Digital Photo Storage

To store original copy of images has always been a matter of concern. Printing hard copy of images is very much easy but saving them for future is more challenging. Before the digital photography was introduced, people used to keep the negatives of photos safely in case they might need them in future. Inspite of great care and safety, negative quality used to fade out and resulted in bad prints.

Now we don't have to bother in storing such negative. Rather, we are more fascillitated. We can now store our digital images in varoius magnetic storages like floppy disks, zip disks, cassette, etc. Moreover, optical disks like CD, DVD are mostly used to store data and images. We generally store our images in harddisk in computer. We needn't fear about quality being fed. In the mean time, we should also take care that such storage are prevented from scratches and dust otherwise we may suffer from loss of data or damages. It is better to make backup of every image files we work on so to make sure that we are safe from losing them.

Simply Making Good Photos

We needn't have better or better cameras to create better photos. It doesn't mean that good products can be neglected. Beside the professional photography, we can ourselves make good and attractive photos. Just we have to take care is wheather we are following right rules or not. We should have basic knowledge about the functions in our camera like night shots, white balance, aperture, exposure, etc.
When we are taking snapshots in sunlight, its very easy to get good photos. We should watch were the rays of sun strikes. It means, we have to place the object or person in the position where sunlight directly strikes. This somehow works as flashlights in studios. We should also take care not to take pictures in shade which may affect the result.
If we are taking indoor photos, we can use in-built flashes or use indoor lights. If the light is very much dim, we may use night mode or set white balance option to Fluoroscent mode. Similarly, if we wish to make photos in cloudly days, we may set white balance to cloudy mode or decrease the exposure value (below +0).

We may have misconception that only highly edited photos are good. Simple and simply taken pictures can also be attractive and nice. Only we have to take care that camera functions are properly used.

Trick Photography

Trick photography is a funny way to surprise or confuse our mates. No doubt, the most surprising and confusing trick photographs are manipulated and edited with the softwares like photoshop. Then, how can they be trick photographs? Trick photography is you create an extraordinary picture. There is a wide variety of trick photography methods we can create physically with.
The main element in trick photography is the perspective. Perspective is visually interpreting the images and the relation between the space aroud it. A method known as Perspective Distortion is utilized to make trick photographs. It is just a way of making the object look abnormal by making it bigger or smaller relative to its foreground or background. It is done using the fact that camera interprets object in two dimensions whereas our eyes work in three dimensions.
The fun of watching trick photography is not in analysing them with a conscious mind but believing wildly on what our eyes see.
Similarly, various special effects used in motion pictures are also a part of trick photography.

Black & White Photos

All photography was originally developed from monochrone of Black & White photography. Black and white photos continued to dominate for decades though color photography was introduced. It was not only because of its low cost but also due to its classic look. It is noticeable that all of the black and white photos do not contain perfect black and white colors but also some other hues depending on their processing or nature of papers. The cyanotype photos are the examples. Images are formed in blue and white colors in this type of photo. The albumen process was used more than 150 years ago. It used to produce images with brown tones.
Inspite the fact that color photography has found its way to majority, still we can find many of the photographers who like monochrome photos due to its classic looks. Though the color photos provide vivid looks, monochrome images are so attractive and memorable.
Color photos are complex if we wish to manage them in their true colors. But we don't have to bother in such topics in black and white photos. We may have misconception that monochrome is old fashioned so its not a part of digital photography. But its not true. We can create many attractive monochrome photos digitally.

Color Photos

Color photography was invented around the mid 1800s. Though color photography was in summit, the early experiment didn't help much to fix the colors and prevent them from fading. The physicist James Clerk Maxwell took first permanent color photo in 1861.
Early color photos were used to be taken using three cameras each having color filters in front of their lens.This method provided photographer three basic color formats to recreate color photos from monochrome photos.
French Lumiere brothers invented first commercial techique to produce color photos, Autochrome. It took market in 1907. Various companies like Kodak, Konica, Minolta, Fujifilm, etc are the leading companies to manufacture goods for color photography.
Color photography may form images by coating chemicals on photosensitive papers, by digitally printing, etc. The latter is widely used method in the modern world of photography. Digital images are boons for color photography.

Printers

Only processin an image in computer doesn't make a sense. We have to get it printed in a paper to get a hard copy. To print, we need a printer. Printer is an electronic device which forms images, characters, graphs, on a paper. There are various types of printers. Most of the normal character printers use a single black ink to make characters. Similarly, laser printers use same technology used in photocopy machine.
We need higher quality of printers to print images and photos. Inkjet printers are the most commercially used printers. Such printers from Canon, Epson, etc are mostly used worldwide. Commonly in the inkjet printers, six types of inks are used. Namely, Magenta, Photo Magenta, Cyan, Photo Cyan, Black and Yello. We can print using the three colors formats if our JPEG file is in RGB. Similarly, CYMK for Cyan, Yello, Magenta and Black format.
Higher the printing resolution of printer, better the quality of photograph. Mostly, images are printed in 300 dpi of resolution. It means, the printer plots 300 dots per inch. Consequently, if a printer prints higher number of dots per inch, image will be better. Chossing of good photo papers also enhance the performance of printers. After we process any image in a software, it is ready for printing. Now we choose the desired quality and options and send it for priting. Its so simple to get done unlike the traditional way of printing. Printing head is very dedicated and important part in printer. It receives necessary information for printing from computer and aligns the inks to the respective blocks to form images. This is how a printer works.

