Photography Studio

A picture taken on camera film is made of numerous, tiny light sensitive crystals that are chemically processed to create the image, whereas a photo taken digitally is stored inside a memory device and can be viewed instantaneously and can be viewed on a computer monitor.

Taking A Digital Photo
You can obtain digital photographs by either using your digital camera and uploading the image to your computer or the internet, or if you have old traditional images, you can use a scanner to create a digital version of it. The benefit for converting your old images is that they will never be lost or damaged over time:

Your Digital Camera
Most digital cameras operate exactly the same as traditional cameras that use film, the difference for digital is that in place of the traditional film, photos are stored internally on the camera. Digital memory for cameras were typically built-in to early digital cameras, but now most use removable memory cards. The great joy of digital photography is that it allows you to take as many photos as you like, then discard the ones you do not want. Upload the images you want to keep to your computer, then you are able to clear the camera´s memory card and start again.

The number of images the camera’s memory card holds varies dependent on image quality and type, the quality of the camera and the memory capacity. New technology for digital imaging is emerging everyday and multi mega-pixel image storage capacity is now very cheap and allows you to have multiple digital memory cards for different projects..

In traditional photography after you have taken the last photo on your camera, you must rewind the film, remove it from the camera and replace it with a new one. In digital photography, this becomes much easier and cheaper process, most of us are familiar with the operation of a computer, you will know that a document or image can be saved onto your computer. A digital camera saves its photos in a similar way, and the photo image can be transferred from your camera’s memory to a computer. You can also upload your digital photos to a range of paid or free online photo hosting services, click on the link to discover more. You can even earn money from your digital photos by charging a small fee for its use, there are other digital photo site that allow you to do this, click on the link to discover more.

Many digital cameras also have an LCD viewfinder which allows you to review images stored in the camera's memory at any time and to delete any photos that you do not want, but be careful, save all your photos first before deciding to delete and photos, once they are deleted there is no getting them back.

Digital Photo Hosting
As mentioned above there are a multitude of paid and free online sites that will store your digital photos and some of these site will also allows you to charge a fee for anybody wanting to use your image.

Scan Your Old Photos
Start now to convert all your old photos into digital images, use a scanner connected to your computer to transfer the photo to your computer in digital format. If you have many old photos, this may take some time, so set a task to convert 10 photos per day, or how ever many you can.

Viewing Digital Images
Most modern computers have software installed to view your photos that are stored have software that can read and display the image file. If you are looking for a more advanced piece of software to manage, edit or view your images, then follow this section to discover more.

A huge variety of photo viewing and editing software are available, one of the best known and the most popular is Adobe PhotoShop, which used by graphic designers and professional photographers everywhere. There are also many less expensive programs that can provide photo editing needs, check this section for suggestions.

Printing Your Digital Photos
Photo quality printers have now become cheap and anybody who takes digital photos and want to have a traditional hard copy should invest in a photo quality digital printer. Check out this section for more details on digital photo printers.

Check out the full list of resources below for all your digital photographic needs.

Help Us
Digital photography imagery is the fastest growing area of photography today, with technological improvements in products and techniques happening every week. If you discover any information in this section that is not correct, please let us know, or write for us and send us your tips, hints and photos, we will credit you will all content.


Resources
How digital cameras work
Choice in digital cameras
Starting out
Digital cameras and batteries
Editing digital images
Printing digital images
Digital's popularity
Features of a digital camera