Digital Photography

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

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.

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

–> aciontv digital photo frame - some nice frames to look at.

Well, I take a chance.  I just got another rejection of an image I thought was alright.  It may have been, but there are too many of that subject already online at that photostock site.  It is getting harder & harder to to get accepted;  is not like it was a couple of years back with I first started.

Dreamstime really like good composition, they are really adamant about that.

Shutterstock likes an image to as useful as possible;  hardly any cropping.

iStockPhoto  must have extra special equipment for diagnosing ‘noise’, ’cause where others will accept an image, they turn me down for noise.

Memorex 7 in. widescreen fashion digital photo frame

Here is a good selection of digital cameras

samsung digital cameras

Oh, oh I did it again!  I entered one of the photo contests where you have to pay for a book… not get a winner’s prize.  This happened to me, over five years ago.  It could actually be the same group, only under a different name.  I am told that on the net. there are several branches with different names but of the same companies.

I was disappointed;  One should not have to pay for winning.  This also happened to me when I entered my Poetic Verse for a contest.  That time, I knew i didn’t have to buy the book, but I did so I would have a nice keep sake for my granddaughter.  I wonder was my verse truly that good, and my photo … or did they just need a lot of submissions to pay for the book … and have profit.

Golden rose teapot - art print 10

When the weather is good and my granddaughter and I are out for a walk, that time can be time of a photo shoot.  I have been using discount canon digital cameras.

When Brittany was younger, it was easier to take pictures of her.  She’s a natural to the camera.  At the age of around six years old, it become harder to get a good photo of her.  She would longer sit or stand still.  She would say “no”,  and wouldn’t pose for me.  And… she was dressed-up so cute!

I had to learn to coax her into posing.  It would take the longest time if I didn’t learn how to handle the situation.  The best idea is to go with the flow… her flow.  I became less demanding.  I had taken her natural poses for granted.  I now allow her more time to fuss about.  I keep an open mind.  Brittany is almost nine now, I give her more say in the poses.  Sometimes I let her set-up the photo shoot.  And… yes, sometimes I offer candy for when the shoot is over.

In Dream land - art print 2