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10 tips that will enable you to shoot like a pro.

1. Warm up Those Tones

Have you ever noticed that your shots sometimes have a cool, clammy feel to them? If so, you’re not alone. The default white balance setting for digital cameras is AUTO, which is fine for most snapshots, but tends to be a bit on the “cool” side.

When shooting outdoor portraits and sunny landscapes, try changing your white balance setting from AUTO to CLOUDY. That’s right, cloudy. Why? This adjustment is like putting a mild warming filter on your camera. It increases the reds and yellows resulting in richer, warmer pictures.

If you don’t believe me, then do a test. Take a few outdoor shots with the white balance on AUTO to CLOUDY. Upload the images to your computer and look at them side by side. My guess is that you’ll like the warmer image better.

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When taking pictures, there are a number of choices you can make about such things as image sizes, compression ratios, and file formats. Your choices determine image quality and the size of the files you create.

When you take a photograph, the size of the image file is huge compared to many other types of computer files since each pixel requires 24 bits (3 bytes) to store color information. As the resolution increases, so does the file size. A file for a low-resolution 1 megapixel image is 3 megabytes, and at 3 megapixels is climbs to 9 megabytes, and at 6 megapixels all the way to 18 megabytes. The files become too large to easily store, transmit, and edit. To make image files smaller and more manageable, digital cameras use a process called compression. Compressing images not only let’s you save more images on a camera’s storage device, it also allows you to download, display, edit, and transmit them more quickly.

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Kane Kramer is a British inventor and business man. He is credited with the initial invention of the digital audio player which lead the way to Apple Inc.’s popular iPod music player.

In 1979 Kramer filed patents for his newly conceived Digital Audio Player, the IXI. The player was the size of a credit card with a small LCD screen and navigation and volume buttons and would have held data on a solid state memory chip with a capacity of 3:50 minutes worth of audio. Due to the limited nature of solid state memory of the time the IXI was never produced. In 1988 Kramer reportedly had £60,000,000 in orders for the device from the music industry when a coup within Kramer’s company kept him from renewing the IXI’s patent. The patent was voided shortly afterward and Kramer’s designs entered the public domain.

Kramer’s initial report introducing the IXI also contained detailed descriptions of a possible music download service over phone lines. Kramer reasoned that with freedom from the limitations and expense of physical media the music industry would be able to provide the consumer with more released material from more artists on a tighter schedule. Kramer’s system would have also allowed for the downloading of data and software.

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If you’re truly interested in making a profit from your blog, you’re going to have to do something to draw in those dollars. These are a few resources that can help you make money through donations or by placing ads on your site.

1. PayPal— Use PayPal to set up a button on your site that readers can click on to make donations.
2. Google AdSense— Google AdSense is where many bloggers make the majority of their income. Ads are both pay per click and pay per view.
3. Yahoo Publisher Network— Similar to Google AdSense, Yahoo’s ads are pay per click.
4. Txtswap— Txtswap is a program that allows bloggers to exchange text links in order to bring in more traffic.
5. Adbrite— Adbrite can provide payment for simple text ads on your blog.
6. Chitika— Chitika is interactive advertising based on the content of your site. It tends to take up a little more room than other ads, but it also tends to pay a little more.
7. BlogBurst— BlogBurst can help you get your blog published in big time media outlets and get paid for it.
8. Text Link Ads— Text Link Ads is another resource for putting text ads on your site.
9. Bidvertiser— Bidvertiser offers an innovative system where you set the bids on pay per click ads.
10. ReviewMe— Want to make a little cash on the side? ReviewMe is a marketplace for paid blog reviews.

The internet is chock full of sites that can provide a platform for your blog. There are advantages and disadvantages to all of them, so research carefully before deciding which will work best for you.

WordPress— WordPress can either be a hosted platform or one you use on your own server. Basic access to Wordpress is free of charge and there are a wide variety of templates available for customization. It also comes with some attractive features like spam blocking and integrated stats as well as numerous plugins you can add yourself.

Blogger— Blogger is a free, hosted blogging platform. While Blogger might lack some of the usability that other platforms have, it makes up for it with features like the Audioblogger service which allows you to create audio recordings for your blog using your phone. Blogger is also useful in that you can upload it to your own website, meaning visitors to your site won’t even know you’re using it as a platform.

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