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34. Module 5 Summary
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Buttons, Dials and Switches: What This Course is All About
03:37 2Setting Up Your Camera
05:25 3JPEG or RAW
03:11 4Compression
01:38 5Menu Settings for JPEG Shooting
05:19 6Module 1 Summary
01:42 7Applying White Balance
03:41 8Using White Balance Creatively
01:19Auto White Balance
03:07 10Module 2 Summary
01:31 11Controlling Exposure
01:23 12F Numbers
03:06 13Lens, Aperture, and Shutter Speed
03:32 14Exposure Modes
01:48 15Too Little or Too Much Light
02:34 16Manual Exposure Mode
01:37 17Aperture Priority Exposure Mode
02:23 18Module 3 Summary
01:40 19ISO in Practice
01:16 20ISO and Noise
05:03 21An Acceptable ISO
01:23 22Module 4 Summary
01:29 23Metering Modes
03:06 24The Light Meter
02:11 25The Bucket Test
02:12 26How To Read Tonality
02:32 27Being Creative With Tone
01:14 28Exposure Compensation
01:35 29High Contrast Lighting
03:39 30Histogram
02:06 31Highlights Alert
01:32 32Never Underexpose
04:16 33Digital Exposure Mantra
01:25 34Module 5 Summary
02:57 35Focus Modes
01:23 36Autofocus
02:59 37Point of Focus
02:35 38Depth of Field
02:41 39Hyper-Focal Distance Focusing
02:51 40Focus Tracking
04:19 41Manual Focus
01:57 42Predictive Focus
01:03 43Summary
02:32 44Buying Lenses
05:00 45Summary
01:45 46Quality of Light
01:32 47Direction of Light
01:52 48No Such Thing as Good Light
02:00 49Final Word
02:52 50BONUS - In Conversation with Art Wolfe
07:11 51BONUS - The Source of Creativity
06:34Lesson Info
Module 5 Summary
to summarize the light meter is the tour that calculates how much light is the right amount. Now your camera has three main light meters multi segment spot and sent awaited. The multi segment meets. The reason most accurate and the easiest to use. It's major floor is always giving you an image very close to what you see with the naked eye, which means it's less well suited to creative photography. The spot meter is more complex to use but is the best option when you want to use Light creatively sent a weighted metering his ideal for portrait photography. Now, when it comes to what the meter is telling you, all meters think that all subjects are medium great. I will give you a meter reading that renders old tones as medium grey. This means the meat will under exposed light tones and over exposed dark tones to correctly exposed light and dark tones. Use exposure, compensation toe, add or subtract light, and remember, you can purposely over or under exposed tone to create different aesthe...
tic effects. For example, under exposing light toned clouds to make a darker and more dramatic moving on to dynamic range camera dynamic range is the camera's ability to record detail in highlights and shadows simultaneously. Same dynamic range is a difference in stops between the lightest and darkest objects, or areas in the scene now seem dynamic. Rain should fall within camera dynamic range to avoid clip or blocked pixels. When seen, dynamic range exceeds camera dynamic range. You must decide whether to retain detail in hi lights or shadows. As a rule of thumb in digital photography is better to hold detail in the highlights. To help achieve accurate exposures, use the history, the history of the bar chart that shows the distribution of tones from black to white. Now there is no such thing as a perfect hissed a gram. It must be read in conjunction with the image it relates to. In addition to the hissed a gram, the highlight screen and zebra striping reveal areas of image where pixels, the clipped that is grossly overexposed in post capture processing is better to darken an over exposed image than lighting and under exposed image. So remember the mantra exposed for the brightest part of the scene, where detail is important and that's it. Everything I've shown you in this series of video tutorials is re captain the course notes. So remember to go check them out. I'll see you in a way.
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mark jacobson
What a marvelous course! What a marvelous teacher! When I went to college, my father would always ask me about my professors, more than the courses themselves. He was passionate about learning and although too busy with earning an income to go beyond an undergrad degree, continued to read 50 books a year. I still remember how he'd get almost visibly excited when I'd tell him about some special professor who taught with such enthusiasm and, more than just passion, evident delight and joy in the subject. 'Ah they're the best, son. How wonderful you have such a teacher." Well, he passed away decades ago but if he were still around I'd get a kick out of telling him about Chris Weston, the 'Prof' of this course. He's one of the very special ones: a teacher who's loved and lived his vocation--his avocation--since he was a boy--and still is as excited about it now as he was then. The result: a course that seems to be more a labor of love--of pouring far more energy and thought into the details then one typically finds in these courses--than anything else. Bravo Chris! I'm already on to your next one.
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Chris is an amazing instructor who dissects theory giving amazing analogies that bring concepts to life. I have rarely been able to sit through most video course for more than a half-hour but watched this one from beginning to end. A good refresher course if you've been away from the camera for awhile or there are some concepts that still illude you. I highly recommend this course and look forward to watching his others. Thank you for the clarity and great explanations.
Sky Bergman
This was an amazing class. I have looked at a number of basic photography classes. This one was by far the best I have seen. Chris is an exceptional teacher. He breaks things down into digestible information and then inspires you to be creative. Thank you!
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