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Just having a camera is not going to get you the best pictures.With the right digital photography training, most of us who are amateurs in taking photos for the art world, can elevate our photography skills to a new height.When you settle on a medium you are going to train in, lenses are important.Photographers most the most part tend to specialize in one particular area of photography.  There are many types of lenses, the standard 35- 80mm, telephoto, and panoramic lenses.

Most 12mp digital SLR cameras have a 35- 80 mm lens, even the point and shoot type.Most of the time you get a standard lens when you purchase a camera casing.  All lenses are interchangeable.  You do have to stick with the same brand of lenses as your camera and make sure the diameter is the same.  The diameter of most lenses is the same as long as you keep to the same brand.  The 35- 80 mm lens tells you the extent of reach.  While you can take photographs several miles away with a standard lens you will not have the distinction of features in the print that you need.  The standard lens is great for close up shots, such as flowers, spider webs, people, and pets.  To gain more defined picture miles away you need a larger lens.

There are many telephoto zoom lenses in photography.  One is the 75- 300 mm lens.  While this is not as massive as other telephoto lenses you may see a professional walking around with it is a great step up for mountain and wildlife photography when your quarry is some distance away.  When you begin to move from the 35mm into something larger it is best to have a stabilizer with the lens.Even if your hand moves a little bit, a stabilizer will help you hold the camera steady to get a clear shot.You can use accessories to help with angles and light when moving into the world of telephoto lenses.

Photography in the world of panorama is another way to take spectacular landscape photos.Especially with a digital camera, a panoramic lens will allow us to widen the photograph.  If there is a mountain range or glacier that you wish to get the whole picture without pasting them together in Photoshop the panoramic lens is the best way to go.You have seen panoramic landscapes taken and wished you had that option I’m sure.You can use a panoramic lens that will widen the photograph even with film cameras.

All three lenses are just the icebergs on the use of lenses in photography.You will want to maximize your photo taking skills whether you are either an amateur or a budding professional photographer.A tripod will be the next piece of equipment you will want to purchase because it will help you stabilize a camera with a larger lens even more.  Tripods are pretty simple and lightweight pieces of equipment and work great for portrait photography.  All mediums in photography require moderate to top of the line camera equipment to produce a photograph with quality.  Photography also relies on the photographer’s skill and eye.  Lenses are just a small part of the photography world when you start to study the art.  If you have any questions on lenses the best places to find answers are your local photography shop.

Never before in the history of digital photography editing softwarehas anyone ever been able to produce such terrific results in photo editing as has happened in the digital age.There are so many tools available to us on computer and the Internet that allow us to enhance and change images and photos but none are better or more versatile than Adobe Photoshop.This digital photography softwarehas become so synonymous with photo editing that the word “Photoshop” has become a verb meaning to enhance or alter an image.

We can “Photoshop in” new outfits, accessories or even people to a shot where it was just not possible before.  So if you want a picture of you shaking hands with the president, you don’t have to go to Washington to get it, just “Photoshop” your image into the image of the president and it will look as real as if you had been there.

You can “Photoshop” something out of a picture you don’t want and you won’t see it anymore.You can remove physical flaws with ease.You can even remove your noisy brother in law from the background of the shot.You can make alterations to images and not even be able to tell it because this digital photography software is so sophisticated.

Photoshop has become such a de facto standard for photo processing that if you are setting up a photography studio or business, a copy of the software is as necessary as Microsoft word or PowerPoint.This software is readily available and a lot of people know how to use it and that is good.  So if you feel insecure about learning yet another computer application, you can probably find a college student, someone at the high school or maybe the junior high that knows Photoshop in and out and can help you jump start your use of the software as well.

But Photoshop has not always dominated this genre.  The program was created in 1989 by two brothers, John Knoll and Thomas Knoll.The brothers created Photoshop for their custom use, but it wasn’t long before the market was clamoring after it.  So, being smart entrepreneurs, John and Thomas founded a little company called Adobe and began operations in 1990.

Adobe has been a shining example of how to achieve success in the age of the Internet.I don’t know of anyone today is not aware of Adobe.You would be hard pressed to find a computer today that doesn’t have a copy of Adobe reader included in it.This little company has created and then taken over a particular market of online business with the PDF format.

To get good at Adobe Photoshop you might want to find a copy and play with it a bit first.You can probably find a friend’s computer that has Photoshop on it so you can tinker with it a bit.  Then if your friend is a wizard at Photoshop, let him or her show you some of the real “wiz-bang” things they can do with Photoshop using the same menus you were just tinkering with.  This little Saturday afternoon experiment could turn you into a Photoshop addict forever.

Afterwards you will need to buy a copy yourself.There are evaluation versions that give you most of the features available.You only need this is you are not sure you’ll be buying a copy.To avoid some frustration when you buy your copy, make sure you get a licensed copy since Photoshop dominates this market.I know you will soon find yourself just playing around with the software for hours on end just having fun and that is OK.Utilizing organized classes in Adobe Photoshop need not be overlooked because they can very valuable.There are shortcuts you can use to get the most out of the software that these classes will show you.

If you really want to make photographs better for your friends and customers, then the only limit will be your imagination when using this software.When someone says,”that’s OK, photoshop can fix that right up” you will be able to enthusiastically say, that is right.”