Review Digital Camera World 02-21-2014

Digital Camera World

Many wonderful memories are captured in black and white. With digital photographs, the art is now in creating black and white images. This course will teach you how to use Photoshop techniques to create beautiful images. From our sponsors

Win an overseas trek or cycle ride with the British Heart Foundation! (Sponsored) Feb 21st 2014, 05:00, by jmeyer The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is the UK's leading heart charity and has teamed up with Digital Camera to offer readers a fantastic prize – a free place on an overseas trek or cycle ride in a range of amazing locations. If that wasn't cool enough, the winner will become the BHF's official photographer on the trip. Your images could be featured in a range of official print, online publications and promotions – giving great exposure to your work! In addition, the four runners-up will be able to take part in one of the charity's bespoke UK hikes and treks. BHF runs a number of bespoke hikes and overseas treks each year to help fund essential research into heart disease. Your images will encourage more people to take part in these events and so support the charity's life-saving work. This high-profile competition will be judged by Geoff Harris, Editor of Digital Camera magazine, Nancy Prior, Head of Events at the BHF and top landscape photographer, David Clapp. To find out more about the BHF and its fantastic work, go to www.bhf.org.uk. What you need to do To enter this once-in-a-lifetime competition, simply send in up to three digital images, taken on one of the BHF's UK trek routes. These are as follows: * The Hadrian's Wall Hike * The London to Brighton Trek * The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge * The High Peak Winter Hike * The Glasgow to Edinburgh Trek Details of these treks and their routes can be found on bhf.org.uk/ukhikes. Your images need to capture these natural and dramatic landscapes at their best, and inspire other people to visit them. Photos win prizes The overall winner will be able to choose a place on ONE of these amazing overseas events: the Kilimanjaro Trek in Africa the Everest Base Camp Trek in Nepal the Dalai Lama Trek in India or the Kenya Rift Valley Bike Ride in Africa. The four runners up will be able to choose from some great UK hikes , namely, the Hadrian's Wall Hike, the London to Brighton Trek, the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, the High Peak Winter Hike and the Glasgow to Edinburgh Trek. How to take good photos: 10 simple ways to boost your hit rate Feb 21st 2014, 00:01, by jmeyer Tired of deleting more photos than you keep? Hit your image target every time with our sure-fire guide to how to take good photos and get it right in-camera. Now that the days are getting longer, the photography 'season' is just about upon us. So now's the time to dust off your camera, clean your lenses and sensors, head outdoors and get back to doing what inspires you – taking great pictures. We're not talking about going out and recording enough average images to fill a hard-drive that you'll 'sort out' later in Photoshop. We mean taking pictures that don't require you to chain yourself to your computer to fix something that could have – and should have – been resolved before the shutter release was even pressed. We’re talking about knowing how to take good photos instinctively. We are all guilty at one time or another of cutting the odd corner when we're out shooting, knowing that something can be 'fixed' when we're back at our computer. But do you really want to spend spring in front of a monitor screen when you could be out taking more photographs instead? In this tutorial we'll share our top ten photography 'must-dos' that are guaranteed to help you learn how to take good photos instinctively. You’ll learn how to produce better shots in-camera and, most important of all, reduce the time you spend pushing pixels around in Photoshop! SEE MORE: 77 photography techniques, tips and tricks for taking pictures of anything How to take good photos: 01 Think about your shots Image by Gary McParland Photography doesn't start when you get your camera out of your kit bag or look through the viewfinder: the process begins when you 'see' a potential shot. Whether that's physically looking at a sweeping view in front of you or visualising an image in your head, this is the point when you should start asking yourself questions. What has drawn you to this image? Why do you want to capture it? And what is it that you hope to achieve? Thinking the image through before you even reach for your camera will help you decide which lens and focal length you need, the aperture and shutter speed to use and where you need to be to take the shot. It's all about imagining the picture you want, and then working back to determine what you have to do to realise that shot. How to take good photos: 01 Think about your shots How to take good photos: 02 Get composition spot-on every time How to take good photos: 03 Ensure your basic camera functions are set correctly How to take good photos: 04 Use aperture to control depth of field How to take good photos: 05 Use shutter speeds for creative effect How to take good photos: 06 Get the white balance right How to take good photos: 07 Get your camera’s ISO settings right How to take good photos: 08 Take control of focus How to take good photos: 09 Assess your shots in-camera How to take good photos: 10 Review and edit your images READ MORE 99 common photography problems (and how to avoid them) 32 things photographers say… and what they really mean Beginner photography tips: the most common mistakes and how to avoid them Breaking bad photo habits: 10 classic blunders and ways to improve 44 essential digital camera tips and tricks

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