I have been so busy with my Fun Cool Collectibles Store that I have had no time to blog. I should actually be packing product to ship, but I had time to put together this short little video over at youtube
I have actually been using my photo tent recently. It is quite nice. There are more pictures to be put up. I will try and put them up next week.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
A Photo of Five Chinese Laterns.
I took a photo of 5 chinese lanterns in my photo tent. I will probably be do some more experimenting with the chinese lanterns. There are only 5 more of these flowers left on the plant, so I will have to take better planned photos, or I will miss the opportunity.
I have been working with my tent. I really like it. I will be moving my little make shift studio this week end. I need more room. I have been working on an area in the garage. I will want a more permanent studio, with proper lighting and the right colors in the garage.
I will also be able to have a proper photo tent on a stationary table instead of taking it down and putting it up every time that I want to use it.
Oh, yeah Associated Content has featured my slideshow about Howe's Caverns at Library of Slideshows, this should help my views! I have been planning a Halloween costume to wear for this year's trip to Howe's Caves. Should be a lot of fun.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
15 Creative Photo Ideas
We are always looking for ideas for our photography, and sometime it can daunting. I hope that these 15 ideas will help you to keep your creative juices going
1. Surf around the Web. Look at images at magazines, papers, on-line galleries and you’ll find a wealth of ideas. Try the Gallery at shotaddict.com. Want more – go to flickr.com and look through tones of creative shots. Another useful source is VFXY, it displays recent posts from various photoblogs.
2. Learn the ‘visual language’. Visit Art Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions that have photography shows. Learn art history from Antiquity to the Present and discover how highly creative people developed methods for expressing light and color.
3. Watch Movies. It is another source of inspiration, as they are nothing more than still images shown to you at 29.97 frames a second. Lots of ideas for concepts, lighting, messages, or just plain pretty images.
4. Read photography books to learn new techniques and then try to apply them in your work.
5. Look at things through the eyes of creativity. Pick anything and shoot it just to see what it looks like: things around your house, in the refridgerator, etc. The subject doesn’t really matter all that much, what matters is how you shoot it. Shoot, shoot and still shoot even more. Digital is cheap.
6. Composition is the key. Think about what you are doing. Frame your photo in your mind. Look for interesting angles and light, go high, go low. The key is to shoot the subject in as many different ways, under different lighting, and try to make those images interesting. So, don’t just point and shoot, but consider composition.
7. The twenty step exercise. If you lack inspiration, you can take your camera, go outside and start shooting anything around. Each photographer has their own secret. Some recommends shooting 100 photos in one hour. Others suggest you should try to get 100 shots from within the 10 metre radius of where you are. Others play twenty steps. Go out for a walk, walk twenty steps, stop, look around, take a picture (try and make it interesting, an unusual angle, a closeup, abstract, etc), walk another twenty steps, repeat. The point is to develop your eye, learn to look more indepth at your surroundings, to look in close as well as wide. This exercise forces you to try and see the mundane differently.
8. Plan a trip to a local botanical garden or a zoo. Make sure to visit such places from time to time, - there are lots of things to shoot there.
9. Shoot in different conditions. E.g. iff you shoot in early morning, late in the afternoon or in sunset, the available light will add more depth, create interesting shadows and color changes for your convenience. Try to photograph places in fog – it will hide distracting background elements.
10. Look through postcards. If you want to shoot the city you live in, or you plan a trip to some excited place, you’ll find it useful to look through postcards. Often we walk past something time and time again and never actually notice its potential. Besides, postcards will give you ideas what is the best way to shoot the subject.
11. Learn how to “see” with your camera – another exercise to develop your eye. If your camera has a viewfinder, look through it for some time. Then look at a scene, and imagine how the camera will see it. Then hold again your camera up to your face and find out if you were right. Keep trying until you can tell immediately what the camera will see.
12. Self-criticism Shoot, shoot and shoot! But after you take tons of images, you should sort them ruthlessly. 10% of worthy photos for a day is not bad results.
13. Enter online contests. It’s great inspiration to find interesting stuff to photograph. You have a topic, and it can make it easier to find interesting stuff to shoot. Try Contests at shotaddict.com.
14. Join a photo community and interest groups. It is cheap, informative, and fun. You can post your photos, participate in critique and discussions at forums. Some very good and interesting stuff to be found there!
