Have you ever wondered how professional photographers come up with great pictures? Well I am a shutter bug enthusiast myself and I do photography as a hobby. Besides from the fact that you need to have an eye and raw talent for obtaining great photos, photographers need to have a basic to advance knowledge in digital photography to resize, edit and manipulate their photos. Let’s go in to the world of photography and I’ll help you set up your digital cameras as well.

It will be useful first in knowing how to set up and properly use your camera. Let’s take into account that we will be using a point-and-shoot type of camera. You might find it hard to follow the article because you might have a different brand or a different camera model. We will be using terms that are common to all brands of camera.

In setting up your camera, you might see some signs or icons on your digital camera that might say autofocus; this is the fastest and easiest way to getting your camera ready to take pictures. Some icons next to the autofocus might be the macro, portrait, and night mode or sports settings. Most of these settings are in a way automatic as well, meaning that the camera is the one that will do the calculations for you. If you want more freedom and less limitations, then look for your camera’s manual setting, it may appear as a letter "M" on your camera’s dialer button. It allows you to manually override controls on your camera such as the ISO, white balance, aperture and shutter speed.

ISO is a tool that helps your camera to display your subject more when shooting in dark areas. Be careful to use a higher ISO because your picture becomes grainier and picture noise tends to be seen more.

White balance is for adjusting what the color white should look like for your camera when taking pictures.

Aperture is the opening of your shutter so that you can control the amount of light going through your camera.

The shutter speed is the speed that your camera will take a picture. All these settings should go hand in hand so that you can capture prettier pictures. Keep in mind that sometimes your camera will not be able to properly set things for you when you are using the autofocus setting.

After some tiring days or hours of shooting your subjects, you need to put them into your computer for viewing and editing. First set up the camera connection to your computer, you can use the either the data cable that your camera uses or just simply pull out the memory card of your camera and put them in a card reader. It is always wise to save multiple copies of your raw pictures. You can either save them in your computer hard drive and save copies to your external hard drive as a backup. Then take more shots and become a shutter bug addict.