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Things to know and understand before you shoot

The photographic triangle – three measurements that add up to make an exposure. ISO – a measurement of how much light is required to hit the sensor (used to refer to the “speed” of film); ranges from 100 to 1600 or more. Shutter Speed – expressed as a fraction of a second, shutter speed is the amount of time that the shutter is open, allowing light to hit the sensor. Aperture – a measurement of the opening of the lens; a large opening lets in greater amounts of light.

The light meter in your camera is your traffic cop. It measures the light coming through the lens and sets the shutter speed and aperture accordingly. YOU set the ISO. (Your camera may vary!)

Add shutter speed and aperture here

Side-by-side different ISOsShow flash animation?

Add shutter speed and aperture here

Side-by-side different ISOsShow flash animation?

Harvard fountain – 1/2500 sec;

Harvard fountain – 1/10 sec;

1/100 sec; f 3.5; ISO 500; 70mm

1/3 second; f 20; ISO 500; 145mm

Add shutter speed and aperture here

This is the introductory aperture slide

Drawing showing different sized circles representing different apertures.Image credit

Me shooting Ken – wide apertureAdd animation

Me shooting Ken – wide apertureadd animation

Some cameras have a depth of field preview so that you can get an idea of where these boundaries are, but my personal experience is that you get a better idea of DOF from looking at the image on your screen rather through the viewfinder. Then again, I’m nearsighted…

F2.2 1/1000 sec 85mm

F10 1/80 sec 85mm

F22 1/13 sec 70mm

What RAW is.Shooting RAW allows much more control over the final product than shooting jpeg does. When you shoot jpg, you are relying on the camera’s interpretation of the scene—white balance, color(imetric) interpretation, tone mapping and noise reduction/sharpening. With RAW, the converter that you use to transform the RAW image to a finished image provides all these controls. You can control exposure, contrast, and other settings as well.

Color space: SRGB

Color space: adobe rgb

color-aware browsers: safari screenshot

color-aware browsers: ffox screenshot

Know what modes doKnow how to change settingsExplore the custom settings menuKnow how auto-focus works, and how to use manual focus

The camera’s modes enable you to set which attribute to give weight to. Av – aperture value; Tv = time value (shutter speed); M = manual (set aperture and shutter speed); P = camera sets ap and shutter speed for you.

Illustrate point of focus; focus, then recompose

We talked about the photographic triangle for proper exposure. The TETRAHEDRON OF INTERDEPENDENCE includes the triangle and a fourth dimension, composition.

Rule of thirds. It’s so much easier to get a good shot with the camera than to fix it later in Photoshop or lightroom.

Shoot the subject, not the background – eliminate clutter

Change your angle

Look up

Look down

Get down low

Go up high

Illlustrate white balance and color temperature

Use the available lightPortraits inside: sit subject next to a windowPortraits outside: look for indirect light, put sun behind subjects and use fill flashLandscapes: early morning, late afternoon (long shadows)Indoors: use natural light when possible; watch light balance if depending on artificial light

Use the available lightLandscapes: early morning, late afternoon (long shadows)

On-camera flash in a darkened room: snapshot

Fill flash

Off camera, through a snoot

Bounced off the backdrop, behind the subject

Alternate sources of light

Leave your lens cap off

No flash in a room with two windows: portrait

Take as many photos as your card will hold – screenshot from at-home iMac Lightroom – small grid display, # of photos

Shutter speed should not be lower than focal length for hand-held shots with an SLR: What is important is the angle of view of the lens and the duration ofthe exposure. The rule of thumb is based on an assumption that ahandheld exposure involves movement of the camera at a rate which isindependent of other factors.Thus, as the lens becomes longer, the angle of view becomes smaller, therelative effect of a given amount of movement on the image becomeslarger, and so the duration of the movement needs to be reduced by usinga faster exposure.Or more simply, double the lens length, halve the field of view, doublethe effect of movement, so halve the duration of exposure.http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t243353-shutter-speed-rule-for-handheld-shots.html

Focus about 1/3 of the way into a landscapeFocus on the eyes if taking a portraitUse smaller aperture if taking photos of more than one person

Use 85mm+ for portraits. Wide angle distorts featuresUse a vertical or horizontal line in landscapes; get as high as possible when shooting a building to maintain straight perspective

Top ten quick ways to improve your shootingWhite balance; ISO; mode; point of focus; shutter speedSet your focus point (focus, recompose)Stop using the flash/use natural lightGet closer to your subjectExperiment with modesRule of thirds

Whatever program you choose, you should know how to change temperature, crop, exposure, contrast, dpi; how to export.

