How to take better digital photos

With modern digital automatic cameras just about anyone can take a sharp, well-exposed image. What will set you apart from other photographers is how well you compose your images, the lighting, as well as post editing on your computer. The tips, tricks and guides in this section will help you create great compositions, better exposed images, and better colour, to transform mere snapshots into works of art that people will want to look at (and purchase!).

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Make yourself a KeyImagery Photographer ID Card
Published: 24/09/2009 | Viewed: 2961
It can sometimes be a little scary and unnerving to take your camera in to a public place and start shooting stock photos. People tend to look and stare at you with cautious eyes and wonder what you're doing. If you don't look like a tourist, or don't qui...
22 Sources of Inspiration for Shooting Stock Photography
Published: 06/01/2009 | Viewed: 560
Having trouble thinking up new ideas and subjects for shooting stock photography? Wanting some fresh concepts to breathe life in to your creative batteries? It can be tough when you've got a mental block so here are 22 great ways (in no particular order...
How many megapixels do you really need?
Published: 10/12/2008 | Viewed: 238
If you have recently been researching digital cameras like me, then one of the factors you've probably been looking at is the number of megapixels that cameras can record. For those not in the know, megapixels is the number in millions that determines how...
How to create HDR style images in Photoshop
Published: 13/08/2008 | Viewed: 434
HDR (an acronym for High Dynamic Range) photography is appearing all around the place lately as more and more photographers start using this fantastic, and almost artistic, way of shooting photos. It involves the process of taking several shots ...
5 Steps for Better Colour Management
Published: 12/12/2007 | Viewed: 753
In an ideal world, photos taken on a digital camera should look the same on a computer monitor as they do on a photographic print. However, in the real world, a host of technological issues conspire to make monitor and print images anything but the same. ...