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Instructor: Al Mierau and Assistant: Jen Allan

Photography Basics II and III

Juanita Darlene Duncan May-June 2010

           Links to Lessons are below             
Photography II Photography III

Week 1 II


  • Introduction to Exposure
  • Using your camera on manual exposure mode
  • What is a lens
  • Equipment recommendations for successful nighttime photography
  • Histograms. What they are, and how to make use of them in your digital images

Week 1 III


  • Definition of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Panorama Images
  • Review of various software
  • How to photograph images to produce a good looking panorama image
  • JPG vs RAW images

Week 2 II


  • Exposure - Understanding the Effect of ISO on your exposures
  • Creatively Correct Exposures - how to get them
  • Cover your ground images- Foreground, middle ground & background
  • Depth of Field Studies

 


Week 2 III


  • More work on panorama images
  • Aperture control of your camera and setting your camera for bracketed shots
  • Examples of bracketed images

Week 3 II


  • Minimizing Depth of Field
  • Aperture and Macro Photography

Week 3 III


  • Creating your first HDR images and a review of screen shots on how this was accomplished

 


Week 4 II


  • Landscape- Nature- Sunrise & Sunsets - Night time images - White Balance - Available natural lighting
  • Sunsets and Sunrises - get those deep colors
  • Landscape tips

Week 4 III


  • Creating more HDR images

Week 5 II


  • Digital noise
  • Perspective Control and Cures
  • The Importance of Light

Week 5 III


  • Creating a HDR panorama image
  • Creating a HDR image using only one JPG image

Week6 II


  • Portrait Photography, exterior and interior studio
  • Studio lighting and set up ideas

Week 6 III


  • Combining your differently exposed images into one image with details in shadows and highlights using Photomatix 3.2.6
  • HDR black and white
  • HDR black and white panorama images