Photography and Photos

This night I am launching a new folder which contains a number of articles related to pictures that I shot when traveling around. I call this folder Photography and Photos. You might have visited a number of websites that discuss topics related to photography but what I want to discuss here is my own travel photos. A blog or a website that discusses topics about photography should include images that are relevant to its main theme. Well, my main intention in setting up this travel photo folder is to tell stories about my personal travel experience. Every traveler brings at least one digital photo or video camera with him or her. Every time she or he sees interesting scenery or object, she or he can shoot it and upload it to her or his blog or website. Inside this website, I will write stories or explanation about the scenery or the object that I present including where each photo is taken and what the techniques or the type of camera device that I use for shooting it. Most of the pictures that you will see in this website are photographs that I saw and shot during my tour around my home town Manokwari. Long before the existence of digital camera, people use words to explain what they saw. They might add some drawings to illustrate what they experienced but what I am going to present in this blog are travel photo stories or journals. I can provide links to other articles which contain photographs in my other blogs but I will attach one or two images in every page that I present here. I hope that you will enjoy this travel photo webpages. How to photograph object in the dark

For your information, photographs that I present in this website were shot using my digital still photo camera Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W30; the camera feature of NOKIA XpressMusic 5630; and the built-in HP Photosmart camera of my HP iPAQ rx3000 series. Honestly, the best device among all these three electronic devices is Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W30. Well, in the market there are a lot of new digital cameras that are offered by various manufacturers but most of them of high pixels that will be difficult for website presentation. Actually, to load faster on a web browser, a high pixel quality photo has to be optimized in photo editing software such as Adobe Photoshop CS3. When editing a photograph in Photoshop, I usually re-save it for web usage and choose the Save for Web and Devices option in the file menu. But before I save it for website usage, I need to resize the image to width: 450 pixels and height: 338 pixels from the previously 2816 x 2112 pixels photograph. When the optimization has been conducted the size of the photograph will be reduced from 2.55 MB to between 35 and 40 KB. I also resize the canvas size by adding a black rectangle below every photograph to provide a room for caption. Here, I write short description about the photograph itself especially about the title of the photo, the address of my blog, the photographer and where and when it was taken.

I am not a professional photographer who earn a living from selling photos. I am only an owner of a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W30 digital still photo camera who tries to share my photo stories with you on this website. But I am trying to do my best in presenting my artworks, optimizing the presentation of the photographs that I add or insert in every article. Sometimes before an image is inserted into a journal, I need to adjust its brightness, contrast and colors in Adobe Photoshop to ensure that is clear enough to be seen by anybody who accesses this website. Perhaps, you might ask, "Why you don't use digital camera that is better than Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W30?" Well, my answer is simple, "I don't have any and although I buy a more advanced camera, I still have to reduce the size of photographs taken from such camera, and of course their pixel quality before they can be uploaded into the internet. That's the reason behind my reluctance of using higher pixel camera.

In addition to pocket camera, I also have got one bridge camera - Nikon Coolpix P500. It is a super zoom photographic device that is light and compact for anyone who needs a camera that is powerful in shooting distant subjects such as birds and natural scenery. With its 36 times optical zoom feature, Nikon P500 can produce high quality photographs that I really need for my articles both in this website and my other blogs. by Charles Roring

I like traveling and taking pictures of nature and people that I see and meet. I have used a number of photographic devices. Most of them are not professional cameras because I am not a professional photographer yet. I consider photography as a hobby. After spending much of my time using Sony and Panasonic digital cameras, now I use Nikon Coolpix P500 - a superzoom camera that is able to optically magnify distant subjects to 36 x. With its digital zoom feature, the Nikon P500 can magnify the subject to 4x. So, a bird that is sitting on the branch of a tall tree, can be magnified to 40 times. When the magnification is in its maximum level, a photographer really needs a tripod to stabilize the camera. Any slight movement of the hands of the photographer can cause the subject to be out of the view of the lens.