Digital Photo Tutorials and Reviews

Leica V-LUX 1 Digital Camera Review

The Leica V-LUX 1 Digital Camera
Making it’s debute in Cologne, Germany, back in 2006, the Leica V-LUX 1 is one of the sturdier compact cameras known for it’s high performance optics.
The Leica V-LUX 1 takes shots with it’s 10 megapixels with a clarity and life-like detail.
The camera was created for the more “action” focused photographer.
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Casio EXILIM Zoom EX-Z77 Digital Camera Review

Casio EXILIM Zoom EX-Z77

Joining Casio’s highly successful EXILIM Zoom series in 2007 was the 7.2 mega pixel EXILIM Zoom EX-Z77. Promoted as a digital camera that balances high functionality with compact but stylish feature set. Included in the EX-Z77 is an enhanced digital movie functionality which includes a “YouTube” Capture mode. By using advanced motion [...]

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Blurring the Background

The best wildlife photographs display a perfectly clear animal against a very blurred backgrounds. Normally, this is done by using the a combination of lens type, aperture size and shutter speed which really helps the animal to stand out.
When you have a noisy background, such as branches and leaves, and want to focus on the [...]

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Cloning

n digital photo editing, cloning has nothing at all to do with sheep.
Unless, that is, you need to use the cloning tool turn one sheep picture into a whole flock. As you might have guessed, the Cloning tool is used to identically copy one section of the picture to another, or even onto another image [...]

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What Are MegaPixels?

In today’s world of digital photography reviews, MegaPixels are apparently the first and last word when talking about a digital camera’s ability. Just like memory, aka RAM, and hard drives with computers it’s often “the more = the better”. All the other great features of the camera are forgotten.
There is much more to taking a [...]

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The Lure Of Digital Photo Editing

A photograph is an image of a perfect moment in time.

More often than not, when compared to a painting or drawing which simply show a particular artist’s rendition, photos are generally regarded as “true” or “real”.

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The Problem With Red Eye

Among the most frequent troubles with digital photography is the unholy transformation by the Red Eye Effect. In the main, it occurs by using a flash in a dimly lit up area. As the photo subject’s pupils are open wide, nothing prevents the light from the flash going the whole way to the far back of the eye.

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