Attention, budding Hamptons snappers: have you considered selling your work with Hampton Photo Arts? The professional photography industry is just as brutal and contact-orientated as it has always been, and so a significant amount of photographers are now turning to local vendors when seeking to sell their material. Realising your dreams in The Hamptons can be a long, hard and rocky road, but that doesn’t mean you can’t supplement your current income with sales generated from your true passion of photography. Hampton Photo Arts offers a convenient and accessible photography storefront, which professionals and amateurs alike will be able to profit from significantly.
The process is painless and straightforward. The first step is to create your ‘photographers account’. This account, generated for you by Hampton Photo Arts, will act as an online marketplace through which you can showcase your work and carry out transactions. There is a small fee of $30, which covers security and the cost of Hampton hosting five hundred megabytes of your image data. Providing that one does not exceed half a gigabyte of storage space, no extra purchase is required. This is a relatively small investment, considering the potential for sales via Hampton Photo Arts, and there are always opportunities to expand further your storage space, should the popularity of your work suddenly increase.
No matter your lifestyle, a camera is more than just an accessory. Cameras have become part of our everyday lives. They are the way we capture our memories and document our lives.
A camera case is a must-have for anyone who takes photography seriously.
When choosing a camera bag, Hampton Photo Arts recommends a small bag designed for sleek digital point and shoot cameras as well as older film cameras. A small case protects your investment and also provides a convenient place to carry media and batteries. Always have more media with you than you will use, and always carry spare batteries. The picture of the century may be dependent on you having the equipment to shoot it.
Another must have is a lens cleaning kit. In this era of megapixel wars, don’t forget that the lens is still the most crucial element of image quality. NASA’s Hubble scientists can attest to this. If space is limited consider a lens cloth. They’re small enough to fit along side your camera in any case. If you have a larger case definitely upgrade to one of our kits that include cleaning fluid, brushes and swabs.
We at Hampton Photo Arts have found that people nowadays take a lot more pictures than they used to. This has a lot to do with the advent of digital photography. It no longer costs money to take pictures, so people feel comfortable shooting hundreds or even thousands of images. Photographers build libraries and organize their photographs in as many different ways as there are applications for doing so. But once you have thousands of photographs, what do you do with them? A hard drive crash can take them all away - this can be as emotionally devastating as a house fire that destroys the only pictures of Junior when he was a child, or Aunt Bessy at her 90th birthday party. Printing them all is prohibitive, even if you have your own photo printer - glossy photo paper can sell for upwards of fifty cents per sheet, and inks can add a dollar per 8x10 to the cost. Even when you get done, most prints aren't just water-sensitive - almost any liquid at all and the photograph is completely ruined due to ink run, not just wrinkled.
Digital photography can be a great way to capture images of the world around you. Digital cameras are improving each day, giving even an amateur photographer a way to take amazing photos. However without proper lighting, the best camera will still create sub-par images. Making use of the best lighting techniques will help anyone create the best pictures they can.
Many bad photos can be made better though the use of digital manipulation software. However there are still some things that cannot be fixed. Blurred images, indistinguishable characteristics, and dark shadows can be avoided by getting your digital photography lighting right before you take the photo. Take time to think about the lighting condition you have and make the best use of them before you take a single picture.
Our photo experts here at Hampton Photo Arts in Bridgehampton have come up with some basic tips to remember when dealing with digital photography lighting through out the day.
Printing your digital photos is so important for a number of reasons. Let’s take a look at some of them.
Have you ever been at an event at your child’s school, a birthday party, or another special occasion and want to shoot more photos but the media card in your camera is full? Your only choice may be to delete photos if you want to continue shooting. If you never printed those pictures in the first place, you will now be losing them forever once you hit the delete button.
What if all of your digital image files are on the media card in your digital camera and the camera gets stolen? You just lost your images. The same could happen to your home computer or laptop. You may never get your digital image files back again. If you don’t have prints, they could be lost forever.
Does this sound familiar? You’ve taken a lot of beautiful digital photos, but you don’t know how to make quality prints? If you’re ordering the photos from Hampton Photo Arts in Bridgehampton to be printed, then that’s good and ensures you the best possabile print. But if you’re printing them yourself using a home printer, it helps to know some tips and tricks. Here we will show you some of the best practices in printing digital photos.
Tip 1: Good Pictures Give Good Prints This tip is pretty obvious. If you’ve taken photo at a measly 1 megapixel resolution, you can’t expect to have a huge A4 quality printout. If you’ve taken the same photo at a 5 megapixel resolution, then yes, you can have that A4 print. As a rule, remember that you need at least a 2 megapixel resolution photo to have a decent 4x6 printout.
Printing on canvas is incredibly versatile and a great way to create a ready-to-hang image or artwork. Every canvas that we print is protected with a UV coated acrylic finish to guard the print from dust, moisture and fading. Do you want your canvas stretched on bars or non-stretched? Framed or unframed? Customize the work to make it truly your own.
Photographic materials have complex physical and chemical structures that present special preservation challenges to the librarian and archivist. Since the birth of photography in the late 1830s, many different photographic processes and materials have been utilized, each subject to deterioration through time and with use. Although deterioration is an ongoing natural process, nevertheless much can be done to slow the rate at which it takes place in photographs.
Deteriorated photographs may require specialized conservation treatment by a professional photograph conservator, often a costly, skill-demanding, and time-consuming procedure. For the majority of photographs in research collections, single-item conservation of deteriorated photographs is probably not a feasible or a cost-effective preservation solution. Instead, preventive conservation actions such as maintenance of a good environment, promoting proper care and handling through staff and user education, and the use of good quality storage housings will have a more lasting, positive impact on the preservation of a collection.
Watercolor is an easy, fun medium for creating art. Color theory, composition and design can be explored freely with watercolor paint, paper, and brushes. Several techniques may be used with watercolors for varying effects including painting wet on wet, wet on dry, layering washes, and more.
Watercolor paper comes in cold press, hot press, and rough. Rough paper has the most texture, and its hills and valleys can result in interesting effects when paint is added. Hot press is the smoothest and has the finest texture. Cold press has a moderate amount of texture and is the paper most commonly chosen by watercolor artists.
Watercolor paper comes in several weights ranging from 90 lb. to 300 lb. based on the pounds per ream of paper. Most artists prefer to use at least 140 lb. paper. Papers vary somewhat between manufacturers, so sampling different papers is advisable. Paper can be purchased in pads, in blocks or in large sheets. The large sheets are usually the most economical and can be torn into whatever size is desired.
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Watercolor is an easy, fun medium for creating art. Color theory, composition and design can be explored freely with