Friday, December 5, 2008

I just made a thousand dollarsb from digital photographs

I have just made a thousand dollars from my internet business. The first day I saw the computer I fell in love with the computer and I decided that I was going to work with the computers and since I have tried so many things with the computer from hard ware to software and I have found the internet marketing good for me. I have sold and done some jobs online and I have been paid but not up to a thousand dollars. I sold two digital photographs online and I got a thousand dollars.
All I am saying is that you can also make more than a thousand dollars from the internet by selling digital photography all you need are digital camera, internet connection soft ware that will enable you upload your photography online and little knowledge on how to edit photographs online.
There are so many ways you can sell your photographs online you can sell direct to individuals online who need your digital photographs through your websites or you can sell by uploading your photographs to big websites online that will help you sell your digital photographs or pay you some commission when any of your photographs is downloaded.
The good thing about this business is that you can do it from your home. The business is good for stay at home mum, student’s retired individuals and those that need extra income to pay their bills.
To make the real money in this business you have to search for good sense and also learn how to take good photographs.
I must also warn that you need to know what is legal to shoot. Here is some good website you can sell your digital photographs. Shutterstocks.com, fotolia.com, istockphoto.com, shutterpoint.com, dreamstime.com, canstockphoto.com, alamy.com and fototopic.net.
Before you start to upload your digital photographs for money please name them appropriately with the proper keyword. Good luck and I wish thousands of dollars online

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Become a Freelance Photographer

Anyone can become a freelance photographer. But you will need to have a good digital camera, the skills to take very good photographs, and a strong determination to work hard in order to build up a successful freelance photography business.
If you decide to work as a freelance digital photographer you will get to be your own boss and will spend your time taking and selling digital photos - both online and offline. Sometimes you might work on assignment for large organizations or even for popular magazines. You might even get some all expenses paid trips. Freelance photography is certainly never a boring career choice.
If you don't already have good photography skills then you can still acquire the knowledge and skills required to be a good photographer.
You will probably need to read some good photography books, or study further at web sites that cover professional photography techniques. And you should consider taking a photography class in your local area. Many community colleges offer digital photography courses at very reasonable rates.
Don't forget that nothing is better for improving your photography than actually getting out there, taking some photos, experimenting with different camera and composition techniques, and gaining valuable experience shooting behind the camera lens.
These days, thanks to the World Wide Web, there are so many freelance digital photography opportunities that are predominantly digital and online. You can take your pictures with a digital camera and then upload your photos directly to the Internet where you can sell them!

love with digital photograpy

It’s more than photo prints-websites that are clicking today. Cameras aside, relationships are clicking as never before. With options like digital photo prints, digital photos and or even a single digital photo, instant photo prints range from online photo prints and digital photography to digital photo printing and digital prints. Across the spectrum of business and personal users, photo prints are making virtual emotional sharing real.
An ideal way to express emotions, online photo prints express “face to face” feelings at a touch of a mousepad -- a quaint digital photo,” miss you” digital prints, digital photos of your vacation, digital photo printing of your grandchildren or even an album of digital photo prints of your corporate roadshow. No wonder photo prints are so popular!
It helps that digital photography is so easy. Good photo prints sites offer reliability, quality digital prints, ease, and more. Whether you’re ordering digital photo prints for countrywide delivery, or creating an album of online photo prints, you’ll find website navigation and digital photo editing tools powerful, but easy and fun. Geared for every user, digital photo printing is a cinch.
The flexible choices in digital photography make digital photo printing even easier. A wide range of photo prints size options and finishing options give a personal touch to digital photo prints, deliver digital photos to friends and family, or simply cherish digital prints in an album at home.
With Photo prints, relating to someone is fast, simple and uniquely personal. At sites digital photography is as simple as clicking a digital photo, simpler even than the editing tools that get your online photo prints just right. It’s where everything clicks together quickly for you and your photo prints. Clicks, just like the relationships in your life.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

How To Photograph Christmas Lights

We live in a neighbourhood where people love to decorate their houses with all sorts of lights, reindeer's, Santa's sleigh, angels and religious themes. Its such a fun and special times of year for those of you who are just big kids.
And photographically its a fantastic time as well, because those lights look absolutely beautiful; in a photo. This photo would have been taken using a tripod and a very slow shutter speed. When I take photos of Christmas lights I use a tripod (necessary for indoors) and use a shutter between 1/60 and 5 seconds depending on how much light you have coming from the tree itself. I recommend using a slow shutter of no more that this. By using a slow shutter you'll be slowing the camera down so the lights are sharp and not blurry.
You can use an aperture of around f.8 or f.4/ F.4 is probably better considering you'll always be shooting at night. These are just my recommendations, I urge you to try it yourself.
You can use a higher ISO if you find you are having trouble with getting more light onto the sensor. Sometimes I've used an ISO of 800 to increase the cameras light sensitivity. This can increase noise somewhat but you can use Noise Ninja to tone down any noise if you feel its too much. It will help clean up the noise in your image, leaving you with a sharper image.
For Christmas lights outdoors you can use the same types of settings. Remember also that dusk will be considered as darkness by your camera, so don't be surprised if you end up shooting as you would at night time.
Happy shooting,
Amy Renfrey