Photo Editing Softwares

I think, choosing a right software for editing photos is not a tough job. Technically, we should decide first what are we wanting. We need different software for good finishing and of course, different for management. Again, we have the previllages of various softwares to make slideshows and videos of our still images.
Personally, I fell Adobe Photoshop is the most popularly and professionally used photo editing software. I too have been using it since I had known about digital photography. Firstly, I had used 6.0 version of photoshop. Recently, it has come with its 12th version. It has a collection of very effective tools. Stamp tool is very useful in photoshop for finishing. We can remove unwanted details, erase scratches from photos or add details with this tools.
We can separate, join or morph photos with these kinds of softwares. Various programs like ACDsee, CPAC, Corel Photo Pro, etc are also widely used for photographic purposes.
Its our pleasure to have such facilities. They not only help us create good photos but also enhance our creativity.

Digital Photo Papers

After we process the captured image digitally, we print them on digital photo papers. Now they become hard copies. The quality of photos, images, characters, etc. depends on the papers used. We get far more better results when we use high quality papers.
Unlike traditional photo papers, digital photo papers are easy to find and have more options to choose from. Manual papers are sensitive to lights. They get ruined when we exposed them to normal lights. In that case, we have to keep them out of reach of lights in dark places. This is very much ambiguous job.
Digital papers come in various sizes like A3, A4, B4, B5, etc. All we have to do is to decide how big are we going to print. We need not store them in dark places as they are not sensitive to lights. They are easy to handle and efficient to use.
Papers from Canon, Konica, Kodak are the most popularly used papers. If we have good knowledge regarding the resolution of various papers, it would be more easy to understand the necessary requirements for fine prints.

Processing Images

Processing images is simply creating hard copy of images we capture. It includes processes like editing, color management, printing, etc. The image processing technique in ancient days and modern days is only different in the sense of use of film and chemicals. In old days, after the images were captured in films, the films were processed in the chemicals in dark rooms to convert them into negatives. When the negatives are ready, again they are taken to dark rooms to create photos after undergoing same chemical process used for negative. We may feel these kinds of processes so complex and tiring.
Now, we just have to click and download to computer and send to printer. We can also just click and print directly. In case we want more or less finishing and size, we can edit or process the images using various computer applications and softwares. We just have to manage less time and get more results.
Digital photography has not only made the processing easy but also has provided wide range of options to make our photos more attractive and mermorable.

Lights

The word 'Photo' is derivation from the word 'Photon' which means the light rays. In this sense, light plays a major role in photography. When we click the shutter button, the aperture ring opens for short time. In this short period, light rays strikes to the object and enter through the lens, into the ring and makes traces on photo sensitive film.
Similarly, in modern digital cameras, the digital chips interpret the light rays and convert them to pixels to form an image digitally.
We may come across many professional photographic lights as we can find lots of such products. Only we have to do is to choose one to meet our demands. In the meantime, we shouldn't forget that only a better light can't give a better result. We need to have better quality of cameras and lights to get better indoor photos. Then what about outdoor photos? Consider, we have a great source of nature. Yes, the sun is the best source of light for photography. We can't get as better photos in sunlight in any other lights.
However, we have been using flashes, video lights and much more and they are doing well too...
Prolink chrome, Eline chrome, falcon Eyes, etc are leading companies to manufacture studio lights.

Cameras History

A camera is literally a device (analog or digital) used to capture images. These images may be still (photograph) or moving (videos). The term CAMERA was derived from the camera obscura (dark chamber, latin) which was an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern cameras were manufactured from the concept of camera obscura.
Camreas not only work with the light of visible spectrum but also the protions of electromagnetic spectrum. Generally, it consists of an enclosed hollow, an opening (called an aperture) at one end for light to enter. On the other end, there is a viewing surface for the light to enter. Most old fashioned cameras used photographic films and papers while modern electronic cameras use digital chips and papers.
A typical still camera once capture a images the time you press the shutter button.The camera obscura was a darkened chamber or a box into which the light was allowed to pass through a convex lens. The images were fromed on the surface of paper, ice, glass, etc. The camera obscura was first described by an arabian scientist Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) in his Book of Optics (1015–1021). English scientist Robert Boyle and his assistant Robert Hooke developed a portable camera obscura in the 1660s.
The first camera obscura was small and portable enough to practical use built by Johann Zahn in 1685. At that time, there was no any reliable way to preserve the images captured by these cameras but manually tracing them. In compensation to that, Johann Heinrich Schultz discovered a silver and chalk mixture darkening against the exposure to light. Before the exposure, a sensitive plate would be placed in front of a viewing screen to capture the image.

