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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 Quirks
- Nikons Quirks
- Olympus Quirks
Ask Ananda a question or two
Camera Models
Product Lines
Camera Release Timelines
Camera Models / PDF Manuals / Screenshots of pages
Mirrorless bodies
Operating Insights into Brands
Second hand gear
Resisting Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Tethering the camera
Updating firmware
Sharpness
Focusing - Getting the subject sharp
Depth of Field
Motion blur and camera shake
Heat Haze
Managing colour
Setting / Resetting / all of the camera controls
Take detailed note of your chosen Settings
Find how to save and restore Custom Settings Profiles for daily use
Custom JPEG Recipes / LUTS (Look-Up Tables)
Find how to reset the camera to factory defaults
SOOC JPEG vs raw image files
Camera Colour Profiles
What does a JPEG / HEIF / JPEG XL /TIFF have baked in?
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