This information is designed to supplement face to face learning. Face to face sessions are of course limited in duration, here are notes for after
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ℹ️ > This webpage will continue to be updated from time to time, as Ananda comes across compelling information or ways to present that information. Please feel free to visit this page occasionally.
Revised: 11 March 2023
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🏤 Table of Contents
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Camera Phones
When whatever doesn’t work
Quick tips
- DSLRs and Live View
- Several techniques to handle high dynamic range scenes
- Canon EOS
- Nikons
- Olympus
Ask Ananda a question or two
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🗣 Ananda’ Guidelines #2: Don’t tell the camera it can’t do this or that. What it doesn’t know won’t limit it.
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Camera Models
Market Share
Product Lines
Camera Release Timelines
Camera Models / PDF Manuals / Screenshots of pages
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🗣 Ananda’ Guidelines #3: Be inclusive of brand and model. Skilful use of gear within its performance limits works wonders.
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Mirrorless bodies
Operating Insights into Brands
Second hand gear
Not buying gear
Tethering
Updating firmware
Autofocus / Focussing / Sharpness
Focusing - Getting the subject sharp
Depth of Field
Motion Blur - the other cause of unsharpness
White Balance and the management of colour
Setting / Resetting / all of the camera controls
Take detailed note of your chosen Settings
Find how to save and restore Custom Profiles for daily use
Find how to reset the camera to factory defaults
SOOC JPEG vs raw image files
What does a JPEG / HEIF / JPEG XL /TIFF have baked in?
What are Picture Styles / Picture Profiles?
Photo Editing Software
Brand specific free (raw) editors
Free web based Editors
Free desktop computer editors
Microsoft Photos for Windows
Apple Photos (and how it handles raw)
List of Editing Software
Outputs
Achieving as close as possible reproduction of tones and colours
Image File Formats
Image Colour Space
Viewing on the screen
Printing to Paper
The Editing Process
- Cropping
- Curves
- White Balance
- Layers
- Presets / Colour Look Up Tables (LUTs) / Colour Grading
- Local Adjustments
The DAM (Digital Asset Management) Processs
Software Tutorials
Output Medium
Creating Engaging Images