Comments on: Digital Camera Tips

By: tvn19

tvn19 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:21:41 +0000

Cool, helpful. Thank you

By: bluejonah

bluejonah — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:11:04 +0000

I found this blog to be informative and helpful. I am going to try these out as soon as possible. I hope it will help me have more consistant photos. Right now,. I end up with not only some bizarre ones; but with a few clunkers as well.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:12:05 +0000

About the Flash it is only rule of thumb. If you are in a dark room and you want to get something far away then yea you need to set the flash brighter, but if you are doing a photo of people a few feet from you than lowering the flash will actually help brightening the background. Rules are made to be broken, and braking them is kind of fun with photography because the consequence are not that bad ;-)

Have a great rest of the day!

By: vindog

vindog — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:52:59 +0000

I’m liking your posts Chris for newbies to the digital photography arena. One suggestion I have also is “don’t be afraid of grain” with using higher ISO; on a Rebel XTi which has less noise than your equivalent Nikons (sorry guys) you can afford to go 400+ ISO to get the depth of field and motion-freezing you need, then “wash it” with Noiseware (www.noiseware.com). It is amazing what you can do when freed from those limits. Also, grain is actually helpful in some compositions where “gritty” is desired.

Another great find; the Canon G9! The best “slr” features in a point/shoot body, including external flash and all the manual features I want from a pro body. A bit noisy after 200 ISO, but what fun and sweet macros you’ll have. I could probably shoot a wedding with this thing if nobody laughed at me. The only problem there is that to process RAW images (which you should aways shoot, seriously) you can use Canon’s Zoom Browser which sucks, or use the ACDSee Pro2; there aren’t really any other workflow softwares that handle the G9 raw file well.

By: NikonLifer

NikonLifer — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:30:39 +0000

Just shoot in RAW and leave your White Balance on Auto for most of the time, unless the lighting is harsh. You can then correct in post processing as long as you shoot in RAW. JPEG can do it as well but RAW is much better.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:30:12 +0000

these tips were really good, they kinda kill what i would think is common sense, i thought you would need a brighter flash in a darker room and lighter flash in bright room

By: kainaussie

kainaussie — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:11:42 +0000

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u ??
how much u want for it

By: PCguy102

PCguy102 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:59:49 +0000

dont use the your flash in daylight, you just waste battery

By: anfonyl

anfonyl — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:27:19 +0000

Sweet! I got a new camera for Christmas so this was really helpful, thanks.

By: pspaddict01

pspaddict01 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:01:05 +0000

great tips.

By: kpslover

kpslover — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:37:23 +0000

Great tips! This will help me take better pictures. Hopefully i have more pics to post on flickr, and facebook.

By: godwriter

godwriter — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:33:59 +0000

the white balance tip is simple but something that never dawned on me thanx

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