Learn the answers to you photo questions HERE.

[jbr13]

Ok, You guys have said you wanted to learn more about photography.....

Here you go, this is a great site and a must read!

Using Your Digital Camera-Contents

You don't have to read everything like the flash and studio stuff yet.

READ Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and the first two things in Chapter 3.

IF you do this, your understanding of how a camera works will be much better than most people, and your pictures will start to show it!

Example....I went to a high school football game last week. I am down on the field and start talking to another photographer from a photography company. (they do the sports portraits and supply the schools with stuff for the year book) The photog gets paid for the two hour drive down, the time shooting on the field, the drive back, and mileage. We start talking setting, and they can't figure out why their pictures are all blurry. It was because their shutter speed was way to slow for the action of football. Someone getting paid like that you would think would know what they were doing.

 

[crf291]

Also check out the sticky JBR put together a few months ago.

what-lens-camera-buy-how

 

[MrX]

Some good info here too How to Make Great Photos

 

[chipper101]

I sent for the hard copy of the Using your Digital Camera short course and I can tell you it is fantastic. It is easy to understand and it really explains things in detail.

 

[LusbyMom]

Okay so I have finally had a chance to sit down and start reading through these. And I have a question..

What format do you all take your pics in? JPEG or RAW?

 

[jbr13]

Really doesn't matter what everyone else is using in this case. It comes down to if you post process your pictures after you take them. If you use photoshop or similar program to tweak the colors, saturation, contrast and stuff then go to RAW. If you don't mess with that just go with the large JPG quality.

IF you shoot raw, you pretty much end up processing each picture. JPG you can almost use them out of the camera, but quality isn't quite as good.


J

 

[LusbyMom]

Really doesn't matter what everyone else is using in this case. It comes down to if you post process your pictures after you take them. If you use photoshop or similar program to tweak the colors, saturation, contrast and stuff then go to RAW. If you don't mess with that just go with the large JPG quality.

IF you shoot raw, you pretty much end up processing each picture. JPG you can almost use them out of the camera, but quality isn't quite as good.


J

Thanks J! I use picture project which came with my camera and I do process them even though they are JPG. I didn't know until today what RAW was I learned about it from your link. Thanks!

Today we went to PRAD and all the photos I took were RAW. I guess once I upload them I will see what the difference is