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I've been doing photography for about a year now and I have a Cannon digital camera.. Is this a good camera to use? And how can I get a good lighting and any useful tips to make my pictures more mind blowing or at least beautiful?

Telling us you have a Canon doesn't tell us much. They make everything from slim compacts that fit in your pocket to $8000 professional DSLRs. But they are one of the better brands and pretty much all of their cameras can take good pictures.

I don't know where you're at with photography, but you may find the links below useful. One is a simple composition tutorial; the other is an interesting discussion of the effects of light in photography.

great images are about the light quality amongst other things

get and use some lights, the camera is fine

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I am planning to own a digital camera. After a second thought, is it wise to buy a good quality cell phone with good camera inbuilt or should I get a separate digital camera. the purpose is to capture precious moments of my todler. thanx.

i wouldnt trust precious once in a lifetime pictures to any camera phone...none of them have optical zoom and pic quality is still inferior to even the cheapest entry level camera. as long as your kid is not running around and your majority of pics will be stills...get a camera such as the inexpensive canon a590is and leave your cellphone to making calls and taking "caught on cam" emergency pics.

Digital cameras are usually better for taking pictures than cell phone cameras, which have a lower resolution and lesser number of megapixels.

Plus you can usually take a video with a digital camera - with SD memory cards up to 4 GB for thirty or so dollars that's a good deal. You can get a lot of hours of video ..

I like Canon cameras. They are faster than most but make sure to get one with an image stabilizer so that the pictures won't come out shaky. There are a couple good Sony cameras as well - touch screen too!

You can go to cnet.com for reviews too :] Hope you find one you like

Your precious toddler will probably prefer shots taken with a camera phone:) Once the teen years creep in they'lll appreciate the fact that no one can see a lick in the pictures.

Nevermind an eventual wedding, your kid getting hitched, and the traditional baby pictorial everybody has to suffer through. :) You'llll have nothing to embarrass them with. :)

On the other hand, when you get a proper camera (even some compact ones are perfectly capable) you can snap great quality shots that will last a lifetime.

In other words, go for the separate camera/phone.

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I believe you need a good camera to take a good photo. If you have a professional camera you will naturally take a better photo then a newbie with a beginners point and shoot. Am I right? If not please enlighten me.

I think that you play a huge (if not the majority) part in creating a good photo. You are responsible for the creation and composition and lighting of the image. For instance I recently was at the zoo, and I was able to take a shot I was really pleased with of a Dusk Leaf Monkey: http://www.timaustinimages.com/p1072951496/?photo=h378142D4#931218132

This image only came about the way it did because I knew to expose for white tufts of hair on his head, use fill flash for the face, stop down the aperture to increase sharpness due to the 2x teleconverter being used and increase the ISO to maximise shutterspeeed to minimise handshake. The equipment was more than up to the job, but you as the photographer have to control it to make the photo happen.

Having said that the camera cannot be entirely discounted. In some instances, the shot will simply allude you unless you have the appropriate equipment. For instance, I was shooting motor racing early last year where the background was really messing and the only way to avoid this was to pan with a really slow shutterspeed to blur out the background. The problem in doing this is you get a really low keeper rate, and the only way to get a keeper is to use a camera capable of high frames per second. I used a Canon 1d mark II shooting at 8.5 fps and this worked well, see the results of super slow shutterspeed and high fps at: http://www.timaustinimages.com/p845663576/?photo=h20BBB338#549172024

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well even that professional camera cant take a pic without someone pushing some kind of button

Are you kidding me? Its the photographer. Yes a good camera helps, but its the talent that makes the good photo.

It's obviously a little of both. You can't take a good picture with a dirty lense, but a good photographer will know the right way to clean a dirty lense. I agree with you that a nice camera can benefit a beginner. If a camera is good (big sensor, quality lense) and chooses good parameters on the "auto" mode, then obviously a beginner is going to have better luck than with a camera with a tiny sensor and an auto mode that doesn't focus well in low light.

I entirely disagree with you. A good photographer can take amazing photos with a camera phone. Think of the wonderful photos that were made 70 years ago. The cameras certainly weren't that great by today's standards, but yet some are works of art (Ansel Adams comes to mind). In fact, Ken Rockwell goes into this subject in much more detail here, with comparisons and examples: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm

Both are important and it is the combination of skill, experience and choosing approriate equipment for the task that results in great pictures.

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It's mostly the photographer. A good photographer can take great pictures with any camera. This person would get the absolute best out of the camera. Someone who thinks it's just the camera would not know how to use all the features and only get basic images from a professional camera. It's in knowing how to set the lighting, focus, frame the subject, color balance, etc. Point and shoot cameras are good at automating this, DSLR's can also automate this, but the manual control really puts the person in charge to do amazing things.

Whether a $9.99 2mp digicam sold in a blister pack at Wal-Mart or a $34,000.00 39mp Hasselblad H3D II, the camera is just a dumb box. In the right hands either can be used to produce good images. Obviously the 2mp digicam won't produce images that can be enlarged to poster-size but a skilled photographer will extract every bit of its limited potential. The Hasselblad in the right hands will produce images suitable for billboards.

Give either to a person who knows little or nothing about photography and the results will be poor.

Its the photographer that makes the difference.

ALWAYS the photographer.

A good photographer with a decent camera will always get a better image than a bad photographer with a great camera.

a good photographer with a good eye. knows the insides and outs of his camera makes a good photo. good photographers can make a good photo out of only a half decent camera.

the only time i could think that the camera is more important is if it's like a dinky little 2 megapixel camera or something.

otherwise it's always the photographer and the equipment helps aid his work.

Think of what Picasso could have done with a #2 pencil.

If you have the tools, but not the artistic eye, you have nothing.

Good cameras make it easier. But creative vision makes it possible.

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