Photo Printing Originsd

By Kelly Liyakasa

Ever since black and white photographs arrived on the scene, this industry has seen constant change and improvement in quality. Online digital photo printing is the 21st century’s version of traditional portraits, allowing aspiring photographers to express themselves and capture special memories. Not only is taking digital photos a fun hobby, it’s a growing market. See if you know these interesting facts on photographs and where it all began.

History of Photographs:

• The word “photography” actually originates from the Greek phrase “drawing with light.”

• Modern photography has roots in the early 1800’s, when chemical printing first began.

• The earliest image exposures took 8-hours. No one-hour express printing at the local drugstore back then!

• A man named John Herschel was the first one to use the terms “photography, positive, and negatives.” He also made the first negative out of glass in 1839.

• George Eastman invented film in 1884, which replaced photographic plates and began the earliest stage of modern photography.

Modern Photo Facts:

• All photos were monochrome in the beginning, another word for black and white.

• Color photographs were emerging in the mid-1800’s.

• A physicist named James Clerk Maxwell took the first color photograph in 1861.

• The Lumière brothers invented the first color plate, Autochrome, in 1907.

• Throughout the 1900’s, photo technology continued to advance.

• Digital photos began when professionals such as photo journalists found they had to carry portable photo-developing labs with them on the job.

• Sony created the first non-film camera in 1981: The Sony Mavica.

• The first camera that took digital photos was released in 1990, the Kodak DCS 100.

• Digital photos are taken when an image sensor records a photograph, instead of through a chemical-changing process.

Today, digital cameras are a hot trend and many own at least one. Photographers and your average Joe alike have turned to online digital photo printing, where they can easily transfer images into online digital photos in mere seconds. This can alleviate film-developing issues and early exposures. We’ve all had the bad experience with popping our cameras open too soon and exposing all our hard-taken photos to sunlight, essentially ruining them.

This exact experience has led many to make the transition into digital photographs. 6StarReviews.com mentions a digital photo processing service called Snapfish in their photo printing reviews. Snapfish offers photo-fans the option of printing out their digital images at local grocery and drugstores.

They also give you fun features like sharing digital photo albums online with friends and family members. For you traditionalists who love antique cameras, you may find digital photo sharpness and online editing features hard to resist. The nearly 11 billion online digital photos printed in 2007 will vouch for that!

Kelly Liyakasa is a staff writer for 6StarReviews.com. Kelly Staller is site manager at 6StarReviews.com, a site dedicated to giving YOU, the consumer, the best product and service reviews around. If you like saving time and money by having someone else review leading sites and products, then Visit our site at 6StarReviews.com

Photo Printing Origins Copyright (c) 2007 Kelly Liyakasa

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Photography - Taking A Walk Without Your Camera

By Martin Jones
Another useful lesson I learned along the way regarding photography was to look around without my camera.

When going out with a camera or specifically to take pictures you are generally viewing things a certain way. Take a walk sometimes without your camera – don’t worry about missing that perfect shot – there are millions of them. Doing this, walking and looking, will help you create that shot, not find it.

If you do scenic shots, then spend an hour or two walking around the park or village or canyon that you like to shoot. Do this without your camera – just look! Do this enough and you will find that when you take your camera with you things will look different and you will see more options. Walk both ways down a street or country path. Walk around the pond or lake. See things from different perspectives.

If you like taking people pictures, take a walk through a mall or downtown. If you are visiting another country or part of yours, take the time to just watch the people without your camera. Go and sit in a café and watch – just look. What different shapes and sizes do you see? How do they walk? How do they stand?

Even in the studio one can apply this. You are going to shoot the beautiful model: Set your camera aside and just have her move and pose – without the camera. If you aren’t comfortable with this, go to some fashion shows and just watch – don’t take your camera.

If you are doing product shots, something as simple as toasters – when you are in someone’s house have a look at their toaster. Go to the department store and look at some toasters. If you are going to photograph cars, walk around and look at them. You could even go to a dealer and sit in a few – have a real look at the inside. Do this before you take your camera to the shoot – get really familiar with the subject first.

Sometimes this isn’t easy – for a photographer to NOT take pictures. When I was in India many years ago – I took some pretty nice pictures. I was in India for a couple of weeks and really didn’t have enough film, so I was somewhat forced not to take pictures all the time. I worked this out by going for a couple of long walks each day. Once, generally in the morning, I would go out without the camera, then later I would take it with me. When I walked in the morning I just looked and enjoyed my walks and talked to people and generally explored. I didn’t go with the idea of “oh – that would be a nice picture” or anything like that – I just walked and looked and enjoyed. Now, I don’t always apply this but when I do I find that I’m much happier with the quality of result in my photography.

Martin Jones enjoys photography and people. You can see his photo blog at Photo Photo and many of his photos at

Martin Glyn Jones Fine Art Photography

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Did You Know That You Can Sell Your Digital Photos Online For Freakin' Amazing Profits?

