Photography Guide Notes

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Initial Directions.

  1. Hardware: The technical side of the camera.
    • Basic Functions of a Camera
      • Exposure / Metering
      • Aperture
      • Shutter Speed
      • ISO
      • White Balance
      • Exposure Bracketing
      • The Histogram Graph
      • EXIF data
    • Lenses
    • Flash
    • Maintenance
    • Megapixels
    • Raw
  2. Composition
    1. Rule of Thirds
    2. Golden Mean / the Golden Ratio / Fibonacci
    3. Depth of Field
    4. Point of View
    5. Leading Lines
    6. Natural/unnatural Framing
    7. Eye Path

  3. Lighting and Color

  4. Photo Editing

    1. Tools
    2. Resolution
    3. Image Format
  5. Studio Techniques
    1. butterfly lighting
    2. loop lighting
    3. Rembrandt lighting
    4. split lighting
    5. Reflectors
  6. Techniques
  • Long Exposure / bulb
  • Contre-jour
  • Bokeh
  • Painting with Light
  • HDRI

Photographers . . .

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Check to see if more students were added.

Personally deliver the second reminder note to each student about Friday.

Call students if you cannot find them.

Make sure the back room is cleaned up.

I will have more back drops.

Setup lighting for a good shoot. I bought a second bulb,  if needed.

Photography Lessons by Jodie Coston

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Here are some fundamental Photography lessons and assignments that you should check out.  It will not only help you with your composition, it will give you a little technical background.  If you are testing in Photography, make sure you know the basics because many examiners will too.  Check it out - Cornell

 

Strawber[1] Jodie Coston is a freelance photographer who lives in northwestern Montana. She has exhibited her work in gallery exhibitions around the world and has won numerous international awards for her images.

Lesson 1: Composition And Impact - It's A Beautiful Photograph, But Do You Know WHY It's Beautiful?

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Lesson 2: Aperture And Shutter Speed - How They Work Together.

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Lesson 3: The lens - choosing camera optics

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Lesson 4: ISO, Grain, Transparency vs. Negative, Specialty Films

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Lesson 5: Fun Effects - Camera Filters, Soft Focus, Zooming And Panning

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Lesson 6: Landscape, Nature and Travel PhotographyLandscape, Nature and Travel Photography

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Lesson 7: Portraits And Studio Lighting

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Lesson 8:  Studio Lighting - Still Life and Product Photography.

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Lesson 9: Tying It All Together

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Lesson 10: Special Requests

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Meaning in Composition by Kevin Ferrara

Today digital photography holds out the promise of instant mastery. Auto-focus, auto light-metering, image stabilization, infinite deletes... the list of benefits we get from today's technology is practically limitless. And it's easy to get caught up in their promise.

 

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Photographing moving vehicles By Shaun Quinlan

The art of photography involves many techniques and a wide range of equipment, and depending on your subject or intentions, it's down to the photographer to capture the subject in a suitable environment. A technique that instantly invokes emotion in a photograph is the addition of blur or motion.

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Chase Jarvis? Who is he?

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Play-By-Play Post Production on This Popular Photo

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Chase and Crew have received hundreds of questions asking how this shot was post produced, so we thought it would be fun--and a good use of this blog as a central conversation point--to do a post about it. A play by play. So let's join our retouch guru Scott as he walks us through this popular shot of mine from the desert in Dubai....take it away, Scotty...

Check it out!!! – Cornell

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/08/scotts-guest-post-play-by-play-post-production-on-this-popular-photo/

Philip Bloom’s SLR Video Work

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Check out Philip Bloom’s SLR video work, he has some really cool stuff.

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http://philipbloom.net/dslr-films/prague-canon-1dmkiv/

CLASS EXAMPLE: Portrait Professional? Making the perfect portrait?

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 What do you think of a software package that uses a formula for a perfect face?


Portrait Professional 9. The ultimate fast, easy retouching software.



Portrait Professional CD-ROM case
Make your subjects as beautiful as they can be.

Portrait Professional 9 is new portrait airbrushing software that has been "trained" in human beauty. Exceptionally fast and easy to use, and capable of the highest quality touch up, it lets you improve your photos instantly, just by moving sliders.

With Portrait Professional, it's incredibly fast and easy for any photographer to enhance all aspects of the face and hair of the subject:

  •     Fix skin blemishes such as spots or      pimples  in a fraction of the time that conventional touch up software would require.

  •    Reduce and/or remove wrinkles

  •     Remove grease, sweat or unsightly shine from the skin

  •     Subtly reshape all or any aspect of the face to reduce the apparent weight of the subject or make the face subtly more attractive

  •    Enhance the eye and mouth shape color and sharpness

  •     Automatically smooth, recolor and thicken the subject's hair

  •     Adjust the lighting on the face to make it more flattering or remove shadows from hats
This is powerful technology that you do not have to fight with, as it requires no specialist skill or knowledge to bring out the beauty in your portraits.

Blink-free photos, guaranteed.

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In 2006, physicist Dr Piers Barnes won an Ig Nobel Prize for his work in determining how many shots of group of people it would take to ensure that no one in the photo is blinking. Rule of thumb for calculating the number of photos: Groups under 20, divide the number of people by three if there's good light, and two if it's bad. Groups over 50: good luck. Read more here.
(Cautionary note: math is involved.)