WITH BARRY HAYNES
GIBSONS, B.C., CANADA
An 8 hour class for $99.00, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, taught at Spirit of Place Gallery, 459 Marine Dr., Gibsons, BC 604-886-1999 or 2214.
Bring your camera and the camera's manual!
This class will help you if you have a Canon Digital Rebel, XT and XTi, 10D, 20D, 5D, IIDS, etc., Nikon D70, D40, D??, etc. and other Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras with interchangeable lenses.
If you have a point-and-shoot digital camera, you'll also find the information in this class helpful in helping you to shoot, work with and organize your digital images.
Below are some of the topics this workshop covers:
How many megapixels do you need?
a. To make great web images
b. To make prints up to 8x10 in size.
c. To make prints up to 16x20 in size.
d. To make prints up to 20x30 in size.
Understanding picture size, resolution, jpeg compression and quality options.
How to move pictures from your camera to a computer.
How to make backup copies and archive pictures with your computer.
How to make high quality prints with your camera, computer and printer.
Shooting the pictures
a. Holding the camera steady.
b. Setting the focus.
c. Red-Eye options and their advantages/disadvantages.
d. Flash and what it is good for
e. Changing lenses
What is a normal lens?
Wide angle lens issues
a. Edge distortion
b. Objects becoming smaller.
c. WIde angle effect on focus.
Telephoto lens issues
a. Need a steady camera
b. Image stabilization
c. With portraits
d. Blurring backgrounds.
e. Changing distance perspective.
Cleaning your digital sensor.
Overview of common Camera setting options and what they do.
a. Shutter priority
b. Aperture priority
c. Landscape
d. Portrait
e. Backlighting
f. Overcast
g. Snow
One Hour Lunch Break:
Understanding F-Stops and Shutter Speeds
1. When to shoot with F-Stop priority.
a. Wide F-Stops and what they are good for.
b. Narrow F-Stops and what they are good for.
2.When to shoot with Shutter Speed Priority.
a. Taking advantage of fast shutter speeds to stop motion. How fast?
b. Using slow shutter speeds to create a sense of motion.
Advantages of shooting in Raw mode
1. What exactly is Raw mode and does my camera support this?
2. How to shoot in Raw mode and keep all shadow and highlight detail
3. Why Raw mode takes up more space.
2. More control over your digital file
3. You get to make the final choice of highlight, shadow, sharpening, etc.
4. Ability to make bigger prints
When to use a Tripod.
How to take best advantage of your zoom lens.
a. What lens zoom ranges are best and how to compare one camera's zoom to another.
b. When to use wide angle verses when to use telephoto.
c. How wide angle and telephoto lenses effect image composition and perception.
Optical verses Digital viewfinders, different types and which are best.
Basic color correction with Adobe Photoshop, Elements and other digital correction software.
a. Auto Correction Options.
b. Not re-saving jpeg files.
c. Basic, Levels, Curves and Hue-Saturation.
d. Using Adobe Camera Raw with Adobe Bridge and Photoshop to process images faster.
Using an image browser like Adobe Bridge to organize your digital images.
What you need to bring along for more than one day of shooting with your camera. Vacations, etc.
a. Portable Computer.
b. Portable CD/DVD burner.
c. Other portable camera memory backup devices.
d. Portable power sources.
Questions and Answers; Issues with your particular camera.
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