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The Best Tools and Features You Probably Don’t Know About

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o Camera basics - What do all these buttons do?

o The exposure triangle - shutter speed, aperture and ISO.

o Photography composition, leading lines and rule of thirds.

o Photo workflow and editing - What to do after you take the shot.

Topics Covered

o The best way to perfect something is to make lots of mistakes

o So the best way to take better photos is to take more of them

How To Take Better Photos

How A Camera Works

Camera Auto Modes

Camera Modes

Other Camera Auto Modes

• Face detection mode – waits for you to smile

• Burst mode - takes multiple shots, you pick the best

• Panoramic mode – takes wide angled shots as you move the camera

• HDR – takes multiple exposures and combines them

Main Camera Modes

• Manual Mode– You adjust both shutter speed and aperture

• Aperture Priority – You set aperture, camera adjusts shutter speed

• Shutter Priority – You set shutter speed, camera adjusts aperture

• Program Mode – You can change either, camera adjusts the other

Exposure Meter On Your

Camera

Exposure Triangle

Common Photo Mistakes

4 Reasons Photos Are Blurry

• Out of focus – try FocusMagic or Refocus

• Motion blur in people – faster shutter, more light or use flash

• Motion blur whole photo – hold steadier, lean against a wall or use

a tripod. Needs more light and faster shutter or use flash

• Depth of field – change aperture to higher f-stop (smaller hole)

Common Photo Mistakes

Exposure – Too Dark or Too Light

• Make sure camera is in correct mode

• Don’t have subjects stand in front of windows or bright

sky

• Change metering from area metering to spot metering

• Try using a flash even in bright areas

Light Metering

Spot Metering

Flash In Sunlight

Off Camera Flash

Photo Composition

• Photos need a subject and a background

• Lines can help us find the subject better

• Think in thirds not halves

• For landscapes 2/3 sky 1/3 foreground or vice versa

Landscape Composition

Not 50%-50%

Rule Of Thirds

Rule Of Thirds

Rule Of Thirds

Rule Of Thirds

** Hand Held **1/4000 Freezing REALLY fast motion, balloon popping1/2000 Birds in flight1/1000 Sports photography & fast vehicles1/500 Slower sports, runners, mountain bikes1/250 Children or slow moving animals1/125 Panning vehicles, standard portraits1/60 Panning runners and athletes

** Tripod Needed **1/30 Panning slower moving objects1/15 Capturing a little movement (people walking, slow cars, etc.)1/8 Blur fast moving water¼ Blur people walking½ Blur slow moving water1” Milky water affect1”+ Long exposure shots, night photography, star trails

Shutter Speed Cheat Sheet

Just To Be Safe

• Shoot in Raw

• Always keep an original

• Always keep photos in 2 places

Image Editing

• Lightroom

• Photoshop

• Perfectly Clear

• Topaz Labs

• Google Nik Collection

• Portrait Pro

o Save logo or text as a .png file with transparent

background

o Add to image by Place Embedded function

o Can mass edit using Lightroom or other software

Image Watermarks

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