3 Most Critical Items for Digital Photography

Believe it or not, unless you've got a real high end camera, the most important thing to taking quality digital photos is lighting. Have you ever taken photos with a fair to poor digital camera and yet had such great lighting that the photos came out great? I have. As a matter of fact, when I had my Mustek, I found that setting up some killer lighting made that camera sing. But take the lighting away and you ended up with the most grainy and color washed out photos you can imagine. Lighting made all the difference. That's why I put that on the top of the list, even above the camera itself. So if you're on a limited budget and can't afford a great camera, make sure you have enough light.

Next to lighting is of course the camera itself. Naturally, the better the camera, the better the quality of the photos. The problem is, how do you know what a great camera is? You can't just go by megapixels because each manufacturer has a different method by which they're represented. So a camera with 8 megapixels may actually not be as good in quality as a camera by another manufacturer with 6 megapixels. So do yourself a favor, read as many unbiased reviews of each camera you're thinking of buying. How can you tell an unbiased review? It's one where there's no affiliate link to the camera itself.

Finally, there is the skill of the photographer. Sadly, this is not something you can buy in a box. It's funny the things that I take for granted now, having taken photographs for so long. Things like centering your subject. I've seen some of my friends take photos where the subject is all the way to the left of the photo. It's almost criminal. Skill is something I picked up over time, however, it is something you can learn.

Below you'll find a review of a great book that will have you taking digital photos of great quality in no time. I wish this book had come out when I first started. It would have saved me a lot of time and effort.

Anyway, these are the three most critical items for quality digital photos.

At least two of them you can actually buy...Wait, make that three.