Understand Exposure in Under 10 Minutes A Post By: Annie Tao There are countless Photography books and classes that explain exposure, yet after reading or attending them, your photos may not have improved because…well, let’s be honest… some of us Right-Brainers aren’t super technical! I recently taught a small photography class to newbies. I tested this theory by explaining exposure to my 8-year old daughter and then quizzed her. A 10-minute lesson that will change your Photography Your DSLR camera is like your head with the LENS being your vision and the camera BODY is your brain. Just like when you look at something – let’s say, a flower – your eyes see it and send information to your brain that the flower has long petals and that it is yellow. The “exposure triangle” is about how 3 things — aperture, shutter speed and ISO — work together to provide enough light for your brain (the camera) to record what you see. Good exposure Too dark, or underexposed Too bright, or overexposed APERTURE = how WIDE you open your eyes Final Quiz:
The Ultimate Guide to Learning how to use Your first DSLR If you’ve bought yourself a DSLR and, after unpacking it from the box, you are intimidated by the number of buttons and dials, and by the thickness of the manual, it can be very tempting to put the manual down, flick it onto ‘Auto’ and start shooting. Whilst that is fine for some, it may not be long until you crave the creative control that inspired you to purchase a DSLR in the first place, but where do you begin? If you consider yourself a beginner who is unsure of how to make the most of your camera, this post is designed for you. Mastering Shooting modes (including priority modes and full manual)Understanding ISOLearning the ‘exposure triangle’Mastering Metering including exposure compensationLearning FocussingUnderstanding file size/typesGrasping White balance There’s lots to learn if you want to get the most from your DSLR but lets start by digging into each of these topics. 1. The best place to start is with shooting modes. 3. 4. Exposure compensation 5. AF-S – autofocus-single. 6.
Seven photographic hacks, one short video: Digital Photography Review Photographers love simple solutions to challenging problems. How many of us have saved a shoot with a strip of duct tape and a piece of cardboard? This three-minute video from COOPH shows seven clever photographic 'hacks' - from using an egg timer and GoPro for a panorama to creating a Gary-Fong style diffuser with a Tupperware container to creating a neutral-density filter out of welder glass and rubber bands. Some of these have been around for years - using vaseline on a lens for a soft blur effect was the staple of Hollywood in the 1940s - and just a few minutes is all it takes to see this collection of creative solutions. What's the most interesting 'hack' you've created?
Beyond the Computer: A Writer Reflects On Information Literacy I stand before 100 or so fourth and fifth graders and ask how they conduct research. Hands shoot up. It’s no surprise when the first student answers, “the computer.” For the next 50 minutes or so, we explore historical thinking from a variety of angles. While I always encourage students to think beyond the computer, it’s perfectly natural that young people—and probably most of us—turn to the Internet as our first source of information. In a November 2013 Edutopia Education Trends blog entry that discussed the ubiquitous presence of misinformation, Stanford History Education Group founder Sam Wineburg aptly referred to our age as one in which “library is spelled G-o-o-g-l-e.” Yet within this rich, confusing, cluttered, and rapidly evolving information environment, today’s fourth and fifth graders will be expected to be media and information literate by the time they are undergraduates, if not before. Encourage parents to be co-investigators with their kids.
From JPEG to RAW: A Beginners Guide to Start Shooting in RAW – The Easy Way | CHRISTINA GREVE I absolutely love to shoot in RAW format. The control it gives me in post production is a wonderful feeling. In fact, it’s magical. When I first started photography, I didn’t understand what Raw files were, nor did I know how to set my camera to shoot in Raw format. Perhaps you feel the way I did, that it’s a bit daunting, like stepping into an unknown field. It can be intimidating to try new things. Just take it one step at a time and you´ll be fine. Be patient with yourself. Image: The before and after image below shows just how helpful and powerful shooting in Raw can be. If you want to see more detailed images, and have the versatility and creative control of the editing then taking photographs in Raw can be very rewarding, especially once you see the end results. If you love to shoot Jpeg and are happy with your results, then that’s awesome. If you are a portrait photographer then shooting in Raw is a definitely a good thing. The Major Benefits Of Shooting In RAW You shoot portraits.
Unique Flower Photography Using Multiple Exposures Most of the new cameras from both Nikon and Canon now have the capability to create multiple exposures. The technique is rather simple to set up, but the results can be both unlimited and unpredictable. So try using this feature to create some unique floral images. Set-up Select Multiple Exposure from your camera’s menu. The default option on this setting is, of course, OFF. Taking multiple exposure images does take some practice to perfect, and you will have a lot of throwaways. Type of Multiple Exposure Images to Try The resulting photos you can accomplish with this technique are limited only by your own creativity. The TwistThe FillThe Shoot Through The Twist In this method, set the number of shots to three. The Fill In this method you will fill the frame with flowers by shooting however many multiple exposures you choose and placing flowers in different locations within the frame with each exposure. The Shoot Through Set your number of exposures to two. Other Tips
Photography Tutorial How to Be a Good Photographer — iHeartFaces.com Okay, a little disclaimer: This tutorial isn’t really a post about being good at photography. I wish I could boil that down to eight simple steps — it would’ve saved me a lot of time over the past few years. But I would need about 700 pages (and a lot of coffee) to write a post like that, and there would be a lot of info missing. So this tutorial isn’t about exposure, composition, finding your niche, or finding the light. Because being good is important. I’ll admit, I’ve probably broken these rules a few times. 1. Assuming you weren’t born with a camera in your hand and an innate knowledge of white balance, you were new once. 2. My mom thinks I’m the best photographer in the whole world, but some people inexplicably disagree with her. 3. I can’t tell you how often people send me links to websites where photographers dole out insults such as “Is that a pregnant woman or a man with a hairless beer belly?” 4. 5. Go the extra mile. 6. 7. No, really. 8. Know what you do best.
Digital Photography Lessons - Free Photography Course, DSLR Lessons & Tips Whether you just purchased a brand new digital SLR camera or you're still trying to figure out how to use the one you've had for a while, these lessons can help you master your camera in no time. Many people have excellent cameras, but don't use them to their fullest artistic extent. These tutorials will help you take pictures like a professional, which makes photography a thrilling and satisfying hobby or money-making business! GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THESE LESSONS...Serious study of any art or academic discipline requires a combination of tenacity, maturity and a desire to integrate each day's learning into practice.
Never forget a Photoshop or Lightroom shortcut again: Digital Photography Review Even longtime Photoshop and Lightroom users sometimes forget the myriad of keyboard shortcuts used to trigger the program’s powerful features. For newcomers it’s even harder to remember (or even realize) more obscure actions like Alt-F9, which shows or hides the Action pane in Photoshop (did you know that? We didn't) or that Command-Shift-B sets a target catalog in Lightroom. If you also consider the different keystrokes which are only available in different modules or modes, and a user can experience what we like to call 'Keyboard Overload Syndrome'. Previously the only treatment for this condition was by purchasing color-coded stickers to overlay on top of a keyboard as a reminder of its function, but now web developer Waldo Bronchart has made a web application called 'Application Shortcut Manager'. It's an interactive website that displays all the keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop, Lightroom and Blender - including the shortcuts for all the modes and modules.