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Digital Photography Books Book One Page 11: Use a self timer when you don't have a cable release or wireless remote Page 12: Use Mirror lock-up to get a super sharp picture Page 13: Turn off IS when using a tripod Page 14: Shoot at your lens sharpest aperture. that is about two full stops smaller than wide open Page 18: Sharpening after the fact. • • •
For people: Amount 150%, Radius 1, Threshold 10 For cityscapes, urban photography: Amount 65%, Radius 3, Threshold 2 For general use: Amount 85% Radius 1, Threshold 4
Page 20: Hand Held Sharp - use continuous mode shooting and one shot should be sharp Page 27: Use a Canon Close-Up Lens for a macro lens. Put it on a 70-200 lens Page 30: Black background use black velvet or black velour Page 31: White background use white paper or white mounting board Page 66: Shooting waterfalls, Switch to Shutter priority mode and set the shutter speed to 1 or 2 full seconds. Shoot at dawn or just after sunset when there is much less light or use a stop down filter
Page 70: Warmer Sunrises or Sunsets: Step One: Set your camera's white balance to Daylight. Step Two: In the menu on the LCD monitor, choose WB SHIFT/BKT (this is the white balance correction menu) and then press the SET button to bring up the white balance correction/white balance bracketing screen. Step Three: This screen features a grid where you can tweak the temperature of the currently selected white balance. Step Four: Using the Multi-Controller (which works kind of like a joystick), move the little
square grid dot two clicks over toward A (Amber), which will warm up the Daylight white balance. Step Five: Press the SET button to lock in your settings. Note: By the way, if you ever want to reset the temperature back to its default setting, just go back to the same screen (the white balance correction/white balance bracketing screen) and move the little square grid dot back to the 0 (zero) position in the center of the grid. Page 75: Use a polarizing lens for landscapes and shooting water. Buy the best you can afford. Page 82: Shooting Panoramas. • • •
• • • •
Shoot on tripod Vertically Switch WB to Cloudy Press shutter half way to set your exposure, then look in your viewfinder and make note of the f-stop and shutter speed. Now switch to manual mode and use those settings for each shot. Focus your first shot and then turn off Auto focus to keep the same focus for all shots Overlap each shot by 20% Shoot fairly quickly Use a shutter release
Page 89: Use a 1.4x teleconverter for a cheap 400mm lens Page 95: Sports photography use 1/640 or higher on shutter priority Page 100: Raise ISO to get the 5.6 to work Page 103: Sports photography use burst mode Page 105: Shoot vertical for sports Page 114: Portrait shots try and shoot around 100mm Page 115: For portraits use F11 for the best sharpness and depth of the face Page 116: Use seamless backgrounds Page 126: Sunset portraits - Start by turning off your flash and aim at the sky. Then hold your shutter button halfway down recompose the shot by aiming at your subject, but now turn the flash on and reveal your subject with the light of the flash. Page 127: Use a photoglex 22" circular collapsible reflectors with gold on one side and silver on the other side
Page 160: Be ready shot use Program mode Page 188: Color management get Eye-One display 2 from gretagmacbeth for 230 bucks
Book two Page 13: Drag the shutter to see more of the background. Set your camera to shoot in program mode. Then, aim at your subject and hold the shutter button down halfway so your camera takes a meter reading of the scene. Look in your viewfinder and see the f-stop and shutter speed your camera chose to properly expose your subject and remember those two numbers. Now switch to manual mode and dial in those same two numbers. If the camera showed a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second to drag the shutter you should need to use a slower shutter speed right? So try lowering the shutter speed to 1/15 of a second and take the shot. Page 21: Rear Sync use it Page 23: Use gels Page 24: Get the SI look. First you set the white balance on your camera to Tungsten then pop a yellow gel on to your flash. Shoot near dusk so the background sky is dark and moody. Page 36: Use 107 inch seamless paper Page 52: Always shoot in AP mode Page 58: Use a reflector (silver) to get an extra light Page 62: Super Saturated background colors. Use a black background and light it with a flash with a gel on it Page 64: Reflectors, use gold for outdoor, silver for studio. Page 91: Always shoot with their shoulders turned this goes for everyone. Page 169: For macro shooting turn auto focus off Page 184: Remember WHIMS • • • • •
