PHOTOGRAPHY

Even a cover for Breakthrough can be shot with a digital camera, as Larry Blomquist demonstrates, but only if the resolution is high enough. Larry is using his favorite, a Sony Mavica 500 (5 mega-pixels) at a 2592 x 1944 resolution, to photograph Jeff Mourning's tiger trout. This was shot at the 2003 NTA convention (at 3 o'clock in the morning) in Louisville, Kentucky.

WE ARE RECEIVING more and more of our articles and reference with photos taken by digital cameras. Sometimes the photos we receive are exactly what we need for publishing, but not all of them. I now want to provide you with some guidelines for sending digital photos to Breakthrough, as well as some tips for taking them for yourself.

At first, digital cameras may be a little more intimidating than the automatic snap-and-shoot film cameras we are accustomed to, but they are becoming much more user-friendly and thus much more popular. By the way, the film cameras are great and are by no means destined for a trash dump.

When taking photos...
 

...Continued in the Fall 2003 Issue of Breakthrough.

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