Digital Photography Part 1

Following on from yesterdays post , this is the first in a three part series looking at how digital photography has changed the way we take photographs. Today I am looking at taking the image.

Taking the Image

I think the biggest change when taking photographs is being able to see what you have taken on the LCD screen on the back of the camera. You can instantly see if you’ve messed the shot up or not!

Having a digital camera gives you the ability to take a lot of photos depending on the size of your memory card or internal memory. It is not as constraining as film with either 24 or 36 exposures, my camera will take up to 1,000 images on the memory card. No more need to worry about running out of film!

It also means that cost is not as much of an issue anymore. I used to really think before taking a photograph, was it a good enough shot. Because the price of film and developing affected which shots I took, so as to get my moneys worth out of the film. The worst thing to happen would be a whole film of wasted shots, due to a limited budget. But now I tend to take anything and everything just to see what works.

Cons…

What could the down side be to all of this? Maybe hours spent sorting through 100’s of images.

For me it would have to be the amount of batteries or recharges that you go through. Digital cameras are power intensive which makes running them expensive, unless it’s a internal rechargable battery (mine came with the camera) then it’s just the recharge time. And remembering to do it, if I’m caught short then I’m stuffed!

Have I missed anything, what do you feel are the pros and cons of taking a digital photograph? Let me know in the comments. Next time I will be looking at editing the image.

Thanks

Mandy

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