Using Watermarks to Your Advantage

These days companies grab every opportunity possible to promote a widget.

Coffee-cup sleeves, garbage cans… soon we’ll probably see LCD screens at intersections while we wait for the light to turn green. (Could be interesting, actually…)

If you own of manage a website with proprietary images, and you are considering protecting your images from download by using Flash or some other means to prevent easy-copying of your photos, consider not protecting them at all from download. To understand this idea, you have to realize that: 1.) images are never fully protected from download on the ‘net, and 2.) your site can benefit from increased traffic via watermarks.

A Concise Guide to Essential Photography Accessories

So, maybe you have a telephoto, a standard, and a wide angle lens in your bag? Maybe your camera body is top-notch, and you also have a great flash? Well, what else can you spend good money on?

Joking aside, accessories aren’t simply ways to spend money, they’re tools that’ll help you create the image you want to show and share. “Accessories” as a term makes them seem ‘extra’, but those that I’ll list are in fact essential to how I construct photos.

Why Digital Photography?

Once you’ve metered the shot, determined the right combination of shutter speed & aperture, you then create the composition.

If you’re one of those delayed-gratification people, digital may not be for you.

The fact of the matter is, digital photography is immediately rewarding. That is its asset.

Is digital photography fundamentally different from film? No, it really isn’t. Both types of systems work via the same principles; capture light via shutter speed, aperture, and sensitivity (ISO) controls.