15. Take a photo a day and see your life in a whole new way. It is a great article from Photojojo. Remember that a camera that you don’t have with you is a camera that’s not going to take any pictures. So try to have your camera on you as often as possible.
1. Surf around the Web. Look at images at magazines, papers, on-line galleries and you’ll find a wealth of ideas. Try the Gallery at shotaddict.com. Want more – go to flickr.com and look through tones of creative shots. Another useful source is VFXY, it displays recent posts from various photoblogs.
2. Learn the ‘visual language’. Visit Art Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions that have photography shows. Learn art history from Antiquity to the Present and discover how highly creative people developed methods for expressing light and color.
3. Watch Movies. It is another source of inspiration, as they are nothing more than still images shown to you at 29.97 frames a second. Lots of ideas for concepts, lighting, messages, or just plain pretty images.
4. Read photography books to learn new techniques and then try to apply them in your work.
5. Look at things through the eyes of creativity. Pick anything and shoot it just to see what it looks like: things around your house, in the refridgerator, etc. The subject doesn’t really matter all that much, what matters is how you shoot it. Shoot, shoot and still shoot even more. Digital is cheap.
6. Composition is the key. Think about what you are doing. Frame your photo in your mind. Look for interesting angles and light, go high, go low. The key is to shoot the subject in as many different ways, under different lighting, and try to make those images interesting. So, don’t just point and shoot, but consider composition.
7. The twenty step exercise. If you lack inspiration, you can take your camera, go outside and start shooting anything around. Each photographer has their own secret. Some recommends shooting 100 photos in one hour. Others suggest you should try to get 100 shots from within the 10 metre radius of where you are. Others play twenty steps. Go out for a walk, walk twenty steps, stop, look around, take a picture (try and make it interesting, an unusual angle, a closeup, abstract, etc), walk another twenty steps, repeat. The point is to develop your eye, learn to look more indepth at your surroundings, to look in close as well as wide. This exercise forces you to try and see the mundane differently.
8. Plan a trip to a local botanical garden or a zoo. Make sure to visit such places from time to time, - there are lots of things to shoot there.
9. Shoot in different conditions. E.g. iff you shoot in early morning, late in the afternoon or in sunset, the available light will add more depth, create interesting shadows and color changes for your convenience. Try to photograph places in fog – it will hide distracting background elements.
10. Look through postcards. If you want to shoot the city you live in, or you plan a trip to some excited place, you’ll find it useful to look through postcards. Often we walk past something time and time again and never actually notice its potential. Besides, postcards will give you ideas what is the best way to shoot the subject.
11. Learn how to “see” with your camera – another exercise to develop your eye. If your camera has a viewfinder, look through it for some time. Then look at a scene, and imagine how the camera will see it. Then hold again your camera up to your face and find out if you were right. Keep trying until you can tell immediately what the camera will see.
12. Self-criticism Shoot, shoot and shoot! But after you take tons of images, you should sort them ruthlessly. 10% of worthy photos for a day is not bad results.
13. Enter online contests. It’s great inspiration to find interesting stuff to photograph. You have a topic, and it can make it easier to find interesting stuff to shoot. Try Contests at shotaddict.com.
14. Join a photo community and interest groups. It is cheap, informative, and fun. You can post your photos, participate in critique and discussions at forums. Some very good and interesting stuff to be found there!
15. Take a photo a day and see your life in a whole new way. It is a great article from Photojojo. Remember that a camera that you don’t have with you is a camera that’s not going to take any pictures. So try to have your camera on you as often as possible.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
An Afternoon of Digital Photography.
So, I took my camera out yesterday. It is a 10MP digital camera. I spent most of the afternoon practising my Macro photography. I was also scouting for some more possible pictures. The purple flower on the right looked beautiful with the creek backdrop! The blue light from the sky brought some lovely colors up from the creek, which to the naked eye looked brown and murky! When I looked at the creek in the computer, it was a deep blue, this was so much better than the dull brown color.
The 2nd photograph of the flower was of a flower in a slab concrete. I think that the photos came out quite nicely. I will probably make another trip out to the creek to take some more photos. There will be a nice high blue clear sky today. I was quite happy with the way the photograph came out. Actually, I was quite impressed.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Nikon Coolpix L20 10MP Digital Camera with 3.6 Optical Zoom and 3 inch LCD
This is a small camera that thinks it is a professional camera capable of crystal clear prints worthy of publication or gallery display, up to 16x20. Okay, so you can not blow your photo to billboard size without loss of definition. In the real world however and everyday use this is a fine and this is almost a professional level camera that will do a far better job than you expected.
