Seminars

 


2008 Shoot Like A Pro - 3 days

A detailed course on the digital aspects of photography. The intent is to bring DSLR owners up to a full professional level. Topics include: Setting up a shoot: Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Manual setup; RAW vs. JPEG; ISO settings and noise level; Digital color and White Balance; Professional workflow with Photoshop; Auto vs. Manual Focus; Color profiles; and, Professional Digital Printing (with profiles).

1.Introduction - Covering details of those aspects of digital photography that differ from shooting with film.
Overview of light temperature
Overview of ISO settings for CMOS/CCDs versus film
Suggested workflow overview
Suggested tools
Demonstration of Camera RAW processing

2.How to get to know your camera
How to read the manual to learn
Learning camera mechanisms and settings
How to practice and setup a learning discipline
Shooting portraits, or landscapes, or sports, panoramics.

3. Basic Camera settings
Input (Camera) profile
ISO settings
White balance
How and when to use AF and MF

4.Understanding ISO settings and image noise

5.Understanding White Balance settings and color

6.Understanding AutoFocus modes

7.Shooting

Basic shooting techniques -
1.Flash card sizes: what size and why
2.How to bracket in a digital world
3.Details of JPEG versus RAW
4.Setup proper auto image naming mechanisms.
5.Shooting Shutter priority
6.Shooting Aperture priority
7.Shooting Manual
8.Complex images – levering your resolution
9.When to use a tripod
8.Digital Camera components
Lens
Sensors (CMOS vs. CCDs)
Full Format vs. reduced size sensors

9.File Organizations

10.Digital Color
Color spectrum
What the eye sees
What sensors see
Tristumulus – Maxwell's color equation

11.Understanding color profiles
What are profiles? - Overview of profiles.
Using profiles
- Input profile selection
- Monitor profiling
- Printer profiles

12.Digital printing
Papers
Printers

13.Photoshop workflow
ABCYZ technique

14.Printing
Papers
Inks
Printers
Printing with profiles
Product Name Price SKU #  
Shoot Like A Pro - 3 days, 9-4 each day, (Call for class dates 877-534-4278) $695.00

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