11 Tips for Beginner Photographers

As a new photographer, here are some ideas that, personally, helped me move forward.
1. Do not buy the most expensive for the teams from the outset.

You can get very good pictures with a simple camera with only point and shoot. The more photos you do, the easier to know what kind of camera to buy when you go to upgrade.
2. Consider a tripod.

On the other hand, is very good to have a tripod, not very expensive, especially if you have bad pulse as mine. When I bought a tripod, my satisfaction with the photographs are projected. For better stability, use the timer function (timer) with the tripod.
3. Have the camera with you all the time.

Options for photographing come when you least expect. If you can bring your computer with you always – only a small bag and a tripod – you will be able to get all the advantage to those unexpected opportunities. Or, if your phone has a camera, use it to take “notes” of the scenes that you would like to return with the camera you use regularly.
4. Make a list of photographs you want to do.

For those times where you can not carry the camera with you, always have a notebook handy to jot down the places you’d like to return and photograph. Be sure to note all the details that you would like to return to that place to photograph. Be sure to write down any details you consider important, like light, so you can return to the same time of day or when the weather improves. If you do not like to carry a notebook, send yourself an email to yourself (email) using your cell phone.

5. Do not overlook mundane subjects for a photograph.

Probably will not see anything interesting to photograph in your bedroom or in your yard, but try to look with fresh eyes familiar environments. You might find some pretty interesting play of light or find unexpectedly in the wildflower garden. Often a very simple object can make the best of your photos.

6. Enjoy the learning process.

The best part of having a hobby as photography is that you are never left to learn. Inspiration is all around you. Watching with eyes of photographer and you will see opportunities where you never have imagined.
7. Utilize all resources to learn.

Sail on DeviantArt, Flickr or forums like the Digital Photography School for tips and inspiration. Also at the local library will probably have a number of books of all types of photography. If you’re interested in learning about further processing, you can try free programs like GIMP.
8. Experiment with your camera settings.

Your release point can be more flexible and efficient than you think. Read the manual to help you decipher all those little symbols. As you explore, try shooting the same object with multiple settings to learn what effects you like. When you see your photos on a computer, you can review the data format of the image [(EXIF data) usually comes in the properties file] to remember the settings you’ve used.
9. Learn the basic rules.

The amount of information about photography online can be overwhelming. Start with a few articles of composition. Show yourself open to what more experienced photographers say about the techniques. You have to know the rules before they can be broken.

10. Take pictures regularly.

Try to shoot something every day. If you can not do that, make sure you take the time to practice regularly, this way you will not forget what you have learned. An excellent way to self-motivate is by doing weekly with assignments in the DPS forum.
11. Do not be afraid to experiment.

If you’re using a digital camera, you are spared the cost of errors. Go wild – might end up with something you like. Certainly learn a lot more in the process.

Tips for a memorable holiday photos

Christmas is a time of traditions, strong sentiments, gatherings of family and friends, good food. It is an ideal time to capture the best of these memorable moments in pictures for young and old.

Compact cameras have great potential for family pictures during Christmas and that can also cause most other types of images during this important annual event. Unlike professional cameras, digital cameras are easy to use and smaller, making for better handling.

Here some tips to help you surely q q amomento you do your Christmas photos.

* Be prepared for the photo:
Keep your digital camera to everyone at Christmas. Make sure the battery is fully charged and the memory card has plenty of room for new images. Eye with the new battery’s make sure its full load, so take lots of pictures with flash.

* Share the responsibility of taking pictures:
For some events may be q Christmas we are very busy preparing or helping older family members. If something like this happens to someone else tries to delegate q pair give you help. Young people are often very good at taking photos.

* Be as close as possible to the action:
Go as close to what you’re filming and are members of the family, Christmas things or symbols. Most digital cameras include more pictures of what is shown when they fit, unless you only use the digital display. You can always quickly check the result and make a new picture if needed.

* Do not be afraid to take photos of a table provided:
Many situations around the Christmas tree are quite dirty. Do not worry about arranging a fine scene like a grandfather in the big chair with the youngest family member with a big Christmas present in small hands. Enjoy the spontaneity of the scene.

* Include a group photo with all family members:
These photographs are not to be missed opportunities q; If you can think in advance of a functional location – indoors or outdoors with space enough for everyone, including space for photographers. Use a tripod. Take at least three tables.

* Taking more than 1 photo on any situation:
When we have a very nice do not save us but we take our shots at least 3 alternatives. A picture could be much better than others, and the first shot the best shot is not very often.

