Photography Tips Guide

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When you take a picture with a traditional 35mm camera, you press the shutter and that image is burned into a medium we call “film”. With a digital camera, you press the shutter release and capture an image on the image sensor. The image is then transferred to some type of media card. The manufacture of the camera determines which media card works with your camera. The media card is like a blank canvas. Most artists would agree that one canvas is no better than another, what matters to them is what type of paint goes on the canvas.

When you choose paint you consider each type and how compatible it is with the colors you already have. Most digital cameras offer three formats: JPEG, RAW, and TIFF format. To give a more accurate comparison, let’s assume you are taking pictures with a 5 mega pixel camera. If you saved your shots in JPEG format, they would be 1.5 MB in size. In RAW format, they would be 7.5 MB in size. In TIFF format, they would be a whopping 14.5 MB per image.

JPEG’s offer a descent image quality and a small file size. RAW format assumes you will change the contrast; lighting, color balance and other setting after you get the image. It does offer you much more control, but it also entails a huge learning curve. The TIFF format applies all the settings of the camera and has excellent image quality, but the files are much larger!

JPEG is by far the most popular format, even though the quality is NOT as good the other two. Don’t get me wrong, for the average photographer JPEG is not bad, it’s just not as good. This may sound contradictory, but remember Beta Max VCR’s? Beta Max was a different format than VHS and it was better quality, but it did not catch on. Besides being smaller, JPEG is also the most compatible with all major photo-editing software.

So with all things considered each format has its own advantages and disadvantages. But just as a painter must have paint and brushes, you too must consider another factor. The resolution you save a picture at also effects how big the file size is. This often confuses people new to digital photography. Remember this photo tip; format and resolution are two different things.

Format would be similar to choosing oil color, water color, or pastel before you start painting. Resolution would be the number of colors you choose to work with. A camera with 2 Mega pixels for example, would be like having a box with 6 crayons in it. (Your maximum print size would be about 5×7 inches.) A camera with 5 or 6 Mega pixels would be like having the big box with 64 crayons in it. (You could print pictures 18 x 24 inches or larger!) Can you draw with only six crayons? Of course you can, but how much more can you do with 64? Obviously, the higher the Mega Pixels a camera has, the bigger the image you can print and the more options you have. Just remember, 64 crayons takes more space in your hand than 6 crayons; likewise, storing big mega pixel images takes more space on your hard drive.

Here is a photo link to Amazon.com, the picture has a really saturated almost “painting-like” effect to it. How is this done?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B000I1ZWRC?ie=UTF8&sort=quality&index=0&page=7#gallery

USING SPARE CAMERA, PARE TIME TO MAKE EXTRA CASH

MY EXPERIENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY MAKING MONEY

There are a lot of articles which are talking about how to make money from your photograph and camera. The reason I am writing here is to give out my true experience of using photograph to make money. I hope this article has some practical help to those people who have interests to use their spare time and spare resource to generate some extra income. This article is not a sort of advertisement or course to teach you to get quick money. It is only a practical guide to the people who like to try some different things, of course, if you have some photography background and art talent, I am sure you will be very interested in my experience. If you invest some serious energy and time on what I did ( I am a lazy person), maybe you can make a good living though this.

This journey started when I got my first digital camera. It is first time for me to have so much passion to take photo. My first digital camera is SONY Cyber Shot 5M pix compact digital camera. I took a lot of photos and stored them in my hard drive. One day, when I clean my hard drive, I ask myself, how I can deal with so many photos. Some of them are actually pretty good, like professional photograph. I used Photoshop (an image process software package) to process some of them and decide to sell them to make some money. And I found a stock photo web (I will introduce it later) and uploaded them. After several weeks, my photos start to generate income for me. Several months later, the photograph becomes my major hobby. I spent a lot of money to buy Canon EOS 350D digital camera to take more photos.

You must ask what can I do if I haven’t got any digital camera? Do not worry, just use your existing resource, I believe got 35mm film camera on hand. These days, a multi-functioner which includes scanning function doe not cost you over 100 dollars. You can get one scan your hard copy and digitalize them. Or, you just buy a digital camera. Digital camera get cheap and cheap today. It will save you a lot developing cost and you can make any amount of practice. You must say I have no confidence to make good photos. I will say, I can do it, you can do it, everyone can do it. Your photos do not have to be perfect as a professional photographer did. And there are lot of references can help you to start take photo. For example Digital Photography Beginners Guides is a really good 4-parts e-book to teach you step by step.

You must ask what I can shoot. You can shoot everything eg. people, static things, animals, pets, flowers, architectures, abstract things and so on. My experience is take my camera to everywhere, thus, I can take photo any time. If you are specialized in some realm, it could be even better. There also some resources you can make reference such asNew Pet Photography EBook

Now, I will introduce the stock photo web I used for sell photos. If you search on search engine, there are a lot of stock photo website now. I tried some of them. I think this is the best one, which is FOTOLIA

There some reasons I choose FOTOLIA

1. It is absolutely free to register. After register, you can use your account to buy some photos and you can also sell your photos.