In fact, the generous three inch LCD screen means you do not have to hold it to your face. There is no optical viewfinder in any case. And that large LCD screen has a high-contrast, anti-reflection coating which keeps it clear even in strong sunlight.
The new Expeed image processing system specially fine-tuned for the Coolpix series "to render natural-looking pictures of incredible quality and quick response", amateur enthusiasts will find their photos reaching a new magnitude of quality..
The ISO settings are phenomenal, stretching from 64 ISO all the way out to 1600. Here you can do very low light and candlelight (if you do not mind some grain effect), and in fact there are special pre-sets which employ the faster ISO's effectively.
You can choose instead of Auto (with own its user-selected options) to use the pre-set "Scene" selections quickly and efficiently. The Scene modes now include: Portrait, Night Portrait, Sports, Landscape, Party, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night Landscape, Museum, Fireworks Show, Close Up, Copy, Back Light, Panorama Assist, Food. Food is one of the new ones. The rest of the modes you can figure how they are set from the title and how you might apply their settings to similar situations.
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With availability of SD Cards, you can take several of these along and take "rolls and rolls" of film. and take picture after picture without the added expense of rolls of film. I personally have 6 SD cards that I take with me. You can hook it up to the USB port of a computer directly and use the included software, or simply pop out the SD card and plug it into a card reader (which is what I prefer) and into the computer.
Have you ever taken a shot to discover your subject blinked? This camera lets you know. Yes, this camera recognize when your subject blinks, and lets you know, using the Smart Portrait system. It also automatically fixes your red-eye special.
This tiny camera is also a video camera, can be used for television playback at 640x480 which is great for uploading to YouTube. The camera is so small, anyone can use it to post those next Youtube specials. Or you can even shoot videos to put on the your home TV. Using .AVI files, the movies can be edited as well.
Of course, this camera comes with the standard sized screw input for mounting on a tripod. I personally have a small digital camera tripod, but you can use a taller tripod if you want.
Take a look at my Digital Camera Online Store to check out some more great camera!
In fact, the generous three inch LCD screen means you do not have to hold it to your face. There is no optical viewfinder in any case. And that large LCD screen has a high-contrast, anti-reflection coating which keeps it clear even in strong sunlight.
The new Expeed image processing system specially fine-tuned for the Coolpix series "to render natural-looking pictures of incredible quality and quick response", amateur enthusiasts will find their photos reaching a new magnitude of quality..
The ISO settings are phenomenal, stretching from 64 ISO all the way out to 1600. Here you can do very low light and candlelight (if you do not mind some grain effect), and in fact there are special pre-sets which employ the faster ISO's effectively.
You can choose instead of Auto (with own its user-selected options) to use the pre-set "Scene" selections quickly and efficiently. The Scene modes now include: Portrait, Night Portrait, Sports, Landscape, Party, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night Landscape, Museum, Fireworks Show, Close Up, Copy, Back Light, Panorama Assist, Food. Food is one of the new ones. The rest of the modes you can figure how they are set from the title and how you might apply their settings to similar situations.
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With availability of SD Cards, you can take several of these along and take "rolls and rolls" of film. and take picture after picture without the added expense of rolls of film. I personally have 6 SD cards that I take with me. You can hook it up to the USB port of a computer directly and use the included software, or simply pop out the SD card and plug it into a card reader (which is what I prefer) and into the computer.
Have you ever taken a shot to discover your subject blinked? This camera lets you know. Yes, this camera recognize when your subject blinks, and lets you know, using the Smart Portrait system. It also automatically fixes your red-eye special.
This tiny camera is also a video camera, can be used for television playback at 640x480 which is great for uploading to YouTube. The camera is so small, anyone can use it to post those next Youtube specials. Or you can even shoot videos to put on the your home TV. Using .AVI files, the movies can be edited as well.
Of course, this camera comes with the standard sized screw input for mounting on a tripod. I personally have a small digital camera tripod, but you can use a taller tripod if you want.
Take a look at my Digital Camera Online Store to check out some more great camera!
