Digital Photography tips

Keep these tips from photographers Rob Sheppard and Bob Martin in mind as you’re taking photos with your digital camera
Most point-and-shoot digital cameras have a limited-range optical zoom with the ability to further zoom in electronically. This merely crops your picture and uses only a small section of your sensor. Switch off this facility and use only the optical zoom if this is possible on your camera, since you can always crop the picture at a later stage.Image quality depends on more than a sensor. It is also affected by lens quality and the image processing done inside the camera.To compare digital camera lenses, look for the 35mm equivalent size. The actual focal length can be misleading because sensor sizes are different. .
Get close. Check out your lens. See what it can do by stepping in closer and placing something in the foreground. What happens to the background? Is it fuzzy or sharp? Low light will increase digital grain. Use a flash or other added light if grain could be a problem and must be kept to a minimum. Being perfectly still is the first step to making better pictures. Get used to your camera’s delay. That way you can avoid near misses such as a child jumping out of focal range. White balance is more than a color correction tool. Use it creatively to get the colors you want in your scene. The sensor sensitivity (commonly referred to as ISO) is simply a measure of the sensor’s sensitivity to light. If you are setting the ISO manually, here is a basic guide: 100 ISO in bright, bright sunlight; 400 ISO on a dull, dreary day; 800 or 1600 ISO for indoors under floodlights; generally speaking, the higher the ISO, the lower the picture quality. If there are too many colors and bad light, switch to black and white so that the content of the picture dominates rather than the clash of colors. Black-and-white photography has many possibilities with digital cameras. A scene can be shot directly in black and white with the camera or it can be captured in color and later changed in the digital darkroom.JPEG is a great shooting format, but you should not use it as a working format in the computer. Always resave your images in TIFF or in your image processor’s file formats.