Wednesday, November 5, 2008

the ultimate advantages of digital photography

The Ultimate Advantages Of Digital PhotographyWriten by Warren Lynch

Advances in the design and capabilities of digital cameras are happening nearly at the speed of thought. Digital cameras are experiencing technological advances as rapidly as PCs did a few years ago. Once marginally acceptable for taking a snapshot or two, the digital camera is forging its way into mainstream amateur and professional photography circles. And it's no wonder.

Once of the best of the long list of advantages of digital photography is the immediate ability to view the scene through the digital camera's LCD screen. Even the best TTL focusing doesn't convey how the scene is going to come out as well as the LCD screen does.

Combine that nifty preview feature with the immediate gratification that comes from the ability to view the shot after it's been taken, and there are no longer any excuses for coming home from vacation with a pile of lousy photographs.

Then there's the low cost of film. Wait! Make that the NO cost of film. Sure, digital camera storage devices tend to cost a bit more than your average roll of ASA 1000, but it's a one-time cost that keeps on giving and giving over and over again. Combine the no film costs with the no film processing costs and you suddenly find yourself being able to afford to shoot anything and everything you see without ending up short of beer money! Surely that's an advantage all by itself.

Moving right along on the growing list of why you simply MUST own a digital camera, we come to what I like to call the 'digital darkroom' which is what the rest of the world likes to call graphics software.

Without having to mix a batch of chemical soup, without having to own a single red light bulb and without having to wait hours for your paper to dry, you can professionally process, morph, annotate, animate, enlarge, compress and remove the dreaded 'red eye' from your images with the click of a mouse. Hate how it all came out? No problem. Just click undo and start all over again.

Let's not overlook the convenience of being able to e-mail shots of the kids to grandma. No trips to the Post Office, no ordering double prints at the drug store. You just snap, download to your PC and send the kid's into cyberspace. While you're in cyberspace, don't forget to update your family photo album which you can have hosted for free at any number of the free look what I did photo album sites on the Internet.

Probably the best advantage of digital photography is that there is no cost for making mistakes. This allows you to experiment with different f/stops, white balance settings, focal points and lenses without emptying your wallet just to see how bad they turned out.

When there is no cost for making an error, you're bound to end up taking better photographs as you learn how to take your digital camera to the limits.

This digital photography tip article is brought to you by award-winning professional photographer Warren Lynch. Exciting articles gives both beginners and advance digital camera enthusiast the leg up.