February 15, 2010
the third session of the Introduction to Digital Photography workshop met February 10. session two’s assignment, white balance, was easily understood and easily completed. white balance is fairly intuitive and the assignment helped instil a good grasp of the basic concepts. the topics for session three are: aperture, and composition aperture when we look …
January 31, 2010
in assignment two we explore white balance, also know as gray balance, neutral balance, or colour balance. white balance once again we run into the man – machine conundrum discussed in the last session. the human visual system has capabilities and a sensory range that far outstrip modern technology. when we look at a piece of …
January 31, 2010
the second session of the Introduction to Digital Photography workshop met January 27. as we reviewed assignment one, it became clear that the image quality and image size wasn’t always obvious on the surface. only after zooming deeply into an image could we begin to see the image degradation and artefacts symptomatic of lower-quality JPEG …
January 18, 2010
this sessions assignment introduces us to JPEG image size and quality and it’s impact on digital developing and post-processing (printing or editing). we also look into camera RAW. JPEG digital cameras usually record images in the JPEG format. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, formed in 1982. JPEG uses a lossy compression method for …
January 17, 2010
the first session in the Introduction To Digital Photography workhop was held last Wednesday, January 13. after introducing ourselves and our cameras we shared our expectations and i presented a proposed workshop outline. the goals of session one were to introduce the software that will be used in the rest of the workshop, and to understand …
January 6, 2010
it seems hard work can pay off! i’m really excited! i have been asked to lead an Introduction to Digital Photography workshop series as part of a Healing Arts program at a local AIDS Service Organisation. the workshop has been developed from a course i took just over a year ago at Emily Carr University …