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Focus Points

• The squares in the view finder are focus points.
• It allows the camera to focus on objects in different parts of the frame.
• Default is the focus is in the center
• Usually focuses to the closest object to the lense.
• You can manually choose to use certain focus points.
• This allows for nicer photos.

Depth-of-field Preview

• Depth of field button will stop the lens down to the aperture that you've set on the camera,but the image will look much darker in the viewfinder.
• This will help make out more detail in the photots.
• Depth of field is better when the image is static.
• Much more effective on a tripod.

Metering Modes

• Spot metering is aiming for midtones.
• There are multi-segment metering produces good results in most situations.
• Still can produce overexposed results.
• Spot metering is to have precise control over your metering.

Colour Settings

• Colour settings for tweaking photos.
• Colour can increase the sharpness in photos.
• Too much sharpening will result in unwanted halos.
• Mono/sepia are two things to be aware of.
• Don't use them too much.

Custom White Balance

• Use this to adjust lighting.
• Helps enhance colors in the photos.
• Especially good for mixed lighting conditions.

Flash Compensation

• Can be good and bad.
• If too much it will look really bad.
• Too low then it will be too dark.
• Must be just right.
• External flashgun can help you control your flash.

How To Take Better Photographs

Understanding Your Camera

• Read the manual to learn
• Learn what each controt, button, and menu does.
• Learn the basic actions on the camera such as flash and zoom
• Learn about shutter and aperature.

Getting Started

• Set the camera's resolution to take high quality photos at the highest resolution possible.
• Low resolution photos look bad.
• Get a bigger memory card for high resolution photos.
• Use the fine quality setting.
• Play with the auto mode then move to more manual modes.
• Play with manual if photos become poorly focused or exposed.

Finding Photo Opportunities

• Take your camera everywhere.
• If you have your camera all the time you can get every opportunity for photos.
• Remember to bring spare batteries.
• Go out and take photos.

Using Your Camera

• Keep the lens clear of anything that will obscure your photo.
• Set your white balance.
• White balance must be fixed in different lightings.
• The default is "auto" on the camera.
• Set a slower ISO speed if needed.
• Slower ISO makes less noisier photos.
• If slow ISO must be slow shutter speed also.

Taking Good Photographs

• Compose your shot thoughtfully.
• Frame the photo in your mind in the view finder.
• Try not to let anything cut the picture in half (horizon lines).
• Don't have distracting backgrounds clutter.
• Try to blur the background for a better effect.
• Fill the frame with your subject.\
• Try different angles.
• Focus is key
• Only manual focus if auto is having issues.
• Balance in ISO, Shutter, and Aperture
• ^ These will effect the photo tremendously.

Avoiding Blurry Photos

• Keep still
• Maybe use a tripod
• Use image stabilization
• Zoom out
• Hold the camera at two points away from its center.
• Prop up on something.
• Relax when you push the shutter button.

Using the Flash

• Avoid red eyes.
• Red eye happens when your eyes dilate in lower lighting.
• Only use flash when you have to.
• Flash can make pictures ugly in poor light.

Keeping Organized and Gaining Experience

• Go through your photos.
• Judge your photos brutally.
• Keep practicing.
• Take a lot of photos.

10 Summer Themed Photos

 Sun Too Strong In The Summer

 Pool Gate

 Someone Wrote This With A Plane Over The Beach

 Beach

 Beach Is Always Cool

 Pool

 Summer Flowers

 Walk In The Park

 Drink To Cool Off

Back To The Beach

Food

The Habit: We went to a place called the Habit.

Burger: Burgers are OP.

 Onion Rings: Probably the best I had.

 Fries: The fries were also pretty good.

 Cup: Lovely picture of a cup ^_^

 Condiments: Ketchup :P

Birthday Cake: Birthday cake for Babe ^_^

 Desert: I forgot what this was... I think it was a creme brulee.

 Steak: I made a steak.

Chicken: Made a chicken sand which.