Choosing Cameras

Currently, we have around 6500 varieties of cameras to choose from. This makes our understanding and choosing capabilities so difficult and we may sometime get misconception regarding megapixels.
Similarly, we just get stuck into the fansy advertisment and neglect the photographic features. Just because the camera is said to be featured with 3 MP, it doesn't mean that we get to use the full 3MP. Further, these so called pixels play vital role in determining the size and quality of images we take. Regarding an example, a professional camera with certain MP may outperform in detail and size due to larger imaging chip.
All these mean that we have to take many things into consideration while buying cameras rather that looking what's written on the box. What's most important is are you happy with what you bought? It means, are you fully satisfied with the quality so that you can safely store your beautiful and valuable moments. The quality of cameras doesn't upon the number of MP but is determined on the basis of chip used, lens to capture and in-built software inside the camera. So, you should defenetly have as least the knowledge of lens, bits and resolution used my the cameras.
On contrary, what I think is the revolution of digitization on photography has broken the boundary of mm quality as those traditional cameras. Now you can decide which camera to buy analysing the quality right at the moment in the camera store.

Replica On Photography Method

In the beginning of 21st century, the dominant method of viewing still images has been on computers and, to a lesser extent. These have led to a decrease in film and film camera sales and film processing, and has had a dramatic effect on companies such as Fuji, Kodak and Agfa. Consequently, many stores that used to offer photofinishing services or sell film no longer do, and those that do have seen a rapid decrement.

Traditional photos and images have always been prone to declining of image quality due to sun exposure or negligence in the storage of film negatives, slides, and prints. Since digital images are stored as data on a computer, the image never loses visual quality, detail, or fidelity as long as the digital media remains intact. The way of ruining the digital images is to delete the image file, corrupt or re-write some of the image file's data, or damage or destroy the electronic storage media that contains the file. Like other files, making backups is the most effective way of ensuring a digital image can be recovered.

Digital Photography: Opportunity & Challenge

No doubt that digitization on photography has brought great opportunity. Now we can edit our images the way we like. We can easily cut, join or morph photos. We also can surprise other with various tricks using photo based softwares like photoshop.
However, we also shouldn't forget the challenges on its way. We should be careful about the current laws and provision regarding the use of photos officially. We shouldn't neglect the reality of an individual while creating or editing their images. In the same way, as people have been so famillier with the digital photography, carrying out necessary of modification and consideration in the field of photography is important.
Various softwares companies regarding digital photography and hopeful and relevently careful about the current need of their end users. Not only this, but also the manufacturers of digital cameras, accessories, etc should know the intentions of their customers so that they can receive good response . When errors are considered, it would really be and opportunity for the mankind in the history of photography.

Digital Photography For Advertisment

Advertisment has been one of the fields widely using digital photographyIt is only the way in which we emphasize our creation more than we emphasize the living models. We can create various images, hoardings, tempelates as we like.
However, we still advertise for the products traditionally but digital photography is far more better and advanced. It not only takes less time but also helps explore more creations.
Moreover, we can convey more informations to the customers with less efforts using fantasies and characters.
Despite the fact that advanced use of digitization on products leads to the higher expectation of the repective products on public which may also sometimes is a matter of sorrow.

Digital Photography: A Revolution

Digital photography is a method of making images without the use of conventional photographic film. Instead, a machine called a scanner records visual information and converts it into a code of ones and zeroes that a computer can read. Photographs in digital form can be manipulated by means of various computer programs. Digital photography was widely used in advertising and graphic design in the late 1990s, and was quickly replacing conventional photographic technology in areas such as photojournalism.

Digital cameras are now available for both professional photographers and amateur enthusiasts. The more expensive professional cameras function as sophisticated 35-millimeter cameras but record the picture information as pixels, or digital dots of color . There can be several million pixels in a high-resolution, full-color digital photograph. Some digital cameras are able to transfer their large picture files directly into a computer for storage. Others accept a disc or similar portable storage unit to achieve the same purpose. The original high-resolution image can later be reproduced in ink (in a magazine, for example) or as a conventional silver halide print.

Digital cameras aimed at the amateur photography market function much as point-and-shoot cameras do, with automatic focus, automatic exposure, and built-in electronic flash. Pictures from these cameras contain fewer pixels than those from a more expensive camera and are therefore not as sharp. After taking pictures, the user can connect the camera directly to a television set or video cassette recorder, so the whole family can look at snapshots together. Alternatively, image files can be transferred to a home computer, stored on disks, or sent to friends via electronic mail.

New Era On Photography

Extending the wide range of the history of photography, origin of digital photography has been a milestone. The huge application of computer on photography has not only eased the way but also has sufficed the previllages to explore more for its future.

Despite of the great advantages of digital photography, problems arise when it is used for trick or fake photography having intension of abuse. However, its contribution can't be neglected as we can transform our pre-printed images to digital elements. We not only have a great access to best management of our photos but also can make them long last unlike manual photography.
We also have access to the facilities relating with various hardware and computer software which can be used to enhance our potential of creating best photography. We can choose from the wide range of good printers, scanners, CPU hardwares and much more.
Basically, manipulation of photos in computers using various hand-held devices adds to the ease of touch-to-create previllages.