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The world has gone digital crazy. With many homes having multiple digital camera owners you can’t move without seeing someone taking a digital snap. And the operative word here is a snapshot. Not much thought, creativity or photographic composition. Just lots and lots of digital pollution cramming the millions of hard drives, DVDs and memory cards. Digital has enabled people to take more low quality, thoughtless snapshots. Digital photography could see the death of creativity in photography in general. Why such a harsh statement? Here’s why:

1. Lack of thought.

As a film photographer the consumable costs of photography were much higher. This forced us to think and carefully consider each shot. There was a greater thought process. Using a motor drive for taking multiple shots was for the press photographers who could afford take thirty six images in a few seconds. For the rest of us we had to think more before pressing the button.

2. The Shakespeare effect.

This is the evolutionary idea that if you give a roomful of monkeys a typewriter each and enough time, they will eventually produce a work equal in quality to Shakespeare. There is a similar mindset among digital photographers that if they shoot enough photos, somewhere amongst the thousands will be quality images. You have as much chance as that happening as a monkey.  Read more... (619 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

Learning digital photography in our instant society is only possible by applying the basic principles of good photography. Digital is another tool and there is no real fast way of doing this. BUT… If you are prepared to follow these six quick photography principles you’re on the road to learning digital photography fast. And I really mean fast. So here goes.

1. Choose your subject carefully.

This is the centrepiece of your photo. Make sure you identify a suitable subject and focus on this. Not negotiable. If subject is not clearly identifiable your photo will be below average.

2. Place you subject intelligently.

Divide your image into thirds vertically and horizontally. Imagine 2 lines across and 2 lines down. Where these lines intersect place your subject on one of these points. If you have an horizon in the image, line it up with one of the 2 horizontal lines.

3. Get closer to your subject.

Most times the subject is what you want to remember about the scene you are recording. So get as much of it in your photo. This is especially so with family photos. Have smaller groups of people shot closer to the camera.  Read more... (489 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Have you ever felt so impressed with your pictures and when you show them to your audiences, the feedback fell flat? It feels so discouraging when your audiences don’t share the same enthusiasm as you. The tips below are to help you take impressive pictures and to elicit the feeling within your viewers.

1. Human subject

Many landscape photographers like to take the natural scenes without any humans inside the pictures. They claim that having a person in the photo somehow creates an awkward feeling. Although what they claim is correct, you are however, limiting yourself from experiencing the full potential of digital photography.

Combining people into your landscape pictures can actually create different feeling to your pictures. The different expression of the human subject can help to make the pictures livelier. Imagine you are looking at the picture of a group of people cheering the sun rise on the mountain peak. Can you feel the same energy? Doesn’t it made you want to be there?  Read more... (382 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Many people wonder, “What is the best internet business out there?” To be honest, we think we have found the answer. While there are a lot of business that have began since the inception of the internet, not too many of them are a possibility for all of us to do.

Please recognize that there are no “get rich quick” internet businesses out there, but we have found that there are a variety of Stock Photography sites that offer a pretty good value for your photographic efforts. All it takes is a few hours of your time to learn the basics of the business, after that you should be earning a regular monthly income. If you are interested in learning how to do this I recommend you find a good training program that guides you through the initial steps needed to launch your own digital photography internet business.

Obviously everyone has different interests and talents however if you are interested in making some easy cash, a digital photography internet business is well worth considering. To get started all you need is a digital camera and a computer. The only other overhead you can expect is your internet connection fee (of which I assume you are already paying); this is one business where you don’t need to make any heavy investment to get this business up and running.  Read more... (345 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)