By Mosiekk Conley
It's true!

You can actually sell your digital photos online for fun and profit. There are tons of people who are doing right now. Even if you don't consider yourself a professional photographer your pictures could be worth money.

There are several sites on the internet that want pictures of several different subjects. Subject likes kids, sporting events, funny signs, and others could be worth a lot of moolah. The crazy part is you'll never know if you never try to sell your digital photos.

The reason why you can sell your digital photos online is because of the variety that it offers the sites that sell them. You see these sites can't be everywhere to take the pictures they need to supply their customers. So why not pay for them and get an extensive collection of pictures from all over the world taken by a multitude of people?

Doing a search in any major search engine will give you several results for sites that are willing to pay for your digital photos. Simply search for "stock photo" or something similar to locate sites that are willing to buy your digital photos. One site in particular is BigStockPhotos.com and they also have an affiliate program so they get more traffic than most of the other stock photo sites.

The best part selling your digital photos online is that you are not limited to selling a photo one time. On several occasions, I have seen the same photo on several different stock photo sites. So don't think that you can only sell it once. That is the beauty of the internet. You can quickly make some great money in a short amount of time.

As you can see there are some great benefits for you if you sell your digital photos online. Don't limit yourself to thinking that no one would want to buy your digital photographs. You never know! Go out there and find a place to sell your digital photos and start making some easy cash with pictures that would otherwise gather cyber-dust on your computer.

Mo Conley is the creator of Digital Photos Tips which is destined to become the premier resource for Digital Photography online. For more information visit: Sell Digital Photos

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Buying A Digital Camera - Checking Its Features And Uses

By Francisco Segura
Most casual users of digital cameras will only ever use it for point and shoot occasions, rarely ever experimenting with all the different functions; the number of functions they now have sometimes confuses potential buyers. Of all the options available, what would you ask for if you were going to buy a digital camera? To get you ‘kick started' there are some useful tips outlined in this article. Point number one is, apart from taking photos, just what do you want your camera to be able to do.

Do you plan to only use this for occasional family and friend type photos? Even with the overall reduction in cost and improvement in abilities and design during recent years, the cost is still something to factor in. You also have to consider the power of the computer and the printer you will be connecting it to for editing and printing needs. Some new personal computers come with a digital camera as part of a package, this may be worth considering. Manufacturers usually do a deal with an image manipulation software company and supply it when you buy a digital camera, however item such as printers and special paper will need to be purchased separately.

Most people with computers will have a printer but you must check to see if it can be used for printing photos. To get the best pictures it will be necessary to set the camera to the maximum number of pixels it can operate at. If you intend to take more than a dozen or so shots with your digital camera then you will have to use external memory to increase the storage space. There are a number of different types of card with storage capacities up to 32 gigabytes (at the time of writing; hundreds, sometimes many thousands of images can be stored on these larger capacity storage cards.

The more ‘user friendly' your model is, the more likely it is you will use it. Despite the leaps forward in technology, many manufacturers are so focused on gadgets that they forget that a person will want to use this so it has to be simple to operate. Digital cameras use a great deal of power, especially the screen so even if they are not supplied, rechargeable batteries should be used; not only are these extremely cost effective, less batteries means less are disposed of which helps the environment. Some people buy their digital camera purely on the size of the screen; some models have a swiveling action, which is great for viewing your pictures and taking those from awkward angles.

Removing the traditional viewfinder has been a step forward for many people that disliked using photographic equipment fitted with them; the LCD screen is much easier to use. If you enjoy close up pictures then you need a model with an optical zoom. Digital cameras that are only equipped with a digital zoom should be avoided as images look blurred and pixilated. Other features such as diopter adjustment for people with poor vision, a remote control and a tripod socket can all be considered when you look at different models. With this knowledge you should be in a better position now when you buy a digital camera.

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How to Make Money from Your Digital Photos

By Karen Fairham
Would it appeal to you to know you can submit your digital photos online and get paid for it? In that case read on. Submitting your photo to stock photo sites does not require that you be a professional photographer nor do you require any professional equipment, in fact you already have what it takes as long as you have a digital camera and you are reading this article (meaning you have access to internet connection).

There are many stock photo sites that you can sign up with and submit your digital photos to them on certain pre-agreed terms of payment. You can find photo stock sites by doing an internet search yourself or by using websites that have gathered the different stock photo sites and make it accessible to you on their site, but note that the site might run a membership that could require you to pay a certain fee.

The stock photo sites are often used by businesses and individuals who find it cheaper to browse through the stock photo sites for what they want, than actually hiring a professional photographer which could end up costing more. So the more digital photos you submit the more money you stand.