White balance check Highlight warnings turned on ISO check Mode check Size (image size)
Book Three Page 17: Switch your camera to program mode, then hold expose this daylight shot. Let's say it's 1/80 of a second at f/11. Switch to manual mode, and dial it in. Now to make the scene darker you'd just change the f-stop to f/16 take a test shot and see if it's dark enough. If not drop it down to f/22 and make another shot. now you turn on your flash and light your subject. Page 22: Shooting portraits use a light orange gel over the flash (CTO) Page 66: Filters to use • • •
Neutral Density Gradient Filter - shooting landscapes Circular Polarizer lens - reduces glare UV filter
Page 116: Graduated Neutral Density Filter - use a large rectangular plastic one and hold it up to the lens Page 117-118: Shoot HDR Shoot on a tripod • • •
Turn on Auto exposure bracketing set number of shots to 5. Turn camera to burst mode Load shots into Program Photomatix Pro
Page 146: Shoot at 1/1000 for sports - to keep it at 1/1000 you need to set the ISO speed to A by looking at the LCD panel and turning the main dial on top of your camera. Page 153: Auto Track the Action. On Canon it's called AL Servo AF and you turn it on by pressing the AF-Drive button on the top of the camera and then turning the mail dial until you see AI Servo in the top LCD panel. Page 163: Rent Glass - lensprotogo.com Page 200: Copyright your photos www.copyright.gov/eco/index.html Page 225: Soccer shots: • • • • •
Shoot really low Use a wide lens like 14-24mm Use a off mount flash Switch to Program mode with flash off, aim at your subject hold the shutter button halfway down and then look at the speed and fstop. Switch to manual mode put in that fstop and shutter speed turn the flash on and put the power really low. Also use the orange gel over the flash head.
For people: Amount 150%, Radius 1, Threshold 10 For cityscapes, urban photography: Amount 65%, Radius 3, Threshold 2 For general use: Amount 85% Radius 1, Threshold 4
Page 20: Hand Held Sharp - use continuous mode shooting and one shot should be sharp Page 27: Use a Canon Close-Up Lens for a macro lens. Put it on a 70-200 lens Page 30: Black background use black velvet or black velour Page 31: White background use white paper or white mounting board Page 66: Shooting waterfalls, Switch to Shutter priority mode and set the shutter speed to 1 or 2 full seconds. Shoot at dawn or just after sunset when there is much less light or use a stop down filter
Page 70: Warmer Sunrises or Sunsets: Step One: Set your camera's white balance to Daylight. Step Two: In the menu on the LCD monitor, choose WB SHIFT/BKT (this is the white balance correction menu) and then press the SET button to bring up the white balance correction/white balance bracketing screen. Step Three: This screen features a grid where you can tweak the temperature of the currently selected white balance. Step Four: Using the Multi-Controller (which works kind of like a joystick), move the little
square grid dot two clicks over toward A (Amber), which will warm up the Daylight white balance. Step Five: Press the SET button to lock in your settings. Note: By the way, if you ever want to reset the temperature back to its default setting, just go back to the same screen (the white balance correction/white balance bracketing screen) and move the little square grid dot back to the 0 (zero) position in the center of the grid. Page 75: Use a polarizing lens for landscapes and shooting water. Buy the best you can afford. Page 82: Shooting Panoramas. • • •
• • • •
Shoot on tripod Vertically Switch WB to Cloudy Press shutter half way to set your exposure, then look in your viewfinder and make note of the f-stop and shutter speed. Now switch to manual mode and use those settings for each shot. Focus your first shot and then turn off Auto focus to keep the same focus for all shots Overlap each shot by 20% Shoot fairly quickly Use a shutter release
