Lightroom Notes

• RAW gives you more than jpeg
• you can fix highlights, exposure, light balance if you think the picture is wrong
• can correct exposure stops easily
• its better to be over exposed than under exposed so its easily to recover 
• some cameras can shoot RAW and jpeg 
• best for photographers and one you know how to use it makes life a lot easier

RAW Camera Format and Photography

Advantages of RAW

• Higher in dynamic range
• More control over image
• Correctable

Disadvantages of RAW

• Waiting for photo to be processed  on computer

Advantages of JPEG

• Sharper
• Processed by camera
• Smaller image

Disadvantages 

• Lower in dynamic range

1. Using RAW doesn't retain any data and is stored in the camera without compressing... meaning it takes up more space.

2. Once processed on a computer you can manipulate white balance, contrast, highlights, shadows and colors.

3. Not all cameras have RAW, and you will need a higher memory SD car, and you can convert RAW to JPEG but not the other way around. 

4. Most of a photographers time goes in editing, if your not willing to take the time to make a photo better than RAW isn't good for you.

First Free Shoot

Matthew is posing for the camera while i get a shot of him and his skateboard

Matthew fell on his butt after this shot but i liked it because of the angle

Matthew grinned the rail and did a back side 180 off

I was really happy with this project because it was fun and i got to better myself at photography.

I got to many photos of mergers and not enough with my subjects face.

I learned how to shoot better photos and with better quality

Free shooting plan

My subject will be someone skating 

My hope is shooting it at south park meadows

Outdoors

Somewhere around late morning or noon

The lighting will probably be sunny if not pretty close to it

A tripod and a camera and maybe a fish eye lens if possible

I will try and get around 5-10 photos

Sunny 16 Rule

We should learn to use the sunny 16 rule because everyone who is a photographer should know the basic rules of photography and to have knowledge of exposure and the camera functions.

You should use 1/100 iso to start with

Aperture, Shutter speed, ISO

Aperture

1. The opening of the lens
2. The smaller the aperture the bigger the opening, the bigger the aperture the smaller the opening
3. Aperture Affects depth of field,and your focus 
4.  3.5-36 

Shutter Speed

1.
Day time
a) Dunking contest-1600
b) Food eating contest -800
c) Rock climbing - 400
d) Booth - 600
e) Dj - 600
f) Diamonds performance - 1600

  Night time
a) Dunking contest -1200
b) Food eating contest - 400
c) Rock climbing - 200
d) Booth - 400
e) Dj - 400
f) Diamonds performance -1200

2.

• Aperture Priority - you put the aperture and the camera automatically adjusts the shutter speed
• Shutter Priority - you put the shutter speed and the camera automatically adjusts the aperture
• Manual - you have to set both aperture and shutter speed

3.
Bulb-1/4000

ISO

1. the pictures will come out less blury 

2. having lower iso will make it come out more clear

3. having higher iso will make it come out less clear 

4. 100-6400 iso

200 iso

3200 iso

Camera Slim

F4 - best with 1/125th of a second.

The background is blurred out, but is more in focus. Still cant tell what the background is.

F5.6 - best with 1/60th of a second.

The background is still blury  but coming into focus, you can see shapes and colors.

F8 - best with 1/60th of a second.

The background became a little darker, but is still blurred. 

F11 - best with 1/60th of a second.

You can now see what the background is, which are buildings. Their is just a little blur.

F16 - best with 1/30th of a second.

The background barely has any blur. 

F22  - best with1/15th of a second.

Now the background is more focused, the two people are a little blurry.

Slower shutter speeds means the  subject will start to blur out. the photographer can use a higher shutter speed. i think the lowest shutter speed a camera man would use is 1/125th of a second or 1/100th of a second.

Composition Shoot

Background

Creating depth

Cropping

Framing

Leading Lines

Patterns

Rule of Thirds

ViewPoint

Photo Composition

1. Rule of thirds

2. Balancing Elements

3. Leading Lines

4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)

5. Viewpoint

6. Background

7. Create depth

8. Framing

9. Cropping

10. Mergers and avoiding them

Your kind of photography

Travel

i would like to do travelog because going out to see the world and having adventures to get the right picture would be fun and a new experience, not everyone gets the chance to travel the world and see beautiful sights like Paris, France or Rome, etc. i would also like to do travelog because theres never the same picture to take you can take new photos and never get bored doing it.

http://digital-photography-school.com/canadian-travelogue-nova-scotia-peggys-cove

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