Project II. Photoshop Skills

 Clone Original 1

 Clone Original 2

 Clone Original 3

 Clone 3 in 1 (Finished)

 Black and White Original

 Black and White (Finished)

 Clone Original

 Clone (Finished) - Credit also to Vivian for the idea

 Crop (Finished)

 Crop Original

 Drawing Original

 Drawing (Finished)

 Liquify (Finished)

 Liquify Original

 Over Saturated Original

 Over Saturated (Finished)

 Dodge and Burn Original

Dodge and Burn (Finished) 

 Text Original

 Text (Finished)

 Wrong Colors Original

Wrong Colors (Finished)

Vocabulary 3

Wide-Angle Lens: A lens that produces a greater angle of view than you would see with your eyes, often causing the image to appear stretched.

VR: Vibration Reduction, a technology used in such photographic accessories as a VR lens.

USB: Universal Serial Bus. This interface standard allows outlying accessories to be pligged and allows outlying accessories to be plugged and unplugged from the computer while it is turned on.

TTL: Through The Lens.

Tripod: A three-legged stand that stabalizes the camera and eliminates camera shake caused by body movement or vibration.

Thumbnail: A miniaturized representation of an image file.

Strobe: Abbreviation for stroboscopic. An electronic light source that produces a series of evenly spaced bursts of light.

Stop: To stop.

SLR: A camera with mirror that reflects the image entering the lens through a pentaprism or pentamirror  onto the view finder screen. When you take the picture, the mirror reflexes out of the way, the focal plane shutter opens, and the image is recorded.

Shutter: The apparatus that controls the amount of time during which light is allowed to reach the sensitized medium.

Resolution: The amount of data available for an image as applied to image size. It is expressed in pixels or megapixles, or sometimes as lines per inch on a monitor or dots per inch on a printed screen.

Raw: An image file format that has little or no internal processing applied by the camera. It contains 12-bit color information, a wider range of data than 8-bit formats such as JPEG.

RAM: Random Access Memory which is a computer's memory capacity, directly accessible from the central processing unit.

Pixel: Derived from picture element. A pixel is the base component of a digital image. Every individual pixel can have a distinct color and tone.

Perspective:  The effect of the distance between the camera and image elements upon the perceived size of objects in an image. It is also an expression of this three-dimensional relationship in two dimensions.

Pan: Mocing the camera to follow a moving subject.

Noise:  The digital equivalent of grain . It is often caused by a number of different factors, such as high ISO setting, heat, sensor design, etc. Though usually undesirable, it may be added for creative effect using an image-processing program.

Macro Lens: a lens designed to be at top sharpness over a flat field when focused at close distances and reproduction ratios up to 1:1

Manual Exposure: a camera operating mode that requires user to determine and set both the aperture and shutter speed, This is the opposite of automatic exposure.

Megabyte: just over one million bytes

Megapixel: A million pixels

Memory: The storage capacity of a hard drive or other recording media

Memory Card: typical recording medium of digital cameras. Memory rcards can be used to store still images, moving images, or sound, as well as related file data. There are several different types , e.g., CompactFlash, Smartmedia, xD, Memory Stick, etc. Individual card capacity is limited by available storage capacity as well as by the size of the recorded data, such as image resolution

Menu: An on-screen listing of user options.

Mode: Specified operating conditions of the camera or software program

Shadows

 The Shade: It was hot, and we needed shade.

 Shadow on the Ground: Close up on the ground.

 Shadow With a Leg: Close up on the ground shadow with a leg in the way.

 Shadow Plant: Spikey shadow of a plant.

 Sitting and Shadow: Chillin on a rail and we made a shadow.

 Shadow Tree: Big tree shadow

 Shadow Lamp: The big lights casting a shadow.

 Shadow Half-Naked Tree: The tree was a little bare, but it still made a good shadow.

 Shadow Photographer: Took a photo of my own shadow.

Shadow Footsteps: Took a photo of someones shadow while walking