Digital Photography

Cloudy day shoots with kodak digital cameras

In outdoor photography, cloud cover diffuses the light of the sun much like a photographer’s softbox, producing a soft even light that results in softer contrasts. While high contrast can be quite dramatic, the softer contrast allows for more detail in both the light and the dark areas of your photograph. The softer light is also more flattering for portraits or candid shots of people.
On your first few cloudy day adventures, consider taking your digital camera. In spite of the differences in the cameras, what you learn about how the lighting changes your compositions and setup will be equally useful with your film camera. And with the digital, you’ll feel free to experiment without the added cost of film on your mind.
Some difficult subjects which benefit from the diffused light include waterfalls in shadowy forested areas, sea life caught in a tide pool and wildlife hiding in the shadows, as well as close ups of flowers and people.
Diffused lighting is not as bright as direct light, indoors or out, and you will need to compensate with a slower shutter speed. Or widen the aperture and adjust the depth of field. You should count on needing your tripod for wide or long shots. The picture can be blurred by even slight camera movement with really slow shutter speeds, so use your remote if you have one.

Also refer to pervious post - People looking fat in photos …

no.3 pink roses cluster

After Christmas we are all looking for special prices.  Refurbished or reconditioned in the description of the product is a good way to buy electronics.  Here is a explanation of what  recondtioned digital cameras means.  Product qualifies as refurbished, as the internal mechanisms that may be unaffected by the cosmetic damaged are still checked.

Demonstration Units - Defect During Production - In any assembly line production process, a specific component can show up as defective because a faulty processing chip, power supply, disc loading mechanism, or other factor. Most of the time, this is caught before the product leaves the factory, however, defects can show up after the product hits store shelves.  As a result of customer returns, inoperative demos, and excessive product breakdowns within the warranty period of a specific element in the product, a manufacturer may “recall” a product from a specific batch or production run that exhibits the same defect.  When this occurs, the manufacturer can repair all the defective units and send them back out to retailers as refurbished units for sale.

Overstock Items - Most of the time, if a retailer has an overstock of a particular item they simply reduce the price and put the item on sale or clearance. However, sometimes, when a manufacturer introduces a new model, it will “collect” the remaining stock of the older models still on store shelves and redistribute them to specific retailers for quick sale. In this case, the item can be sold either as “a special purchase” or can be labeled as refurbished.

Panasonic lumix DMC-LZ4 Anti blur

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a Tip while using digital cameras like olympus digital cameras and other popular cameras …

Fat people Photos – why? Bad lighting, mostly, - unlike in a photo shoot with flattering soft lights. Cast from an angle, light creates shadows that sculpt the face and body by hiding unwanted flesh. Softer lights can hide wrinkles and smooth out the skin for women, while harsher lights on male faces exaggerate lines for a chiseled look. Without the aid of shadows, however, light exposes the imperfections of the face and body and makes the resulting image bigger and flatter. That’s why everyone avoids white dresses—which cast fewer shadows under even lighting—except the thinnest. The camera’s perspective—how objects in a two-dimensional field express depth—can also distort a person’s size. Telephoto lenses, which have a long focal length, compress the space between the foreground and the background, making distant objects appear closer. Up close, they shrink the distance from your nose to your ears, resulting in a diminished proboscis and more balanced features. Wide angle lenses, which have a short focal length, do just the opposite, making a person in the center of the picture appear both wider and taller. At the extreme, these lenses can also make people at the outside edges of a group photo look fatter.

Olympus Stylus FE-230 7.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

Here is a little insert explaining why photos get rejected when submitting to a stock photography site.  This is helpful for your own photography as well.  The fujifilm digital cameras are great for focus.

Why Images Get Rejected for Focus
Rejection Reasons #9

Whether you’re shooting food, a portrait, a landscape or something else altogether, you may have selectively focused on one area of your shot while allowing the rest — the foreground or background — to be out of focus. Or perhaps nothing in the image was in true focus. As a result, you received this rejection reason:

Focus. Your image is not in focus or focus is not located where we feel it works best.

Like some other rejection reasons, being rejected for focus can particularly sting for the level of subjectivity involved, i.e. what you may believe to be in focus, or a particular area of your photo with the focus emphasized, may not match Shutterstock’s opinion of where the focus works best.

When an image appears intentionally out of focus, reviewers can generally deduce that this was done on purpose. Many photographers will shoot photos this way to satisfy an artistic urge — to get a viewer to think about something in a different way. While noble and worthwhile as an exercise to hone your skills as a photographer, this approach generally does not match up well with the purposes of stock photography.

fujiz5 model fujifilm finepix 6.3MP

Digital zoom: 6.2x
Shooting modes: Normal: Auto, Picture Stabilization, Scene Position, Macro, Movie, Burst/Continuous.
SP: Natural Light, Natural Light and with Flash, Portrait, Landscape, Sport, Night, Fireworks, Sunset, Snow, Beach, Museum, Party, Flower Close-Up, more…
Color modes: B & W / Chrome / Standard
Movie Recording: 640 x 480 pixels, 30 frames per second; 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames per second; with monaural sound, AVI format (Motion JPEG)Voice memo: Up to 30 seconds WAV format

Manufacturers of automobiles introduced the Global Positioning System (GPS) and heated seats for the cars, they were in demand; so the designers had to come up with other features.  Features like rear view holographic mirrors and rocket-powered ejection seats.

Also in the line of new features you can place in your vehicle are a variety of dvd players like the jensen car dvd player, and other popular brand dvd players and player product.  There is such a wide variety of makes & models in that department.

