My key take outs from this session:
- Need to think before I shoot the photos – visualise it
- Rule of thirds is important.
You can see my other posts from #BWELA here.
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Jared Polin Froknowsphoto.com
Photography is about capturing the moment
Shooting raw
Uncompressed format
Like baking a cake jpg you have baked your cake
Raw you have all the ingredients to rebake if you want to
Aim to get it mostly right, but raw allows you to tweak it
Hard drive problems with raw
External redundant back up
DSLR all can shoot raw
Mentality of photography
Fill the frame
Get in close
Move your feet
Visualise first
Lens hood blocks out light
Put hand underneath
Use the auto screen as a way to base, look at that as a start, then tweak from there.
Too bright faster shutter speed to let less light in, Drop your USO, cutting back on your light
Spot metering – my face
Matrix metering averages
Rename all photos year month day and event
Raw engine same in Lightroom and photoshop
Photoshop allows more design
Blog photos
Blur stuff in the background
Aperture helps with this
Photos make people come back
Blow out the background so Zoom in when taking the photo
Portraits
Focus on the eye, eye closest to you if not straight on
Don’t drop your shutter speed below your focal length
Shoot portraits at 200 (in the example we were doing)
Separate the background to make the object stand out
Throw off to the side, give the target prominence
Colour caliberation very few people do that
Use leading lines
Rule of thirds
Get down low for kids
Utilise out of focus objects, to draw people in
Same techniques apply to video
Depth of field
When you shoot at wider aperture 1.8 2.5 etc the less depth of field. 22 more things in focus front to back
F8 cuts down the light that comes in to the camera, therefore need to change shutter speed to let more light in
Sigma lenses are cheaper and are good
How important is the camera body
Beginner can live with the body and buy the lens
Buyers guide
iPhone hold
More control, wrap around it and press the + volume button
Tap on the screen to where u want to shoot
Composition
Focus on icing of the cake (one point), changing angles
Cookies out of focus, focus on the milk shake, if that is what you want to stand out
Perspective – drop it down and take the shot from different angle
Watermarking
Doesn’t watermark, detract from image
Put logo on do they know it is your site
Flickr doesn’t let people use it for commercial
Put it up so it looks good on their screen
Doesn’t worry about people stealing photos
Random Tips
Personal rule don’t cut appendages off
View finder check the edges – make sure stuff not checking in or sticking out
Visual use everything you seen
Look at your competitors and work out your own personal style
Learn a style by picking things that you like and what works best for you
Personal preference to go with the light that us there
Rarely go to f4
Anticipate the shot
Prepare the lens, the camera etc to be ready for the shot
Look at examples if what you want to shoot.
Practice! Used to practice taking hockey players on the tv
Movies and tv are framed
