Class4(1)
- 1. Course on In Embassy of Finland, Nairobi, June 2012 Seppo Toikka
- 2. This course consists of: 7)Basic ideas and concepts in photography 8)Digital photography technique 9)Composition and subjects in photography 10)Digital editing, workflow examples 11)Other topics requested by you
- 3. Digital editing Happens in two places… In the camera, when you take a photo On your computer, using an editing software
- 4. What does the camera do? Camera processes the image that is saved to the memory card Camera adjusts image contrast, saturation, sharpness, white balance, noise reduction
- 5. Image size, type & quality JPEG, TIFF, RAW Image size: small, medium, large Quality: low, medium, high
- 6. What settings should I use? Use JPG, unless you specifically know you want RAW Medium size is enough, unless you want to do digital cropping or huge prints Use highest quality, unless file size is a problem and you won’t print the photos
- 7. From camera to computer Memory card reader is your best friend Remember backups! Keep things organized
- 8. Example workflow Copy images from camera to computer hard drive and an external drive Folder year -> month -> date+place Go through the images in a viewing/ editing software – flag good photos, delete failed fotos, ignore the rest
- 9. Example workflow (cont.) Delete all but flagged photos from computer hard drive Back up computer hard drive Delete images from camera memory card
- 10. Digital editing Why edit photos? Simple answer… Photos will look better!
- 11. Contrast & Saturation Contrast emphasizes bright and dark areas in the photo that are close to each other Saturation increases color depth, Makes colors more vivid
- 12. Normal +33% contrast +33% saturation +33% contrast & +33% saturation
- 13. More digital editing Exposure, Highlights and shadows White balance (RAW > JPEG) Image resizing, cropping
- 14. What programs to use? Windows image viewer Picasa (recommended), Photoscape, iPhoto (Mac) Avoid camera manufacturer software!
- 15. How to share? Picasa web (Google), Dropbox Resize & change pixel density (DPI) – image height 1080px, 72DPI If you want to print photos/book, use software to ensure best quality (colors)
- 16. Cropping A picture within a picture Second chance to get a good composition! Utility depends on the size of the original photo and the intended use of the cropped image
- 19. Collections and photosets Different photosets for different use Photosets tell a story What story do you want to tell? You’re the artist – use your artistic freedom
- 20. Photosets and consistency With every bad photo, the viewer loses interest Put the best photos to the beginning and to the end Remember that the viewer does not have the same emotional attachment to the situation where you took that photo
- 21. OK. It’s Q&A time.
- 22. Forget the rest, just remenber this: Photography is all about light, respect the light Before pressing the shutter button, stop and think what you are doing After copying the photos to your computer, look them through – think what was good and whan can be improved. That is the only way to learn!
- 23. Online photocoursenairobi.wikispaces.com Slides, example photos with explanations, glossary seppo.i.toikka@gmail.com