April 2, 2010
the first part of the in-person version of session six of the Introduction to Digital Photography workshop was spent reviewing session five’s assignment – composition. this is the last session that is based on camera technology – the flash. flash photography there are many ways to light a scene or subject for a photograph and …
March 12, 2010
in session four we looked at shutter speed as a component of exposure and using shutter speed creatively. before we get into the assignment for this session i want to revisit the discussion on exposure and ISO and to introduce exposure compensation and histograms. exposure and ISO we have learned that exposure value (Ev) is …
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
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 …