You may have noticed that your camera offers a few different photo quality settings. These are available on almost any model in the market today, whether it is a point-and-shoot or a digital SLR. Oftentimes, they are labeled as “low,” “normal,” or “fine.” Some camera companies use their own proprietary quality standards such as SQ, [...]

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Sequence photos provide a truly amazing perspective for action shots. They allow the viewer to see the progression of something as it is happening. Unlike video, all of the important parts are frozen, so we can see every step. There a lot of sports where action sequences bring out the true character of the athletes. [...]

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Professional reviews of photos are one of the best ways to improve your photographic skills. By studing what works and doesn’t work, you learn to shoot more ‘winners’ yourself. Curtis Routh has kindly agreed to review the following photos for me. Curtis runs a photography business called LeaveTheCamera.com and his insights are very valued. Click [...]

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Kodak will include GPS in it’s camera range starting in 2009. GPS (the Global Positioning System) shows you where you are in the world by checking with satellites orbiting above us. The location information will be stored in the EXIF information of the image, and will be able to be retrieved using common software.

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Do your images take a long time to email to your relatives? Do your friends ask that you not send pictures to them because of the download time? This usually happens when your photos are a very large size. Large images take a long time to transfer over the Internet.

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I received this email a few weeks ago from Jennifer E, one of my subscribers: “Hi David, I need to download some of my photos to a CD. My question is, if I resize the photos to a smaller size, so I can get more of them on my CD, then I reinstall them into [...]

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Most photo software that allows you to organize your photos has the facility to tag your photos. This includes software like Photoshop Elements as well as online services like Flickr. But what is tagging, and why should you use it? Read on…

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Don’t take a chance with your precious images. Digital storage of data can and does fail so it is vitally important to backup your photos to ensure they will be around for years and years to come. We should do backup regularly because our computers and hard drives are NOT a safe place to store [...]

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With the popularity of digital cameras these days, more and more photos are in the digital format. In fact, because it costs to little to take photos, we usually end up taking thousands of them. So how do you organize your photos so that you can easily find photos later (even years) afterwards?

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