Some features of some are:

AM/FM-MPX 2 Band Radio
Built In 2.5” TFT Color Monitor
On Screen Display Title, Time, Chapter, Subtitle & Angle
Treble/Bass/Balance/Fader/Encoder Volume
Dolby Digital Coaxial Outputs

Pyle 9.2” Flip Down Monitor with IR Transmitter

Nowadays one can buy a red digital camera, blue, or pink and even purple.  These colors are available with the ever so popular Polaroid digitals.  An nice model is the polaroid i830 or the polaroid i834.

Understanding the digital camera settings:  Photographs have both an aperture and a shutter speed. The aperture regulates how wide the lens opening is, while the shutter speed regulates how long the shutter was left open. These two items, in tandem, regulate the exposure of a photograph.

In an automatic mode, the digital camera chooses its own combination of aperture and shutter speed to create a good exposure - you don’t have to do any of the thinking.  But sometimes, you want more control over your digital camera, and that’s when shutter and aperture priority come into play.

These two modes allow you to wrest control of either of the two variables away from your digital camera. In shutter priority, you control the shutter speed while the camera determines the aperture. This allows you - with sufficient lighting conditions - to set a shutter speed fast enough to freeze sports action or slow enough to create a motion blur.

Aperture priority mode allows you control over the depth of field of an image. The more open the lens is, the shallower the depth of field is. Generally, for portrait photography small apertures are used so as to create a silky-smooth background behind a person kept in sharp focus. Conversely, in landscape photography large apertures are used to keep as much of the scene sharp as possible.

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People today are migrating towards the bigger pixel digital cameras.  People are purchasing a megapixel size choice that they may not need to  use, an example would be a   8 MP or 10 MP  setting digital camera.  A 3.2 to 6 MP would do just fine for family albums.  An example would be the a model found with fujifilm digital cameras

Newsletters of the page sort, used for the community news around the neighborhood only need models which can be very small.  An excellent job is done using the smaller mega pixels for that small frame needed to go to print.

The Fuji FinePix 4800 is a 2.4 MegaPixel digital camera with style and amazing performance. Featuring a 2.4 MegaPixel image file, a 2.4 MegaPixel Super CCD, a built-in flash, and 2.0-inch LCD, this is one camera that is sure to take some amazing photos - as well as catch the eyes of passers-by.

Fuji FinePix-4800 2.4 MegaPixel Camera w/3x Optical Zoom

New product is being introduced by Philips all  the time.  philips digital cameras are noticed along with other leading brands.  A much liked item is: a go gear product.

The PlaysForSure stamp guarantees the little  gogear with more than just smooth PC interoperability.

With the by-packed Windows Media Player 10 software, you can seamlessly synch your music and photo collections.  Also listen to radio thanks to the built-in FM tuner. Utilizing Microsoft’s Playforsure, the device will be compatible with most legitimate music download services. The navigation controls are backlit so you can see them in dark conditions. Overall playtime is 14 hours per charge and the device syncs and charges via USB.

• 2 GB capacity for up to 1,000 songs or up to 500 pictures

Philips GoGear-2GB-MP3 player-photo viewer

The smarter travelers know that battery life is precious, so why would you waste your laptop’s battery on a movie when you can whip out a portable DVD player?  the eye catching little units also provide great backseat entertainment for the whole family, kids too, on long road trips.  Big and smaller screens, and kids dvd players by toy manufactures also.  The idm portable dvd player is a great make.

Another good model  type would be: a portable DVD player with 8.5-inch collapsible screen; excellent digital file support includes DivX, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, JPEG compatibility; long-life battery; includes AV connectivity wires and car charger.

Initial IDM-1880 Portable 8.5 - Swivel-Mounted-Parental Lock

Focusing with mustek digital cameras I composed this picture (below).  I was happy with the results.  It is never easy (for me) to do animals.

Focusing tips for beginners:  Photography as an art has never been more exciting or enjoyable.  Today’s photography enthusiast has many styles, topics, and tools open to them. Plus, the blending of digital with print makes the craft of taking photos very versatile. While it is true that taking photos is as simple as running out and grabbing a cheap five dollar camera, taking GOOD photos has never been easy.  So lets explore some quick ideas that can help you take photos that you will be happy to send home. Here are four tips to help. 1. Get a little closer, don’t be shy.  One of the biggest mistakes most beginning photographers make is shooting from so far away. They leave too much distance between themselves and their subjects.Instead, get up close and personal. Fill up as much of the camera frame, with your subject, as you can. You can always reshape, trim, and resize a good quality shot. But you can’t continue to blow up a distant subject and hope that it will come into focus.

It just won’t happen. 2. This tip springs directly from #1point (above)… focus your shot on only one subject. Determine what the main subject of the photo will be, and catch that image. Try and find the one key subject, person, or event that accurately portrays the feeling you are trying to capture. 3. In addition to getting one subject, in your photos,you will want to make the background of the photo as simple as possible. Busy, distracting backgrounds pull the attention away from the central theme of your photo. The subject of your photo is absolutely the most important element, and anything that detracts from the subject can ruin your shot. 4. Finally, you want to take your subject out of the exact center of the frame. You do this by using the rule of  THIRDS. Imagine having a camera lens split into 9 equal sized boxes, 3 across and 3 down (like having atic-tac-toe game printed right on your camera lens). Where those “tic-tac-toe” lines cross, should become the focusing point of your subject, when you are arranging to take your photo. Based on this tip, every time you compose a shot, the main subject of your photo should be located primarily on one of these “THIRD” lines. These are just four very basic tips and strategies to help improve your photos. As you know, photography skills can always be improved. In fact, most professional photographers exhibit a life long passion for learning new techniques, photography angles, and photo inspirations.