Mad Adobe Skills - Project

WikiHow - Notes

How to Take Better Photographs

• Read the camera's manual and understand your camera, along with the basic functions of it.
• Set the camera's resolution to take high quality photos
• Set the camera to automatic modes, if you do not know any better.
• Take your camera everywhere so you can practice how to take photos.
• Go outside more often to expose yourself to different lights and shades.
• Keep your equipment clear and clean.
• Set your white balance, and shift to different lightning.
• Set a slow ISO speed, if circumstances permit.
• Frame the photo on your mind before framing it in the viewfinder. 
• Get rid of distracting backgrounds and clutter.
• Try different angles.
• Balance ISO, shutter speed, and aperture.
• To avoid blurry photo, keep still. Try not to make your hands shake.
• Use a tripod if your hands are shaking too much.
• To reduce camera shake, zoom out and get closer, turn on image stabilization, and squeeze the shutter slowly, steadily, and gently. Do not stop until the picture is taken. Prop the camera on a solid surface.
• Relax as you push the shutter button. Try not to hold the camera to hard.
• Try to avoid red eye.
• Do not take photos which require flash: try to find somewhere with better lightning.
• Use your flash only when you need it.
• Look for the best pictures, be brutal: only get the very best pictures.
• Don't be afraid of taking too many pictures.
• All cameras are capable of taking good pictures if the conditions are correct to take pictures and if you have the right lightning.
• With digital, it's better to underexpose the shot, as underexposure is easy to correct later on software, and shadow detail can be recovered.
• Practice as much as you can: aim to fill your memory card and use as much film as you can develop. Make as many mistakes as possible and learn from them: If you follow all these tips, you will learn how to be a better photographer.

Digital SLR - Notes

Digital SLR Notes

• Focusing improves the chances of capturing precise photos which emphasize detail.
• You can choose which area of the photo you are about to take to be focused, for example you can make the background much more focused and leave the main subject clear, or make the subject clear and the background blurry, or make both blurry or both clear: it depends on your needs.
• Focus modes are the various different modes that a camera has.
• Focus lock is when you pinpoint what area of the photo you want to take and focus the camera on that so that area is sharp and high-quality.
• Continuous AF is when you use the focus on the the whole picture and also when you use a video camera: it makes the whole video clear and sharp.
• Depth of field is used to make either the background or the subject blurry, this is useful when you wish to emphasize a certain part of a picture.
• Cameras have various different color settings to emphasize different colors and to make sure that colors in the background or the subject are not left behind: they are helpful because they highlight a color and make the photograph much more sharp.

Khan Academy Eileen Cowin - Notes

 Eileen Cowin's Khan Academy Video
 - She believes that her photos help her express herself without words.
- Uses imagery perspective to express herself
- Emphasizes detail
- Emphasizes visual texture
- Prefers humanistic images
- Believes that she can help people feel what they are seeing 
- Wants people to feel what they are seeing
- Her work is the idea of the relationship between fact and fiction.
- Worked in images because she became interested in the ideas of lying
- Expresses emotions through photographic imagery 
- Believes text have "authority" over visual images 
- Wants to challenge texts with visual images

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Vocabulary 3

Macro Lens - A lens designed to be a top sharpness over a flatfield when focused at close distances, and reproduction ratial up to 1:1
Manual Exposure - A camera operating mode that requires the user to determine an 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 cards can be used to store still images, moving images, or sounds, as well as related file data.
Menu  - An on-screen listing of user options.
Mode - Specified operating conditions of the camera or software program.
Noise - Digital equivalent of grain.
Pan - Moving the camera to follow a moving subject. When a slow shutter speed is used, this creates an image in which the subject appears sharp and the background is blurred.
Perspective - The effect of the distance between the camera and image elements upon the perceived size of objects in an image.
Pixel - Derived from picture element. A pixel is the base component of a digital image.
RAM - Stands for Random Access Memory, which is a computer's memory capacity, directly accessible from the central processing unit.
Raw - An image file format that has little or no internal processing applied by the camera.
Resolution  - The amount of data available for an image as applied to image size.
Shutter - The apparatus that controls the amount of time during which light is allowed to reach the sensitized medium.
SLR - A camera with a mirror that reflects the image entering the lens through a pentaprism or a pentamirror onto the viewfinder screen.
Stop - The size of the aperture or diaphragm opening of a lens, also referred to as f/number.
Strobe - Abbreviation for stroboscopic.
Thumbnail - A miniaturized representation of an image file.
Tripod - A three legged stand that stabilizes the camera and eliminates camera shake caused by body movement or vibration.
TTL - Through-the-lens
USB - Universal Serial Bus. This interface stander allows outlying accessories to be plugged and unplugged from the computer while it is turned on.
VR - Vibration-Reduction, a technology used in such photographic accessories as a VR lens.
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.

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