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

A How To Guide to Online Photo Printing

Do you have a digital camera? Have you taken loads of digital photos? If so, sooner or later you will probably want to print your photos. Did you know that online photo printing is one of the best, most economical ways to print your photos? Its' really easy to do, and the results are outstanding. Here's how. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.
1. Take Good Pictures
The results of online photo printing will only be as good as the pictures you take. If your pictures are poorly framed, or blurry, they won't look good no matter how good your online photo printing service is. These days, simple point and shoot cameras can produce outstanding images with a minimum of fuss. All you have to do is understand a little bit of how the autofocus and auto exposure work-and when they won't work. Auto focus has a hard time with moving targets; it sends a beam of light to the object you want to photograph and adjusts the lens, then checks again; this can cause it to adjust focus again and thus be blurry or wrong. The key thing you need to know about auto focus is where the actual focus will be. Generally you will have to consult your camera's manual for that, but usually there's some sort of indicator in the viewfinder screen. Those two basic technical considerations will help you get your pictures technically correct, but the aesthetics are up to your talent and imagination.
2. Put Your Pictures Online, Perform Any Necessary Editing
The next step is to choose an online photo gallery. Make sure your choice of online photo galleries offers the features you need. The most important ones are unlimited storage for your photos, and, of course, online photo printing. Storage is important because photo files are very large, and they will quickly fill up even a quota that seems far more than adequate. These days many sites offer free unlimited online storage so there is no excuse for not having enough storage.
Many online photo galleries offer photo-editing tools in their online galleries, so you can get the best out of your image before online photo printing. Generally the tools will be4 quite simple-cropping, some simple color correction, etc. for most hobbyists, this will be quite adequate. If it is adequate for you, you will be able to use it for free on sites that offer this and you won't have to learn a complicated and expensive photo editing software suite like Adobe Photoshop in order to improve your images for online photo printing.
3. Order Your Prints
The next step is the easiest. Use the online form to order prints. Decide the size, and decide whether you want glossy or matte finish, make sure you can afford the price of the prints, give them your credit card number over their secure websites and click go. The prints will be near-photo quality on photo quality paper, considerably better and in the long run, cheaper than you could print at home using an unreliable inkjet printer.

How to Start a Photography Business

It's true that the figures for small business survival are not pretty. Over 90% of all small business keels over in the first 12 months. Most of them didn't plan and had no advice. Those who succeed usually do a bit of research before they jump in.
Once you have done your research, written your business and marketing plans how are you going to manage your time. Your time is best spent liaising with your customers, providing quality photos, promoting the business and remaining organized. The rest you can get help with.
Managing your Time
Becoming your own boss can have some drawbacks and one can be time management. If you've worked for someone who was a good time manager, you're a couple of steps ahead of many others. It's your business therefore it's now your responsibilty to control your time and schedule things by priority.
Use a PDA, diary, or Outlook Express to plan and track your business time. If you don't, you may find yourself late for appointments and meetings. Being late is totally unprofessional.
It is easy to fall into the trap of putting things off. You must be steadfast and focused especially in the beginning. In comparison with working for an emplyer, you probably find that you'll nedd to be more disciplined with your time and distractions. No longer have you that backstop of wages coming in. You need to make a living.
Personal Time Out
As you start your new business you may find personal time out is almost impossible. So many things to do and just never enough time in a day. But, be careful not to burn out - starting your own business can be stressful. There is so much to do and now you are on your own, it is all up to you.
Virtual assistance can help these days with many chores and tasks while you focus on the more sensitive parts of the business. Virtual assistants are subcontractors and work on a project basis (longer if you want). Maybe you need help with your website - then there are places on the Internet where you can hire reputable people at a reasonable rate to do all sorts of jobs.
Whatever you are doing it is important to remember there is only so much you can do for yourself. Remember, that if menial tasks are going to affect your schedule, hire someone to help even if on a temporary basis. Don't be afraid to ask for help and anything you spend in this way is tax deductable

Mastering Digital Photography

How to Master Digital Photography
Introduction to digital photography
Make no mistake, digital photography is here, it’s big, and it’s the way things will be from now on. People use digital photography in their work every day:- police officers, real estate agents, insurance agents, fire fighters, scientists and doctors, just to name a few.
Digital photography has come a long way in a few years. Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses electronic devices to record and capture the image as binary data. Digital photography has also been adopted by many amateur snapshot photographers, who take advantage of the convenience of the form when sending images by email, placing them on the World Wide Web, or displaying them in digital picture frames.
Digital photography was used in astronomy long before its use by the general public and had almost completely displaced photographic plates by the early 1980s. Digital photography enables you to experiment with the camera settings, different styles of images can be tried out, learn t from and techniques improved all without the expense of film processing.
Some other devices, such as mobile phones, now include digital photography features. With the acceptable image quality and the other advantages of digital photography (particularly the time pressures of vital importance to daily newspapers) the majority of professional news photographers have begun capturing their images with digital cameras.
Other commercial photographers, and many amateurs, have enthusiastically embraced digital photography because they believe that its flexibility and lower long-term costs outweigh its initial price disadvantages. Almost all of the cost of digital photography is capital cost, meaning that the cost is for the equipment needed to store and copy the images, and once purchased requires virtually no further expense outlay.
The biggest advantage of digital photography over traditional film include: Instant review of pictures, with no wait for the film to be developed: if there's a problem with a picture, the photographer can immediately correct the problem and take another picture.