Page 89: Use a 1.4x teleconverter for a cheap 400mm lens Page 95: Sports photography use 1/640 or higher on shutter priority Page 100: Raise ISO to get the 5.6 to work Page 103: Sports photography use burst mode Page 105: Shoot vertical for sports Page 114: Portrait shots try and shoot around 100mm Page 115: For portraits use F11 for the best sharpness and depth of the face Page 116: Use seamless backgrounds Page 126: Sunset portraits - Start by turning off your flash and aim at the sky. Then hold your shutter button halfway down recompose the shot by aiming at your subject, but now turn the flash on and reveal your subject with the light of the flash. Page 127: Use a photoglex 22" circular collapsible reflectors with gold on one side and silver on the other side
Page 160: Be ready shot use Program mode Page 188: Color management get Eye-One display 2 from gretagmacbeth for 230 bucks
Book two Page 13: Drag the shutter to see more of the background. Set your camera to shoot in program mode. Then, aim at your subject and hold the shutter button down halfway so your camera takes a meter reading of the scene. Look in your viewfinder and see the f-stop and shutter speed your camera chose to properly expose your subject and remember those two numbers. Now switch to manual mode and dial in those same two numbers. If the camera showed a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second to drag the shutter you should need to use a slower shutter speed right? So try lowering the shutter speed to 1/15 of a second and take the shot. Page 21: Rear Sync use it Page 23: Use gels Page 24: Get the SI look. First you set the white balance on your camera to Tungsten then pop a yellow gel on to your flash. Shoot near dusk so the background sky is dark and moody. Page 36: Use 107 inch seamless paper Page 52: Always shoot in AP mode Page 58: Use a reflector (silver) to get an extra light Page 62: Super Saturated background colors. Use a black background and light it with a flash with a gel on it Page 64: Reflectors, use gold for outdoor, silver for studio. Page 91: Always shoot with their shoulders turned this goes for everyone. Page 169: For macro shooting turn auto focus off Page 184: Remember WHIMS • • • • •
White balance check Highlight warnings turned on ISO check Mode check Size (image size)
Book Three Page 17: Switch your camera to program mode, then hold expose this daylight shot. Let's say it's 1/80 of a second at f/11. Switch to manual mode, and dial it in. Now to make the scene darker you'd just change the f-stop to f/16 take a test shot and see if it's dark enough. If not drop it down to f/22 and make another shot. now you turn on your flash and light your subject. Page 22: Shooting portraits use a light orange gel over the flash (CTO) Page 66: Filters to use • • •
Neutral Density Gradient Filter - shooting landscapes Circular Polarizer lens - reduces glare UV filter
Page 116: Graduated Neutral Density Filter - use a large rectangular plastic one and hold it up to the lens Page 117-118: Shoot HDR Shoot on a tripod • • •
Turn on Auto exposure bracketing set number of shots to 5. Turn camera to burst mode Load shots into Program Photomatix Pro
Page 146: Shoot at 1/1000 for sports - to keep it at 1/1000 you need to set the ISO speed to A by looking at the LCD panel and turning the main dial on top of your camera. Page 153: Auto Track the Action. On Canon it's called AL Servo AF and you turn it on by pressing the AF-Drive button on the top of the camera and then turning the mail dial until you see AI Servo in the top LCD panel. Page 163: Rent Glass - lensprotogo.com Page 200: Copyright your photos www.copyright.gov/eco/index.html Page 225: Soccer shots: • • • • •
Shoot really low Use a wide lens like 14-24mm Use a off mount flash Switch to Program mode with flash off, aim at your subject hold the shutter button halfway down and then look at the speed and fstop. Switch to manual mode put in that fstop and shutter speed turn the flash on and put the power really low. Also use the orange gel over the flash head.
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