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Photo Tips & Techniques

Digital photography's benefits are pretty clear. They include taking more photos per event and not changing film, seeing your results right away, printing and saving the good ones, deleting the rest, and sharing easily on the web with friends and family. But as anyone who's ever been disappointed with the colors in their digital photos knows, film and digital cameras don't behave the same way.

Here are some quick and easy steps you can take to ensure you get the best colors possible in your digital photos.

Many consumer-level digital cameras have a tougher time with indoor light than your average point-and-shoot film cameras. This can result in dull yellowish and/or brownish, especially in strong fluorescent light and well-lit indoor settings in which your flash doesn't fire automatically.

One quick way around this is to put your camera into manual mode anytime you're in such a setting and set it to Auto W.B. (white balance). Even more accurate results can be achieved if you use specific W.B. settings, but Auto will always help and is more convenient for quick shooting.

Another solution to the problem mentioned above is to set your flash to fire no matter what your camera's light meter says. This will overpower the negative effects of indoor light. If your subject is out of range of your flash, say more than 5 yards, switch to the option above.

Get into the habit of assessing the light for each shot and pre-focusing by pressing the shutter-release button down halfway and waiting for the focus indicator to show ready. As you asses the light, watch out for high contrast areas and bright backgrounds. If the scene includes these, point your camera at and zoom in on the darkest spot and pre-focus on it, then recompose your shot.

As you pre-focus, your camera also takes automatic light meter readings and decides how much to expose the photo, so without this technique, if there is lots of light in the background and high contrast, you'll get an underexposed photo.

Check out ACD Systems Community Page for more great tips.

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