Digital Photo Secrets

Take Amazing Photos with these little known tips and tricks!

Camera thieves. Are you prepared for the unthinkable?

We like to think we’re safe. I know I take all of the right precautions to make sure my camera equipment never gets stolen. Even so, we’re still human. We’ve got busy lives, and that means we’re prone to leaving ourselves vulnerable every now and again. How many times have you left your camera equipment [...]

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Quick Tips For Traveling With Photography Gear

Once you start getting more into digital photography, you realize quite quickly that it isn’t for people who are averse to carrying things. If you get a nicer digital SLR camera, you’ve got to bring the camera, the lens, a few filters, and most likely a tripod. With the following tips, you can keep your [...]

This week’s Ask David question comes from one somewhat panicked Bekka Jacobs. After having accidentally deleted a few photos from her memory card, she wants to know if there is a way to get them back. It’s a problem that’s pretty common to all of us. No matter how hard we try to avoid deleting [...]

This week’s “Ask David” question comes from Dean Sheard. He’s a big fan of action photography, but whenever he sets his camera to continuous shooting mode, it only takes five pictures before it starts “buffering.” What’s going on here? Can he do anything to take more pictures, or is he stuck in limbo between his [...]

How To Select Your Images

How many pictures do you take on an average shoot? If you’re at all like me, it’s at least a few hundred. With so many photos and so little space, how do you choose which ones you want to keep and which ones don’t deserve your attention? If you have too many images, you risk [...]

The ABC’s of Storing Your Digital Photos

If you are like me, you love taking as many digital photos as you can. You go out to shoot, fill up your SD card, and then pull a few more cards out of your pouch before continuing on. By now, you probably have at least a few gigabytes of digital photos on your hard [...]

Finding Duplicate Images On Your Computer

If you’re like me, you have heaps of duplicate photos on your computer. Either from making copies of your photo directories, copying from your camera more than once, or even changing the size of the photo. Thankfully there is now some free software that will find these duplicates for you!

Backing up your digital photos

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 [...]

Organise Your Images

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?