One of many questions I get not only in class but from strangers in the street. (And you thought that you ran into strange people on the street) is “Before I can even get started on editing my photos how do I get the images from the camera and into computer?”
For years we have been [...]
Thought I would add a new feature to the Blog of Friday Fix it where I will share questions from students and professionals on problems they have with Photoshop or photography.
One of the members of the Photowalk a couple weeks ago was asking about doing panorama shots. These are those long narrow shots of the [...]
As I sit here with my feet up and waiting for the Motrin to kick in for my sore knees this is all because I just walked all over Estes Park Colorado taking photos for the World Wide Photowalk. The Photowalk is the brain child of Scott Kelby with the National Association of Photoshop Professionals [...]
In the modern world of Digital Cameras one thing that comes up in conversations with other photographers is White Balance. This is code for color because today’s cameras see color differently than film cameras. In the old darkroom ages we would purchase film that color balanced as to what we were shooting. If we were [...]
Since I can’t seem to get away from the mysteries of the digital camera dial here is what is happing on the letter side.
The A is for aperture or if you have a Canon camera AV which they call Aperture Value. This priority setting allows you to set the F Stop (F 5.6, F 11 [...]
In today’s world of digital cameras we have had to get use to a new term, White Balance. With film all we have to know was Daylight or Tungsten which was outside or inside film. Film was balanced for cyan cast outside light or a red hot filament burning in a bulb for the most [...]
Before getting into the part of dial which allows even more control over the image I thought I would note what the other two picture settings mean.
The first is the figure with either a star or moon over them. This is for This setting for photographing friends or objects against dark backgrounds or at night. [...]
Going beyond the Auto setting in digital cameras.