getting online through photography
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Get Caerphilly Online were asked to deliver a session around photography recently - here's Part 1 of the 3 week session that we put together in response to the requestTRANSCRIPT
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Our Aims
Our Aims
Get Caerphilly Online works with local groups and organisa7ons to provide free computer sessions to people who want get online, learn how to use the web and realise its benefits. Get Caerphilly Online combines a number of projects in the county all aimed at helping individuals, community groups and enterprises get online.
Why it’s important?
49,285* Digitally Excluded in Caerphilly
15th Worse in Wales Based on % Popula7on
* Experian 2011
Access to Support Services
Access to Opportuni7es
Benefits Communica7on
Health Informa7on
Support Networks
Top Reasons to Get Online
What do we deliver?
• Taster Sessions – Internet Taster • Structured Sessions – First Click, Second Click • CreaEve Sessions – Photography, history,
animaEon, digital stories • BT Internet Rangers
• Flexible, appropriate, informal • Specifically for people who have li8le or no ICT/
Online skills
What do we deliver?
The Fine Print
The Fine Print Digital Photography is a fun hobby to take-‐up. The internet can help you get *more* out of this hobby. Primarily, the internet is a great way to share your photos with your loved ones. It can also help you: • develop your skills, • build new rela7onships with like-‐minded people, • and even gain an audience for your work.
During these 3 weeks, together we will: 1. Learn how to take beWer photos & manage your
photos on your computer.
2. ‘Upload’ your photos to the internet & inves7gate online photography resources such as sites for advice and development, free online photo edi7ng so\ware.
3. Inves7gate Flickr, an online photo-‐sharing website
The Fine Print
Week 1 GeKng to know you... • Best bet to start is put your camera in “AUTO” mode – that way you don't really need to worry about aperture and shuWer seangs.... No7ce the screen on the camera This shows you what you’re shoo7ng.
Hold the camera up and aim it at your subject.
Put your finger on the “shoot” button
Because we're in “AUTO” mode the camera will auto focus.
Push the “shoot button gently (halfway) down and the camera will beep at you to tell you it's found a focus point.
After the beep push the button all the way down and you should hear the shutter noise go off.
Congratulations – you've just taken a photo
Take a photo
GeKng to know you...
Review your picture In order to review the picture you just took, look for the PLAY buWon on your camera. It may be a buWon next to the LCD screen or a seang where the AUTO buWon/switch is.
At this point you can either keep the picture (do nothing) or if you want to get rid of it look for the TRASH buWon on your camera to delete it
GeKng to know you...
Take a beSer picture Before you snap the picture, imagine your picture area divided into thirds both horizontally and ver7cally. The intersec7ons of these imaginary lines suggest four op7ons for placing the center of interest for good composi7on. The op7on you select depends upon the subject and how you would like that subject to be presented.
The Rule of Thirds in AcEon
Take a beSer picture
Portrait or Landscape?
Take a beWer picture
From Camera to Computer Now we have pictures on the camera we need to transfer them to our computer for storage, edi7ng, prin7ng, publishing etc.
Digital cameras don't have film but a digital disc (called an SD card) inside that stores the pictures. The great thing about this is that you can reuse the card as many 7mes as you want.
So let's get them from the camera and onto the computer.
From Camera to Computer
Keeping it Edy: Files and Folders
Let's make a folder where we can store our pics on the computer.
It's the equivalent of being able to put your hands on the documents you need easily and quickly.
So just like we might do on our real desk, we're going to set up a folder on our computer desktop where we can put everything we create or edit or input so we can access it all easily and quickly.
Right click > New > Folder < Type a name for your folder & hit return
From Camera to Computer
This process varies depending on your camera, but the end that plugs into your computer will always look like the one on the right.
Use the cable that came with your camera. It's important to keep that cable handy as they are o\en manufacturer specific and not always generic USB cables (in other words if you lose it it might cost you a fair bit of cash to get a replacement!!!)
If you can't find your cable, open your camera (usually where the baWery goes) and remove the liWle SD card. Some machines allow you to plug that straight in or you can use a card reader (not expensive and can be used for a variety of applica7ons)
From Camera to Computer
Find a USB port (slot) on the computer and aWach the cable between the camera and the computer. Switch the camera on and your computer should make a happy “du-‐du” sound.
(NOTE: With some cameras and some computers you may get a pop up screen saying something like “I have found this new device, what do you want to do?”, in which case just choose the op7on that says “Open folder to view files”, which is exactly what we are going to do next)
From Camera to Computer
Double click (Le\ Mouse BuWon) the camera un7l you reach the pictures stored on the camera:
Now we need to transfer the pictures from the camera onto the computer. More specifically we want to put the pictures in the folder we created earlier
From Camera to Computer
From Camera to Computer The copied image should then appear in your computer folder:
From Camera to Computer
Summary Make a new folder on your computer
Plug in your camera
Open the camera folder to see the pix
Drag the pix from your camera and into your new folder (copy)
When you unplug your camera you should s)ll be able to see your pix in your folder on the computer.
Contact Details
Angharad Dalton [email protected] 07941 754543 @getconline
www.getcaerphillyonline.org.uk
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