last vacation. Where do you store all those photos?
This article will run through some ideas on digital photo storage so that you know how to approach the storage issue in future.
Essentially, there are a few options you have when it comes to storing photos - memory cards, hard drives, CD/DVDs and online storage ...
3. A good way to organize your digital photos
If you’re like me, you may have taken tons and tons of digital photos with your trusty digital camera, but never took the time to organize them.
It’s certainly not a good idea to have thousands of photos lying in your hard drive totally disorganized.
For one thing, it’s going to be very tough to find a specific photo for viewing purposes. If you want to view a picture of your kid's birthday last year, for example, you'll need to spend a lot of time finding it ...
4. Tips for shooting great photos
Do you have trouble shooting good digital photos? Perhaps you've been taking digital photos for some time, but never really got the beautiful shots you wanted.
Maybe you somehow messed up the photos you took of important events, like your daughter's birthday or your trip to Paris.
You can imagine the frustration one feels when photos of memorable events turn out ugly ...
5. Tip for today: Shooting objects up close
Shooting close-ups of objects results in a narrower depth of field. Remember that the depth of field is the total range within the photo that can be in sharp focus.
To ensure a good shot, switch to aperture priority and select the biggest value you can, like f/16 or f/32. By selecting the largest aperture value, you're maximizing the depth of field. The advantage of a very narrow depth of field is that the background will be blurry and indistinct--which is usually a nice effect when shooting ultra close-ups.
Learn to Take Beautiful Photos
If you want to improve your digital photography skills, you may want to take a look at Digital Photography Success. This e-book package includes excellent step-by-step instructions on how to take pictures of beautiful landscapes, people, nature, fireworks, night scenes, etc. Learn how to shoot professional photos - just like those you see in glossy magazine covers.