helpful quick tips for using your Digital camera

Understanding Megapixels - 1

Understanding Megapixels - 1... An eight inch by ten inch print of a photo is the size of an entire sheet of computer paper. So unless you have a large format printer, 3 megapixels is going to be more than enough camera for your needs. Megapixels aren’t the sole determiner of quality. Printer specs matter too, as well as lighting, motion and other conditions when the picture was taken. Online printing services can print out those large format photos that you’re printer can’t handle. Anything under 2MP is intended for use for on-screen viewing (webcams, webpages) and wallet sized prints. More megapixels means more disk space usage. Make sure you’ve got sufficient memory for storing your photos. Megapixels determine the quality of -still- photos. For camcorders (that take full motion video) you’ll want to look into CCD. Megapixels - 2 Speaking of resolution, a 4x6 printed at 200 DPI
requires a digital print that is 800 by 1200 pixels. An
older model 1.0 megapixel camera can do this easily. If
you have a more modern 3.3 megapixel camera you can
create a 200 DPI print that is 8x10. One of the
advantages of a better camera, say a 5 mp, is that you
can "crop" part of the picture away and still have the
3.3 megapixels required for an 8x10.
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Discriptions of Cameras:

The Panasonic DMC-LC1

is a high end camera at a reasonable price. It is styled to resemble and function very much like a standard 35mm camera. This is good news for camera enthusiasts who know their way around a standard camera and have been reluctant to move on to a digital camera. This is a camera for serious consideration by all levels of photographers for whom capturing quality images is important.

What makes this camera a serious contender begins with the lens. Indeed, the digital camera lens is perhaps the single most critical aspect of a digital camera, and Panasonic has gone all out to bring the very best to the consumer. The DMX-LC 1 features a Leica lens. Leica is legendary the world over the quality and craftsmanship of it’s cameras. Panasonic has made a bold move including the Leica lens as part of this camera. This lens will enable you to capture sharp images with stunning depth and colors.

This camera features technology that enables it to process information quickly, and at a rated five effective megapixels of resolution that, combined with the powerful 9.6 times zoom, will produce quality photos that will best many other digital cameras. This is a fine camera that we heartily recommend you check out if you are in the market for buying a digital camera.

Macro shooting

Macro modeNormally the term macrophotography refers to images in which the subject is presented at a ratio greater than 1 to 1, so bigger than lifesize. It could be compared to looking at a subject through a magnifying glass. On a digicam however, macro mode refers to the possibility to get very close, though not strictly on a 1 to 1 ratio, although some cameras can get extremely close to a subject while others merely use the zoom function to magnify it and fill the frame.

There are a few things to consider if you want to achieve really good macro shots. For a start, focusing will be very critical as at such close distances depth of field will only be a few millimeters. Therefore subject and camera should be parallel to each other and a small aperture should be used. As a consequence, shutter speeds will be quite slow, so arrange for some kind of support like a tripod or some other stable platform.

To minimize camerashake, it is best to use the self-timer, as well. Using the in-camera flash should be avoided. Its light is usually too harsh and will cause overexposure. It is much better to use some form of natural lighting. A north facing window on a cloudy day will yield very even soft lighting, while a piece of white cardboard can lighten the shadows or provide soft lighting by acting as a fill-in reflector.

Black & White Winter Photography

Black & White Photography Tip Did you know that digital photography during winter is one of the most fulfilling creative practices you can do? Digital photography is not just about summer; colour and bright sun shine….it’s much, much more than that. So here are some powerful digital photography tips for winter. Firstly you can create some pretty sensational black and white digital photos during winter. If you live in a place that goes grey for the whole time winter is around, then consider this digital photography tip; maximise the absence of colour in your digital photography. You can create some very dramatic black and white digital photos of stormy skies, rain clouds; sheets of rain against darker objects making the rain look white in colour. You can also try getting the most out of the blues, whites and blacks in your winter digital photography. Lets take for example a beautiful snow scene with a blue sky. You have all the softness of the gentle white snow blanketing your landscape or parkland. Along side this beautiful feeling you also have the stark black trunks of the trees, whether thick or thin. Then, to add to your digital photography experience, you may have the gentleness of an animal or the backdrop of a lake. You see, what winter does for digital photography is feminise it. It takes away the masculine energy and replaces it with a quite, calm introverted feeling. Winter digital photography can offer you a soft light, which can provide beautifully filtered light in your daytime subjects. When you partake in digital photography in the winter time the first thing you will notice is the light. Winter changes not only the physical temperature, but the temperature of light changes. There is less hard light and more bluish tones on your scene. It’s absolutely beautiful if, and only if, you maximise this to its full extent. So just go and look. Look outside and notice how much beauty you see all around you. Look at the shades in your environment and see how much you can capture of this gentle bluish light.
It’s really divine.

Understanding Megapixels - 1

Discriptions of Cameras:

The Panasonic DMC-LC1

Macro shooting

Black & White Winter Photography

Megapixels explained

Framing your shots