Beginning Digital Photography
Dorothy Dean
White Balance â—?
White balance is removing the color casts created by different temperatures of light so the people and objects in your photos are the right color
Light temperature ●
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Different temperatures of light have different colors. Measured on the Kelvin scale Different light sources create different temperatures based on their components Different times of day will have different temperatures
White Balance Examples As Shot
Daylight
Cloudy
Shade
Tungsten
Fluorescent
Flash
How to Adjust It In Camera HANDS ON! Pull out your cameras!
File Formats ●
RAW- The raw file; digital negatives
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JPG- Joint Experts Photographic Group
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TIFF- Tagged Image File Format
File Formats ●
RAW- The raw file; digital negatives ● ●
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Most flexible, has most information Requires special software to read and process NOT a finished file format Very large files
Original RAW file
After editing
File Formats ●
JPG- Joint Experts Photographic Group ●
Final image format
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Can make prints, share on the internet, etc.
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Compressed file
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Not good for editing
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All images in this slideshow are JPG
File Formats ●
TIFF- Tagged Image File Format ●
Midway between RAW and JPG
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Best for Photoshop
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Finished file format
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NOT compressed, no information lost when editing
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Larger files than JPG, smaller than RAW
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Files get very large when layered
File Formats ●
Which do you use? ●
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RAW is most flexible, but large file sizes and need for editing program can make it cost prohibitive
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JPG is finished, but you can't over edit
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TIFF is not available on all cameras
Recommend shooting in RAW when you can
Editing Programs ●
Not required for JPG, but they make your images pop
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Must use for RAW
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Think of them like a digital darkroom
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Most famous is Photoshop
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Also available are Photoshop Elements, Lightroom Free programs include GIMP and Picasa
Editing Programs ●
Photoshop/PS Elements/Lightroom
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All prices RAW images
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Photoshop/PSE used for image manipulation
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Lightroom is a powerful RAW editor, light on image manipulation
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Expensive- Creative Cloud $20/mo
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PSE is stand alone; around $100
Editing Programs ●
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Picasa ●
Google Program
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Downloadable, easy to use
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Will not process RAW files
GIMP ●
Also free
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Will not process RAW files Let's take a look at the programs....
Homework! Let's practice Depth of Field ●
2 images at shallow DOF
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2 Images at deep DOF