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Photos of national monuments and icons
Sep 17th
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 most of your trip Many people think that it’s boring photographing national monuments. So many people visit them every year that many pictures end up looking the same. But half the Read More
Digital camera accessories
Sep 17th
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 increase your photographic possibilities by trying some out. Add-on lenses either screw onto the front of your camera’s existing lens or snap right onto it, and accessories ma Read More
Shooting silhouettes
Sep 12th
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. Any photograph with the foreground in shadow and the background lighter is really a silhouette. A silhouette is a dramatic departure from a standard photograph. Usually Read More
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX580
Sep 10th
by Jeff Keller, DCRP Founder/Editor Originally Posted: September 5, 2009 Last Updated: September 5, 2009 The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX580 ($399) may look like Just Another Ultra-Compact Camera, but it has two features that most cameras in its class do not. The first is a 3-inch touchscreen LCD display. While many camera manufacturers have touchscreen cameras, the FX580 is somewhat unique in that it doesn’t force you to use the touchscreen for everything — there are “regular” Read More
Review Nikon D3000
Sep 8th
The Nikon D3000 represents Nikon’s attempt to put a DLSR into the hands of people who would normally feel out of their depth with that kind of high-end camera. While there are lots of great digital SLRs out there, nobody has quite worked out how to make them really easy for novices. Even confident and creative compact-camera users tend to blanch when you pass them a DSLR; there’s something about that foreboding black body and plethora of buttons and dials that puts people off. So Nik Read More
How Digital Cameras Capture Images 2
Sep 8th
Shutter The shutter is a complicated mechanism that precisely controls the duration of time that light passing through the lens remains in contact with the digital image sensor. The camera’s shutter is activated by the shutter release button. Prior to the digital age, the shutter remained closed to prevent the film from being exposed. Depending on the type of digital image sensor, a mechanical shutter may not be necessary. Rather than a shutter revealing light to initiate a chemical reaction i Read More
How Digital Cameras Capture Images
Sep 8th
If you’ve previously shot film and are new to digital media, this chapter is for you. Here you’ll find basic information about the types of digital cameras, camera components and concepts, and shooting tips. People take photographs for many different reasons. Some take pictures for scientific purposes, some shoot to document the world for the media, some make their living shooting products for advertisements, and others shoot for enjoyment or purely artistic purposes. Whatever your reason fo Read More