subject: How To Become A Champion Photographer With A Digital Camera? [print this page] Gone are the days when photography geniuses needed a heavy camera set up, an unrelenting passion to keep clicking and a load full of money to buy film and process. With the advent of digital cameras, things changed for good and how.
A digital camera has today replaced all the rigorous steps involved in film based photography and made photography a real time hobby for commoners. Digital camera now delivers much more than what was even desired. Take for example the ease of post processing which was beyond any control in earlier times. You could only tweak photos while developing them and that was it. Hue manipulations, selective color treatment or tints, all were absent and in fact, to a point, things of fancy.
Fortunately things are different now and even amateur with a little knowledge of photo processing software such as Lightroom or Photoshop can deliver photos with an impact. What you need to become a champion photographer with a normal digital camera is just some will and browsing skills to keep oneself updated of latest trends in image editing. Remember in digital camera world what matters is how strong you are at image editing. If you champion that, you can beat results of even the best slr camera with your ordinary common digital camera.
The fact is that to capture high quality photographs with a common digital camera, one requires to:
Understand all the cameras features: You should know what changes come in imaging when you dial from Portrait to Sports mode or other
Understand its limitations and use it creatively: Agreed your digital camera doesnt have a fast shutter speed but doesnt that mean you can capture nice trails of cars and bikes or trains? Now thats a creative use of limitations!
Focus on frames: A properly framed picture is more important that a technically superior ill framed picture. So focus on framing the action right
Edit, edit and edit some more: Thing with digital imaging is that you can control almost all the attributes so go a little adventurous on colors, fades and styles and see what suits your picture the best. It is not uncommon anymore to find better pictures taken by a point and shoot digital camera than say the best dslr camera out there.
In the end what matters is how well you time your photo and how well it is framed. Given the myriad choices in terms of photo editing software, there are no limits to the kind of looks and tints you can achieve. Just focus on capturing the action right and you would soon champion the art of photography.
