What are some of the tricks that you use to take great photos with your digital camera and to print them out at home? tips for beginner: shoot more and more and more and more and try different subjects, environment, conditions (lighting, places, weather,etc) to get more feel of what you like the most. it can be a very specific things like architectural landscape, insects macrophotography, night scenes etc.
then, once you know more of what you like to shoot, get some books and read from there, join some forums to mingle around with people of the same interests, look at photo magazines (not camera magazines) and ultimately if you decide on taking photography as a career, take up a degree majoring in photography.
to print them out nicely, get a nice set of monitor, a color calibrator (you can start off with pantone huey), clear up your PC to make way for adobe photoshop, a set of trusty photo printer and you are set for the equipment part.
after getting your hardware ready, calibrate your monitor and start to learn how to post-process your photos by taking up on books in digital darkroom, or tips and tricks on digital photography or adobe photoshop's resource book, or something like that. there are many good books on this and some wonderful books that teach you stuff in details.
haf fun Try Yahoo Groups
or the eBay HTML discussion board
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?fo... As far as taking great pictures, the best thing to do is shoot, shoot, shoot! I picked up some photography books (even on film cameras) that show different types of framing and effects.
The best thing about digital is that there is NO cost to being creative, and you can take hundreds of pictures without having to worry about film costs.
Take some pictures and submit them to this discussion forum, there are many photographers on there (pros and amateurs) that will happily give feedback on your pictures. Good luck, and remember, the possibilites are endless with digital!
Here's the discussion forum, pick one based on your camera brand:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/ Look at
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/
Gorgeous photographs, but note the link titled "Tutorials" in the green band across the top. Click on that. Tons of info. Hi, I recommand you to try google picasa.
picasa is a Google's photo software. It's what should've come with your camera.
It can Edit , organise and Share you picture and small video flips.
It's very easy to use and is free, just like Google
Download it free in here:
http://www.adcenter.net.cn/google-picasa...
Good Luck! Best tip is to just get out everywhere with your Digital Camera and shoot away! Anything, everything, download the results to your computer, clear the Memory Card, and start all over again.
I purchased the Digital Canon Rebel -- and several lenses -- along with Several Memory Cards -- and believe me -- I am having the BEST time of my life with this camera -- Night Shots, Day Shots, Nature Shots, Sports Shots, Architecture, Low and High Views, Perspectives, etc etc etc.
The software I purchased to compliment is the Adobe Photoshop Suite -- and I ENJOY IT tremendously (I have the current version -- so it is expensive at 1st -- but I LOVE the way I can be even more creative with the .crw (.raw) photos I take with my Canon Digital SLR.
And yes, I do print out my results too -- and that is part of the fun. |
