Digital photography will open up a whole new
world to you. It takes photography to the next
level of fun, creativity, and excitement.
For example, you can:
Take 100’s of pictures without paying a penny for
film.
No more buying, and carrying around, rolls of
delicate film. Do you remember keeping film in
the refrigerator so it would stay "fresh"? From
now on there’s no film, period. With a digital
camera you can carry around the equivalent of
more than 50 of rolls of film on a reusable chip
roughly the size of large postage stamp.
Review your pictures instantly using the camera
itself.
Did you get the picture you wanted? Should you
take another one? Now you will know instantly. No
more "insurance shots." No more guessing if the
light was right, or if Mom blinked. Most camera
models let you review your photo right on the
camera’s little LCD screen. Don’t like it? Take
another one at no extra cost. Decide which photos
to print before they leave the camera. Hate
having to pay for 36 prints from a roll of film
when only 5 of them were worth printing in the
first place? Now you control which pictures make
it to paper.
Retouch your pictures.
A variety of computer software comes with many
camera models to let you enhance, manipulate and
retouch your photos like a professional. Get rid
of wrinkles and pounds. Put your head on the
quarterback’s body. Correct the color, change the
background, re-crop and resize. Change them to
watercolors, line drawings, or even jig saw
puzzles. Create your own works of art, or
greeting cards, or screen savers. Make letterhead
and business cards with the pictures you took of
yourself, your home office, or even your dog.
Print those pictures.
Got a good color printer? Good. You can now print
top-quality photographic prints right from your
home computer or, in some models, directly from
the camera, on photographic quality paper, in any
quantity and at any size. Want 50 wallet size
pictures? Want an 8x10 suitable for framing? Want
your pictures to show up on T-shirts, or
stickers, or neatly labeled on album pages? Just
push the Print button. Don’t have a printer?
Upload your stored pictures to an online photo
processing website such as www.shutterfly.com or
www.ofoto.com and they will return finished
prints to you via snail mail.
Send 100 pictures.
Don’t keep your photos all to yourself. Share
them with the universe. Send them by email. Put
them up on your website. Enter them in online
photo contests. Use them to document the pothole
in your street when you email Street Maintenance.
Neatly store your 100 pictures.
No more piles of prints, boxes of prints, closets
of prints waiting to be sorted and filed
"somewhere." Create folders on your hard drive
and sort the pictures by date, by topic, by
relative, by event and then make duplicates and
cross file them. Burn it all to your very own CD.
