Digital Photography

A picture paints a thousand words

Digital photography, once expensive and poor quality compared to film photography. Now cameras costing under £100 are able to produce excellent quality with the ability to print just the pictures you want and maninpulate the photographs to how you want them. Many high street stores such as Jessops now offer digital printing from memory card or cd. You can also create on-line galleries and share your images with websites suck as the Kodak Easyshare Gallery.

To get the most from digital photography, you will require some sort of software for creating, re-touching, sorting, and organising your photographs. Packages such as Adobe Photoshop are the industry standard or it's lighter weight cousin Adobe Photoshop Elements. There is even free software available from Google that allows you to find edit and share you images, Another area of digital photography that has expanded enormously is the supply of stock photographs which may be used in various ways , maybe to enhance a website or to illustrate an artical in a magazine. Registering with a stock photography website suck as Fotolia, alllows you upload your images and offer them for sale.

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By utilising a software package such as Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop elements many possibilities are available to you to manipulate your images to create many different effects.

Compilation - A standard digital picture was taken, the car was selected from the picture and placd onto a different background in Adobe photoshop. A glow was added to the headlight and exhaust fumes added using the airbrush and various filters. The result a much more striking image.

Double Exposure - Two seperate pictures taken, with the model moved to a new position for the second exposure.Its a good idea to use a tripod for this.

Next the picture are merged within Adobe Photoshop to create a single image. Many packages have facilities to create this kind of picture, Olympus Camedia, Adobe Photoshop etc.

Panoramic Pictures - A single picture made up with 2 or more photographs to expand the view and give a better representation of the view you are trying to capture. Here Adobe Photoshop has been used to stich two or more images together to create the panorama.

Multiple Exposure - Another composition picture made up of five seperate pictures that have been combined into a single image within Adobe Photoshop.

Get in close - As digital photography does not use film, there is no wastage (apart from battery power), this allows you to capture more images and pick the best results. Many cameras offer a 'macro' close up mode allowing you to get close to smaller subjects and produce fascinating images.