Proud Photography Blog

Macro World

melissa s — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:01:04 +0000

Photography shows us the world around us. Using a telephoto lens gives us a close up view of things we could normally not get near enough to appreciate in it finer detail. Macro photography enables us to see the finer details that are near but too small to be appreciated. Taking pictures of small objects can [...]

How to Make Money With Stock Photography

melissa s — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:55:41 +0000

Many people wonder how a stock photograph is defined. The answer to that is that it is not. Every business needs photographs for reports, projects, publicity and so on. They place they go to get them is stock photo agencies who have a huge amount (maybe millions) of photographs in their stock. The stocks could [...]

General Composition Rules for Photographs

melissa s — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:51:48 +0000

To compose is to combine a variety of elements into a whole. A person who writes music is called a composer because he puts musical tones into an order that appeals to the listener. A photographer needs to do the same thing with his photos- put the various elements of the scene in an order [...]

High and low key black & white photographs

melissa s — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:53:03 +0000

In any photography club, magazine, book or even when a few photographers are just talking, you will hear references to high and low key black and white pictures. These buzz words are bandied about by even those who do not really know what they mean. For most people the words high and low in this [...]

Digital Photography Software

melissa s — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:21:56 +0000

While the quality of the digital camera you use is crucial to the quality of the pictures you take, don’t forget, as many people often do, the important role digital photography software play in determining the final look of a photograph. Okay, so software will not make a photo taken with a 5 mega pixel [...]

Finding the Right Digital Camera for Your Needs

melissa s — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:21:25 +0000

A camera if a very personal piece of equipment. Once you become familiar with your camera you will be able to take even better photos and create effects you did not know were within your capabilities. But one size does not fit all and the reason that there is such a huge variety of digital [...]

Memory Cards - What You Need to Know

melissa s — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:19:48 +0000

The two great benefits of digital photography is that you no longer have to worry about film getting damaged and that you can delete and forget about the pictures you do not want. For this we can thank the memory card. Most of us slip the card into the camera and then forget about it. [...]

Reflections in your Photographs

melissa s — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:17:50 +0000

Capturing reflected images in a photograph is a great way to add depth and feeling to the picture. The simplest and most common example of this is a picture of a man fishing from a boat in a lake where the image of the man and boat are reflected in the water. Look at a [...]

Scanning Photographs

melissa s — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:00:54 +0000

Unless you are a teenager who probably has never seen a film camera, you will probably have quite a few old photos that only exist as hard copies of images captured on film. These could be pictures from your school and college days or old black and white or even sepia prints of your parents [...]

Creating Your Own Photo Calendar

melissa s — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:06:34 +0000

If there’s one thing every home and office must have, it is a calendar. Although we live in a world of computer calendars and organizers, online calendars, PDAs and mobile phone alerts, nothing will ever replace the printed calendar. One glance at it will tell you where you are in time and the notes you [...]