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Learn Digital Photography - Is Digital Photography Dead?

Yes, digital photography is dead in the water IF ‘photography’ is taken out of digital photography. As Kodak’s brownie box camera and their Instamatic brought photography to the masses in the 20th century, so the digital camera has done the same in the 21st. But, once the ‘ability to take photos novelty’ wears off, the lack of skills will relegate the digital camera to the hobby drawer.

There is a principle in management science that says in business a person is promoted to the level of their own incompetence and no further. It’s called the ‘Peter Principle’ formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter in his book of the same name. After that they stagnate and can only move sideways. This is true for photography also. Once you reach your level of incompetence or maximum ability, there you sit. It’s at this point the interest wanes and your camera outings become more and more infrequent. In other words, another death of digital photography.

There will always be the hardliners in any field who will continue to practise to the level of their incompetence, but, the average Joe who was once excited by digital photography is no more. The enthusiast has lost his enthusiasm.

So what’s the answer to the problem? The focus, as in any hobby or pastime, is a continual learning process. In the business world we call it upskilling. Adding competency and qualifications to your existing tool bag will keep you moving up the ladder of promotion. It is the same with photography. Learning is imperative.

Most of us are at some stage dissatisfied with our photos. They don’t quite look like those in the glossy magazines and daily newspapers. What is it that they have that rest don’t? They’ve learnt the techniques and disciplines of photography and have applied them on a continual learning journey to great photos.

A hobby, as with any plant or animal, has to be nurtured if it is to show any signs of growth. Buying a digital camera with the sole purpose of just snapping away without the high costs of film, will on most occasions result in the death of digital photography. If your digital photography is going to flourish it will need three key ingredients:

1. Time

As with anything of value in life time is a key ingredient to its success. Unless you take the time to invest in any venture you will probably reap an equivalent reward. Garbage in garbage out. No pain no gain as the old adage goes.  There is no instant photography.

2. Passion

Unless you are enthusiastic about a hobby or pastime it is inevitable that it will gradually diminish with time and eventually fizzle out. I speak from experience. Developing your passion is essential to growth. Passion is the fuel that fires your hobby.

3. Ability

Some are born with natural ability but for most of us we have to work at it. Practise makes perfect. If you don’t have ability then acquire it in whatever way you legally can. Acquiring ability is a process and for many of us a journey of discovery. Something we have to work at.

Take any of these three points out of digital photography and its demise is well on the way. But, the key point is photography. Learning photography and acquiring creative photography skills will nurture digital photography and keep it alive.

Photography is not governed by the medium it uses, digital, film, pinhole or Polaroid. Photography stands alone and independent of the tools or media. As with beauty it’s in the eye of the beholder. It is not contained in a box, a camera or digital sensor. Its results can be seen on a computer, t-shirt or magazine.

Digital photography is the answer to photography because of its ease of use, methods of distribution and costs. But take photography out of digital and it will result in the death of digital photography.

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Wayne Turner has been teaching photography for 25 years and has written three books on photography.

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Digital Portrait Techniques for Better Photography Results

Almost any musician and performer older than 45 comprehends the particular steps you need to endure in the shift from analogue to digital. All people enthusiastic about sound in the early 90s experienced the unpleasant technique of knowing how producing to digital camera video tape and hard disk drive has been completely different from saving to an eight track cassette recording so they can half nch TDK Tape. Whenever you start working on digital, all the jobs modify using the method you are making usage of a mixing up system. Your aged QD shapes don't make greatly perception ever again, the actual mike positions you've mastered almost all modify, and also a digital audio over a CD (bear in mind these?) in no way appears because warm and since unhealthy seeing that vinyl fabric right up until you will find how to customize the playback quality procedure in order to electronic technical. Folks felt the exact same thing intending coming from black and white film to coloring, and it's definitely style of a similar thing within the conversion from acquiring photographs about emulsion covered film to all-digital. Your final results to start with may perhaps somehow experience a smaller amount gratifying compared to the old pictures you had been generally acquainted with, on the other hand, in case you learn the photography methods it is advisable to, you'll be able to simply get significantly extraordinary benefits.


