What Is Digital Photography?
Digital Photography is…well, photography. It uses different tools, but even those digital tools still adhere to the basic principles of photography. A digital camera has a light-tight “box” holding the light sensitive material (a solid state sensor instead of a piece of light sensitive film), a lens to direct the light rays, and a way to control the amount of light that ultimately reaches the light sensing material.
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Digital photography has many advantages over the “old” style film cameras. It allows easier access to and safer storage of the images recorded on the medium. Since digital images and their copies are exact duplicates (unless you have altered them on purpose), and they are stored in some type of digital memory, there is no change or degradation in quality of the copies.
And about altering them…you can. You can work on copies of your digital images in computer programs that allow you to be as creative as you could ever want to be. And with no smelly, toxic chemicals to worry about.
With digital photography you are released to be creative instead of worrying so much about the mechanics and technical aspects of making an image appear on paper.
To get the most from digital or “conventional” photography you simply need to understand the same basics of taking a good photograph. Because when it comes down to it, no matter how easy it is to play with the image after you have captured it with your camera, the final image will be no better than the original image captured. If the original is dark and out of focus, the copies will be dark and out of focus. Our goal then, must be to understand enough of the basic photographic principles to capture the best possible image in our camera.
And that is what I will help you with on these pages. My goal is to help you understand how photography and its tools work, enough so that you can capture the best image you can, to begin your creative pursuits.
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