From the start to the end (1 of 3)

Let’s start from a description of the whole scenario of digital photography, starting from the initial idea and finishing with the presentation of your work.
In the next paragraph I’ll provide a rapid overview of the digital photography workflow; in the future I’ll cover the sigle steps in detail.

- Concept
For the first step you don’t need your camera, because it’s about finding something intersting to shot.
In this step it’s really important to focus on your subject instead of the technical side of the photo.
You have to analyze your subject, asking yourself questions like:
Why I want to shot it ?
Why the subject is intersting ?
What are the most important details of the subject
In which light condition the subject looks best ?

- Shoot
After the analysis you are ready to take your camera and start shooting photographs.
Take advantage of the peculiarity of the digital photography, shooting many photos and checking in your LCD the result before the next shot.
Fully explore your subject, moving around it, changing the focal, concentrating on different details and trying different approach.
It’s really important to forget the theory in this phase: it’s time to have fun and do your best.
One hundred photos are a good target for a digital photo session.

- Archive
After the shooting phase you have to download your photo in your PC, organizing properly your archive.
I prefere to not use the software normally included in your camera package with this purpose, and just make a copy of all the images from the camera in a folder of my PC.
For example, I have a folder named “2006”, with subfolders for each month and special occasion.
Don’t forget to do some backup, on CD or DVD, on a regular basis.

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