Trembling camera has become quite a job which beginner professional photographers have had issue with - digital camera or analogue. The particular point with digital camera models is because they have major displays you could see your composed picture on, from arm's length. You don't need to hold the digital camera approximately your left eye in which the support of one's arms along with your brow can assist while using the stableness. An electronic digital camera therefore makes it necessary that anyone comprehension using both equally both hands if perhaps you don't need to a tripod. Even though the frame composing process doesn't require it.


One in every of the most confounding parts together with contemporary video cameras which need new process can be shutter speed. Digital photography techniques have to have brand-new understanding with regards to how you handle the particular sensitivity from the sensor. In conventional film, ISO 900 seemed to be film that will act in response nine times as fast as ISO one hundred. An ISO eight hundred seemed to be a great deal grainier as compared to ISO a hundred. Throughout photography, it is the identical sensor with the exact same quantity of mega pixels, no matter what level of sensitivity can be. However, you still have the exact same kinds of outcomes - only now a quicker picture possesses one thing called photography noise, and not really grain. And picture noise happens to be much more annoying to look at when compared to grain to boot. The default in a photographic camera for this reason needs to be 100 ISO with the crispest photographs in most conditions.


However , if utilizing the auto way of the exposure natural environment isn't really particularly the way you for instance, overriding it as well as taking images at higher sensitivity allows you to capture quicker pictures in very good light. You'll normally have to do this when you're endeavoring to receive a perfect shot during an interior sporting celebration in which there is certainly rapidly steps, rather than a lot mild. You may even have to do this kind of in a concert where you stand not permitted to employ your flash.
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Is digital "dumbing down" photography?

In no way is this intended to provoke another digital vs. film debate.

But.

I subscribe to half a dozen photo magazines (paper ones) which feature both digital and film images.

Right now I'm looking at a photo essay done with a Canon 1Ds Mk2 and L lenses (maybe $15,000 worth of gear).

A couple pages later there's another essay, done with an F100, 24-85 and ISO100 transparency film. A $1000 kit, maybe more if the photog shot a lot of film.

The film images blow the digital into the weeds in terms of detail, colour range, dynamic range (no blown highlights) and the most elusive parameter of all -- realism.

(It's not the technique -- both essays are very well shot.)

As I turn the pages of other mags I see this over and over again.

So here's my question. Has digital lowered the technical standards of photography -- dumbed it down?

absolutely, but dont tell people or I will be out of a job!

also dont start letting people know photography (great stuff) requires knowledge, practice, skill and technique, and a camera, the computer has little to do with great images

i love your questions!

your looking at colour wait till you compare in black and white

watch the dumbed down ones thumb me down, then go back to their macdonalds photography

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How to do good photography with normal digital cameras?

I recently bought the Canon Powershot A550 as it was affordable, $165 AUD.
Its good and everything but I was wondering if anyone could give me tips on doing photography with a normal digital camera, not one of those expensive ones.
Like techniques and ideas.

thanks

Your camera doesn't have to have all the bells and whistles to make good photographs. You can make some very creative photos just using the auto settings on a basic digital camera. It all depends on the way you frame your photos, the lighting, and the subject itself. Check out the many digital photo contest sites online and see what the other photographers are doing. Take lots of pictures each time you use your camera with the intention of throwing out any or all if they don't look as good as you want them to look. Digital photography makes it easy to learn as you go since you have the freedom to erase and retake photos many times. Don't expect instant art from your efforts. It takes some time to develop your own style.

When you get more into photography, you might want to get a better camera. You still don't have to get a DSLR to take quality photos. There are some very good digital cameras on the market for $500 and under. (USD)

Oh, and the most important tip of all-relax and enjoy the experience each time you set out to take photographs.

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