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Basic Photography
Image Control
Composition Hints & tips
The Secret For Getting Better Shots

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Index
1. 2. 3. 4. a) b) c) d) 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Camera Categories & Sensors Crop factor QuestionsTo Ask? Image Control (Exposure)
Aperture Depth Of Field (DOF) Shutter Speed ISO

Exposure Compensation DOF vs Action Stopping Composition Types Of Photography Basic Workflow (Adobe Lightroom)
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1. CAMERA CATEGORIES
Point-and-Shoot
Cameras

Single use

Advanced Compact

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Professional Cameras
DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex)
Full Frame

Medium Format

Large Format
Cropped Body

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Sensors

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2. Crop Factor

Crop factor describes the size difference between a 35mm film frame and your camera's sensor. You can calculate your camera's crop factor by dividing the diagonal length of a 35mm frame by the diagonal length of your camera's sensor.
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Effective Focal Length

Focal Length (equivalent to 35mm)

Crop Factor

1.3X
Canon 13 mm 46 mm

1.5X
Nikon 15 mm 53 mm

1.6X
Canon 16 mm 56 mm

2X
20 mm 70 mm

10 mm 35 mm

50 mm 100 mm

65 mm 130 mm

75 mm 150 mm

80 mm 160 mm

100 mm 200 mm

400 mm

520 mm

600 mm

640 mm

800 mm

For example, a 50mm lens on a 1.5 crop factor camera has an effective focal length of 75mm, because 50 x 1.5 = 75. If you fitted a 75mm lens to a 35mm camera, you'd get a photo with the same field of view.
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Lenses are the most powerful compositional tool at your disposal. Standard lens is 50mm. Wide-angle lenses less than 35mm. Ultra wides lenses less than 20mm. Telephoto lenses more than greater than 50 mm. Extreme telephotos lenses longer than 400mm.

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It's not the camera, but who's behind the camera.

3. Questions to Ask?
Do you plan to edit your photos?

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Are you a photo hobbyist?

How often do you plan to upgrade? Are you going to be a professional?

4. Image Control (Exposure)

a) Aperture b) Depth Of Field c) Shutter Speed d) ISO
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f/22 f/16 f/11 f/8 f/5.6 f/4 f/2.8

Aperture
A hole or an opening through which light travels.

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Depth Of Field
What it depth of field ( DOF ) ?
The zone of sharp focus in a photograph that extend beyond and in front of the point you actually focus the lens on.

Varying depth of field There are three factors reduce or increase DOF: The Aperture The Focal length of the lens. The distance between your lens & the subject.
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f/16 VS f/2.8

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Shutter Speed

Amount of time the picture is exposed Short/Fast shutter speed Long/Slow shutter speed

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1/8th

1/30th

1/60th

1/500th

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ISO
the measure of a digital camera sensors sensitivity to light a higher number indicates higher sensitivity This is usually expressed as a range, ISO 100 -1600. A higher sensitivity allows us to take pictures in low light without using flash Higher ISO causes more "noise" than lower ISO

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5. Exposure Compensation

Exposure

f/Stop
Decrease the f/stop No. ( Less DOF) f/1.2, f/1.8, f/2.8 Increase the f/stop No. ( More DOF) f/8, f/11, f/22

Shutter Speed
the Shutter Speed (give more time)
1/30s,1/15s,1/8s

ISO
Increases the ISO (Less Quality) 800,1600,3200 Decrease the ISO (More Quality) 50,100,200
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Decrease

More Light

Less Light

the Shutter Speed (give less time)

1/125s,1/500s,1/2000s

Increase

6. Depth-of-Field vs Action Stopping

f / Stops
Increase Depth-of-Field

Shutter Speed 1/1000 1/500 1/250 1/125 1/60 1/30 1/15

Decrease Action Stopping

f/32 f/22 f/16 f/11 f/8 f/5.6

Increase Action Stopping

Decrease Depth-of-Field

f/4

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7. Composition Tips
Turn the camera on its side.
You can take two ( upright and horizontal )

Deciding which lens to use.

Zoom, normal or wide lens.

Isolating details.
Use your telephoto lens ( telezoom ) to isolate details.
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 What to focus on ?
You decide. You always focus in the middle of the picture. Try to focus on off-center subject , often results in more interesting images.

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 Avoiding flare.
When you shot against The light.

Filling the frame with your subject.

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The Rule of Thirds

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Peoples eyes usually go to one of the intersection points most naturally rather than the centre of the shot.

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Unusual Angles.

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Quality of light and weather conditions.

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Using Colors
Harmonious colors.
Colors that are closed to each other on the color wheel.

About colors Symbolism:

Blue can also symbolize peace, calm, stability, and security. Green can represent nature, the environment, good luck, and youth. Red can represent love, energy, fire, bad luck. White can represent reverence, purity, simplicity, peach, and humility. Yellow can symbolize joy, happiness, and hazard.
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You can make a good photos in a park or even in your room.

Something from nothing.

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 Abstract

eye.

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 Looking for pattern. Framing your subject.

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Look up, Look down

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Lines leading the eye

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Break the rules

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8. Types of photography
Landscape Portrait & Fashion Still Life Micro Wildlife Sports and action Vacation and travel Wedding & Events Advertising/Editorial Photojournalism Documentary Aerial & Underwater

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9. Basic Workflow
Using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Step one: Importing photos correctly.

Ctrl+Shift+I (cmd+Shift+I)

Step two: Add Metadata and keywords.

Professional photographers always make sure their work saved with metadata for copyright purposes.

Step three: Review your imges. Press (P) to pick, (X) to reject photos

Rate your photos from 1-5 stars (1,2,3,4,5)

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In the Develop Module Step Fourf: Develop your photos, enhance your colors, adjust your photos high lights & shadows... You can copy all the attributes (your editing) of any image to another by just a copy & past!

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Step Five: Useing the Presets Panel! Presets are One-Click Edit for your photos.

Step Six: Exporting your photos.

and enhancing your photos go to File+Export & youll see this dialogue box.

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Step Siven: Make your own watermark.

From the exporting dialogue box, go down to watermarking, mark on the check box and select Edit watermarks...

Write your own watermark as a text, or you can add your graphic watermark. you can resize it, add transparent.

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Find your creative voice

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Finally.. Do your homework

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Thank you
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