Body Of Work Photography
Copyright (c) 2008 Tom Jackson
You've worked hard all year, and now it's time to take a vacation and recover. This is a time that many people forward and prepare for most of the year. It is much work to prepare properly, airline tickets, hotel accommodations, car rental, pack, to care for pets, making sure that the other family members and friends can reach you in an emergency, etc., but one of the items sometimes left to last, is the camera equipment to record your holiday. Want to take along a large number of computers, cameras and lenses, accessories as well as the video camera to record all the action on his journey.
Most vacationers take along a still camera or video camera, not everyone want the hassle of dealing with both systems. Some will have both, and do everything possible to deal with the hassle of switching between cameras. Some scenes are more suitable for being photographed with a video camera, of course, as with things that move, like a parade or at the races, while others are more suited for a fixed camera, such as landscapes and cityscapes.
You need to think a little differently in order to take advantage of camera systems for each features. Experts and video filmmakers alike, will tell you that the best way to create an interesting video is to shoot a series of short clips not very long continuous video boring. Video has to be interesting, and we humans get bored very quickly, so your videos short and to the point.
When taking pictures with a digital camera, usually have a short time to make sure it has the composition and lighting that you want create an impressive picture. Digital cameras also offer a much higher resolution so you can make enlargements that can be hung on the wall for all to see. The digital SLR is a very versatile system.
What follows is a quick summary of the benefits of a digital SLR camera will be used for you. The first, and some believe that the most important feature is that you look through the viewfinder and see exactly what the camera sees. In other words, the light of the subject enters the camera lens, and this is the image you see. The moment you press the shutter to take pictures, the camera and directs the light to the digital sensor to take the picture. In normal daylight, it happens so quickly is hardly noticeable. In dim light conditions, you can not see through the camera until exposure has ended. With the new generation of cameras, which use a system called live view, where the image you are photographing is shown on the rear LCD screen. So you can compose and view the image while taking a picture.
Now, in the old days, and I mean a few months (which things happen so fast in this digital age), had to compromise on taking a video or a camera or two on your vacation. But today, you have a new option. The leading manufacturers of digital SLR cameras still are combining the best of both worlds in the camera body. Now you can take high resolution pictures and HD quality video with sound, the new range of digital SLR cameras. This is an interesting news, as now truly the best of both worlds, a HD video camera and a high resolution digital camera, all in one unit.
And through the body digital SLR like a video recorder high definition, you may opt to use all the accessories that normally only be used in the SLR digital, but now also with video. All those optional lenses enable you to make some amazing videos, and adding filters and other accessories, this opens a new genre of available effects.
With the advent of GPS tagging of images, you will always have the exact location and the time it took each image. This technology tags each image is taken with the GPS data so that you always know exactly where you were when you took each photo. With some types of photography, as bird photography, where you can take a picture of a bird in particular, you will always be able to find your way back to where the photo was taken by reference to GPS data.
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Tom is a consultant to the graphic design, advertising and publishing industries, teaching digital technology. You can get more info on making an income with photography and see examples of his work here; For free tips visit Toms blog.
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