Once captured, digital photographs are already in a format that makes them incredibly easy to distribute and use. For example, you can insert digital photographs into word processing documents, send them by e-mail to friends, or post them on a Web site where anyone in the world can see them. With many cameras you can immediately see your images on a small LCD screen on the back of most cameras, or you can connect the camera to a TV and show them much like a slide show. Some cameras can even be connected to a microscope to display dramatically enlarged images on a large-screen TV. Digital photography is instant photography without the film costs! If you're considering going digital, here are a few more reasons to get even more serious:

• Going digital saves you money in the long run by not buying rolls and rolls of film and paying for development.
• It saves you time because you don't have to make two trips to the store to drop off and then pick up your pictures.
• Digital cameras instantly show you how your pictures look so you'll no longer have those disappointments a day or two later when your film is developed.
• You can view images before they are printed and if you don't like what you see, edit them to perfection or delete them.
• Digital photography doesn't use the toxic chemicals that often end up flowing down the drain and into our streams, rivers, and lakes.
• No more waiting to finish a roll before having it processed. (Or wasting unexposed film when you can't wait.)
• Once you have captured an image in digital format, you can easily distribute, organize, store, and edit it.
  

In addition to displaying and distributing photographs, you can also use a photo-editing program to improve or alter them. For example, you can crop them, remove red-eye, change colors or contrast, and even add and delete elements. It's like having a darkroom with the lights on and without the chemicals.

Free photography, photographic freedom

Although it's both the immediacy and flexibility of digital photography that has made it so popular, there is one aspect that is rarely mentioned. This is the new freedom it gives you to explore creative photography. In the 1870's when William Henry Jackson was carrying 20 x 24 glass plate negatives around the West on a mule, you can bet he hesitated before he took a photograph. We may not be carrying window-sized glass plates, but you and I also hesitate before taking a picture. We're always doing a mental calculation "is it worth it?" Subconsciously we're running down a checklist of costs, times, effort, and so on. During that "decisive moment," the image is often lost or we fail to try new things. We lose the opportunity for creative growth and choose to stay with the familiar that has delivered for us in the past. Surprisingly, Jackson had one big advantage we've lost over the last century. If an image didn't turn out, or if he was out of glass plates, he could just scrape the emulsion off a previously exposed negative, recoat the plate, and try again. Digital photography not only eliminates that nagging "is it worth it?" question, it also returns us to that era of endlessly reusable film (and we don't need a mule to carry it). Hand the camera to the kids, take weird and unusual angles, shoot without looking through the viewfinder, and ignore all previously held conceptions about how to take photographs. You may be surprised at the photos you get if you exploit this new era of uninhibited shooting. (Denis P. Curtin)

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