Picasa (credit: http://benjigarner.deviantart.com/) – desktop app and online albums (sync whole albums with one click)Photoshop.com (Photoshop express 2GB free)

iPhoto: http://www.apple.com/Iphoto library

iPhoto: http://www.apple.com/Iphoto editing

iPhoto: http://www.apple.com/

iPhoto: http://www.apple.com/Iphoto faces

iPhoto: http://www.apple.com/Iphoto faces – guesswork

iPhoto: http://www.apple.com/Iphoto faces – sometimes not so good…

iPhoto: http://www.apple.com/Iphoto – publish to flickr

Photoshop.com

Picnik and facebook

Picnik inside flickr

Picnik and facebook: I can edit any of my facebook friends’ photos (can I?)

RAW image converter (GIMP = Gnu Image Manipulation Program)Icon credit: Gimp: http://benjigarner.deviantart.com/

Image as editable in GIMPIcon credit: Gimp: http://benjigarner.deviantart.com/

Icon credit: http://leodime.deviantart.com/

Know your stuff – do a demo of photoshop,lightroom? * whitening teeth * brightening eyes * patches under eyes * softening skin * Photoshop tricks: curves, levels, Gorman BW, actions, scratches/healing brush, selecting with pen

* whitening teeth

* brightening eyes

* patches under eyes

* softening skin,

Photoshop tricks: curves, levels, Gorman BW, actions, scratches/healing brush, selecting with penClipping:In photography, clipping is the loss image information in a region of a photograph is brighter than what the imaging device can handle or outside the color gamut of the space used to represent the photograph. It is an instance of signal clipping in the image domain. Bright clipped areas are sometimes called "blown-out highlights". With digital cameras, the clipped area will often turn to pure white and will not contain any detail. For example, it is not unusual for a bright sky area to be clipped to white.Clipping can occur in the image sensor, where it is called saturation; or at the analog-to-digital converter (ADC); or in the processing and rendering to a standard color space. Depending on where clipping occurs, and on whether raw data is still available, the clipping may be repairable.

* light box approach to narrow * use automatic pre-processing * backup backup backup * did I mention backup?? * stay organized * exportingo printingoflickro web * once more for good measure, BACKUP!The next level: Bridge & Camera RAW or LightRoom (demo?)Management: show collections, filters, flags, ratings, metadata, auto-import and export, auto-backup

Books, links,flickr groups

Treat your manual like a reference book: use it when you need a particular fact or piece of information rather than reading it cover-to-cover. Great tutorials at camera manufacturers’ websites; photo.net; digital-photography-school; strobist; flickr. And, of course, books. :)

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1000 Words - Cindi's Slides - Presentation Transcript

know
the process
Shutter
speed
ISO
Aperture
light meter =
ISO
A
ISO
A
ISO 100
ISO
A
ISO
A
ISO
A
ISO 1600
ISO 100
ISO
A
ISO 1600
Shutter
speed
Shutter
speed
Shutter
speed
Shutter
speed
1/13 second
1/1000 second
1/1000 second
O
Aperture
O
Aperture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture
Not in focus
O
In focus
Aperture
Widest Aperture = Narrow Depth of Field
Foreground and background in focus
O
f 22
Tiny Aperture = Wide Depth of Field
Aperture
subject
aperture
sensor
depth of field
Image courtesy BernieCode: http://www.berniecode.com/writing/photography/depth-of-field/
f2.8
f22
O
Aperture
f 2.8
O
Aperture
f 14
O
Aperture
O
Aperture
O
Aperture
know
your camera
a la mode
know
your surroundings
Shutter
speed
composition
ISO
Aperture
know
the light
as shot
shade
fluorescent
custom
daylight
tungsten
know
the tricks
check
your
WIMPS
know
the software
know
your stuff
know
your workflow
know
your resources
READ
Understanding Exposure,Bryan Peterson
The Digital Photography Book (vol 1 & 2),Scott Kelby
Real World Camera RAW,Bruce Fraser
The Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers,Scott Kelby
Exposure Photo Workshop,Jeff Wignall
Lighting Photo Workshop,Chris Bucher
your camera’s manual!