Flash Digital Photography - Using Flash With Digital Cameras

Fortunately, we no longer have to deal with buying flashes for our cameras anymore. Flash digital photography is now a real term used both in words and in the photography industry. The flash (instead of being put on top of the camera like it used to) is now built right into the flash digital cameras themselves.

Today, our digital cameras come with a built in automatic flash and, even better, is the feature that allows you to change the setting, depending on how much light is available. Some digital cameras even come with a setting that will let you know when the lighting isn't right for the setting you have it set on. Then you will need to change the setting yourself.

The best way to use flash with your digital camera is to first read the instruction manual on how the settings are set up and how you should use them. You should also learn how to use the settings by then taking that knowledge and working with your camera hands-on. Try it outside at different times of the day, in different areas, in your studio (if you have one), in your home and anywhere else you might be taking pictures. By doing this, you can see first-hand what settings work best for what type of lighting.

Unfortunately, some digital cameras have the flash too close to the lens and that can lead to red eyes in your pictures. Fortunately, you can get a digital camera that has a setting to help reduce red eye or you can fix the problem with your photography software.

You should also play with the settings with different areas where shadows could show up. This will help you determine how far away from your subject you can be before the shadows disappear. This happens because the flash didn't reach those areas. The camera manufacturer will usually list the maximum flash strength and how far away you can be when taking a good shot. You certainly don't want to lose any perspective and/or depth in your pictures.

You can reduce both of these problems of red eye and poor depth by getting a flash device that is separate from your camera. You will just need a detachable flash component that is simply powered by a bracket on the camera along with a cable that all work together to help the flash inside the camera to work with the external flash unit. This will help your flash digital camera by providing an extra source of flash and reduce the amount of red eye and poor depth coming out in your pictures.

Your flash digital camera can provide you with a wealth of creative photography opportunities. You just have to know how to use it and this is easy to learn. By using the steps outlined in this article and by playing around with your flash settings, you can get a great number of beautiful pictures using flash digital photography.

YouTube Classics: Vivaldi - TRY THIS AT HOME

"We have two new members are we are called now GENT CLARINET QUARTET" YouTube Classics: TRY THIS AT HOME. Gent - BELGIUM A. Vivaldi (1678 -- 1741) Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La Primavera" (Spring) (adapt. by Marco Antonio Mazzini) www.myspace.com And here is our third video. As you will hear, there is a lot of noise around - and this time someone is whistling a couple of times - but still you can hear us quite clear. Same history: our "camera man" wasn't there that particular day. This was the first piece of the day, so we were nervous about the lonely camera (someone could step in it by accident). For this reason, our concentration was no the best, but still we are happy with the result. After this piece our good friend Juan Carlos came to help with the camera. We would like to mention the great solo part performed by Martin Mosorjak, our first clarinettist... This score is already available for free here: www.clariperu.org Wanna try this at home? The individual parts are HERE: www.clariperu.org Contact Gent Clarinet Quartet: gentclarinetquartet@clariperu.org Who's the first to make a video reply???



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Choosing the Best Film II

Colour
Modern 100-speed films give a superb balance of image quality with speed. Nonetheless, 400-speed films are excellent and produce results in which the loss of sharpness and increase in graininess is acceptable. However, contrast is higher and the subtlety of colour discrimination is lacking.

Colour films come in families these days, so you can choose speeds of film that are appropriate for different tasks while still enjoying family resemblances in terms of contrast, saturation, and colour palette. For weddings and social portraiture, for example, where you may need to retain detail in the highlights of the bride's dress or in light-coloured clothes, you need a film with lower contrast and moderate colour saturation. For general family photography, you may prefer to use a film that offers punchier colours and more lively contrast. Industrial, travel, and commercial photographers may go for even more vibrant colour rendering with high colour saturation.

If you are working in mixed lighting - tungsten lights combined with daylight, say - use colour negative films. These show a greater tolerance to both exposure and colour balance variations compared with colour slide material, thus allowing corrections to be carried out more easily.

Colour negative scans
With no silver to scatter light, lower contrast than slides, and a wide exposure latitude, colour negatives often produce good scans. Problems come when translating the negative colour information into a positive, as you need to correct for the overall orange cast of colour negative film. There is also the problem with colour negative film of knowing exactly what is the right colour when you cannot see for yourself what it is.

Focusing in on the Demystifying of the Digital Camera

With the proliferation of digital cameras, photography using 35mm cameras of yesteryear is quickly becoming an obsolete art form. More and more major manufacturers are discontinuing production of 35mm cameras altogether. As digital cameras advance both in resolution and versatility more and more people are finding that they don't need to be a whiz at electronics to take a decent picture. There are pros and cons to using a digital camera over a 35mm camera. Your choices are either a compact point-and-shoot camera or a Single-Lens Reflex, or SLR.

A serious photographer or professional will always opt for a Digital SLR as their primary camera. SLR cameras allow the user flexibility and precision that surpasses point-and-shoot cameras because of the quality lens attachments, settings, and format of file image. SLRs also take less time to perform the same operations that compact point-and-shoot cameras can do. This is a must if high speed or action shots are desired such as you would take at a sports game. As a general rule, SLR cameras provide higher resolution, or mega-pixels, than compact cameras. This is due to the physical size of the chips that receive the light and image inside the camera.

Despite some compact point-and-shoot cameras surpassing a few SLRs in the number of mega-pixels, it does not mean that the compact cameras will provide a superior image. The sizes of the sensor chips inside compact cameras are smaller so that each pixel is being crammed in. This can produce some digital noise which shows up as slightly specked or a grainy image.

SLR cameras are superior in every way except for the cost and weight. SLR cameras start around the $400 range just for the body. Once you begin to add on a lens or two, the cost will start around $600. Many of the better SLR cameras range from $1200 all the way up past $7000. Because of the lenses, SLR cameras tend to be moderately heavier than compacts.

The majority of people won't want or need an SLR Digital camera. Compact cameras are improving every month and what was never possible last year, is now common place today. Mega-pixels is the buzzword that everyone looks to when deciding on which camera to purchase. Generally speaking, the higher the mega-pixel count a camera can take the better the photo will be. A common 5 or 6 mega-pixel camera can take absolutely beautiful photos. The big draw to choose a camera with 8 or even 10 mega-pixel capability is that one can enlarge the image to an 11X13 size photo and larger with no detectable loss of quality by the human eye. The disadvantage of using a high mega-pixel capable camera is that they are often very slow and can be extremely difficult to get a crystal clear picture, unless they have an image stabilizer function.

The cost of compact digital cameras is a fraction of their big brothers. Some start below $100. A relatively good compact camera can be found for around $180 and up. The more one spends on a point-and-shoot digital camera, the more features and control the user will have. Many compact cameras today feature controls that could only be found on higher end SLRs five years ago.

It's not very difficult to get a decent camera in any price range, but if an individual is looking for the best possible photo, such as of a family portrait or a wedding, an SLR camera is the one with which to go. For most people, spending a ton of money on an SLR camera for a rich quality picture is not practical. Professional photographer studios are easily found and have the experience to give you the best possible pictures for the lowest cost.