making the best pictures you could possibly make
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Making the best picturesMaking the best picturesYou could possibly makeYou could possibly make
Digital CamerasDigital Cameras•Point and shoot•Point and shoot
Digital CamerasDigital Cameras•dSLR - Digital Single Lens Reflex•dSLR - Digital Single Lens Reflex
Comparative sensor sizes
Comparative sensor sizes
CCD sensorsCCD sensors
What a sensor seesWhat a sensor sees
dSLRdSLR
The sensorThe sensor
Let's talk mega-pixelsLet's talk mega-pixels
The trapThe trap
Cropping in the fieldComposition withOUT
Photoshop
Cropping in the fieldComposition withOUT
Photoshop
CompositionComposition
CompositionComposition
CompositionComposition
Aperature - F/StopAperature - F/Stop
Shutter SpeedShutter Speed
Motion BlurMotion Blur
Action-blur trickAction-blur trick
Depth of fieldDepth of field
•Relies upon the Aperture. The smaller the f-stop number, the wider the lens opening, and the more NARROW the depth-of-field.
•Relies upon the Aperture. The smaller the f-stop number, the wider the lens opening, and the more NARROW the depth-of-field.
Depth of fieldDepth of field
Depth of fieldDepth of field
Depth of fieldDepth of field
Camera settings - Controls
Camera settings - Controls
Camera settings - Controls
Camera settings - Controls
• M = Manual Mode, you control all the settings
• S = Shutter priority mode, you set the shutter-speed and the camera attempts to compensate with the Aperture
• A = Aperture priority mode, just the opposite than above
• P = Program Mode. The camera will set anything you don't. Sort of a "super auto" mode
• M = Manual Mode, you control all the settings
• S = Shutter priority mode, you set the shutter-speed and the camera attempts to compensate with the Aperture
• A = Aperture priority mode, just the opposite than above
• P = Program Mode. The camera will set anything you don't. Sort of a "super auto" mode
Camera settings - Controls
Camera settings - Controls
•What do those weird icons really mean, anyway?
•What do those weird icons really mean, anyway?
Portrait SettingPortrait Setting
•Automatically sets a wide aperture (small f-stop) to narrow the depth of field
•Automatically sets a wide aperture (small f-stop) to narrow the depth of field
Landscape SettingLandscape Setting
•The opposite of Portait, shuts down the aperture to allow for a wide depth of field.
•The opposite of Portait, shuts down the aperture to allow for a wide depth of field.
Action or 'Sports' SettingAction or 'Sports' Setting
•Sets the shutter-speed as high as it can to stop motion.
•Sets the shutter-speed as high as it can to stop motion.
Night Mode setting Night Mode setting
•Sets the shutter-speed as slow as it can go.
•Sets the shutter-speed as slow as it can go.
Macro Mode (Close-up)Macro Mode (Close-up)
•Allows for close-up focus
•Allows for close-up focus
Lenses - 28mm vs 100mm
Lenses - 28mm vs 100mm
Lenses change the picture
Lenses change the picture
Flashaka evilFlash
aka evil
Only works for about 6 to 10 feet.
Can’t help in a dark room.
Only works for about 6 to 10 feet.
Can’t help in a dark room.
Fill - FlashFill - Flash
More than 10 feet...More than 10 feet...
Speaking of exposure...Speaking of exposure...
ISO - What does it mean?
ISO 100 ISO 800
ISO 800
If you can’t get detail in the brightest and darkest areas in the scene, you are better off
UNDEREXPOSING the scene by 1/2 to one stop.
If your whites are blown out (no detail) there is no way to ever
add information that isn’t already there.
In this picture it would be better to lighten the darker suit, than
it would be to darken the lighter suit. There are no details in
some areas of the white suit.
File FormatsFile Formats• RAW: The RAW file format is digital photography's equivalent
of a negative in film photography: it contains untouched, "raw" pixel information straight from the digital camera's sensor.
• JPEG: Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and pronounced jay-peg. JPEG is a lossy compression technique for color images. Although it can reduce files sizes to about 5% of their normal size, some detail is lost in the compression.
• TIFF: Acronym for tagged image file format, one of the most widely supported file formats for storing bit-mapped images on personal computers. TIFF graphics can be any resolution, and they can be black and white, gray-scaled, or color.
• PSD: Photoshop's native, layered file format. The layers enable an photograph to be built with individual graphic elements that can be moved over and over to obtain a desired result. When the PSD format is converted into a TIFF, JPEG, GIF or other graphics format, the layering is "flattened" into one bitmapped image.
I know you have questions...
I know you have questions...