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A scrapbook can store your collection of pictures, notes, postcards, and special moments of your visited places and events. You may cherish those moments by looking at your scrapbook while remembering those times where you have experienced lots of fun with your family or friends. Here are some useful tips on how you can start a scrapbook.

1. You should write down anything enjoyable and funny that you have experienced during the trip.

2. You should make a list of photographs you take. It is important to cherish special moments and places you enjoyed the most. You can take some shots with the whole group in front of the hotel or in the lobby. Some people also take shots of significant images like the plane and their favorite attractions.
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In photography, the art of communicating by pictures or other images is called iconography. Readers often depend on iconicity of the presentation of stories that they read. There are five main functions of photos and other images, namely:

1. To attract attention

Pictures are selected to symbolize an article’s theme and are given prominence by means of size or position in the layout. Their role is to catch the reader’s attention starting with the caption, and on to the title and, finally, the text.

In trying to tell the stories with pictures, some magazines or newspapers present a “lead” picture just as a good story begins with a strong “lead” paragraph.
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One time you had only to look into a little lens and press a button to take a photo, but these days cameras are more complicated. Much advertising money is spent on telling us all just how simple and easy it is to take a photo, and it is certainly easier to load a film in the average camera now than it used to be, but you still have to know more about it. You can’t just pick up that brownie box and ready, aim, fire. There are warning lights that tell you to change your angle or adjust your exposure, to mention just a few.
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The popularity of digital cameras has skyrocketed in recent years. Every event or celebration you go to now has at least several people snapping away. Once you pay for the camera and memory cards, your costs are zero, until you actually have a picture you want to print. You can take 40 pictures of your new child, niece, nephew, grandchild, etc, and if only two good shots came out of that, then you only pay for those two.
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The first thing to do if you want to make money from photos is learn how to take great ones. In the world of commercial photography clarity sells. The subject of how to take a good photo is too comprehensive for one article, however the following is important:
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As with television and the movies, black and white pictures were first developed long before colored pictures were born.

The history of the modern photograph is much printed in monochromatic pictures, which are basically black and white pictures. The photograph back then was rendered in dark and light patches which were used to create black and white effects. The dark portions would sometimes be rendered as gray or brown-ish.
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