Digital Camera Notebook

Digital Photography in Black and White

Chip — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:54:26 +0000

Where’s the Respect? Black and white photography gets such little respect in this age of digital photography. You might find it used in a retro style, sepia-toned wedding photo, but you just don’t see it used as much as it could even though it can be used to produce such a wonderful imagery and photographs. So why am I thinking about black and [...]

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Digital Photography in Black and White

Photography Competitions – February 2009

Chip — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:39:28 +0000

ITS#PHOTO Competition 2009 » Contests, Competitions, Blogs, Reviews The photo competition of International Talent Support is now in its fifth year and is becoming an important observatory to find talented, creative and highly prepared young photographers, able to shoot images that can easily find their … Gosnap Photography Forums Tutorials Reviews Photos – February … This months photography [...]

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Photography Competitions – February 2009

Photo Composition Technique – The Diagonal Method

Chip — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:23:17 +0000

I have to admit that I’m a bit intrigued by all of the rules, guidelines and techniques out there for producing the perfect photo composition. I’ve talked about the Rule of Thirds in the past. I’ve also mentioned a cropping technique which I call The Feinberg Rule. Yesterday I came across another composition method which I have not heard of before. It’s called [...]

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Photo Composition Technique – The Diagonal Method

How To Take Great Photos with a Kodak Instamatic

Chip — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:30:59 +0000

The Kodak Instamatic The Kodak Instamatic was one of the first commercially successful “point-and-shoot” cameras. The first Instamatic went on sale early in 1963. A new series of Instamatics was introduced in 1970 to take advantage of the new Magicube flash technology. Magicubes were an improvement over flashcubes in that the need for batteries was now [...]

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Digital Photography and Instant Gratification

Chip — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:16:56 +0000

In the digital camera age, I’m finding that it’s really easy to get caught up with all of the tweaking of settings that come with today’s digital cameras. I suppose part of this is due to the way I learn, but another aspect of the digital photography age is that you can now take a photo and immediately see how [...]

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ISO Settings For Digital Cameras

Chip — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:35:38 +0000

I’ve been spending some time checking out all of the settings on my new Nikon D40 digital slr camera. What I’m basically trying to find out is which settings have the largest impact one overall image quality. One of the first settings I checked was the image size setting because the larger the image size setting, the more detail an image will end up having. But let’s asume that you’ve [...]

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Digital Photography Competitions – January 2009

Chip — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:40:17 +0000

This is a listing of some recently announced Digital Photography Competitions. I’ll be posting these from time to time because I think it’s a great way to push your photography to newer levels and then maybe get some attention for your photography skills. European Design Awards » Contests, Competitions, Blogs, Reviews The awards will be covered with extensive articles in [...]

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Digital Photography Competitions – January 2009

Nikon D40 For Dummies

Chip — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:05:52 +0000

Today I came across a decent camera book while browsing the shelves of my local Barnes and Noble. I’m kind of a book fanatic and typically I’ll just go online to buy at a discount, but today I happened to have a little extra time so I headed right over the Photography Books section. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m real sucker for any how-to book. I’ve always [...]

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Nikon D40 For Dummies

Photo Composition Technique – The Feinberg Rule

Chip — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:39:54 +0000

I’ve covered the “Rule of Thirds” well enough already (How To Take Interesting Photos, Rule of Thirds – An Observation). As mentioned before, from an artist’s perspective I consider the “Rule of Thirds” to be more of a guideline, rather than a so-called “rule”. This rule is not something required for each and every photo that you take. I would [...]

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Photo Composition Technique – The Feinberg Rule

Rule of Thirds – An Observation

Chip — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:26:29 +0000

While searching Google today, I noticed several web postings, on other sites, asking if there was a viewfinder available for specific cameras that would display a “Rule of Thirds” grid for photographers to exactly align their primary subjects when they take a picture. For some reason, this question really intrigues me because it hints at a misunderstanding for why the “Rule of Thirds” grid [...]

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Rule of Thirds – An Observation