Digital Photography

Digital photography, computer generated digital photography, computer enhanced digital photography and the list goes on and on with things like Photoshop and Skype. The advancement of technology has allowed art and the many different gerunds of it to be mixed up like a plate of spaghetti to me. Where to start, what is best applied to my art form, and will not be out of date in the near future are questions I ask. If anyone in this section has an opinion it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and reading my post looking to hear for my college pals soon.  Talk to you later Michelle

The best camera I have ever owned is in my newest phone.  8 Megapixel dual flash.  Great Pictures.  I have never really had enough money to buy a fancy camera nor have I had the need for an 8 megapixel camera.  Nonetheless this is way more than I thought it would be.  Easy to use and even easier to upload anywhere.  This has opened my eyes to the world of cameras.  My wife knows plenty about cameras so she laughs at me when I mention new things that I notice that have been there for ages.  All in all I am interested to learn more about these things we call cameras.

I used to own discrete digital camera (typically Kodak), and was always pleased with the quality they offered. But my problem was that in many situations where I would have loved to have had a camera on me, I did not, for I like to travel light, or the camera is in a different room, and the event I wish to capture has a short temporal presence. For those reasons, I've come to appreciate more and more the simplicity and effectiveness of having integrated cameras in other devices. My iPad's camera fills this role for me. I typically carry my iPad most places I go, and it is just a few key presses and swipes to get the camera ready and... CLICK! Image taken. Or if it is a video I need to take, no problem... swipe an on-screen switch and I'm recording. Management of my digital media is facilitated through the iPad (I can instantly e-mail photos, or catalog them in my library). And, even though the overall sampling quality of the iPad's camera pales in comparison to pretty much any discrete digital camera on the market. I don't feel any regrets-- I've still captured the essence (and to think, 5 years ago this WAS considered state of the art for sampling quality). So, while there are certainly great cameras out there, and I'll be the first to admit the iPad's camera is nothing to write home about, the best camera in the world won't do me any good if I don't have it available when I wish to take pictures.

I have to agree with better in theory on this one. It's just not practical to bring a large expensive camera everywhere. My favorite digital camera is an Olympus that I got a few years back, but the drawback is that it's bulky. The quality of the pictures is better than an iphone. But for random candid, I'd go with an iPhone camera for sure, because that's going to be with you anyway. I bring my camera to places where I know I'll be taking pictures, but sometimes you catch that unexpected random moment, and you use what's most convenient.

Photography is one of my favorite hobbies. I have a great passion of taking landscape of nature. For this I bought my first camera at the last year of my graduation. It also helped me in my research work. After that I have captured thousands of pictures. Several people who saw my pictures did praise my hand of photography. But few months ago, when I did a course on photography, I came to know that photography is a matter of learning. It is such a creative work by which you can give a message with a photograph to the viewers. So, I think a professional training course on photography is a must for being a good photographer. Though I am not a professional, the course has made me to think complete differently about taking a picture. When I compare two of my photographs taken by me previously and recently, I see a great difference between them. This course will make you more creative in thinking. Now I submit photographs captured by me in various photography competitions. Few of them got some prizes. If you are not a professional photographer, you can still do a course on photography to improve your skill.

Within my group of friends, I always tend to be the camera shy one and the memory card in my digital camera has very few pictures of myself or of my friends.  My memory card however, is very full of pictures. In fact, I have multiple memory cards that are full of pictures.  I enjoy and appreciate photography as an art form, and most of the pictures I take are taken with artistic intent.  My method usually is to take pictures of the same subject multiple times from varying angles, and then paw through the pictures later at my leisure to select the one I like best.  When you do this, you can pay more attention to little details that vary in each shot.  The amount and positioning of light is never quite the same in ever photo.  Neither is the balance of colors, due to the small variations in light.  As a primarily detail oriented person, I appreciate the small differences between photos and am able to see how the overall impact and presentation  of a photo can be affected by just a small simple change in an aspect that I know most people will not consciously pick up on.

I personally suck at taking pictures, but with time and patience I can touch up a picture. It's a lot of fun.  I prefer turning them into black and white, or having once piece stand out. I don't like a lot of color when the picture can tell it's story on its on.  I think it's better to let the picture tell the story than having someone sit there and try to tell what the photographer wanted to say or what the person wanted the picture to say or how they wanted it to come alive.  Everything has a beauty, having everything in black and white with one hence of color really makes you think and the pictures will tell it's story with just that color.

Digital photography has been really popular especially in the last 5 years because of advancement in technology and the beauty of what you capture from it. Not everybody was able to own a camera back in the days but now, it’s like food. Everybody has a camera, a digital camera, in their household. Everybody can be a photographer these days, but there is something unique with real photographers. By real photographers I mean people that actually went to school to be a photographer and have the experience.

Now, I am not a pro photographer but I really like to go around and take pictures. Although, I did get some compliments by pro photographers that I am good at it. HA!! I used to use a Nikon D300 DSLR camera and I loved it. Although it wasn’t the best for serious photography, I was able to make the best out of it. I was able to experience try out different things. I have not had a camera since last summer, but I am hoping to get the Cannon t4i for both photography and movies. Why? Because after watching some reviews on Youtube and on the internet, I thought, I must get this camera because it does a great job for photography and movies.