Flash can be your best friend on a sunny day. This biplane's upper wing casts a shadow,
hiding all scale detail. In these situations use flash to "fill," or add light to, dark areas.

Advantages of Digital Photography:

• Digital photography gives immediate results. Almost all digital cameras on the market today have Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screens to give you immediate feedback on your photos. Most LCD screens show the image in real time, allowing you to compose and shoot without having to look through a tiny viewfinder. The screen also allows you to play back previously taken images so you can make sure you have the shot you want before leaving for home.
    Since there's no film developing with digital photos, the images are ready to be uploaded to the computer as soon as you arrive home. There they can be cropped, edited, and printed within minutes.

• Digital photography can offer outstanding control over your images. As you become more familiar with your digital camera, you can explore features such as white balance, ISO sensitivity, fill flash, and more. You can do all of this by pushing a few buttons or rotating a few controls. And since digital cameras give immediate results, you'll know instantly whether or not your experiment worked.
    But that's just the beginning. Once the files are transferred to your computer, photo-editing software will give you the chance to sharpen and enhance your photos. A high-end software package such as Photoshop can give you the ability to add outstanding special effects to your pictures.

• Digital photography lets you shoot as much as you like. The only limits are the size of your memory card and the life of your batteries. With a couple of good-size 64 MB, 128 MB, or larger memory cards and a couple sets of rechargeable batteries, you can literally shoot all day long, taking hundreds of pictures without stopping.

• Digital photography is more affordable than film in the long run. The initial cost of getting started in digital photography is more than traditional film. A good digital camera, a few sets of rechargeable batteries, and a couple of memory cards can cost $1,000 or more.
    However, you have all you need once you purchase these items. With digital, you basically spend everything up front. With film, you pay the cost of film, the cost of developing, and the cost of making prints during the life of the equipment.
 

Look at this issue's cover. Sometimes you have to fake it to get a great shot. With the help of others
you can capture subjects that would be too dangerous, or maybe even impossible, otherwise.