* Take some photos without flash:
For these situations it is advisable to increase the sensitivity of exposure at 400 ASA for the photograph in natural light during the Christmas events.

* Take pictures with the light of the candles:
Photographs taken with the light of “candles” for picture composition by adding an atmosphere of old times and tradition, it is recommended to use q tripod to avoid blurry scenes.

* Pay attention to older family members:
Time moves on, and sometimes over his members of our family group have died (q is not Timpo is talking about it but sometimes happens) is therefore in cda q Christmas q can be with our grandparents, sacarles We propose one excellent picture to retain very fond memories.

* Take photos of newborns and children in the family:
Usually it will take many pictures of babies and young children and that’s a good tradition. Just pay a little attention to how to link pictures of children to the symbols of Christmas and the activities of other family members or friends during the Christmas event. Q Remember children are spontaneous and fun to capture these moments.

* Delete the bad shots:
During Christmas or just after passing through the Christmas boxes and remove all bad. Sure is good to have some alternate takes of a scene, select the best to keep them in the future.

Will it help my camera to make timelapse videos?

Many people are surprised to learn that most videos are made timelapse photo to photo. They think that the author has videotaped over a longer or shorter period of time, and then simply accelerated images. The truth is that many of those timelapse that could have been done perfectly well.

Make timelapse video has a number of advantages and of course, drawbacks. A favor that there is no type of wear on the equipment used and against the inherent limitations of these systems in terms of power consumption, volume of data recording and subsequent transfer to the editing team, teams are usually more bulky especially regarding the price-quality imaging devices used.

Furthermore, photographic equipment with a minimum of “amateur” can obtain a stream of high-quality images that help us to develop our video “picture to picture.” The main advantages of creating these films by obtaining the photos are higher resolution images, the lowest price of photographic equipment in front of the video, a greater freedom in choosing targets, and the possibility of shoot with exposure times “long” that allow us to obtain images in low light.

Thus the camera to shoot a series of photographs to create timelapse videos can be considered the best option for creating movies accelerated. There is one “but”: the erosion of the shutter.

Although it may seem incredible that in the XXI century is a piece of our latest Japanese camera that is worn, this is so. The shutter consists of a sheet undergoes wear every time we shoot a picture with our camera. In this link you can find an article where I write about the duration of the shutter. Fortunately, the shutter is a relatively cheap piece it can easily be replaced in the service.

Will it help my camera to make timelapse videos?
The first thing we need to know when we prepare to make a timelapse video is if the camera model we have is the ability to shoot pictures at fixed intervals of time. Should consult the camera manual and find that option.

Unfortunately today there are very few cameras that include shooting function at intervals of series: some models of compact cameras and a couple of models of SLR cameras like the Nikon D100, D200 and D300. If your camera is not one of them, then we must resort to some alternative solution. Fortunately we have several to choose from.

Option 1: intervalometer software.
In the event that our compact camera is a Canon brand, we can use to install on the memory card free software, which includes the functions of a lapse video camera.

This software, called CHDK, you can download it free from the Internet and to install just copy some files on the memory card from the camera where you save the photos. This will avoid having to “touch” the camera’s internal memory, and simply pop out the card where you have installed the CHDK for the camera to work again with the official software of the mark.

In these pages you can read a specific article, interval by Canon compact camera software on the CHDK firmware, which includes all the necessary links to the files you copied to your cart.

Option 2: External intervalometer
Option 2 is to connect our camera to an external device, also called interval timer, which is responsible for sending the order to our camera shot past the time you’ve specified. If this is the case, first make sure that we make a intervalometer compatible with our camera. It should be set primarily in that the connector type is specific for our camera model as a visual-lapse models are very similar.

In Spain we can find shops intervalometer official mark of our camera phallicity outweigh the price a hundred euros. Indeed for some popular models of these brands, like Canon G10, 450D or 500D is not even possible to find an official mark intervalometer suited to the type of connector on the camera. Canon has released only a model-lapse camera higher and with a bit of DIY can adapt it to our camera. On the Internet it is easy to find models with the same functions clone for less than half the price and already adapted to the specific type of connector for our camera. In timelapses.tv forum have written extensively on the subject.

Option 3: intervalometer on your computer
The third option is the heaviest. We connect our camera to a PC via the USB port and from a specific computer program gives the order to the camera shutter. Typically when buying a digital camera usually bring a CD with programs and utilities, among which we can easily find any application to fire at intervals.

The downside of this approach is that we will have to be loaded with your computer wherever you want to put our camera. The beauty of using this system is that we can go see the pictures immediately go on a hard drive recording.

