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Doesn't it drive you nuts when you see the pictures that someone just took and they look amazing! For some, it just seems like everyone else is taking great pictures except you. Taking good pictures of people can be hard, but don't despair. An average digital camera can take great portraits if you keep a few simple guidelines in mind. Here are some solid fool proof methods that can help you snap great pics with that digital camera you have and get those great stills you've always wanted.Choose the right camera settings. You did buy a camera with features right? So why not use them? Most digital cameras have a "portrait mode" built in. You can activate it by turning dial on your camera to the icon of the head. What this does is affect the depth of field, allowing you to get a sharp picture of the image in front, the person, and blurring out the stuff farther in back.To get an even sharper image, blur the background even more. What you want to do is zoom the camera lens all the way in. This makes the background blur even more, throwing your subject into even sharper relief. Turn .. more »

So what is the Blackberry attraction that causes so many to pay extra for that device over a pda/smartphone?Here's just a few tidbits to wet your whistle ... and get you thinking.* Camera Flash - I've yet to see a Palm OS device with it, and only some Windows Mobile devices have it. Every Blackberry that has a camera, has a flash. The camera feature is almost useless without a flash, from what I can tell.* Software - Probably not as wide a selection as Windows Mobile, but probably better than Palm OS. I remember that I did like Palm OS, but it's basically dead. Only one manufacturer makes devices with the Palm OS, and even they make Windows Mobile phones as well.I can see people making more Blackberry programs, but not for Palm OS.* 3G - Most Blackberries don't support it, but this is quickly changing.* GPS/Wi-Fi - With Blackberry, you have had to choose one or the other, if you want it built-in. But again, this is changing. Some of their devices have both. I've never heard of a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth dongle, but there's Bluetooth GPS. So if you want both, get Wi-Fi built-in, and get the Bluetooth GPS .. more »

As photographers we spend a lot of time playing with light. Light is our medium, we talk about its color, its quality, its size and its softness. And a lot of our talk is about how to change it. One of the first things that a novice photographer tires of and wants to change is the boring, flat light that their camera flash produces. While there are any number of devices that can filter or shape light one of the biggest groups of light changers are the remote flash triggers.At the most basic level one of the fastest ways to change flash light from flat and boring is to move its position. If instead of having our flash shoot a head-on beam of light into the subjects face what would happen if we moved the flash up and to the right or left of the subject? The answer is that we get better and more flattering light. However once the flash is moved off of the top of our camera it loses the vital connections required to make it fire. This is where Remote Flash Triggers come to play.While there are dozens of varieties of flash triggers available they all .. more »