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Making the best pictures

Learn about dSLR cameras, sensor sizes, composition, aperture, shutter speed, camera settings, and file formats to enhance your photography skills. Discover how to optimize exposure and utilize different modes for portrait, landscape, action, macro, and night photography.

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Making the best pictures

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  1. Making the best pictures • You could possibly make

  2. Digital Cameras • Point and shoot

  3. Digital Cameras • dSLR - Digital Single Lens Reflex

  4. Comparative sensor sizes

  5. CCD sensors

  6. What a sensor sees

  7. dSLR

  8. The sensor

  9. Let's talk mega-pixels

  10. The trap

  11. Cropping in the fieldComposition withOUT Photoshop

  12. Composition

  13. Composition

  14. Composition

  15. Aperature - F/Stop

  16. Shutter Speed

  17. Motion Blur

  18. Action-blur trick

  19. 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.

  20. Depth of field

  21. Depth of field

  22. Depth of field

  23. Camera settings - Controls

  24. 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

  25. Camera settings - Controls • What do those weird icons really mean, anyway?

  26. Portrait Setting • Automatically sets a wide aperture (small f-stop) to narrow the depth of field

  27. Landscape Setting • The opposite of Portait, shuts down the aperture to allow for a wide depth of field.

  28. Action or 'Sports' Setting • Sets the shutter-speed as high as it can to stop motion.

  29. Night Mode setting • Sets the shutter-speed as slow as it can go.

  30. Macro Mode (Close-up) • Allows for close-up focus

  31. Lenses - 28mm vs 100mm

  32. Lenses change the picture

  33. Flashaka evil • Only works for about 6 to 10 feet. • Can’t help in a dark room.

  34. Fill - Flash

  35. More than 10 feet...

  36. Speaking of exposure... ISO - What does it mean? ISO 100 ISO 800

  37. 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. ISO 800

  38. File 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.

  39. I know you have questions...

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