Digital Photography Advice

Digital Camera Advice

• Read the manual and try out options
• Buy the largest memory card you can afford, carry spares
• Always bring extra batteries
• Choose resolution based on picture usage
• Shoot “money shots” at highest resolution
• Check lens frequently, clean if necessary
• Cover lens when not in use
• Know how your auto-focus works
• Beware of parallax in closeups
• Avoid using digital zoom (same as cropping and resizing in photo editor, inferior resolution to optical zoom)
• Review pictures to see if need to reshoot
• Shoot slightly wide, crop later
• To save power: turn off display, don’t use flash, turn off camera when not in use

What to Do With Digital Pictures

• Make prints
• Printed media (cards, calendars, posters, books, reports, etc.)
• Digital slideshows, presentations
• E-mail
• Publish to Internet

Digital Photography Processing

• Download pictures after each excursion
• Backup picture storage in 2 or more places
• Check backup before erasing card
• Never modify original pictures, save to a copy
• Rotate tilted pictures
• Crop pictures to improve composition
• Adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness, color
• Adjust size for destination medium
• Retouch problem areas
• Clone out unwanted features

Gallery: Digital Image Editing

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Original picture	Picture cropped, brightened
Original scan from old photo, color has turned orange	Color-corrected automatically by Photoshop
Original color picture	Antque photo simulation: color removed, hue changed to sepia tone
Original picture, shot upwards, verticals converge	Picture stretched to straighten verticals
Original picture. Note power lines near bottom of tree line	Picture cropped, wires removed by cloning
Use of watercolor effect	Use of special emboss effect