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Digital Photography Tips
Last updated April 5, 2005

Considerable digital photography nformation is provided from Dr. Arnie Abrams, Southern Oregon University.
He presented at CUE in March, 2005.

See: http://home.sou.edu/~abrams

Other tips:

Press, hold, wait for green, shoot.
Use "Museum Mode" in low light no flash situations.
Use Whitebalance for outdoor, incadescent, and florescent photos.
Small memory cards are airport X-Ray OK
Digital Pictures have many details in Metadata including manufacturer.
Stitch together a a panorama - Panorama maker, Simply VR > QuickTime > Tech4Learning
Control depth of field - use portrait mode - blur background, reduce depth, focus on foreground with button down then include background.
Fillflash - use outdoors to fill shadows. Ex. at beach with direct light.
The faster the speed the more digital noise in the photo.
Lithium batteries last longer

 

 

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