Digital Photography

On stock photography & art prints

I have a photo, I looked it and thought… this is selling a lot more than I thought it would, hmmm.  This morning I looked at it in a different light.  Light… meaning in different way.  The shot was romantic, in a sort of way.  It was dusk, and in the picture was a bus.  But, it had a certain atmophere about it.  I thought yes I would buy!  I am glad that now I am more objective about my stock work.

Sometimes it takes quite awhile to come-up with a winning photo.  It sure is great when you have it!  Here is a photo taken in the Maligne Canyon near Jasper, in the Canadian Rockies.  I’m lovin it!

Kissing Rocks - photo art print # 15

Art prints and photo stock. Try, try again.  Just do it.  Don’t get all caught-up in thoughts of all the rejections you have gotten from stock photo agencies, please!  Don’t feel bad because you don’t have that camera you want, the expensive deluxe model.  Take pride in the surprises get when a photo is accepted and you didn’t expect it.  Look at your photographs in an objective eye.  Yes, rejection is a bad word.  But, it makes you get going.  Even if you are in a huff… you get going.  I think we all are personal about our pictures at first.  Don’t think we should be.  (well, maybe the real winners).  I stopped being too personal about my work, yes I consider it work now.  A designer may buy your photo and use just one corner of it;  and anyways designers may, more than likely change it.

I’m not a tech. but sometimes I can tell if a photo is good.  I will re-submit it.  I probabably exhaust it, ie; submitting it to more than one photo site.  I may submit more than once to the same site… waiting awhile to submit again.  I have has several successes.  One of the reasons is photo sites change what they are looking for;  sites have quite a number of staff, and one is most likely to get a different body, and maybe more in favor of your photo.  I have many files burned onto cd, so I can pull-out the rejected ones, even after a year.  Things change.  I have had them accepted.

Misty peonies - 5 art print

Digital Photo Frame and Photo Albums - A  TFT LCD screen with the LED backlight provides ample surface and brightness to display your images and video clips from any format.  That’s the new… compared with the framing the old prints and photographs.  I still love framing the old vintage prints too.

Wildlife Photography - Photographing Birds
Catching inspiring images of birds takes more than just good luck
By Mike Stensvold

Birds are fascinating critters, a fact that hits home more frequently the more I hang out with them. Photographing birds is a challenge, but a most enjoyable and rewarding one. Here are some keys to creating better bird photos.

Look For Light
As with all photography, light is the key ingredient. So look for good light and then look for birds in that good light. While great shots can be made in backlighting and moody, misty light, the best light for most bird photos is frontal sun, early or late in the day. That means looking for birds toward the west at sunrise and toward the east in the afternoon—you want the sun at your back.

Bird pair looking at their portrait - vintage art print # V7

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Ever wonder what to hang on that office wall?  You have the older gray file cabinets, along with your newer ones.  Wanting a good blend for your gray tones… you think a nice painting or art prints may be just the thing you need.

A beautiful picture of winter is not - out!  Sure the wonderful Autumn scenes are so cheerful.  Everyone loves summer pictures.  But, in your space with grays and blues… and nice print of buildings, or steely tones - winter pictures would be nice for effect and decor.

Feeling nostalgic? Salute golden days past with vintage art, art prints.  I just love the work of the old masters.  They had simple tools, so they went into great detail.

What wonderful heritage.  Drawings reflect that time period;  what people wore, what they did.  It takes you back… they tell a story.

Pa pa playing with baby - Vintage art print V8

Olympus stylus a great series of the Olympus digital cameras.  Information on the basic qualities of light. Light is life!
Understanding natural light is a “must” for good landscape images.

The job of a landscape photographer is to record a scene. Yet, photographers often fail to capture what it felt like to be actually at a scene.

A good landscape photographer arrives at a scene early, and waits for the scene to unfold. Waiting patiently for changing colours and changing mood, which all go along with the change of the weather.

Vital to all of this is light - natural light and all the elements it brings to a scene.

To be able to use light correctly and creatively we first must understand it. Once we understand it we can use it to our advantage in creating beautifully, dramatic landscape images.

There are three basic qualities of light: intensity, direction and colour.

Intensity: refers to the strength of light. If the sun is high in the sky, light can be harsh and too strong. Cloudy days bring soft and defused light.

Ma ma Mallard with duckling

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You’ve got a digital camera, why shouldn’t your picture frames be digital too?  With a digital photo frame you don’t have to pay to have your snaps printed, and they don’t just show one picture, they display your entire collection on a bright full-colour LCD.  The aciontv digital photo frame is one of the frames looking very nice, as some of the picture frames.

Your images will be presented in a dynamic slide show.  No need to print your photos or even copy them to a computer, you can view pictures immediately with a digital picture frame.

Kitty mischief - photo art print #13

Passion keeps the excitement going.  Passion propels dreams.  My dream is to produce  art prints.  Photo art prints, too.  I need the passion to have the stick to it, needed in these time of down-sizing.

Maybe I can’t grow my dreams as much as wanted these days.  But I can keep the fires burning.  I have the passion.

Mountain sheep pair - #12 - Jasper, Alberta Canada

Learning lighting the face with panasonic digital cameras.                                                                                 Lighting your subject          -     Every face can show a multitude of personality and individual characteristics. It is up to the portrait photographer to bring out the subjects best features with interesting conversation and good lighting.

The photographer’s first task is to evaluate the facial features and decide which ones to emphasize and which ones to minimize. Long noses look best from a low angle for instance, and double chins respond well to a high camera angle, but this article will be aimed at the effects of lighting on the human face.

In Dream land - art print 2

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Key Features & Benefits of the polaroid digital cameras .
Polaroid Pink Camera Campaign for Breast Cancer - choices of different shades of pink.

Models gives you as much fine detail as 35mm film; make beautiful prints of 11×14 and under; allows extensive cropping (selecting) of an area of your photo for enlargement with no loss in quality
2.5″ LCD screen.
Preview and review your images on this bright TFT screen
3x optical zoom/4x digital zoom
Brings the shot up close for quick and easy capture.

Wild pink rose cluster design - photo art print 11