How Do You Like To View Your Photos
January 10, 2008
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This is a point that I touched on in yesterdays post about sharing your digital photographs. One of the best things about digital photography or just photography in general is looking at the results, enjoying what I have created.
How do you view your photographs?
So that brings up the question, how do you like to view your photographs? My favourite way is still to look at them in an album. By todays standards that may be old fashioned, now that we can easily transfer our digital photos to disc and view them in slideshows, or just plug a memory card into a digital photo frame and watch the slideshow on a photo frame. These devices have revolutionized the way in which we can view and look at our digital photographs.
But even with these fancy gadgets, which I do think are cool. I still like to look at and flick through an album. I still think there is a place for printing off your photographs and viewing them in Photograph Albums
I don’t think there is anything wrong in not being 100% technologically devoted, and it can be a pleasant change. Don’t get me wrong I love all the opportunities that the digital revolution has given me and I love gadgets, but sometimes it is nice to get back to basics. Like reading a book for instance, I would rather read a real book than an ebook. It’s nicer to pick up and turn the page to see what happens next than sit reading off a screen and clicking next.
Printing
When it comes to printing the photos off I take my memory card to a photo developers, although I do have a decent printer I think you get a better quality and longer lasting result still from a developer. I only print off the best images for an album anyway so the cost is still competitive.
The only thing I do need to improve on is making sure I keep up to date with the photos I want to put in the Photograph Albums
What is your favorite way to view your photographs?
Mandy
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Digital Photography Part 3
January 9, 2008
This is the third and last in an introductory series about taking, editing and sharing digital photographs, and what I like about them.
Sharing
Digital photos are in the ideal format for sharing with others. They are easily uploaded to a computer and then can be shared with friends, family or for professional use through various different methods.
Email: just attach as a jpeg and then share them with whoever you would like.
Disc: One thing I miss with digital images is having photo albums, I don’t tend to print them out as much as I would like. But burning images to disc allows me to share them with others on a slideshow on my television.
Internet: Being able to share them on the internet gives the greatest reach for my images. Sharing images on my blog is something I have started to do recently. And in the future I could upload them onto photo share sites like flickr or Zoomr.
Photoblogs: Or a website dedicated to displaying images, and there is various software out there to help me do this.
Stock Photography sites: There are also lots of stock sites that I could upload my images to and that would give me the chance of selling some.
That’s just some of the options available for sharing images with others. One of the problems that I feel arises from sharing images in these ways is permission and copyright for the image.
Do I want people using or reproducing my images without my permission. And how can I stop this from happening. This is really another topic that I will look at in the future. But for now I will say that I am careful where I upload my images to and will make it clear on my blog that copyright applies. The other thing I will consider is using watermarks on my images.
Mandy
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Digital Photography Part 2
January 8, 2008
This post is the second in a three part series looking at taking, editing and sharing digital photographs. The first part covered taking an image and this post is going to look at editing an image. These subjects are huge and could easily have (and do) a whole blog dedicated to them. So I am just looking at introducing them and what I like about them.
Editing
Being able to upload my photographs onto my computer and then edit them has become very easy to do and the norm. But if I just think back a couple of years none of this was possible, at least not without spending a fortune on the equipment needed to do it. But luckily enough I am living in an age where all this is possible and at a very reasonable price.
Not only that but there is a huge range of software available to choose from to be able to edit my photographs with. From free software that comes with the camera to spending hundreds of pounds on industry standard software like Adobe Photoshop.
Editing is close to my heart because I used to work in an advertising agency and used Adobe Photoshop a lot. I trained at college to become an apple mac operator which included using Adobe Photoshop, Quark
Why do I want to edit photographs?
When I first heard about editing digital photographs I still used film and I thought why would I want to fiddle about with my photographs and add things or erase things from them. I thought it was, I suppose cheating. I didn’t like the idea of ‘faking a photograph’. But there is a lot more to editing images than just cutting out and sticking somebody’s head onto another body!
But once I took the time to look at editing closely and then have a go myself, I realised it is a great tool for photographers. For instance red eye is no longer a problem, and that’s great especially when it comes to taking snapshot pictures of kids. It can be bad enough just trying to capture them, never mind worrying about red eye!
Editing photographs gives me huge potential for what I can do with a photograph and I realised that when I worked at the advertising agency. Whether it’s removing red eye from a snapshot or producing photographs for a full colour brochure, it can be done and it’s really good fun to just have a play around to see what I can create, with the software available these days it’s practically the sky is the limit for what I could do. I now love what editing photographs, and the software I use can produce.
Cropping a photograph can really change the emphasis, or allow me to zoom in on a feature or just get rid of that unwanted object that I couldn’t avoid.
Here’s a photograph I was just messing around with showing the before and after shots, it gives the image a focal point that wasn’t obvious in the first image.
Framing the photograph and adding a caption really makes it stand out, and is great for sharing holiday snaps as well as reminding me where, when or what they were. Or it could even be enlarged for a print.
This is only a sample of what can be achieved with editing photographs, and as I said earlier a whole blog could be devoted to it.
This is my introduction to editing and I am sure I will talk about it again in the future because I enjoy it so much!
Mandy
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Image of the Week #3
January 7, 2008
Well here we are in 2008, Happy New Year! After having a great Christmas and New Year, I am refreshed and looking forward to 2008 and writing to this blog.
This week in Image of the Week I am staying with the seasonal theme and looking at a shot I took over Christmas. Not one of my best shots, but I was trying out the macro function on my camera - fairly unsuccessfully!
This was the best shot. I didn’t use a tripod on this one but I did on some other shots without any more success.
I’m wondering what I am doing wrong?
It’s a good starting point though, at least I will be able to see any improvement!
Mandy
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