Tips for Better Photos

You may be amateur but if you are entering a photography contest, you are competing with best of best. You are going to need your photos to be excellent if you expect to win. There are different things that make up a good photo. If your photography contest is based on a topic, then that topic is going to be counted as part of score. You will want to be original and if possible, catch a scene that has not been done before. You really want to impress judges with something you do not normally see.

Next to consider, are your technical aspects of your photograph. You are going to want to have excellent composition, lighting, focus, contrast, exposure, perspective and more. There are many factors involved in taking picture that will win photography contest. You may not win every time but you should learn something about photography and how to make yours better each time you enter.

The digital image that is created by CCD is huge. It's far too big to be easily stored in relatively little amount of storage space that's available to a digital camera. Accordingly, camera's computer compresses image to make it smaller.

There are two basic methods for achieving this compression. The first method takes advantage of repetitive patterns in image. For example, if you are taking a picture of an airplane that is flying in sky, a lot of picture will be a chunk of blue sky. The camera recognizes that there are multiple parts of image containing same digital information, so it only records a small piece of sky. Then it simply creates a map to tell it where rest of sky belongs. When picture is ultimately displayed sky appears exactly same as it did in original image when it was first captured. The only difference is that overall storage requirements were reduced thanks to camera's clever mapping techniques.

The other method uses a procedure called irrelevancy. This methodology automatically removes digital information that is not visible to human eye such an infra red light.

Digital imaging is amazing yet we have only started witnessing revolutionary changes that are yet to come.