Friday, March 7, 2008

Definition of digital photography

In today's world, it seems that almost any topic is open for debate. While I was gathering facts for this digital photography, I was quite surprised to find some of the issues I thought were settled are actually still being openly discussed.

Knowledge can give you a real advantage. To make sure you're fully informed about digital photography, keep reading.

The art and science of producing and manipulating digital photographs -- photographs that are represented as bit maps. Digital photographs can be produced in a number of ways:
# Directly with a digital camera
# By capturing a frame from a video
# By scanning a conventional photograph

Once a photograph is in digital format, you can apply a wide variety of special effects to it with image enhancing software. You can then print the photo out on a normal printer or send it to a developing studio which will print it out on photographic paper.

Although the resolution of digital photos is not nearly as high as photos produced from film, digital photography is ideal when you need instant, low-resolution pictures. It's especially useful for photos that will be displayed on the World Wide Web because Web graphics need to be low resolution anyway so that they can be downloaded quickly.

If you've picked some pointers about digital photography that you can put into action, then by all means, do so. You won't really be able to gain any benefits from your new knowledge if you don't use it.