Q: I have a Verizon LG Vortex phone and I want to move my pictures off of my phone to my computer.  How do I make this transfer? A: There are generally two ways to get images off of your LG Vortex and on to your PC.  Let's look at each in turn (and if…

Along with aperture and shutter speed, a digital camera's ISO setting is one of the three variables that you manipulate in order to adjust the amount of light hitting your  digital senor. What is Exposure? Before you read this article, you may want to take a look at the exposure article first.  When you are…

Exposure.   Exposure is the essence of photography and digital photography and in my opinion, is the unifying concept in digital photography.  Now this may sound like quite a proclamation to make, but I didn't really start to understand anything about digital photography until I really understood the concept of exposure.  Note carefully as I said…

People often ask me - when buying new digital cameras - "how many megapixels should I get?".   Most people shopping for digital cameras believe that "more megapixels" equatea to a higher quality digital camera, and most digital camera manufacturers would like you to believe the same thing.  The fact of the matter, however, is that…

What is Soft Proofing? In the context of editing a photograph in a program such as Photoshop, soft proofing is the process by which you try to make the image you see on your monitor match what you will see on the printed photograph. Where Does Soft Proofing Fit in a Photographic Workflow? Soft proofing…