1. Working with the Camera Basic Photography skills
Understanding photography and its importance in message communication/ story telling
Getting/buying a good camera
Tips for better photography
Photo editing software
Simple tips for editing photos
Organising photos
Sharing the photos E.g. printing, albums, publishing
Sharing your photos
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2. Importance of Photos Photos as a medium of communication
Capturing the humanity, nature & situation
Enhancing message comprehension (1,000 words)
Evidence (authority, empathy, humility and passion) “cameras never lie”
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3. Getting/Buying a good camera
To take photos, you must have a camera (phone)
Battery Life
Number of Megapixels
Zoom Lens
Exposure Control
User Controls  
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4. What type is your camera
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5. Battery life
This has got to be one of the most overlooked features in digital cameras. I know many people who go for the latest and greatest digital cameras which are short in the battery life department. If you want to take good photos, your camera needs to powered for extended periods of time. I've found that cost and battery life don't go together - many cheap cameras have good battery life, while some high-end models drain your battery really fast. Make sure you choose a camera that has good battery life.
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6. Number of Megapixels
The megapixel rating of a digital camera determines how much fine detail you can capture in your shots. Typically, the number of megapixels can range around from 2 megapixels to 8 megapixels. How do you decide how many megapixels you need? As a rule of thumb, if you're only interested in taking small snapshots to send via or for posting on the Web, you won't need more than 2 megapixels. If you want large print outs of your gorgeous photographs, then you'll probably want to get 5 megapixel cameras and above. You may want to refer to this guide for more information.
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7. Zoom Lens
You'll definitely want a camera with decent optical zoom. Now the keyword here is optical zoom (as opposed to digital zoom). Optical zoom physically moves the camera lenses to zoom in on a subject. Digital zoom, however, digitally averages and magnifies the image within the camera's microchip - resulting in poor picture quality. Many manufacturers' advertisements talk about digital zoom instead of optical zoom - so do be careful when choosing. I'd recommend getting at least 3x optical zoom in any camera you buy.
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8. Exposure Control
The ability to control exposure settings such as shutter speed and lens opening is critical to professional photographers. Cheaper digital cameras only allow you to shoot photos in automatic mode - just press the shutter release and voila, your picture is taken. More advanced users prefer to tweak the shutter speed and aperture to capture fast moving objects or blur the image background. Choose a camera with good exposure control if you foresee yourself taking on photography as a serious hobby or profession.
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9. User Controls
If you are getting a point-and-shoot camera, make sure you find one that's easy to use. User controls to set resolution, macro mode, flash and exposure should be within easy reach. Of course, if you're a serious photography buff who wants to take the time to tweak all sorts of manual settings, then this many not be so critical.
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10. Tips for Better Photography
Know Your Camera
Learn to control the flash
Play with the macro mode
Hold the camera level
Keep still
Use the tripold stand
Play with ISO setting (Your camera's ISO speed number stands for the sensitivity of the digital sensor. Slower ISO speeds result in less noisy pictures -- even on a digital SLR; but this is especially important on a point-and-shoot camera.
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11. Photography tips cont’d….
Have enough memory capacity
Take many pictures
Composition rules
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12. Photography tips cont’d
Take your camera along
Start off with automatic mode
Protect and secure your lens
Set your white balance (auto better)
The white balance dramatically alters the tone of a picture; these four photos were taken at the Auto, Daylight, Cloudy (or Shade) and Tungsten settings.
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13. Photography tips cont’d
Fill the frame with your subject
Try an interesting angle
Focus
Get closer instead of zooming in
Hold camera two points away from centre
Squeeze shutter slowly, gently
Relax when you push the shutter button
Avoid red eye by using flash judiciously
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14. Photography tips cont’d
Select the best from among your photos
Practice, practice and practice
Get inspiration from others’ work
Use your camera neck strap
Take photos off your memory card asap
Keep a notebook to note what worked well, captions
Ask for permission where necessary (avoid trouble)
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15. Editing/touching up your photos
There are free and paid for photo editing programs you can use e.g. paint, windows fax viewer, GIMP or buy Photoshop, downloading and installing or  Paint.NET among others.
After starting your image editor, you can remove red eye, rotate and crop the photo, play with colour, blurring effects, resize, sharpen
Converting photos
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16. Sharing photos Printing the photos Storing the photos on CD and DVD
ing the photos
Uploading the photos to a website
One of the best ways to share digital photos is to upload them to a website. There are many online photo storage sites available.  are some of the best photo sharing sites. It allows you to upload photo albums and determine who can view those albums. In addition, you get links or embed codes to share in your websites. ###
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