Site of the Day for Tuesday, January 8, 2008 Got a Digital Camera for Christmas? Learn How to Use It Today's site, from Darren Rowse of the Digital Photography School website, offers a great introduction to digital photography. Gentle Subscribers still wondering what all those settings mean on their new digital cameras -- point and shoot or the more heavy hitting SLR variety -- may find this presentation extremely helpful. "Digital camera sales look like reaching record levels this Christmas so with millions of new cameras in the hands of their new owners I thought it might be helpful to put together a series of tutorials that help new digital camera owners to get the most of their cameras. ... [I]t?s the new to semi experienced digital camera owner that this site is aimed at ..." - from the website Divided into five main categories, these tutorials cover topics such as Using Your Camera, How to Get Out of Auto Mode and Introduction to Exposure. Among the these themes are basic introductions to shutter speed, aperture, and ISO settings, while Composition gets the nod with the basics of the rule of thirds, getting horizons horizontal and backgrounds right, and photographing children. Additional material deals with the equipment itself and some interesting techniques and how-to's. Zoom over to the website for an informative collection of digital photographic primers at: http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/got-a-digital-camera-for-christma s-learn-how-to-use-it-here/ If the above URL wraps in your e-mail client, enter it all on one line in your browser or use this TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2duet5 A.M. Holm <admin-sotd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Manage your subscription and view the List archives on the web at: <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=sotd> and <//www.freelists.org/archives/sotd> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSUBSCRIBE by sending a blank email to sotd-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field.