Digital Camera -Part.2

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Best storing format for printing

If you are conscious about the image quality, then save your files in either a .bmp or .tif format. These formats do not compress the image or lose detail. Of course, a whole lot also depends on the storage space your device has.
For instance, an image at 1,600 x 1,200 pixels in an uncompressed format can easily take up 2 to 3 MB.

Tweaking white balance setting

There are basically four white balance modes that come in a digital camera. These modes are daylight, cloudy, tungsten and fluorescent. Daylight is used mostly for outdoor photography, whereas tungsten is used for indoor photography and fluorescent is for taking images in which the target is of fluorescent colour. If you are taking a photograph of, say, some castle with a bright sky in the background, then keep the rest of the settings, such as white balance, to auto and increase the exposure by one point. In the image, the castle will retain the important details and the sky will also look a little brighter. This enhances the quality of the image.

Focused space around main subject

We are used to taking pictures with the main person or object in focus or in the centre of the viewfinder. This creates empty space around the focused object, and takes a bit away from the quality of the photograph. A better method is to click with the focused object a little bit to the left or right in a manner such that it fills up the entire viewfinder.

This makes for a more visually appealing photograph. This is where the LCD screen in a digital camera comes in handy. You can easily get a real-time preview of the image on the LCD before you click the photograph.

Avoid very dark or very bright spots

Always keep in mind while taking a snap that you don't focus on the very bright or very dark area. Instead, you will get much better results if you focus on neutral areas where the lighting conditions are not extreme.

Avoid completely bright image due to flash light

Often the results we get using a flash aren't that great, and therefore knowing how to use the flash comes in handy. If the flash that you have in your digital camera can be detached, then a good idea would be to bounce the light on to the subject instead of directly focusing the flash on the object. Bouncing basically means using a reflective matter that will direct the flashlight on to the object or simply tilting the flash in an angle such that it still directs the light on the object. This will ensure that the object doesn't appear too harsh with all the lights of the flash on. If you use a reflective material, then an aspect to remember is that the colour shouldn't be very bright or dark but should be a neutral colour such as white. Extreme colours tend to add on to the shades in the primary object being clicked.

Better use of auto flash

Almost all digital cameras come with an automatic adjustable zoom lens-half-a-click, or one short click adjusts the focus and a second click takes the picture. One important thing to remember here is that the movement of lens in and out is governed by a motor, and keeping it on auto would not only get the best focal length but you also save battery power, this is one part of the camera which eats a lot more power than the LCD screen.

Resolution worth printing

Never keep the resolution to the maximum if you are only going to view it on the monitor, as this will unnecessarily take up more space on the camera. For such photographs, 1,024x768 is the best resolution as you get good quality, without having to worry about pixelation.
However, if you are not too sure of how you are going to use the photograph, then it's better to use the highest resolution that the digital camera offers, since you can always use an image-editing tool to adjust the resolution.

Resolution for different paper size

The figures below illustrate the prints you can take with the resolutions:
1,024 x 768 3 x 5 inch prints
1,280 x 960 4 x 6 inch prints
1,600 x 1,200 8 x 10 inch prints

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