Friday, August 21, 2009
Matters You Need to Know Prior to Buying a Digital Camera
Digital cameras come in many sizes, colors, brands, zooms, resolutions, playbacks, etc. In that respect ther are so a lot of features and qualities that are being placed in the devices that buyers especially first timers become overwhelmed and dizzy with these outstanding arrays of gadgets. This is even without including the various advertisements and different ratings that are used to promote these products.
Indeed what are the matters to anticipate before you go out and buy a digital camera? To be capable of answering these questions, there are a couple pieces of information that you have to know before you can decide on which camera you want to purchase. The first piece of information that you will require is being able to define what YOU need and want in a digital camera. To do this, you can ask yourself the following questions:
- What sort of photographs would like to take with your digital camera? Prior to u buy digital camera, it is important to determine what kind of pictures you want to take with it. If you are a digital photography enthusiast, any digital camera will not just do. You have to look for features that can support the zooming you need, the resolution, etc.
- How much is your budget? This is a very important question any person who intends to buy digital camera should ask. Because no matter what your needs and wants are for the device, your financial resource will play a huge part in dictating the type of digital camera you will buy.
- What are you resources? When you buy digital camera, sometimes the spending does not end there. You also have to consider the capacity and the power of the computer and the printer you will be hooking your camera with for your editing and printing needs. Editing software are already included when you buy digital camera but other devices aren't. Aside from a printer, ink and paper for printing, you might also need additional memory cards for your camera and a more powerful computer to support image editing and image storage and retrieval.
After answering these 3 questions, the second set of information you need to know before you buy digital camera are the features that you need in the device. These are:
- Resolution. Before you buy digital camera, check first its capacity to produce high quality photo images. The number of pixels indicated determines resolution. The more number of pixels, the higher the resolution which can make photos to be enlarged without losing image quality.
- Built-in memory. Digital cameras need memory cards for picture storage. When you buy digital camera, make sure that the gadget that you buy does not only have a "built-in" memory but should also have a card slot for external and additional memory. This allows you to change full memory cards conveniently while shooting your pictures.
- Look and feel. It is essential for you to feel comfortable holding your digital camera while shooting. So, before you buy digital camera, it good to test and check if you are comfortable holding it and using it. Consider where the buttons are located and how they are spaced out and see also if you feel comfortable using the viewfinder.
- Battery life. Digital cameras use up batteries fast and batteries are expensive. Before you buy digital camera, consider if the camera's batteries are rechargeable. This way you can recharge them. Take also into consideration an AC adapter when you buy digital camera. You can attach this to the camera when you are viewing your pictures or uploading them
- LCD. The LCD is a special consideration you have to look into when you buy a digital camera. This is a small screen located at the back of a digital camera that allows you to preview the pictures you took. This has to be considered when you buy digital camera because it uses up a lot of battery power.
- Special features. Special features that will suit your needs should be thought about, too before you buy digital camera. If you want your camera to have good zooming, you can opt for those with optical zoom lenses. A diopter adjustment on the digital camera's viewfinder will also be beneficial to those who regularly wear glasses and wish to buy digital camera. Other features such as remote control, tripods, etc. can also be considered when you buy a digital camera.
With these information, you can now figure out what you really need and want before you buy digital camera. If you want to see ratings and rankings of these devices based on price, resolution or other features, check out various websites that have these in the Internet.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Hello, Welcome to the Digital Camera Online Blog
Digital Cameras are a great way to take photos of your family, friends, pets, etc. The point and shoot camera is such a versatile camera - both for personal and business purposes
I have several digital cameras, and will continue to buy them as I find them. I use them when I go riding. I try to take as many photos that I can so I have a large catalog of images for my web design, articles, or even youtube videos. Currently I am taking a Video Editing course with Radio Shack. Hopefully my videos will improve over time.
I will be putting up some articles about photos as time goes by. I will be setting up a studio over the next little while, so that should provie me with some good images. Watch out for my store as I put that up over the next week or so. I should be really busy for the next month or so. Lots of opportunities to expand.
I have several digital cameras, and will continue to buy them as I find them. I use them when I go riding. I try to take as many photos that I can so I have a large catalog of images for my web design, articles, or even youtube videos. Currently I am taking a Video Editing course with Radio Shack. Hopefully my videos will improve over time.
I will be putting up some articles about photos as time goes by. I will be setting up a studio over the next little while, so that should provie me with some good images. Watch out for my store as I put that up over the next week or so. I should be really busy for the next month or so. Lots of opportunities to expand.
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