What is a timelapse video
The end result offers a timelapse video, video is a movie in which events happen at a speed well above that were recorded. This sense of speed is achieved mainly by eliminating intermediate images. The normal speed recording of a video camera is 25 pictures per second. If we removed these images for example the odd, would have a short video where the action appear accelerated.

We will use a camera unable to capture these 25 frames per second to capture a video camera. But to do timelapse much better, so we saved the step of having to remove some intermediate images to create the effect rapidly.

If our camera photographing any action as the passage of clouds, movement of people and vehicles, etc.. and schedule our lapse video camera or to shoot a photo every few seconds, then we believe our movie with the images obtained, we will see a timelapse video where events happen at a speed higher than were recorded.

Digital camera Samsung NX10

Synopsis: Halfway between compact and SLR cameras will be the Samsung NX10.

First I understand nothing that this is only an apparent “leak” (until the photo is “filtered”) occurred in Samsung, therefore there is no way to know how this information might be truthful.

It appears that this Samsung NX10 is a kind of evolution of what has been called bridge cameras (1), ie it is a digital camera halfway between compact and SLR (also called DSLR) with the Samsung aims to compete with the system micro 4 / 3 Panasonic and Olympus, giving you a chamber of dimensions close to those of a compact, but with the possibility of exchanging goals.

It is said that only an optical viewfinder would lack internal mirror for a DSLR, then have a 18-55 mm zoom and a 30mm fixed lens. Includes a CMOS sensor (2) of APS-C (3) 14.6 Mega pixels, video recording capability in high definition, optical stabilizer supplied by the goals, bursts of 7 fps (4) and electronic viewfinder 1.4 Megapixel .

I have no idea of its price or when it might exit the market, but estimates it could be earlier this year.

Glossary:

(1) Camera bridge: camera literally “bridge. A term used to refer to the chambers that fill the gap that existed between the point and shoot and DSLR.
(2) CMOS: For the acronym in English Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. An Active Pixel Sensor (APS) is a sensor that detects the light based on CMOS technology, it used to be called CMOS sensor.
(3) APS-C Format: Advanced Photo System. Advanced System Type C photograph, which is 22.2 x 14.8 mm.
(4) fps: Frames per second.

Kodak introduced the Slice Touchscreen digital camera at CES in Las Vegas

THE CES 2010 has developed a wide range of electronic products and in turn Kodak And Zdnet dazzled us with this spectacular digital camera Slice Touchscreen: flat, easy to transport and the latest technology!

Image: blogs.zdnet.com

Some will find it odd, but this camera is sexy by tooth and out.

One of the strengths of the camera (which comes in black, nickel and red) is its 3.5-inch touchscreen and 16:9 dimensions. Also common ground with anti-reflective layer, 14 megapixel CCD sensor, 5X Schneider-Kreuznach lens and optical image stabilizer.

Other features of the Kodak pocket camera include search and face recognition, button ‘Share’ to quickly upload them to Kodak Gallery, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube and e-mails.

The other impressive is that it can store 5 thousand pictures in high definition, so no need to delete photos to make space. Added to this is the Smart Capture feature that analyzes scenes makes automatic adjustments to your photos are like never before.

This striking retro machine cost about $ 350 (Some 176 thousand dollars) and only sold through Best Buy’s site since April this year.

Digital camera Sony Cyber-shot comes with GPS HX5V

Sony has unveiled a new digital camera with a long list of impressive features and it only costs $ 350. Already, you can place your order early and shipments would be arriving on 25 January.

The first feature to note is that the Sony Cyber-shot HX5V has a GPS receiver and a digital compass to keep track of where the photos are taken:

The integrated GPS receiver and compass record the location and direction of each photo is taken and allow the user to view images on a map with a compatible computer and Internet applications, so remember where each image has been captured.

Sony Cyber-shot HX5V – LCD

Among their other characteristics has a 10x optical zoom, hard to find in cameras of this size. The HX5V has a 3 inch LCD screen, anti-blur mode, high-speed shooting, image stabilization, night mode that takes 6 frames to ensure the continuous image capture on the evening goes well, a 1080i video mode high definition, HDMI output, and more.

And as I said at the beginning, it only costs $ 350.

