Inspiring ways to improve your photos
Inspiring ways to improve your photos
Photo Review tips section
Taking digital photographs can make even experienced photographers let some aspects of their practice slip occasionally. Being able to shoot and review on the spot, and the enormous scope for post-capture tweaking of images can make digital photographers careless. Standards slip and before long you find the shots on those memory cards don’t meet your expectations. Or maybe, there aren’t any shots at all!
People are the most common subjects for everyday photography – with pets as a close second. Consequently, it’s no surprise to see the development of systems that make it easier to identify faces and adjust the focus and exposure of a camera to produce well-exposed and in-focus pictures.
While photo enthusiasts generally prefer shooting with interchangeable-lens DSLR cameras, there are times when you simply don’t want to drag all the related paraphernalia about with you. It’s too bulky, too heavy, and it singles you out as a photographer with lots of expensive gear. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a compact digicam available as a substitute?
Although firmware is defined by Wikipedia as a combination of hardware and software, when applied to digital equipment it generally refers to small software programs that control the operations of various internal components. Residing in the interface between the camera’s software and hardware, it is embedded in the microprocessor chip(s) that control all the device’s operations.
Brisbane independent photo specialist FotoFast has some helpful tips on how to handle water-damaged photos and memory cards.
The last few versions of Adobe’s image editors, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, have come with a powerful Raw file converter, Adobe Camera Raw. This application is being constantly updated to cover the latest digital cameras as they are released and, although some cameras take a while to be supported, having a capable Raw file converter built into your favourite image editor is an incentive to shoot Raw files whenever possible.
Some digital images lend themselves to artistic manipulation and it can be fun to experiment with the filter effects in your favourite software application to see what you end up with. In this tutorial we will edit an image to make it look like an oil painting. The process is very simple and straightfoward and can produce impressive results.
Selective Colour adjustment appears to be unique to Photoshop. You may be able to achieve similar effects with other image editing programs, but the Photoshop tool is very easy to locate and use – and produces excellent results. This tool is designed to let you vary the amount of process colours in the primary colours in a digital image – without affecting other colours in the picture.
For optimal results, when applying any form of sharpening to your digital images, follow these rules:
Although some countries require works to be ‘of artistic merit’, in Australia, copyright protection applies automatically to all photographs from the moment the camera’s shutter button is pressed. It doesn’t matter whether they are taken by a professional photographer or Aunty Jane and you don’t need to register or publish the photo or apply a copyright notice – the protection is free and automatic. In addition, most copyright protection applies worldwide.
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