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

[MaggieRae]

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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.

I agree entirely. I was reiterating what a friend of mine (a professional nature photographer) told me about it. I don't publish mine often enough to know how to work photoshop well (and really, why know how when there are plenty of friends willing to do it for you? They get to use your software!). I really need to learn though, I'm afraid.

 

[ScotianChick]

I'm interested in helping out

 

[Kassaundra]

Quote:
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.

I agree entirely. I was reiterating what a friend of mine (a professional nature photographer) told me about it. I don't publish mine often enough to know how to work photoshop well (and really, why know how when there are plenty of friends willing to do it for you? They get to use your software!). I really need to learn though, I'm afraid.

I love photoshop I use it a lot, but still have problems w/ layers. But even not useing layers just using the rest you can do some amazing things w/ photoshop.

 

[TigerLilly]

Looking forward to seeing what I can learn!

 

[Msbear]

Ok so fourpawz, chickenwhisperer and chickerdoodle are our teachers as well as scotianchick assisting

Maybe we can post the first lesson on April 1st. or maybe post sooner and all pics due by the 1st

Whatever the teachers want. Maybe at least post what you're thinking. The students are getting restless!!

Maybe we can get a brief description of the lesson w/ and example via photograph and maybe some hints of how to best achieve the goal. You guys can pm eachother to get the ball rolling and kind of see who fits best doing what (lesson planer, explaining our goal in laymen's term so that we understand, researching lessons, critiquer, etc.)

 

[ScotianChick]

I'd like to teach a small class on formats and editing processes if I could sometime

Like what format to shoot in, what one to edit in, what one to save in, what software to use and how to use it. I am familiar with Photoshop, Lightroom, Elements and some other work stream programs.

 

[Msbear]

We could definitely incorporate that here. Im lost when it comes to photoshop. I downloaded the extended trial and just couldn't figure it out enough to pay for it. I would though if I could get some help. I've heard good things about lightroom too. I was told to shoot in raw but, the files are so large.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

A few of the "teachers" have already been in contact with each other and we are planning lessons as you all post! Hopefully we'll have something soon for ya'll.

 

[Carols Clucks]

I like Lightroom, the first time I downloaded a trial version, I was totally lost. But once you figure out what they mean.....It is really nice if you are processing a big batch of photos.

Photoshop can be confusing at first too, but there are a lot of great books on the topic (My friend wrote one of the Dummys Guides, Don Mason, we all just got back from Death Valley)

 

[TarHeelBlue]

This sounds great. Can't wait.