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Do you like to take photos? Are you always standing by with your camera waiting for that moment that is meant to be captured on camera? You may even be taking photography classes or maybe you have already completed a photography course and you want to share your photos with others. You may want to get into photography as a career and winning a photography contest will help you get recognized. Maybe you are just an amateur that has a favorite photo that people keep telling you to enter.

For those who are selling on ebay or online, or any jewelry store owners, taking quality jewelry photos is a daunting task.

You are selling a product that is relatively expensive, and requires a high quality photograph to showcase your jewelry product. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. In your case, a picture might worth a thousand dollars! A good piece of jewelry could retail for $1,000’s or more.

We all go to “gigs” once in a while and from time to time we might want to take some photographs of the event. It might sound easy, but if you want to avoid those blurred shots depicting humans resembling ants in the distance, then you will need to cultivate a different approach.

What is JPEG? It’s confusing for some and you might feel you need to be a genius to understand it. But you don’t.

A lot of people make a lot of fuss about it, but, basically, a JPEG file is an image type. It has a fancy name but it is just the format in which your image is stored. We could also store images as TIFFs or RAWs. But the commonest is JPEGs. When you take a picture your camera will write the image onto the memory card – this is likely to be a JPEG file.

Have you ever taken a picture with you camera using the in-built flash and found the image to be poorly illuminated and patchy? This is because the flash that comes with most cameras is not designed to deal with anything but the basics.

Framing a shot using a digital camera can get a bit of getting used to. Like film cameras, compact digital cameras have a viewfinder which is “offset”. This means the viewfinder image is not exactly the same as the image you get on the sensor. However, you can make small adjustments to capture the image you were hoping for.

With digital landscape photography, one of the most satisfying aspects is that you can evaluate your pictures right there in the field. With emotion playing such a big part of digital landscape photography, you can now get a good idea right there of how much of the moment you were able to capture…

However, making the transition from film to digital landscape photography it is important to get past the technological hurdles, in order to pursue your particular vision of the landscape around you.

One thing I discovered during my experience with digital photography after 20 years of shooting film, and I teach this point in all the many seminars that I’ve put on to hundreds of other full-time pros, is that digital photography is very well suited for the portrait photographer. So why are we the last to jump on the band wagon? Many commercial shooters have known about and mastered the use of digital in their business’s for far longer than the portrait photographer.