Digital Photography

Flower scans look exactly like photographs and are normally printed by the same process by photo labs, although there are some intriguing variations.

art prints

You frame them for hanging on a wall as usual. The only difference is in the process of obtaining the image - the pictures are not photographed with a camera, but scanned, using high resolution scanner.

Visually, the major difference comes from non-centered focus. In normal photography, the focus is always sharpest in the center of the image and more blurred at the edges. Even manipulated artistically, the relation of center and edges is sustained.

On a scanner, objects become more/less focused in several places, depending upon their proximity to the glass. Additionally, there is no visual distance between the viewer and the subject. Images look as if you could touch the flowers.

wine & cheese art print 29 & 30

Tips for protecting photographs & prints:

Art prints

One important tip for preserving printed digital photos is to store them in an album.Storing them in such a way helps to preserve them and make them less susceptible to fading. Avoid those albums with plastic covers to hold each photo though.

If you display your printed photos, its good to display them in frames under glass. Try to go for anti-UV glass and also, don’t expose the photos to open air. This helps to preserve the photos for a long time.
Printed digital photos, if kept exposed to sunlight and humid air, will necessarily fade out due to chemical reactions. Keep those photos away from the attic and heater areas and you’ll be safe.

Mary - Vintage art print - water color

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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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

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

–> 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

I Worked Hard For My Rejections - article with know how tips for using the digital camera for stock submissions.  I was practising using different cameras, like the vupoint digital cameras.

At about two months, I had my first photo accepted on my first online photo site. At two and half months I was finally taking better digital photographs. It was a great day for me when my first photo was accepted in the test submission stage to qualify.

I had had months of trial and error. I did it the hard way; but then I had to use what I had! I would not do it that way again. I only had a regular camera, ie: a basic Canon sure shot. I read-up on what the best film type was for the lighting required on a film camera, used the available light outside, which happened to be early spring at noon, and I gave it a go. I had the right ASA film – 100, but… of course I could not change the ISO setting. The photo stock company rejected the photos saying I had borderline grain, which is called noise.

I knew very little at the time but had a lot of desire.

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