2. It is very easy to register. There are a lot of stock photo web site require you to provide photo ID. FOTOLIA does not require your photo ID. So, you can get instant access to your account after register. This point actually attracts me to give up the others, because I am a person who does not like to give my photo ID to someone I don’t know over Internet.

3. The photograph approval is very fast comparing others. If you have tried other stock photo web you will find FOTOLIA is really fast.

4. And your photograph are very easy to get approval. This is really important to us. Because we are not professional. Only if our photograph to meet commercial requirement, FOTOLIA will accept.

5. FOTOLIA has good marketing, therefore, your photograph will be sell very fast. The speed level is much higher than the others.

6. There are millions photos in stock and millions user to use FOTOLIA

7. The payment method is flexible. You can choose FOTOLIA to pay check to you. But, what I like is FOTOLIA does accept PayPal. If you have a PayPal account, it is very convenient to receive your payment. Many other stock photo webs do not recognize PayPal.

8. FOTOLIA assigns a unique link to each photo you uploaded. It is very convenient to promote your work.

9. You do not have to do promotion, because FOTOLIA has very good marketing online. However, you can still do marketing by yourself to dramatically increase your sell.

Statistic shows, generally speaking, each photo can make one dollar profit per year. You must say: what, you got be joking, one dollar a year. Please do not ignore this one dollar. If you take, to say, 10 photos a day, ( I believe you can. Usually, if I go somewhere for travel, I usually take at least 3 roll films. After getting digital camera, the amount I take is much more than before during one trip. If you go somewhere average two weeks. You take, to say, 3 rolls: 24×3=72 or 36×3=108, or 140 digital photos) one year, your will take 3650 photos, they will generate at least 3650 dollars. FOTOLIA also allow you to sell extensive license of your photo. It will make much more profit for you. And the most important is that your sales will not stop there. Your photos will be sold again and again. So, if you continue to upload photos for several years, you can imagine that, what will happen? Assume you upload same amount of photos per year. This will not increase your workload. The profit of the first year is 3650 dollars. In second year, you will get 7300 dollars in cash. In third year you will get paid over 10,000 dollars extra income. And it will be over again and again, never stops. Go to FOTOLIA to register and get free account now and start sell your photos.

At our graduation ceremony, a professional photographer took photos of me and all of the students while being awarded with a certificate. Does he have the copyright of images of me? Can he distribute these photos?
P.S: This country has no copyright law, at least for foreign products. (TRNC)

People do a living out of taking photos. As time passes by, the use of cameras have evolved making it more high tech and making it more functional. Nowadays, taking photos is no longer as simple as pressing the button to capture photos, but it involves a process, an art and a technique. A person smiling in the middle of the day can have more impact with the right use of light and manipulation of lenses. Taking photos have covered almost all areas of our lives. People take pictures of themselves in ordinary days. It has also taken parts in the major events of our lives, most especially weddings.Wedding celebrations are unforgettable. It is one of the major events in our lives because it marks the beginning of a new life while sharing it with someone you love. While others dread to get married because it is such a big step, others are happy to do it because it practically marks the first day of spending the rest of your life with someone they love. Since this day is very symbolic, any person undergoing such event will definitely want to have this memory captured the best way it can be done.Wedding photography is one of the variations in taking photos that is done on this special day. What makes it unique? The theme is all about love. It captures every moment that shows how love is evident in every couple. It is all about being together, with wedding gowns and suits, the wedding location and many more. People who have talent in photography have definitely made a business out of it because couples find it a necessity in their celebration. There is a high demand for this kind of service and with the latest technology; results are even better compared before.Professionals now have various approaches in taking wedding photos. Traditional photo-shoots are most common. Typically, the bride and groom have already planned what shots they want to be taken on their wedding day. All photos are done formally with proper lighting and balance. Sometimes, subjects posed while proper leveling and balancing of formation is observed. Simply saying it is stiff compared to the other types. Sometimes, lights are manipulated too and posing is usually uniform. Another type is photojournalism. You will be taking no orders from the photographer. Instead, the couples can do their own thing and the one taking the photos will simply have to adjust on his own and take their best shots from their free-flowing movements. From the looks of it, it is indeed more candid. This is usually very fast because every significant movement done by the subjects are done spontaneously.However, some wedding photography is totally new to us. They may look traditional at the same time photojournalistic. Sometimes, they have a dramatic effect to the viewer at the same time it can look very candid. It is different in a way that it creates stories for people to understand the events. Every pose that is unscripted and spontaneous, are taken and if you look at it, conveys a meaning. This is what they call the modern style or contemporary.SummaryBecause photography has made a big impact in our lives, it is made into a business to cater weddings. With the aid of technology, photo styles have evolved for people to have more choices in order to enjoy their photos. Anyone can choose from traditional, photojournalistic and contemporary styles.