7 Digital Photography

Over the past few weeks my Mom has been begging me to send her pictures of the snow and of the Frozen River, and thanks to digital photography, she is able to see what i wake up to every morning. I love taking pictures and after I got a digital camera for my 17th birthday, I became official photographer of any events where I had a camera. It's great being able to edit out red eye, crop pictures and print out what quantity and size I need on my own time. I'm not sure if it really saves me any money between buying photo ink and paper, but it has taught me a lot about computer programs and printer options. Even with simple software any picture can be edited, distorded, added to or anything like that. Last year i was editor for my school yearbook and it was the first year we began to use digital photography. We had one team picture, the ice hockey team, where a player was missing. They left a space for him in the photo and then took another seperate photo of him a different day. We were able to paste the individual into the group shot virtually seamlessly. It was much easier for layout and design when you could see the photos right on the moniter. It was a big step for our school's yearbook, and it made the process of cropping pictures, and organizing pages a lot cleaner, more organized and simple. Digital photography is definately one technology I couldn't imagine not having. The "old method" seems virtually obsolete now.