Better Digital Photography - Within YOUR Reach!

Just got a new digital camera (or you are dusting off the old one) and want to learn how to shoot better digital photography? Here's some good news - and some BETTER news...Good news - learning to shoot better digital photography is within the reach of all of us! It isn't magic or rocket science in fact - and here's the better news - getting great digital photographs uses the exact same techniques as shooting great film photography!With technology flying at us from every direction...mega pixel this, mega pixel that, memory cards, USB, blue tooth, blue ray and flying blue monkeys - it's easy to lose track of what is really happening. No wonder we are all confused.Here's the scoop...digital is nothing more than a storage system. That's it. In the olden days, the light (and therefore the photograph) was stored on film. Now the light is stored on a digital memory card.They may sound complex and digital systems may have a pretty steep learning curve...but the same basic photo strategies and techniques still apply. digital is nothing more than a storage system. Keep that in mind and you will be shooting better digital photography faster than you may have thought possible.That's it. Pretty simple, huh?The higher the number of mega pixels our digital storage system has, the more detail we can record. Which means the photo will hold together for larger and larger prints.This is actually the same as film - but in reverse. With film, the lower the "speed" the more the film can record. So, for the photo to hold together on enlargements, you would want a lower speed film or a higher number of mega pixels.The photography is the same. Learn good camera strategies and techniques and you will be able to get good photos whether shooting film OR digital. Remember, it's all the same.Where digital is different is AFTER the photo has been created.With film, we now have to go to (and pay for) a photo lab to develop and print our photos. They get to see all our triumphs as well as our mistakes (and those "private" photos that were never meant to be shared with the general public).With digital, all we do is download it into the computer and voila we're done! So, the bottom line is... for better digital photography stop worrying about the storage medium and just study sound photo techniques.