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Introduction to Digital Photography

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@peterhellberg

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basics Back to

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· Shutter Speed · Aperture · ISO basics There are really only three things that you need to learn to understand photography.

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Shutter Speed The duration the shutter is open directly corresponds to how much light is hitting the sensor.

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Aperture The larger the hole, the more light gets through to the sensor.

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ISO How sensitive your camera is to the light that managed to get through to the sensor. (Yes, it is the same ISO you are thinking about… )

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Your camera does not matter

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Until it does.

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techniques Compositional

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timing It’s all about the

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Time of the day

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right Just the light

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moment Capturing that

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Symmetry & Pattern

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& lines Angles

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Simplicity & isolation

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Shallow depth of field

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Rule o thirds

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BREAK ALL THE RULES…

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Going DIGITAL

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Mega pixels

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Image sensor formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_sensor_format

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JPEG versus RAW

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When possible, shoot in RAW

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Gear camera

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Just about any camera will do.

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Economy

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Buy good glass.

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Lenses

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Zoom lens A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a prime lens.

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Prime lens A prime lens is a photographic lens whose focal length is fixed, as opposed to a zoom lens.

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Flashes

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Don’t

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Strobist if you must

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Processing Post-

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Lightroom Aperture

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X100 [Lr] presets github.com/peterhellberg/photography

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VSCO FILM vsco.co

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Analog faux

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Old Film LOOK

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Fuji 160C

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Fuji 800Z ++

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Kodak Porta 160

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Kodak Porta 800 ++

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Fuji 400H -

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black & white

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#iPhoneography

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Instagram

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VSCO CAM

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Hosting

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Flickr

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500px

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Cheat sheet Exposure Aperture Aperture Shutter Shutter ISO ISO Try to keep your light meter at 0 Shallow depth of field Brighter Deep depth of field Darker Longer exposure Brighter Shorter exposure Darker Low, higher quality (smooth) Day High, lower quality (noisy) Night

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