It is that simple to make money from submitting your photo to stock photo sites, but there are a few tips you can apply to see that your photos are not refused and that they receive high download rate;

1. Try to capture an object or landscape from more than one point of view, thereby giving the person looking at downloading that scene or object more options.
2. Ensure that you do not submit photos with trademark or brands showing on them.
3. Do not submit that you have no right to as that is one of the fastest routes to end up in court.
4. Read the terms or service of each site as they might have slight differences which you need to be aware of.
5. Submit to many different stock photo sites (it is like a numbers game, the more photos you have submitted with different sites the more download you get)
6. For every site find out what category of photos are more popular and you can work around that.

Another strategy that I use is to capture a particular landscape in different seasons and weather. Such photos do very well from my own experience, but there are so many things you can take pictures of and see how well it does.

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Photographer's Most Fundamental Traits - Fascination And Enthusiasm

By Fiona Erna
Do you think you are eligible to call yourself a photographer simply because you are interested in photography? Well, no. It doesn't work that way. There are more fundamental things that you probably have already possess that are considered as the basic traits for every photographer.

Many people are interested in photography in some nebulous way; they might be interested in the seemingly glamorous live of top fashion or war photographers; or in the acquisition an admiration of beautiful, functional machines, the cameras; o in the arcane ritual of the darkroom processes; or in the person which they could adopt if only they took pictures like . . whoever. But these interests, no matter how personally enjoyable they might be, never lead to the person becoming a photographer The reason is that photography is only a tool, vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result. An analogy would be to buy a car for its status appeal, for the idea that it will improve your sex-life, for the smell of the new upholstery, for the fascination with its beautiful engineering, and so on. But it is useless unless it actually take you somewhere

The destination of photography is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the result t others. However, a word of caution should be inserted here. It does not imply merely bland records of anything. Some pictures are obviously more interesting, more beautiful, more inspiring than others, even of the same subject matter. More than that, they are indelibly stamped with the unique style, for want of better word, of the individuals who made them. So what transforms these simple record into pictures of lasting merit

It comes down to the choice of subject. The photographer must have intense curiosity, no just a passing visual interest, in the theme of the pictures. This curiosity leads to intense examination, reading, talking, research and many, many failed attempts over a long period of time. In order to photograph with an degree of continuous passion, you must have a fascination for the subject, otherwise you cannot sustain an interest in the act of creation for a long enough period of time in which to make any insightful or original statement about it.

The reason for a young photographer's confusion is that most teachers, classes, workshops books, whatever, imply that how the picture is made, what techniques were employed why it looks different and artistic, is more important than the subject matter. Ye the photographer is, primarily, a subject-selector. Much as it might offend the artistically inclined, the history of photography is primarily the history of the subject matter. So photographer's first decision is what to photograph. Your curiosity, fascination and enthusiasm for this subject can be communicated to others through the pictures you take of it.

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Just What is a Pinhole Camera?

By Nahshon Roberts
What is a pinhole camera? Well, this is one of the earliest and the most simple cameras used in photography. What makes it special, though, is that, unlike most cameras, it can take pictures without the use of a lens. If you want to know what this camera is, read on. The article will talk about its history, how it works, and how it looks like.

What does It Look Like?

To answer the question of what a pinhole camera is, you have to know what it looks like. You will certainly recognize a pinhole camera right away because it does not look like any conventional camera. Depending on its size, it is a box-like figure with a small hole in it. When the shutter of the pinhole camera is opened, all the light beams that radiates from the object enters into the small hole and is projected into certain areas of the film. The film is mounted inside the box frame, opposite to the pinhole. Ordinary things such as oatmeal boxes, cereal boxes, and shoe boxes can be used as a box frame. A pin can be used to make the pinhole.

Who Invented It?

5th century Muslim mathematician Ibn al-Haytam invented the first pinhole camera, but it was Scottish scientist, Sir David Brewster, who took the first pictures using the pinhole camera in 1850. However, it did not enter the mainstream until the 1960s because, up to that time, people preferred to use the conventional cameras to take photographs. However, scientists such as Gemma Frisuis and Giambattista della Porta were intrigued by it, and they made studies and experiments to explain why such a simple device could actually take pictures. Gemma Frisius' study of a solar eclipse using a pinhole camera was ground-breaking and well-documented. In any event, its roots can be traced back to the time of the ancient Greeks. The Chinese also contributed important discoveries to forward the development of the pinhole camera.

How Does It Take Pictures?

We are capable of seeing objects because our eyes receive the light rays that radiate from them. That is the reason why we can't see anything in a darkened room because our eyes are not receiving any light from the objects around us. The pinhole camera works the same way. The interesting thing about it is that the smaller the pinhole is, the sharper the image becomes. The downside is that thinner light rays tend to bend more when they make contact with the film. As a result, the picture can be a bit fuzzy and blurry. Also, the image will appear inverted on the film. Don't worry though, you would have to put mirrors inside your pinhole camera if you want to correct the image perspective.

Do you now know what it is? How a pinhole camera works is simply amazing, isn't it? This simple camera has fascinated many photo enthusiasts and it has captured the imaginations of mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists both in the past and present. Knowing what is a pinhole camera is definitely an interesting thing.

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