What is Digital Photography?

April 13, 2009

By Ahmed Anwar

The production, creation, or manipulation of photographs that are represented in bitmaps is what is referred to as digital photography. This is an art and can also be thought of as a science. The creation of digital photographs can be achieved in a number of ways. The first method is by the capturing of a video frame, the next method is by scanning of a usual photograph and the final method, which is the most common, is by using a digital camera to produce the photographs. An image enhancer is software that may be used to alter digital photographs.

The photos in digital format can be manipulated, archived, transmitted, altered, stored, printed and displayed by computer and or digital techniques with the lack of chemical processing. The chemically created film pictures have a high resolution as compared to the digital photos. They are perfect for the situations which entail photographs that are instant. They are also utilized by many web architects in their websites because low resolution photos or graphics are quick and easy to download.

There are many advantages that are associated with digital photography and they have support due to its image quality that is acceptable. Many photojournalists utilize the digital photographs because of the importance of beating the deadline for the daily newspapers editions. Magazines can also use the digital pictures. There are mobile phones today that are accompanied with cameras that are digital and can be used to take the digital photos to upload to an internet site, send to a friend via email or from one phone to another.

There are other commercial photographers and also amateurs are coming to terms that the world is turning into the digital age and they are now using the digital cameras to produce photographs irregardless of the price of the camera and its inferior quality to the film photographs.

The digital pictures are created by a digital camera which stores the photographs in an in-built memory or a removable memory card. The data can also be saved in other memory devices such as flash disks, CD-RWs, as well as floppy disks that are uncommon. Their major use is transportation of the data to a computer. These digital cameras can have direct connection to a printer and photographs can be produced without using a computer.

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