Digital Camera , Photography Blog

So you’re spending the summer visiting national monuments — nothing beats a trip to the Liberty Bell or the White House or the Capitol building for your summer vacation. If you’re going to be stuck in the car visiting our country’s national treasures, be sure to bring along your digital camera and make the

One of the best things about summer is that you don’t have to be inside a school building all day long. You’re free to do what you want, and to explore. Hopefully this summer you’ll get some time to be in nature: Go for walks in the forest, go camping with your family, or even just sit around on your lawn.

If you’re an amusement park fanatic, you’ve probably been anxiously waiting all winter for summer to arrive. Now you can finally drag your friends and family on all those exciting and scary roller coasters! But just because you’ll be spending a large portion of the time hanging upside down, don’t think that

If you’re traveling for the summer, you’ve got the perfect excuse to grab your digital camera and take some great pictures. Perhaps your family is going away on vacation to a theme park or to the beach, a national monument, or somewhere exotic. Or maybe you’re just going to visit your family in another town or another

Point-and-shoot digital cameras are designed to take great pictures, right out of the box. Some digital cameras are made to extend your picture-taking fun, thanks to add-on lenses and accessories.

If your camera is designed to work with accessories (check your owner’s manual or the box your camera came in), you can

Everybody loves fireworks. But they are hard to photograph. Even with the bright colorful light, the darkness of
night presents a few challenges. With some planning and the right gear, you can have photos worth bragging about.
1. A tripod. To photograph fireworks, the camera’s shutter has

Just like when you get a haircut, you can make photos look better by cutting them. It’s called “cropping.” Knowing what and when to crop can make the difference between a good photo and a great one.
Cropping gets rid of extra parts of a photo and focuses on what matters. There are a couple of different ways to crop a

Looking for ways to get more creative with your photography? An easy way to make an interesting and artistic photograph is by turning a portrait, landscape, or just about any kind of picture into a silhouette.
Silhouetting is an easy technique to make a photograph stand out. You’ve probably seen lots of silhouettes before.

Everybody’s scrapbook has at least one, and nearly everyone remembers it from childhood: the dreaded family portrait. With everyone dressed their best, the annual trip to the mall for the professionally arranged portrait is part of

many families’ traditions. Even though the family portrait is cherished, the pictures