Analog electronic cameras and true cameras

The handheld electronic cameras, in the sense of a device made to be worn and used as a handheld camera film, appeared in 1981 with the demonstration of Sony Mavica (Magnetic Video Camera). This model should not be confused with the more modern cameras that also use the Sony Mavica name. This was an analog camera based on television technology that recorded in a “video floppy” of an inch x 2. Essentially it was a video camera that recorded images, 50 per disk in field mode and 25 per disk in frame mode. The image quality was considered equal to the televisions of the time.

Analog electronic cameras have not reached the market until 1986 with the Canon RC-701. Canon demonstrated this model at the 1984 Olympics, printing the images in newspapers. Several factors delayed the widespread adoption of analog cameras: the cost (up to $ 20,000), poor image quality compared to the film, the lack of quality printers. Capturing and printing an image originally required access to equipment such as a frame grabber, which was beyond the reach of the average consumer. Video disks later had several reader devices available for viewing on a screen, but were never standardized as a computer drive.

The early adopters tended to be the news media, where the cost was negated by the utility and the ability to transmit images over telephone lines. The poor image quality was offset by the low resolution of newspaper graphics. This ability to transmit images without a satellite link was useful during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and the first Gulf War in 1991.

The first analog camera for sale to consumers may have been the Canon RC-250 Xapshot in 1988. A remarkable analogue camera produced in the same year was the Nikon QV-1000C, which sold about 100 units and recorded in grayscale images, and newspaper print quality was equal to film cameras. In appearance it resembled a modern digital SLR camera.

The first true digital camera that recorded images on a computer file was probably the model of Fuji DS-1P in 1988, which recorded on a card of 16 MB internal memory and used a battery to keep data in memory. This camera was never put on sale in the United States. The first digital camera available in the market was the Dycam Model 1, in 1991, which was also sold under the Logitech name Fotoman. It used a CCD sensor, digitally recorded images, and had a connection cable for direct download on the computer. [3] [4] [5]

In 1991, Kodak launched its Model DCS-100, the first in a long line of professional SLR cameras by Kodak that were based in part on film cameras, often brand Nikon. It used a 1.3 megapixel sensor and sold at about $ 13,000.

The transition to digital formats was helped by the formation of the first JPEG and MPEG standards in 1988, which allowed the image and video files are compressed for storage. The first camera aimed at consumers with an LCD screen on the back was the Casio QV-10 in 1995 and the first camera to use CompactFlash memory cards was the Kodak DC-25 in 1996.

The market for digital cameras aimed at the consumer was originally formed by low-resolution cameras. In 1997 he offered the first consumer camera to a megapixel. The first camera that offered the ability to record video clips may have been the Ricoh RDC-1 in 1995.

In 1999 with the introduction of the Nikon D1, a 2.74 megapixel camera, which was one of the first digital SLR, the company became a major manufacturer, and with an initial cost of less than $ 6,000, was affordable for both photographers professionals and consumers with high profile. This camera also used Nikon F lens, which meant that photographers could use many of the same lenses they already had to their film cameras.

In 2003 he introduced the Canon Digital Rebel, also known as the 300D, a camera aimed at consumers of 6 megapixels and the first DSLR that had a cost less than $ 1,000.

In 2008 was presented at the Fair of Germany, a medium-format Leica camera with a resolution of 37 Megapixels.

Digital camera history

A digital camera is a camera that, instead of capturing and storing pictures in photographic film like conventional cameras, it does digitally through an electronic device, or magnetic tape using an analog format like many video cameras.

Modern compact digital cameras are typically multifunctional, with some devices capable of recording sound and / or video as well as photographs. In this case, the device also is called digital camcorder. Now outsell digital cameras cameras with 35mm film.

The concepts of scanner-scan images and convert digital video signals to precede the concept of taking still frames digitized signals and an array of discrete sensor elements. Eugene F. Lally of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory published the first description of how to produce still photos in a digital domain using a mosaic photosensor. [2] The purpose was to provide navigation information to astronauts during space missions aboard. The mosaic array periodically recorded still photos of star and planet locations during transit and when approaching a planet provided additional information to the orbiting distances and as a guide for landing. The concept design included elements that presaged the first digital camera.

Texas Instruments designed a filmless analog camera in 1972, but do not know if it was finally built. The first digital camera was recorded by the Kodak company developed, which commissioned the construction of a prototype engineer Steven J. Sasson in 1975. This camera used the then newly developed CCD sensor by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1973. His work bore fruit a chamber of approximately 4 kg, which was black and white photos with a resolution of 0.01 megapixels. He used the novel solid-state chip CCD developed by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1973. The camera recorded images on a cassette tape and took 23 seconds to capture its first image in December 1975. This prototype camera was a technical exercise, not intended for production.