Clever Digital Photography Ideas - Enjoying and sharing your photos

By Peter Cope

A practical, accessible guide to the ingenious and creative things that can be done with a digital compact or camera phone. Clever Digital Photography Ideas: Enjoying and sharing your photos is an extract from the book 100 Clever Digital Photography Ideas and provides a variety of simples ideas to take your photographs beyond the photo frame or photo album. Digital technology has meant that you can print on almost anything in virtually any size, from everyday canvases to the more creative mobile phone cases, and wallpaper! You can create your own Hockney joiner or Banksy style artwork, and you can share your photos online through websites and blogs. There are even clever ideas for selling your photographs.

All ideas and projects are presented with easy to follow instructions and striking photographs across colourful pages. Open your eyes to the creative possibilities with your digital photo technology, from using a basic compact camera to the latest smart phone. Whether a novice or a pro, Clever Digital Photography Ideas: Enjoying and sharing your photos will show you how to break out of your comfort zone and try something exciting and new.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Release date: Dec 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9781446359808

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Clever Digital Photography Ideas

Extending and Enhancing your Camera Skills and More Clever Ideas

PETER COPE

CONTENTS

Introduction

ENJOY AND SHARE YOUR PHOTOS

CLEVER WAYS TO SHARE PHOTOS

CLEVER IDEA: SHARE PHOTOS ONLINE

CLEVER IDEA: SHARE PHOTOS ON YOUR OWN WEBSITE

CLEVER WAYS TO ENHANCE PHOTOS

CLEVER IDEA: ADD BORDERS AND FRAMES

CLEVER IDEA: IMPROVE PHOTOS BY CROPPING AND STRAIGHTENING

CLEVER WAYS TO PRESENT PHOTOS

CLEVER IDEA: CREATE A PHOTOBOOK

CLEVER IDEA: CREATE A DIGITAL SCRAPBOOK

CLEVER WAYS TO DISPLAY PHOTOS

CLEVER IDEA: GO LARGE WITH YOUR PHOTOS

CLEVER IDEA: PRINT PHOTOS ON PHONE CASES

CLEVER IDEA: PRINT PHOTOS ON RADIATOR COVERS

CLEVER IDEA: PRINT PHOTOS ON ROLLER BLINDS

CLEVER IDEA: CREATE YOUR OWN PHOTO WALLPAPER

CLEVER WAYS TO GET ARTY WITH YOUR PHOTOS

CLEVER IDEA: CREATE A BANKSY-STYLE ARTWORK

CLEVER IDEA: CREATE A HOCKNEY JOINER

CLEVER IDEA: GO POP ART WITH YOUR PHOTOS

CLEVER IDEA: CREATE ART MASTERPIECES

CLEVER WAYS TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR PHOTOS

CLEVER IDEA: SELL THEM

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PICTURE CREDITS

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Copyright

Introduction

There was a time, not so long ago, when photography was in serious decline. Armed with more and more sophisticated kit, amateur and enthusiast photographers were shooting away as they had always done. But the wider picture was quite different. Although cameras were becoming easier to use and more proficient at delivering great shots, people just weren’t buying them as they once had. It seemed that they didn’t like hassle: the hassle of carrying a camera and film; and the hassle of taking films for processing, then waiting patiently for the prints. It seems results were required immediately and, unless you were willing to wield a bulky Polaroid camera, cameras just didn’t deliver.

However, technology was about to change this situation dramatically. As needs changed and demands for more immediate results became more pressing – in every walk of life – the digital camera came of age. What had been something of an expensive toy for computer enthusiasts only, now became mainstream. Taking digital photos became straightforward and viewing them, immediately, just as easy. The change within the camera market was dramatic; in a very short time cameras began to fly off store shelves again. Digital cameras had restored photography’s popularity; in fact, camera use was now greater than it had been at any time in the past.

Waterproof cameras: these give you the means to take your camera almost anywhere

Today, camera ownership has never been higher; each year the record for the number of photos shot is smashed. And of course, cameras are now more than just cameras that take basic photos; they can shoot video or even 3D shots. Indeed some ‘cameras’ aren’t actually cameras at all: mobile phones are equipped with potent cameras that shoot movies, too. This means that not only do we shoot more photos now, we also shoot subjects we may never have contemplated as subject material in the past.

Camera with flip-out viewing screen: these are great for taking photos at any angle

When cameras used film every shot cost money and, unless you carried copious amounts of expensive film, every shot you took would have to be carefully considered. Today those limits are gone and everything has

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Unimpressive. If haven't already heard these ideas you just haven't been paying attention.