Free Photos, Set 07: 104 Mixed Pictures
Set 07 of the BigFoto library: 104 free photos of chess, board games and toys, signs, winter scenes, lakes, trees and stones, Swiss town life with alphorn players, and textures, grouped by subject below. Click any photo to see it large and download it.
How to download: click a photo to see it large, then use Download. The originals are about 1200 × 800 pixels: right for blog posts, slides, social media, school projects and video call backgrounds.
Games and toys
Chess, dominoes, backgammon, dice and board games, mikado sticks, a tennis racket, toy spaceships and wizard hats.
Signs
Children crossing, no U-turn, keep off and camping signs, a hospital star of life, ice hockey players and a toilet sign.
Winter
Snowy trees by a lake, a frozen landing stage, tyre tracks, a red umbrella in the snow, a chair lift and a snow cannon.
Lakes, trees and stones
A cable car over the forest, boats on a lake, contrails at sunset, autumn leaves, a hut on a green slope and river stones.
Town and everyday life
Alphorn players, a timber-framed house, a butcher’s shop, a cat on a bin, portable toilets, stone faces and a lion door knocker.
Objects and textures
Chains, glasses, a starfish pendant, a beer can, grating, stone surfaces, firewood and motion blur.
About photography
Sensors
The sensor in a digital camera is equivalent to the film in a film camera. Basically, the larger the sensor the better the image. Large sensors provide more light per pixel (picture element) permitting lower “noise” (grainy effect) and higher quality of contrast and colour. Sensor sizes can be grouped into small and large.
Small sensors range between 4x3mm and 7x5mm. High-end compact cameras generally use a sensor size of 7x5mm, which is three times the size of a 4x3mm. Ultra compact cameras with a reasonable zoom use the smaller size sensors, putting convenience before image quality.
Large sensors range between 18x14mm (four thirds) and 36x24mm (full frame) and are mostly used in single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras. These sensors provide images of high quality, with the disadvantage of making cameras more bulky.
Memory cards
Memory cards are used to store information from cameras and other devices. They use flash memory, a non-volatile computer storage chip with memory that can be erased and reused and which requires no power to store data recorded to it.
As with most advanced technology, the cards have reduced in price whilst improving in performance and capacity. Memory cards come in various sizes regarding capacity and transfer speeds. Capacity is usually given in gigabytes (GB), whilst speed is sometimes given in megabytes per second (MBPS) or with an x suffix such as 100x, where 1x equals 150kbps. A 100x speed is thus equivalent to 15MBPS.
The class system of SD (Secure Digital) cards is simpler. A class 2 card has a minimum transfer rate of 2MBPS, a class 4 card 4MBPS and so on.
More free photos
- Free photos, set 06
- Free photos, set 08
- Free winter pictures
- Free sport pictures
- Free stone textures
- Free wood textures
Questions about set 07
Can I use these photos for free?
Yes, for personal and commercial projects. All we ask is a link back to BigFoto.com; the box at the top of the page has a credit link you can copy.
Why is this a mixed set?
These photos were added to the library in batches of about a hundred and did not fit one theme or place. They are grouped by subject on this page; the sets before and after it hold more of the same kind of everyday pictures.
