Photography 101 a BYC taught class *NEW Lesson on Pg. 21*COLOR*

[Kavaji]

This is such a great idea. Can't wait to get started.

 

[peewee]

I can't wait for this. I just love photography.

 

[artsyrobin]

count me in!!

 

[MaggieRae]

Sounds good.

Chickerdoodle13 brought up the rule of thirds. I really don't worry too much about this when taking the picture because I can always go back and edit the rule into it after the shot. I've seen a lot of folks miss shots because they couldn't get it framed "just right".

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

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That is true. Unless you are me and just take 500 pictures of the same thing!

(And yet somehow I still manage to miss shots)

I actually don't care much for post processing so I usually try to frame when I'm taking the picture. I don't know WHY I don't like cropping as it's really, really simple to do. I just hate opening up photoshop I guess because it slows down my computer.

The one thing I really liked about rule of thirds is that thinking about it while shooting can sometimes give you an idea for a different position or angle (Talking mostly about "still" things like flowers or landscape). Sometimes just moving the camera a few inches can give you a real attention grabber to draw in your eye to the main subject.

 

[FourPawz]

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For anyone scratching their heads, wondering just what the heck the rule of thirds is, here's a nifty little animation that explains the concept:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rivertree_thirds_md.gif

 

[Kavaji]

Interesting

 

[mississippifarmboy]

I'll volunteer to let ya'll take pictures of all my chickens for practice.

Really, just posting so I can follow and learn.
Cause I'm camera stupid
Really
But I did finally figure out which button turns the camera on.

 

[FourPawz]

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I still like the kind of camera that doesn't have an off/on button. Remember those old Brownie cameras? I had one of the Instamatic cameras. You just pushed the shutter button and took the picture.

 

[Carols Clucks]

I would like to suggest that you start with teaching the basics of how iso-shutter speed-aperture work together.

Many people never touched film and just see those words in the glossary.

I like to use 3 empty glasses and a pitcher of water to explain how you can adjust the levels in each to hold the pitcher of water(exposure)

If you understand those 3 basics, you can use your most basic point and shoot digital with icons (sports-people-flower-mountains etc) to achieve better results.