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Digital photography has seen great benefits from new technology. These can be summarised in two areas - digital cameras and Photoshop. There are other digital products which have been developed, but these two have made the biggest contribution to improvements in photography.

Think back to the old days and the one thing holding photography back from being a mainstream leisure activity was cost. The cost of cameras, the cost of film and the cost of developing photographs all meant that photography was a 'special event' activity, and you always had to be careful when taking photographs as mistakes cost money.


Stock Photography GalleryThe big advantage of digital photography is that overall costs are reduced. Once you decide to , you can take as many photographs as you want without any further cost, and you can be selective when printing photographs. This means that digital photography can be fun, which is one of the most important factors in bringing young people into the profession, or in its' development as a hobby.

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The fact that digital photography is fun and has greatly reduced costs does not mean that the quality of photographs is reduced. The digital photographer has much more scope to experiment and explore ideas. Those that don't work out can be discarded without cost, those that do push the cause of experimental photography further along, opening new doors and creating new opportunities. Digital photography opens the world of photography to the masses, and hopefully will discover some new stars along the way.

What about Photoshop? Photoshop has become the de-facto industry standard software for editing digital photographs and images. Its' flexibility and feature set is without parallel, and the only limitation in most cases where images are being created is in the imagination of the user. Photoshop techniques can be learned, but ideas need to be nurtured. Photoshops' cost is its' only down side, but it is a worthwhile investment for any serious digital photographer. Another option is to use Photoshop Elements, which has the main features of Photoshop with a greatly reduced price tag.

We are at an exciting new time in the development of digital photography. The range of digital cameras available, and the creation software such as Photoshop, means that we have the digital photography technology to do great things - all we need now is imagination.

We hope you enjoy our stock photography website, and we wish you the best!

~ The Stock Photography Gallery Team

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